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Sir  Edward  Conroy,  Baronet,  Arborfield  Hall,  Reading 

Sir  Bernard  Burke,  Ulster  King  of  Arms     

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Anthony  Nugent,  Esq.  Pallas 

James  C.  Fitzgerald  Kenney,  Esq.Kilclogher,  Monivea 

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Alexander  McDonnell,  Esq.  Temple-street,  Dublin 

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Terence  Sheridan,  Esq.  Trim  

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Richard  D  Alton,  Esq.  Tipperarj      

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PREFACE. 


I  HAVE  been  often,  and  by  many,  invited  to  leave  in 
print,  from  my  extensive  manuscript  collections,  some 
records  of  the  families  indigenous  to,  or  long  natural- 
ized in  Ireland  ;  their  origin,  actings,  and  '  habitats.' 
Yet  it  was  not  until  a  crisis  of  natural  hurricanes 
had  felled  'the  flowers  of  the  forest,'  and  dismantled 
their  once  flourishing  companions,  of  bloom  and  foliage, 
that  the  appeal  was  mournfully  efiective.  It  was  not 
a  task  of  labour  to  me ;  it  was  willingly  and  zealously 
undertaken.  I  examined  my  relics  of  other  days ; 
and  one  little  tract,  of  which  I  had  a  copy,  the 
Muster  Roll  of  the  Army  of  King  James  the  Second 
in  Ireland,  giving  the  names  of  the  several  Colonels 
and  subaltern  officers  of  the  respective  Regiments  of 
Horse,  Dragoons,  and  Infantry  in  his  service,  seemed 
f  akin  to  the  subject   I   sought  to  effectuate.      The 

I  families  in  commission   thereupon,   upwards  of  five 

hundred,  were  the  aristocracy  of  their  country  at  that 

1" 

! 


X  PREFACE. 

day  ;  and  though  all  who  were  then  able  to  bear 
arms  in  the  Stuart  cause,  were  decimated  on  the 
deadly  fields  of  this  campaign,  very  many  names  still 
survived  and  struggled  in  respectability  and  tenure 
almost  to  the  present  time. 

When  I  embraced  the  project,  I  devoted  to  its 
accomplishment  such  literary  aid  as  I  could  draw 
from  those  manuscripts,  which  it  has  cost  me  nearly 
fifty  years  of  labour,  research,  and  outlay  to  accumu- 
late. They  extend  through  upwards  of  two  hundred 
volumes,  and  especially  supply  a  singular  mass  of  in- 
formation for  illustrating  the  lineage,  honours  and 
achievements  of  families  connected  with  Ireland  by 
*•  title,  tenure,  rank,  birtli,  or  alliance.  Having  here- 
tofore furnished  some  genealogical  Memoirs  on  liberal 
support,  I  felt  confident  that,  when  I  embraced  a 
grouping  so  extensive  as  that  of  King  James's  Army 
List,  more  than  the  mere  expenses  of  my  outlay  in 
printing  and  paper  would  be  cheerfully  volunteered 
for  my  indemnity.  I  gave  every  reasonable  publicity 
to  the  project,  and  was  gratified  by  the  warm  co- 
operation of  the  Irish  press  and  some  of  the  English. 
I  also  issued  very  generally  circulars,  in  which  were 
detailed  the  Regiments  to  be  treated  of;  Eight  of 
Horse,  Seven  of  Dragoons,  and  Fifty-six  of  Infantry ; 
on  all  which  the  Colonels,  Majors,  Captains  and  sub- 


PREFACE.  XI 

altems  are  named  and  classed.  Of  the  family  of  each 
I  proposed  to  give  Historical  and  Genealogical  Illus- 
trations ;  with  especial  regard,  in  the  case  of  Irish 
Septs,  to  their  respective  ancient  localities  ;  and  in 
that  of  surnames  introduced  from  England  or  Scot- 
land, to  the  counties  from  which  they  migrated,  and 
the  periods  of  their  coming  over.  After  some  notices 
of  early  chronology,  I  designed  to  shew  how  far  each 
of  these  was  affected  by  Cromwell's  Denunciation 
Ordinance  of  1652,  and  by  attainders  and  confisca- 
tions, more  particularly  those  of  1642  and  1691  ; 
how  they  were  represented  in  Sir  John  Perrot's  memo- 
rable Conciliation  Parliament  of  1585,  in  the  Assem- 
bly of  Confederate  Catholics  at  Kilkenny  in  1646, 
and  in  King  James's  own  Parliament  of  May,  1689; 
what  members  of  those  names  were  distinguished  by 
Royal  Thanks  in  the  Act  of  Settlement ;  how  far  they 
were  nominated  in  King  James's  New  Charters ;  what 
claims  were  preferred,  and  with  what  success,  against 
their  confiscations  at  Chichester  House  in  1700;  and 
lastly,  to  a  reasonable  extent,  their  subsequent  honours 
and  achievements  in  the  exiled  Brigades.  This  latter 
designed  portion  has  however  been,  as  I  indeed  an- 
ticipated in  my  Circular,  considerably  lessened  by  the 
recent  and  continuing  publication  of  Mr.  O'Callaghan, 
whose  researches,  diligence,  and  enthusiasm  peculiarly 


XU  PREFACE. 

qualified  him  for  the  task.  Of  this  my  scope  of  illus- 
trations, a  Peer,  of  high  literary  attainments  and  of 
the  most  active  and  practical  nationality,  was  pleased 
to  write  to  me,  "If  the  work  is  carried  on  according 
to  your  plan,  it  will  prove  a  most  valuable  compila- 
tion,  and  be  absolutely  indispensable  for  the  library 
of  every  Irishman." 

I  calculated  that  the  Illustrations  should  extend 
from  six  hundred  to  eight  hundred  pages  ;  but,  as- 
sured as  I  might  well  feel  by  such  a  testimonial,  that 
the  sale  would  be  very  extensive  (at  least  one  thou- 
sand copies),  I  limited  the  price  for  subscribers  to  ten 
shillings  ;  while  I  sought  to  indemnify  myself  against 
possible  loss  in  the  outlay,  and  in  probable  though  un- 
designed defalcation  in  the  collecting  of  small  sums 
from  widely  scattered  and  shifting  subscribers  (a 
large  number  in  America),  by  requiring  that  an  in- 
demnity of  £200,  irrespective  of  copies^  should  be 
secured  to  me  by  those  who  felt  nationally  or  indi- 
vidually interested  in  the  work.  My  collections  for 
this  indemnity  commenced  in  last  March,  and  a  List 
for  general  subscribers  was  opened  at  the  same  time. 
In  June  the  Indemnity  had  reached  only  £100,  and 
not  three  hundred  copies  were  engaged,  when  it  was 
my  first  thought  to  return  the  money  so  advanced 
and  abandon  the  project ;  but,  thinking  such  conduct 


PREFACE.  Xlll 

might  be  considered  a  breach  of  faith  with  those 
who  had  fulfilled  their  parts,  I  put  the  manuscript 
in  the  printer's  hands,  limiting  the  impression  to 
five  hundred  copies,  while  the  price  remained  unal- 
tered. As  the  work  progressed  through  the  press,  I 
felt  that  I  had  much  under-rated  its  extent ;  my  own 
materials  for  the  several  memoirs  would  have  far  ex- 
ceeded one  thousand  pages,  yet  was  it  not  until  much 
of  the  book  was  printed  oflF,  that  at  p.  353  I  felt 
necessitated  to  commence  the  irksome  labour  of  abridg- 
ing and  pruning  the  ensuing  copy.  It  remains, 
however,  an  overgrown  volume.  The  payments  to  the 
Indemnity  are  yet  but  £157  lis.  ;  the  number  of  scat- 
tered copies  engaged,  little  more  than  four  hundred. 
Such  are  my  especial  grounds  of  disappointment. 
Those  to  the  cause  I  have  felt  more  deeply. 

I  was  too  well  aware  of  that  destruction  of  the 
genealogical  archives  of  my  country,  which  cam- 
paigns of  slaughter,  confiscation,  and  persecution 
had  effected.  Two  great  civil  wars,  the  result  of 
misguided  loyalty  and  ill-requited  enthusiasm,  having 
involved  and  crushed,  with  relentless  ruin,  the  native 
aristocracies  of  each  period,  all  Ireland  became  in 
a  manner  forfeited  from  its  old  proprietors,  subjected 
as  they  were  to  a  succession  of  parliamentary  attain- 
ders.    The  victims  of  this  fatal  policy,  expatriated 


r 


XIV  PREFACE. 

from  the  scenes  of  their  hereditary  history,  were  at 
least  eager,  wlien  they  could,  to  carry  with  them  its 
reconls  and  memorials.  They  snatched  up  from  tlie 
libraries  and  monasteries  and  cabinets,  the  annals,  the 
muniments,  the  title-deeds  of  the  land.  They  carried 
them  off  as  all  of  venerable  that  could  then  W  saved 
from  the  desolation  that  rioted  over  their  homes. 
They  treasured  them  as  the  Penates  of  their  early 
attachment ;  and,  when  they  looked  uix)n  the  moul- 
dering fragments  of  these  native  documents,  in  the 
respective  lands  of  their  exile,  the  remembrance  of 
their  country  was  softened  into  melancholy  endurance. 
In  all  my  circulars  and  otherwise,  I  sedulously  la- 
boured to  discover  such  of  these  memorials  as  might 
yet  scantily  exist,  and  solicited  the  inspection  of  any 
ancient  family  manuscripts,  pedigrees,  diaries,  or  cor- 
respondence, notes  of  well  accredited  tradition  or  local 
memorials,  that  might  be  relevant  to  the  times,  and 
could  be  afforded  or  obtained.  They  should  explain, 
strengthen,  verify,  and  enrich  my  own  notices  ;  iden- 
tify the  cavaliers  and  their  descendants  whom  I 
sought  to  record,  and  establish  links  of  their  respective 
kindred.  I  thought  the  opportunity  I  thus  afforded 
of  noting,  as  on  record,  what  may  otherwise  be  forever 
lost,  would  be  zealously  embraced ;  yet  was  my  appeal 
responded  to  only  by  the  O'Donovan  of  Montpelier, 


PREFACE.  XV 

Messrs.  Hurley,  Haly,  O'CarroU-Dempster,  Loughrian, 
Browne  of  Mx)yne,  and  O'KeeflFe.     I  was  left  to  the 
exclusive  resources  of  my  own  manuscripts,  and  the 
able  and  fortunately  numerous  genealogical  publica- 
tions of  Sir  Bernard  Burke.     If,  therefore,  my  illus- 
trations could  not  be  rendered  complete,  or  if,  yet 
more,  they  are  erroneous,  blame  should  attach  more  to 
those  who  withheld  information  within  their  know- 
ledge, than  to  me  who  vainly  sought  it.     I  did  not 
profess  to  connect  pedigrees,  but  only  to  preserve 
scattered  —  undoubted  links,  and  aflFord  legal  evi- 
dence of  their  former  existence.     So  anxious,  however, 
am  I  that  these  '  discerpta  membra'  should  be  re- 
connected and  faithfully  restored,  that,  while  life  is 
spared  to  me,  I  shall  gladly  receive  such  ancient 
family  papers  and  vouchers  as  I  heretofore  sought, 
test  them  by  my  own  collections,  and,  embodying  all 
with  what  I  have  been  obliged  to  withdraw  from  the 
present  work,  I  shall  be  able  from  the  whole  to  digest 
all  that  is  relevant,  and  cast  away  surplusage.     Or, 
if  so  great  a  general  labour  is  beyond  attainment  or 
due  encouragement,  I  shall  give  the  results  of  partial 
prompt  communications,  as  addenda  to  the  present 
volume,  or  more  gladly  assign  the  whole  to  a  publisher. 
I  shall  only  take  leave  to  add,  that  all  the  state- 
ments in  this  volume  are  based  upon  pure  authorities. 


XVI  PREFACE. 

and^  as  far  as  possible,  are  given  in  their  language, 
the  native  annals  being  chiefly  adopted  from  the  Four 
Masters :  and  I  confidently  rely  that  the  several 
*  Illustrations '  herein  develop  scenes,  events,  and 
doings  of  chivalrous  loyalty,  disinterested  friendship, 
and  devoted  love,  such  as  the  history  of  less  stirring 
times  cannot  afford.  The  names  of  the  respective 
actors  are  arranged  in  a  copious  Index. 


JOHN  D'ALTON. 


48,  Sammer-hill,  Dublin. 
29th  October,  1855. 


ILLUSTRATIONS 

OF 

KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST  (1689). 

— »»|0 — 

The  Civil  War,  that  commenced  in  Ireland  in  1689, 
and  whose  discomfited  partisans,  their  broken  fortunes 
and  attainted  families,  the  ensuing  pages  are  designed 
to  record,  originated  in  bitter  feelings,  generated  a 
century  and  an  half  previously,  when  the  relentless 
arm  of  one,  whom  history  has  truly  delineated  a  Royal 
Despot,  sought  to  enforce  the  religion  of  the  Refor- 
mation on  that  reluctant  country.  Happily,  it  is  not 
necessary  nor  fitting  here  to  enter  into  unwelcome 
controversy  ;  enough  to  rely  upon  the  facts  of  his- 
tory, and  confidently  to  assert  that  in  Ireland,  legis- 
lative persecution  was  pre-eminently  directed  to  such 
an  object.  The  declaration  of  the  king's  supremacy, 
the  abolition  of  appeals  to  Rome,  the  conferring  the 
election  to  ecclesiastical  preferments  on  the  Crown, 
(not  only  of  bishoprics,  but  those  of  exclusively  Roman 
Catholic  endowed  abbeys,  priories,  and  colleges)  ;  the 
suppression  of  the  principal  religious  establishments 
on  delusive  surrenders,  the  confiscation  and  lay  ap- 
propriation of  their  revenues  and  possessions,  created 

B 


2  KLVG  JAMES  S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

feelings  of  hostility  to  the  English  government,  that 
the  progress  of  time  but  encreased  On  Queen  Mary's 
accession,  her  parliament  suspended  the  action  of  these 
penal  inflictions, — Queen  Elizabeth  restored  them 
with  the  superadded  terrors  of  the  Act  of  Uniformity. 
This  autocratic  effort  of  bigotry  was,  it  may  be  said, 
allowed  to  sleep  during  her  reign,  but,  in  the  times  of 
her  successors,  it  was  startled  into  vigorous  operation. 
The  policy  of  James  the  First  devised  in  1613  a 
new  and  more  temporal  grievance  for  the  Irish  peo- 
ple ; — the  Commission  of  Grace,  as  it  was  styled,  which 
abolished  the  old  tenures  of  immemorial  native  use, 
tanistry  and  gavelkind.  The  uncertain  exactions, 
theretofore  imposed  upon  the  tenantry,  were,  it  is 
true,  thereby  altered  into  certain  annual  rents  and 
free  holdings,  a  change  that  would  at  first  sight  ap- 
pear beneficial  to  the  people  ;  but,  when  it  is  under- 
stood that  these  Irish  tenures  gave  occupants  only  a 
life  estate  in  their  lands,  and  that,  while  these  were 
suffered  to  exist,  no  benefit  whatsoever  could  accrue 
to  the  crown  on  attainders  ;  whereas  the  new  patents, 
which  this  commission,  as  on  defective  titles,  invited 
the  proprietors  to  take  out,  gave  the  fee  to  the  king,  the 
old  being  for  ever  surrendered,  they  were  obvious  and 
powerful  securities,  that,  on  any  act  as  of  constructive 
treason,  might  absorb  the  whole  interest  from  the 
native  tanists.  At  the  same  time  fell  upon  the  Irish 
Catholic  population,  what  the  Protestant  Bishop  of 
Leighlin  and  Ferns,  in  an  official  return  of  1612, 
designated,  "  the  payment  of  double  tithes  and  offer- 


KING  JAMES'S  lEISH  ABMT  LIST. 


ings,  the  one  paid  by  them  to  ^^5,  and  the  other  unt 
their  own  Clergy.'' 

In  1626,  in  the  pecuniary  exigencies  of  the  es 
chequer,    King  Charles  was  induced  to  proflFer  ne^ 
'  Graces,'  as  a  consideration  for  liberal  advances  c 
money  from  the  Irish  Roman  Catholics.    By  this  devic 
it  was  provided,  that  the  taking  of  the  oath  of  supremac; 
should  be  dispensed  with,  and  ecclesiastical  exaction 
be  modified  ;  privileges  which  the  Deputy  Lord  Fali 
land  caused  to  be  proclaimed  over  the  country.     Hi 
successor,  the  unfortunate  Lord  Strafford,  howevei 
having  recommended  their  retrenchment,  the  King*! 
intentions  were  in  point  of  fact  but  little  attended  to 
and,  while  the  Catholic  members,  who  sat  in  the  Par 
liament  of  1640,  relying  on  their  fulfilment,  joined  ii 
voting  the  large  supplies  required,  the  King's  lettei 
and  the  order  for  levying  these  subsidies  containec 
no  recognition  of  the  promised  Graces.     That  Par- 
liament adjourned  on  the  7th  of  August,  1641  ;  and 
it  is  not  to  be  wondered,  that  the  native  Irish  and 
the  whole  Catholic  population  were  thereupon  too  na- 
tionally excited  to  an  assertion  in  arms  of  privileges, 
their  King  had  promised — had  actually  jiated^  but 
which  his  Irish  Viceroy  refused  to  ratify.     They  saw 
that  King  over-ruled,  they  felt  that  their  altars  were 
denounced,  their  homes  invaded,  and  their  titles  con- 
founded by  alleged  defects  and  deceitful  commissions. 
The  ensuing  21st  of  October  witnessed  the  outbreak 
of  an  insurrection,  that  bequeathed  an  inheritance  of 
jealousy  and  disunion  to  Ireland  from  that  day.     "  We 

B  2 


4  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

declare  unto  your  Lordship,''  said  the  confederate 
Catholics,  in  an  address  framed  on  the  Hill  of  Tara, 
to  the  Marquess  of  Clanricarde,  "  that  the  only  scope 
and  purpose  of  our  taking  up  arms  is  for  the  honour 
of  God,  to  obtain  a  free  exercise  of  the  ancient 
Catholic  Roman  religion,  so  long  and  so  constantly 
adhered  unto  by  us  and  our  progenitors  in  this  King- 
dom, whereof  we  are  threatened  to  be  utterly  deprived, 
and  from  which  nothing  but  death  or  utter  extirpation 
shall  remove  us. "  The  attainders  and  confiscations, 
consequent  upon  this  war,  followed  up  as  they  were 
with  peculiar  hostility  by  the  Cromwellian  adven- 
turers, that  were  let  in  upon  the  island,  heaped  fi^h 
heart-burnings  and  unceasing  discontent  on  the 
Catholic  party.  On  the  final  success  of  these  invaders, 
a  body  of  ftx)m  30  to  40,000  Irish,  plundered  of  their 
estates,  and  unwilling  to  submit  to  the  revolution- 
ary government,  left  their  country  under  different 
leaders,  and  entered  the  service  of  France,  Spain, 
Austria,  and  Venice  ;  but  ever  still  with  the  object 
of  aiding  the  exiled  Stuarts,  and  promoting  their  re- 
storation to  sovereignty.  Their  services  as  such  were 
acknowledged  on  paper  in  a  section  of  the  Act  of 
Settlement  (14  &  15  Car.  2,  c.  2,  s.  25).  Some,  as 
"  having,  for  *  reasons  known  unto  us,  in  an  especial 
manner,  merited  our  grace  and  favour  f  others,  as 
"  having  continued  with  us,  or  served  faithfully  under 
our  ensigns  beyond  the  seas."  But  their  loyalty  to 
that  ungrateful  and  incompetent  dynasty  experienced 
a  thrilling  disappointment,  when  the   restoration  c 


KING  JAMES'S  IBISH  ARMY  LIST.  5 

Charles  restored  nothing  to  them  ;  nay,  worse,  when 
that  King  confirmed  the  grants  certified  for  the  ad- 
venturers and  soldiers  of  the  usurper,  whUe  even  his 
brother,  the  Catholic  Duke  of  York,  the  James  the 
Second  of  this  work,  obtained  recognition  patents  for 
276,000  acres,  forfeited  in  various  parts  of  Ireland  by 
the  cavaliers,  who,  like  those  of  the  following  "  Army 
List,^  fought  and  fell  ^pro  aria  et  focis'  Loyalty  to 
such  a  King,  the  descendant  of  such  a  race,  cannot 
therefore  be  deemed  the  exclusive  or  even  the  para- 
mount incentive  of  the  resistance  to  King  William. 

In  1661,  the  Eoman  Catholic  Clergy  of  Ireland 
preferred  to  the  King  their  "  Humble  Remonstrance, 
Acknowledgment,  Protestation,  and  Petition,"  wherein 
they  represented  that,  "  being  entrusted,  by  the  indis- 
pensable permission  of  the  King  of  Kings,  with  the 
cure  of  souls  and  the  care  of  our  flocks,  in  order  to  the 
administration  of  the  sacraments ;  and  teaching  the 
people  that  perfect  obedience,  which  for  conscience  sake 
they  are  bound  to  pay  to  your  Majesty,  we  are  yet 
'laden'  with  calumnies,  and  persecuted  with  severity,'' 
and  they  strongly  deprecated  "  those  calumnies,  under 
which  our  tenets  in  religion,  and  our  dependence  upon 
the  Pope's  authority  are  aspersed  ;  and  we  humbly  beg 
your  Majesty's  pardon  to  vindicate  both  by  the  ensuing 
protestation,  which  we  make  in  the  sight  of  heaven 
and  in  the  presence  of  your  ^IB^ty,  sincerely  and 
truly,  without  equivocation  or  mental  reservation." 
The  Remonstrance  then  proceeded  to  enlarge  upon  the 
unmerited  injuries  inflicted  upon  themselves  and  their 


6  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

flocks,  and  prayed  the  royal  protection.  This  memo- 
rial was  accompanied  by  the  "  Faithful  and  Humble 
Remonstrance  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Nobility  and 
Gentry  of  Ireland,**  in  which  they  set  forth  "  the  pro- 
digious afftictions  under  which  the  monarchy  of  Great 
Britain  had,  before  his  Majesty's  happy  Restoration, 
groaned  these  twenty  years  ;  and  out  of  our  sad 
thoughts,  which  daily  bring  more  and  more  sighs 
from  our  breasts,  and  tears  from  our  eyes,  for  the 
still  as  yet  continued  miseries  and  sufferings  of  the 
Catholic  natives  of  this  our  unfortunate  country,  even 
amidst,  and  ever  since  the  so  much  famed  joys  and 
triumphs  of  your  Sacred  Majesty's  most  auspicious 
inauguration  ;"  and  the  Petitioners,  referring  to  and 
identifying  themselves  with  the  aforesaid  Remonstrance 
of  the  Clergy,  then  proceeded  to  vindicate  themselves, 
solemnly  pledged  their  loyalty,  and  disclaimed  any 
power  of  the  Pope  to  loosen  their  allegiance,  or  sanc- 
tion their  rebellion.  It  forms  no  inapt  introduction 
to  the  *  Army  List,'  here  to  give  the  names  of  those 
laymen,  who  signed  that  protestation  ;  they  will  be 
found  in  many  instances  identical,  or  at  least  of 
kindred  with  those  in  the  present  record  : — 

Luke,  Earl  of  Fingal ;  Arthur,  Viscount  Iveagh ; 

Morrough,  Earl  of  Inchequin ;  William,  Viscount  Clane ; 

Donogh,  Earl  of  Clancarty ;  Charles  Viscount  Muskerry ; 

Oliver,  Earl  of  lyrconnel ;  WiUiam,  Viscount  Taafie ; 

Theobald,  Earl  of  Carlingford ;  Oliver,  Baron  of  Louth ; 

Edmund,  Viscount  Mountgar-  William, Bsu'on of Castleconnell; 

ret ;  Colonel  Charles  Dillon ; 

Thomas,  Viscount  Dillon  ^  Matthew  Plunkett,  Esq. ; 


KING  JAMES  S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 


Lieut.  Col.  Ignatius  Nugent ; 

Edward  Plunkett,  Esq. ; 

Nicholas  Plunkett,  Knight ; 

Matthew    Plunkett    of    Dun- 
sanj; 

Christopher  Plunkett  of  Dun- 
sanj; 

James  Dillon,  Knight ; 

Colonel  Christopher  Bryan ; 

Robert  Talbot,  Baronet ; 

Ulick  Burke,  Baronet ; 

Edward  Fitzharris,  Baronet ; 

Valentine  Browne,  Baronet ; 

Luke  Butler,  Baronet ; 

Henry  SUngsby,  Knight ; 

John  Bellew,  Knight ; 

Colonel  William  Burke ; 

Colonel  John  Fitzpatrick ; 

Colonel  Brian  Mac  Mahon ; 

Colonel  Miles  Reilly  ; 

Colonel  Gilbert  Talbot ; 

Colonel  Milo  Power ; 

Lieut  .-Col.  Pierce  Lacy ; 
Lieut.-Col.  Ulick  Bourke ; 
Lieut.-Col.  Thomas  Scurlog ; 
Jeffry  Browne  of  Galway ; 
John  Walsh  of  Ballinvoher ; 
Patrick  Bryan ; 
James  Fitzgerald  of  Laccah  ; 
John  Talbot  of  Malahide ; 
Thomas  Luttrell  of  Luttrells- 

town; 
John  Holy  wood  of  Artane ; 
Henry,    "  son  to  Sir  Phelim 

OT^eUl;" 
Dudley  Bagnall  of  Dunleckney ; 


Henry   Draycott   of  Momir 

ton; 
Edward  Butler  of  Monehire 
Nicholas  D'Arcy  of  Platten ; 
Patrick  Sarsfield  of  Lucan ; 
John  Mc  Namara  of  Cratloe 
James  Talbot  of  Bellaconnel 
Robert  Balfe  of  Carrstown ; 
James  Talbot  of  Templeogu* 
Patrick  Archer ; 
Luke  Dowdall  of  Athlumnej 
PhUip  Hore  of  Eallsallaghai 
James  Bamwall  of  Bremore 
James  Allen  of  St.  Wolstan'i 
Thomas    Cantwell    of    Ball; 

makeidy ; 
John  Cantwell   of   Cantwell' 

court ; 
Edmund    Dillon    of   Stream 

town; 
John  Fleming  of  Stahalmock 

Peter  Sherlock  of  Gracedieu 

Christopher  Archbold  of  Time 
lin ; 

Patrick  Moore  of  Dowanstown 

Nicholas  Haly  of  Towrine ; 

Pierce  Butler  of  Callan ; 

Pierce    Butler   of    Killveagh 
legher ; 

John  Segrave  of  Cabragh  ; 

Richard  Wadding  of  Kilbarry 

Thomas  Browne  of  Clondmet 
roe; 

Oliver  Cashel  of  Dundalk  ; 

Patrick  Clinton  of  Irish  town ; 

Captain  Christopher  Turner ; 


8  KING  JAMES'S  IBISH  ARMY  UST. 

John  Bagot ;  Thomas  Sarsfield  of  Sarsfields- 

William  Grace ;  town  ; 

John  Arthur  of  Hogstown ;  Pierce  *  Nangle '  of  Monanimy ; 

liarcufl  LaSan  of  Greystown  ;  James  Wolverston  of  Stillor- 

Christopher  Ay  Imer  of  Balrath ;  gan ; 

James  Plonket  of  Gibstown ;  Michael  Bret ; 

Thomas   St.   John  of  Monks-  Patrick  Boylan  of  Bally-tumy- 

town ;  mac-Oris ; 

William  Barry  Oge  of  Rincor-  James  White  of  Chambelly ; 

ran  ;  Major  Lawrence  Dempsey ; 

Richard  Strong  of  Rockwell*s  Captain  Richard  Dempsey  ; 

Castle ;  Edward  Nugent  of  Culvin  ; 

James  Butler  of  Ballinakill ;  Patrick  Porter  of  Kingstown ; 

Attthooy  Colclough  ;  Major  Marcus  Furlong. 

During  the  life  time  of  King  Charles,  in  1669, 
eight  years  after  the  Restoration,  his  brother  James, 
Duke  of  York,  conformed  to  the  Roman  Catholic 
wofBhip,  being  then  aged  36.  *  In  fifteen  years  after, 
he  succeeded  to  the  Throne  ;  and  his  accession  was 
hailed  by  the  great  majority  of  the  Irish  people,  very 
naturally,  as  opening  a  fair  prospect  for  their  tolera- 
tion and  protection  ;  while  he  looked  to  their  island 
not  less  sanguinely,  as  the  garrison  of  his  creedsmen 
and  prop  of  his  government.  With  the  object  of  cor- 
rectly ascertaining  their  feelings  towards  him,  he  sum- 
moned those  Irish  officials,  that  he  considered  most 
competent  to  advise  him,  to  a  meeting  at  Chester,  in 
1687.  On  the  27th  August  in  that  year  he  entered 
this  ancient  city,  where  "  he  was  received  by  the  cor- 
poration in  their  robes.  He  was  afterwards  splendidly 


*  Clarke's  Memoirs  of  James  II.  vol.  1,  p.  440,  &c. 


KING  JAMES'S  lEISH  ASHY  LIST.  9 

entertained  by  them.  He  lodged  at  the  Bishop's 
Palace,  from  whence  he  walked  next  morning 
(Sunday)  through  the  City  to  the  Castle  (the  Mayor 
bare-headed,  carrying  the  sword  before  him),  heard 
mass  in  the  shire  hall,. and  received  the  sacrament 
according  to  the  Romish  ritual,  in  the  chapel  in  the 
square  tower  of  the  Castle.  On  Monday  he  went  to 
Holywell ;  on  Tuesday  returned  to  Chester  ;  and  the 
day  following  closeted  several  gentlemen,  both  of  the 
City  and  County,  in  order  to  prevail  upon  them  to 
approve  of  the  repeal  of  the  penal  laws  and  Test  Act ; 
but  he  met  with  very  little  encouragement  in  that 
way.  On  Thursday,  September  the  first,  the  King  left 
Chester,  not  much  satisfied  with  the  disposition  of  the 
people."  *  The  English  historian  has  made  no  men- 
tion of  the  interview  His  Majesty  had  here  with  his 
Irish  officials  ;  but  Tyrconnel,  whom  that  King  had 
by  his  earliest  exercise  of  the  prerogative  created  an 
Irish  peer,  was  there,  and  in  his  suite  were  the  Chief 
Baron,  Sir  Stephen  Rice ;  the  Chief  Justice  of  the  King's 
Bench,  Sir  Thomas  Nugent ;  and  other  influential 
individuals  of  the  day,  who  will  appear  in  subsequent 
pages.  These  represented  the  state  of  Irish  feeling  to 
be,  as  they  thought  it,  in  spirit  and  strength  enthu- 
siastically loyal. 

In  the  preceding  year,  Tyrconnel  had  been  ap- 
pointed Viceroy  of  Ireland,  from  which  time  he  had 
devoted  his  attention  to  enrolling  an  army  to  uphold 


*  Ormerod's  Cheshire,  vol.  1,  p.  211. 


10 


KL\G  JAMES  S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 


his  Royal  master's  cause.  The  result  of  his  exertions 
is  preserved  in  a  manuscript  of  the  British  Museum, 
(Lansdowne  Collections,  No.  1152,  p.  229)  as  follows. 
The  promotions  of  many,  before  the  day  of  action, 
may  be  traced  on  the  ensuing  Army  List  : — 

"  A  LIST  OF  COMMISSIONS,  received  and  deUvered  by  Mr. 
Sheridan  since  the  Earl  of  Tyrconners  coming  Lord  Deputy 
of  Ireland.  February  12th,  168f,  for  the  Lord  Sunderland 
till  June  21st,  1687. 


Anthony  Hamilton,  Colonel ; 
Sir  Neale  O'Neille,  Captain ; 
Nicholas  Purcell,  Captain ; 
William  Nugent,  Captain ; 
William  Hungate,  Major; 
Theo.  Russell,  Colonel  ; 
Theo.  Russell,  Lieut.- Col.  ; 
Walter  Nugent,  Captain ; 
William  Talbott,  Major ; 
Greorge  Newcomen,  Captiun ; 
Walter  Harvey,  Captain ; 
John  Burk,  Captain ; 
Edward  Fitzgerald,  Captain ; 
John  Hamilton,  Lieut. -Col. ; 
Sir  Charles  Hamilton,  Captain; 
Richard    '  Cussack,'    Captain- 
Lieutenant  ; 
Symon  Luttrell,  Lieut.-Col. ; 
Lord  Kilkenny-West,  Captain ; 
Ullick  Bourk,  Captain; 
Francis  Carroll,  Major ; 
James  Netterville,  Captain ; 
Lord  Mountjoy,  Brigadier ; 
John  Gyles,  Captain ; 
Daniel  Macarty,  Captain ; 


Sir  Robert  Grore,  Captain ; 
Robert  Nangle,  Captain. 


COMMISSIONS  OF  HORSE. 

Daniel  O'Neill,  Lieutenant ; 
nUick  Burk,  Lieutenant ; 
Greorge  Bamewall,  Comet ; 
Robert  Grace,  Capt .-Lieut. ; 
Francis  Meara,  Lieutenant ; 
Edmond  Butler,  Comet ; 
Edward  Butler,  Capt.-Lieut. ; 
Walter  Burke,  Lieutenant ; 
John  Graydon,  Comet ; 
Robert  Walsh,  Comet ; 
John  Nugent,  Cornet ; 
John  Nugent,  Lieutenant ; 
Henry  Dillon,  Lieutenant ; 
Rene  Mezandier,  Lieutenant ; 
Arthur  Magennis,  Comet ; 
Francis  Hamilton,  Lieutenant; 
Francis  Preston,  Comet ; 
James  Purcell,  Cornet ; 
George  Gernon,  Lieutenant. 


KING  James's  ikish  akmy  list. 


11 


COMMISSIONS   OF   FOOT. 

Henry  Edge  worth,  Lieut. ; 
Hugh  O^Rourk,  Lieutenant ; 
William  Netterville,  Lieut. ; 
John  Dungan,  Lieutenant ; 
Jeffirej  Connell,  Ensign ; 
Thomas  Luttrell,  Ensign ; 
Beverley  Newcomen,  Ensign ; 
Francis  Slingsby,  Lieutenant ; 
Charles  Manley,  Lieutenant ; 
Thomas  Colt,  Lieutenant ; 
Anthony  Malone,  Lieutenant; 
Richard  Bamewall,  Ensign ; 
Richard  Plunkett,  Lieut. ; 
Con.  O^eill,  Lieutenant; 
John  Talbott,  Lieutenant ; 
David  Lundy,  Ensign ; 
John  Talbott,  Ensign ; 
Arthur  Fitton,  Lieutenant ; 
Flo.  Fitzpatrick,  Lieutenant ; 
Thomas  Talbott,  Ensign ; 
Edwd.  Kindellan,  Capt.-Iieut.; 
Christopher  Bamewall,  Lieut. ; 
Thomas  Clayton,  Ensign ; 
Andrew  Dorrington,  Ensign ; 
Mountjoy  Blount,  Ensign ; 
Nicholas  Tyrwhitt,  Lieutenant ; 
Edmond  Keating,  Ensign ; 
Patrick  Cheevers,  Ensign ; 
Charles  Stuart,  Ensign ; 
Richard  Bellew,  Ensign ; 
Henry  Sheridan,  Ensign  ; 
John  Delahyde,  Lieutenant ; 
Daniel  O'Sullivan,  Lieutenant ; 
Robert  Russell,  Lieutenant ; 
John  Macartane,  Ensign ; 
Michael '  Cussack,'  Ensign ; 


John  Bellew,  Ensign ; 
Edmund  Reyley,  Ensign ; 
George  Darcy,  Ensign ; 
John  White,  Lieutenant ; 
James  Tobyn,  Ensign ; 
John  Butler,  Ensign ; 
Geo.  Haughton,  Capt.-Lieut. ; 
John  Reynolds,  Capt.-Lieut. ; 
John  Hogan,  Lieutenant ; 
Benjamin  Tychbome,  Ensign ; 
Pierce  Butler,  Ensign ; 
Nicholas  Rooth,  Ensign ; 
Andrew  Brovme,  Ensign ; 
James  Magee,  Ensign ; 
John  Wogan,  Ensign ; 
Richard  Bamewall,  Lieut. ; 
George  Talbot,  Lieutenant ; 
Thomas  Dongan,  Ensign ; 
-^-^  Bulkley,  Ensign; 
Hugh  O'Neill,  Ensign ; 
William  Sheridan,  Ensign. 


COMMISSIONS  WHICH   PAID   IN 
ENGLAND. 

Rowland  Smith,  Captain  ; 
John  Roche,  Comet. 


COMMISSIONS   EXCHANGED,   FOB 
WHICH  NO   FEES  PAID. 

Jos.  Jackman,  Lieutenant ; 
Sir  Thomas  Atkins,  Lieut. ; 
Christopher  Nugent,  Lieut. ; 
Toby  Purcell,  Major ; 
Mark  Talbott,  Major ; 


12 


KING  JAMES'S  IKISH  ARMY  LIST. 


James  Bryan,  Ensign ; 
Lord  Limerick,  Capt.  Horse ; 
Matt.  Bellew,  Lieut.  Horse ; 
Silvester  Mathews,  Ensign ; 
David  Lundj,  Ensign ; 
Daniel  O'Neill,  Lieutenant ; 
Phil.  Terrett,  Lieutenant ; 
Morgan  Floyd,  Captain ; 
Colonel    Grace,   Governor    of 

Athlone ; 
Colonel  Grace,  Captain ; 

Arundell,  Captain ; 

Edward  Butler,  Captain ; 
Bandall  Plunkett,  Lieutenant ; 
James  Bryan,    Ensign  (ertued 

in  ike  original) ; 
John  Taaffe,  Captain. 

king's  letters  delivered. 
Lord  Chancellor ; 
Attorney  General ; 
Lord  Lowth ; 
Sir  William  Talbot; 
Colonel  Hamilton ; 
Lord  Netterville ; 
Lord  Bellew  ; 
Symon  Luttrell; 
Lord  Chief  Baron  Rice ; 
Sir  Harry  Lynch ; 
Justice  Martin ; 
Lord  Viscount  Gallway ; 
Colonel  'Moor.' 

COlOflSSIONS      NOT      DELIVERED, 
STOPPED,  OR  RECALLED,  ETC. 

Henry  Sheridan,  Ensign ; 
Thomas  Purcell,  Ensign  ; 


John  White,  Lieutenant ; 
Eustace  White,  Lieutenant ; 
Lord  Kilkenny- West,  Capt. ; 
James  Butler,  Comet ; 
John  Power,  Lieutenant ; 
Daniel  Macnamara,  Ensign ; 
Hugh  O'  *  Roirk,'  Lieut. ; 
William  Usher,  Lieutenant ; 
Calla.  Mc Callahan,  Comet; 
John  Delahide,  Ensign ; 

Bryan,  Ensign ; 

Stafford,  Ensign ; 

Thos.  Nugent,  Ensign ; 

Fleming,  Ldeut.  Horse ; 

Burk,  Lieut.  Horse  ; 

Townley,  Comet ; 

Richard  Butler,  Comet ; 
John  Nugent,  Lieut.  Horse ; 
Arthur  Dillon,  Lieut.  Horse ; 
Henry  Dillon,  Lieut.  Horse  ; 
Roger  Jeffryes,  Comet. 


LETTERS   NOT  DELIVERED. 

Colonel  Richard  Butler ; 
Dean  Manby. 


ADDED  in  another  hand. 

Sum  due  _.         .-£547     2     0 

Sam  retmned  . .         _  _     507  I       7 

For  return  39     6     5 

For  mj  Lord  394     4     3 

Us  73  18    4 

Clerks  26     0     0 

Signett  Office  13  13     0 


Sum,    £547     2     0 


KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST.  13 


THE  NUMBER  OF  COMMISSIONS   DEUVERED   OF  EACH   RIND. 

25  Colonels,  Lieut. -Colonels,  Majors,  Captains,  and  Brigadiers. 
12  Lieutenants  of  Horse. 

8  Comets. 
25  Lieutenants  of  Foot. 
34  Ensigns." 


In  the  April  of  1687,  Tyrconnel  had  been  com- 
missioned, to  select  influential  persons  throughout  the 
several  counties  in  Ireland,  to  aid  the  Commissioners 
of  the  Revenue  in  collecting  subsidies  for  the  support 
of  the  state.  The  return  of  these,  so  appointed,  as 
well  as  the  above  inchoate  list,  were  doubtless  laid 
before  King  James  at  Chester  by  Tyrconnel,  when 
that  monarch,  still  King  of  Great  Britain,  France 
and  Ireland,  devolved  upon  him  the  responsibility  of 
supporting  his  royal  authority  in  the  latter  king- 
dom,  and  of  directing  the  zeal  and  energies  of  its 
people  to  his  service  ;  and,  notwithstanding  all  they 
had  so  recently  lost  in  upholding  the  Stuarts,  they 
rendered  to  Tyrconnel,  says  Colonel  O'Kelly,  in  the 
"  Excidium  Macarioe^^  not  only  the  number  of  soldiers 
which  he  had  demanded,  equipped  at  their  private  cost, 
but  every  farther  aid  that  either  their  fortunes  or  their 
influence  could  fiirnish."  The  consummation  of  their 
labours  was  the  Army  List  now  presented  to  the  public. 

The  copy  here  published  is  preserved  in  the  Manu- 
scripts of  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  where  it  is  classed 
F.  1,  14.  It  extends  over  thirty-four  pages  octavo. 
On  the  two  first  are  the  names  of  all  the  Colonels  ; 


14  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

on  the  four  following  are  the  Rolls  of  the  Eight  Regi- 
ments of  Horse  ;  on  the  next  four  are  the  Rolls  of 
the  six  of  Dragoons.  The  remaining  twenty-four 
record  the  Infantry.  The  officers  of  each  company 
are  arranged  in  columns  headed  respectively  Cap- 
tains, Lieutenants,  Comets  or  Ensigns,  and  Quarter- 
Masters.  Under  that  of  Captains,  the  Colonels, 
Lieutenant-Colonels,  and  Majors,  are  usually  classed. 
Under  the  others,  the  entries  appear  seriatim^  and 
in  line,  as  this  list  was  then  filled  up.  It  bears  no 
date,  but  while,  on  inspecting  many  of  the  original 
commissions,  some  few,  as  that  of  Captain  George 
Chamberkiin,  are  of  December,  1688  ;  and  a  great 
number  on  the  8th  of  March,  being  near  the  close  of 
that  year,  but  four  days  before  the  King's  landing  at 
Kinsale  ;  others  are  of  later  appointment,  as  that  of 
James  Carroll,  to  a  Captaincy  in  Lord  Dongan's 
Dragoons,  is  of  the  30th  of  July  following.  It  would 
therefore  seem  to  have  been  closed,  in  its  present 
state,  about  the  August  of  1689,  and  before  the  whole 
force  was  completed.  The  only  point  that  could 
militate  with  such  an  assignment  of  date,  is  the  fact 
of  Richard  Talbot  being  described  upon  it  as  an  Earl, 
whereas  his  patent  to  the  Dukedom  was  granted  on 
the  10th  of  July  in  that  year  ;  but  its  having  been 
a  current  and  continuing  muster  may  account  for 
this.  On  this  list  the  Horse  had  the  highest  pay, 
and  were  therefore  classed  first  of  the  Cavalry.  The 
Dragoons,  having  to  do  duty  on  foot  as  well  as  on 
horseback,  were  lighter  troops  than  the  Horse  in  these 


KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST.  15 

times.*  The  three  first  of  the  Horse  Regiments,  v  iz. : 
Tyrconners,  Galmoy's,  and  Sarsfield's,  had  each  nine 
troops  with  fifty-three  men  in  each  troop  ;  the  five 
last  had  each  six  troops,  with  the  same  complement  oi 
men  in  each.  Three  of  the  Dragoons,  viz.  :  Lord 
Dongan's,  the  first,  Sir  Neill  O^Neill's,  the  second,  and 
Colonel  Simon  Luttrell's,  the  fourth,  had  each  eight 
troops  with  sixty  men  in  each  ;  the  remainder  had 
six  troops  in  each  regiment,  and  sixty  men  in  each 
troop.f  The  regiments  of  Infantry  had  thirteen  com- 
panies in  each,  and  sixty-three  men  in  each  company. 
The  levies  were  conducted  with  such  enthusiasm,  that 
the  force  in  this  list  was  raised,  armed,  and  clothed  in 
less  than  six  weeks,J  and  may  te  truly  said  to  com- 
prise scions  of  the  whole  aristocracy  of  Ireland  at  that 
period,  as  well  of  the  native  Irish  septs  as  of  the 
Anglo-Irish. 

As  the  Colonels  of  the  establishment  are  subse- 
quently given,  each  at  the  head  of  his  regiment,  it 
would  be  idle  to  display  their  names  here,  with  the 
exception  of  the  two  first,  to  whom  no  regiments  are 
assigned  in  this  list,  viz. :  Lord  Viscount  Dover,  and 
the  Duke  of  Berwick  ;  and  that  of  Colonel  Thomas 
Maxwell,  no  detail  of  whose  re^ment  is  given,  but 
who  is  fully  noticed  at  the  close  of  the  Dragoons' 
Regiments. 

•  Macariae  Excidium,  p.  441,  note. 

t  Singer's  Correspondence  of  Clarendon,  t.  1,  p.  97. 

I  Story's  Impartial  History,  pp.  5  &  6. 


16  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

HENRY  LORD  VISCOUNT  DOVER, 

Colonel  of  the  First  Troop  of  Guards. 

This  Henry  Jennyn,  brother  of  Lord  Thomas  Jer- 
myn  of  St.  Edmundsbury,  was  himself,  in  1685, 
created  a  peer,  as  Lord  Jermyn  of  Dover ;  and,  in 
deference  to  his  elder  brother  (while  he  lived),  was 
usually  styled  Lord  Dover,  and  so  sworn  of  the 
English  Privy  Council  in  1686  ;  at  which  period  it 
was  rumoured  he  was  to  be  appointed  Lord  Lieutenant 
of  Ireland,  in  place  of  the  Earl  of  Clarendon.*  In 
1687,he  was  nominated  a  Lord  of  the  English  Treasury, 
and  in  1688,  a  short  time  before  the  king's  abdication 
in  that  country,  he  was  especially  selected  and  con- 
firmed by  his  Majesty's  will,  executed  at  Whitehall 
in  the  commencement  of  that  year,  the  confidential 
adviser  of  the  Queen.  He  afterwards  facilitated  the 
escape  of  James,  and  was  one  of  the  few,  who  accom- 
panied the  royal  exile  to  France  and  subsequently  to 
Ireland.  While  yet  at  sea,  in  the  latter  movement, 
he  addressed  a  letter  "  to  the  Corporation  of  Castle- 
haven,  or  any  other  place  where  the  Captain  (Major 
General  Boisselau)  may  land."  "Gentlemen,"  (it 
is  copied  from  the  original,  in  possession  of  the 
O'Donovan)  "  From  aboard  the  King  of  France's  ship, 
here  upon  the  Irish  coast  for  the  service  of  his  Ma- 
jesty of  England,  with  all  sorts  of  ammunition  and 

*  Singer's  Correspondence,  v.  2,  pp.  10  &  25. 


LOKD   VISCOUNT   DOVER.  17 

necessaries,  and  myself  here  commanding  the  King's 
forces  on  board.  I  send  Captain  la  Rue  and  another 
to  learn  what  news  you  can  inform  us  of ;  therefore, 
pray  send  us,  with  all  speed  you  possibly  can,  all  the 
news  you  know,  both  of  the  King  and  the  enemy's 
fleet,  that  we  may  govern  ourselves  accordingly. 
Gentlemen,  your  humble  servant,  Dover."  (No  date.) 
In  July,  1689,  he  was  joined  in  commission  for  the 
Irish  Treasury  with  Tyrconnel,  Lord  Riverston,  and 
Sir  Stephen  Rice  ;  while  his  name  appears  in  this 
Army  List,  Colonel  as  above  ;  his  Troop  of  Horse, 
Gards  du  Corps^  consisting  of  200  men,*  but  none 
of  his  subalterns  appear  hereon.  Viscount  Dover, 
not  being  a  Peer  of  Ireland,  had  no  seat  in  the 
Parliament  of  1689,  and  seems  to  have  early  taken 
offence  or  distrusted  James's  cause  ;  for  on  the  19th 
of  June,  1690,  eleven  days  before  the  battle  of  the 
Boyne,  he  applied  to  Mr.  Greorge  Kirke,  (the  well- 
known  Major-General)  "  You  will  be  much  surprised 
to  receive  a  letter  from  me ;  but,  after  the  many 
revolutions  we  have  seen  in  our  time,  nothing  is  to 
be  wondered  at."  He  then  requests  Kirke  to  use  his 
interest  with  Marshal  de  Schomberg,  "  to  obtain  a 
pass  for  my  Lady  Dover,  myself  and  the  little  vessel 
we  shall  go  in,  and  those  few  servants  specified  in  the 
within  note,  to  go  and  stay  at  Ostend,  till  such  time 
as  I  may  otherwise  dispose  of  myself."  As  King 
William  appeared  unwilling  to  accede  to  this  prayer, 

*  Somers'  State  Tracts,  v.  11,  p.  398. 

t  Clarke's  Correspondence,  MS.  T.C.D.  Lett.  xiy. 


18  KING  JAMES'S  IRI£H  ARMY  LIST. 

on  account  of  Lord  Dover  being  excepted  out  of  the 
Act  of  Indemnity,  and  also  outlawed  in  AVestminster 
Hall,  he,  on  the  12th  of  July,  after  the  battle  of  the 
Boyne,  wrote  to  obtain  the  interest  of  a  Captain  Fitz- 
gerald, to  procure  a  similar  passport  from  King  Wil- 
liam, "  to  enable  me  to  go  and  end  my  days  quietly 
in  England,  in  which  place  I  will  most  certainly  never 
more  meddle  with  any  affairs  whatever,  but  my  own 
little  particular  ones."*  Another  letter  of  his  lord- 
ship, in  the  same  collection,  contains  a  i^erfect  narra- 
tive of  his  life,  stating  that  he  had  "  served  King 
James  faithfully,  since  he  was  thirteen  years  old,  till 
the  French  thought  fit  he  should  not  do  it  any 
longer."  From  the  context,  it  would  appear  that 
Lord  Dover  had  incurred  some  taunts  from  the 
French  allies,  and,  possibly,  displeasure  from  James. 
He  was  soon  afterwards  allowed  to  transport  himself 
to  Flanders,  till  a  fitting  time  came  for  his  admittance 
to  England,  whither  Lady  Dover  and  her  servants  had 
a  free  pass. 

He  died  on  the  6th  April,  1708,  at  Cheveley  in 
Leicestershire  ;  but  his  remains  were  interred,  at  his 
own  desire,  in  the  Carmelite  Convent  of  Bruges, 
where  his  funeral  monument  ranks  him  "a  Lieu- 
tenant-General  in  the  army.  Colonel  of  a  troop  of  King 
James's  Horse  Guards,  and  Lord  Lieutenant  of  the 
county  of  Cambridge. "f     On  his  death,  without  issue, 


♦  Southwell  MSS.  Catal.,  p.  140. 

t  Nichol's  Top.  and  Gen.,  part  12,  p.  498. 


THE   DUKE   OF   BERWICK.  19 

his  title  became  extinct,  and  his  estates  devolved 
upon  his  nieces,  the  daughters  of  the  aforesaid  Baron 
Jermyn  of  St.  Edmundsbury. 


THE  DUKE  OF  BERWICK, 

Colonel  of  the  Second  Troop  of  Guards. 

Such  was  the  title,  which,  in  deference  to  the  bor- 
der town,  that  had  for  centuries  been  the  great  object 
of  many  a  hard-fought .  day,  James  the  Second,  the 
son  of  a  Scotto-English  monarch,  conferred  upon 
James  Fitz-James,  his  eldest  but  illegitimate  son  by 
Arabella  Churchill,  sister  of  John  Churchill,  after- 
wards the  renowned  Duke  of  Marlborough.  He  was 
bom  in  1671.  In  1686  he  distinguished  himself  at 
the  siege  of  Buda,  and  in  March,  1687,  was  created 
Baron  of  Bosworth,  Earl  of  Tinmouth,  and  Duke 
of  Berwick  ;  his  father  being  then  King  of  Eng- 
land. He  was  the  companion  of  that  father, 
when,  having  escaped  from  the  Guards  at  Rochester, 
he  crossed  to  France  in  a  small  boat,  and  landed  at 
Ambleteuse,  at  six  o'clock  on  Christmas  morning 
(1688).  The  Duke  was  instantly  despatched  thence, 
by  the  Royal  Exile,  to  Louis  XIV.,  then  at  Ver- 
sailles, to  pray  an  asylum  in  his  kingdom.  "J'en 
fus  recu,"  says  the  Duke,  in  his  narrative  of  that  in- 
terview, "  avec  toute  la  politesse  et  Tamiti^  imagina- 
bles  ;  et  il  ^toit  ais^  de  voir  par  ses  discours,  que  son 

c2 


20  KLNG  JAM£S'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

coeur  parloit  autant  que  sa  langue."*  Confiding  on 
that  reception,  King  James  embarked  for  Ireland, 
where,  on  his  arriving  and  learning  the  state  of  Ulster, 
he  ordered  Berwick  off  to  strengthen  General  Richard 
Hamilton  on  the  east  side  of  the  Ban,  in  his  design 
on  Coleraine,  as  well  as  to  sound  the  state  of  political 
feeling  in  Deny.  Of  this  he  formed  a  very  mistaken 
notion,  writing  as  he  did  in  April,  1689,  to  his  Royal 
Sire,  advising  him  that  it  was  the  opinion  of  all  the 
General  Officers,  that  "  if  his  Majesty  would  but 
show  himself  before  that  town,  it  would  undoubtedly 
surrender."  The  expectation  was,  however,  ill- 
grounded  ;  and,  on  the  avowed  determination  of  the 
garrison  to  hold  out,  James,  who  had  gone  before  the 
town  in  this  assurance,  returned  discountenanced  to 
Dublin,  to  make  the  necessary  arrangements  for  hold- 
ing his  parliament.!  Berwick  remained  with  but 
6,000  men,  and  only  six  guus,  opposed  to  a  garrison 
of  10,000  men,  with  from  twenty  to  thirty  pieces  of 
cannon,  and  an  English  fleet  of  thirty  sail  in  the 
river,  with  arms,  ammunition,  provisions,  and  three 
regiments  on  board,  under  the  command  of  Major 
General  Kirke,  commissioned  to  relieve  the  place.J 
While  the  siege  was  going  on,  the  Duke  encountered 
a  large  body  of  the  Enniskilliners  ;  on  whom,  how- 
ever, he  made  no  impression.  After  the  raising  of 
the  siege,  being  stationed  at  Newiy  with  1700  foot 

*  *  Memoir'  in  Clarke's  James  II. 

t  Clarke's  Life  of  James  II.,  v.  2,  p.  332. 

t  O'Callaghan  on  the  Excidium  Macariffi,  pp.  320-1. 


THE  DUKE  OF  BERWICK.  21 

and  dragoons,  and  two  troops  of  horse  ;  and,  designing 
to  defend  that  pass  against  Schomberg,  who  had 
landed  a  few  days  previously  at  Carrickfergus,  he 
is  said  by  Story,*  to  have  sent  a  letter  by  a  trumpe- 
ter to  that  Marshal  on  the  1st  of  September,  he  being 
then  in  Belfast.  This  communication,  being  directed 
only  to  '  Count '  Schomberg,  was  returned  unopened, 
that  officer  saying  his  Royal  Master  had  honoured 
him  with  the  title  of  Duke,  and  therefore  the  letter 
was  not  to  him.f  At  the  close  of  the  same  year, 
(1689)  in  February,  Berwick  meditated  taking  pos- 
session of  Belturbet,  "  with  the  expectation  of  being 
able  to  make  excursions  thence  into  the  enemy's 
quarters  all  the  winter ;  but  Wolseley,  King  Wil- 
liam's  Colonel,  suspecting  his  design,  marched  out 
of  the  town  with  a  considerable  body  of  Horse  and 
Foot,  when  meeting  Berwick's  forces  at  Tullaghmon- 
gan,  near  Cavan,  he  forthwith  attacked  them  ;  and, 
although  the  Duke  behaved  himself  with  great  con- 
duct and  bravery,  having  his  horse  shot  under  him, 
yet  was  he  worsted  in  the  action,  and  the  town  was 
fired  by  his  enemy." 

Berwick  was  afterwards  at  the  battle  of  the  Boyne, 
where  the  troop  under  his  command  consisted  of 
two  hundred  strong.  There  also  "  his  horse  was  shot 
under  him,  and,  as  he  lay  for  some  time  amongst  the 
enemy,  he  was  rode  over  and  ill-bruised,  until  by  the 
help  of  a  trooper  he  was  got  off  again."!     After  that 


*  Impartial  Review,  part  1,  p.  11. 
X  Clarke's  James  II.  v.  2,  p.  400. 


t  Idem. 


22  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

battle  the  Duke  rallied,  at  Brazeel  near  Dublin,  about 
7,000  infantry  ;  of  which  he  sent  to  acquaint  his 
Royal  father  in  that  city,  requesting  that  a  convoy  of 
Horse  and  Dragoons  should  be  sent  out  to  enable  him 
to  come  in.  The  king  accordingly  ordered  out  six 
troops  of  LuttrelFs  Dragoons,  and  three  of  Aber- 
com's  Horse  to  his  relief ;  but  night  had  dissolved 
the  force  which  Berwick  hoped  to  keep  together — 
they  had  all  dispersed.  During  the  first  siege  of 
Limerick,  (August,  1690)  by  King  William  in  person, 
"  the  Irish  Cavalry,  3,500  strong,  commanded  by  the 
Duke  of  Berwick,  guarded  the  right  bank  of  the  Shan- 
non, and  prevented  the  English  from  investing  or  even 
sending  detachments  to  that  side,  although  the  river 
was  fordable  in  many  places."*  When  that  siege  was 
abandoned,  and  Tyrconnel  passed  over  to  his  King  to 
France,  "  he,"  writes  Colonel  O'Kelly  in  the  Excidium 
Macarice  (p.  72),  "  established  a  new  form  of  govern- 
ment in  his  absence,  never  before  heard  of  in  Ireland  ; 
twelve  *  Senators '  were  named  to  manage  the  civil 
affairs,  the  major  part  being  new-interest  men,  without 
whose  concurrence  the  rest  could  not  act.  The 
army  he  placed  under  the  command  of  the  Duke  of 
Berwick,  and,  in  regard  his  youth  gave  him  little  ex- 
perience,  (he  had  not  then  attained  21  years)  he  ap- 
pointed a  select  council  of  officers  to  direct  him  ; 
the  Duke  having "  as  Colonel  O'Kelly,  who  was  no 
friendly  commemorator  of  Tyrconnel,  insinuates,  "  his 


O'Conors  Military  Memoirs,  p.  117. 


THE   DUKE  OF   BERWICK.  23 

private  directions  to  permit  no  person  of  quafity  to 
come  out  of  Ireland  in  his  absence,  who  would  be 
likely  to  oppose  his  representations  at  the  Court  of  St. 
Germains." 

The  vessel,  that  was  to  take  Tyrconnel  out  of 
Galway,  was  scarcely  out  of  sight,  when  the  young 
Duke,  at  the  head  of  4,000  foot,  2000  men  at  arms, 
and  as  many  light  horse,  passed  the  Shannon  and 
attacked  the  Castle  of  Birr  ;  but  "  on  an  alarm  of  the 
enemy's  advance  to  relieve  the  place,  he  decamped, 
and  never  stopped  till  he  crossed  the  Shannon  back 
again,  returning  with  his  troops  into  Connaught ; 
having,  (adds  Colonel  O'Kelly)  by  that  successless 
attempt  and  his  shameful  retreat,  discouraged  the 
army,  and  disheartened  the  whole  nation  of  Ireland." 
O'Conor,  a  later  historian  of  the  military  memoirs  of 
this  country,  says,  "  Berwick's  operations,  during  the 
absence  of  Talbot,  were  directed  by  the  Hamiltons, 
conducted  without  skill,  and  disheartened  the  Irish J^:* 
He  was  of  course  attainted,  but  not  until  five  years 
after  the  close  of  that  war,  of  which  he  has  left  the 
best  account,  embodied  in  Clarke's  Life  of  James  the 
Second.f  In  1693,  Berwick,  who  had  passed  to  France 
afl«r  the  surrender  of  Limerick,  was  taken  prisoner  in 
the  engagement  near  Liege,  by  his  uncle,  the  Duke  of 
Marlborough  ;  and  in  1695  he  married  the  widow  of 
Sarsfield,  who,  as  hereafter  mentioned,  fell  at  Landen 
in  1693.     She  was  the  lady  Honora  de  Burgo,  second 

*  O'Conor  8  Military  Memoirs,  p.  130. 
t  Idem,  p.  237. 


24  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

daughter  of  William,  the  seventh  Earl  of  Clanricarde. 
In  tiie  chapel  of  the  Castle  of  St.  G^rmains  the  cere- 
mony took  place,  which  she  survived  but  three  years, 
dying  of  consumption  at  Montpelier. 

In  1696,  when  James,  under  a  delusive  impression 
that  the  Prince  of  Orange's  affairs  began  not  to  have 
so  favourable  an  aspect  as  formerly,  meditated  ob- 
taining forces  from  the  French  King  for  invading 
England;  the  Duke  of  Berwick  was  secretly  sent  over 
to  London  to  sound  the  public  feeling, — again  with  ill 
success.  The  continent  was  destined  to  be  the  theatre 
of  his  own  fixture  actions  and  renown.  The  brigaded 
Regiment  of  Foot,  formed  in  France  and  styled  by  his 
name  was  distinguished  in  the  Italian  campaign  of 
1701  ;  when,  with  Galmoy's,  Burke's  and  Dillon's,  and 
with  Sheldon's  Horse,  it  formed  part  of  the  army  that 
was  led  on  by  the  Duke  of  Savoy  at  the  engagement  near 
Chiari.  In  1703,  it  was  incorporated  in  the  Brigade 
of  Piedmont,*  and  actively  engaged  in  its  conflicts,  f 
In  1704,  the  three  Regiments,  Berwick's,  Dillon's,  and 
Galmoy's,  mounted  the  trenches  at  Vercelli,  Ivrea,  and 
Verrua  in  Italy.  In  the  May  of  that  year,  military 
operations  commenced  in  the  Spanish  Peninsula,  by 
the  entrance  of  a  Spanish  and  French  army  under 
King  Philip  and  the  Duke  of  Berwick  respectively, 
at  Salvatierra.  In  1705,  Berwick's  Regiment,  together 
with  Burke's  and  Fitzgerald's  (formerly  Albemarle's), 
was  engaged  in  all  the  battles  which   marked   the 


♦  O'Conor  s  Military  Memoirs,  p.  262.     t  Idem,  p.  265,  273. 


THE  DUKE  OF  BERWICK  25 

valour  and  skill  of  the  two  great  coramandeps,  Eugene 
and  Vendome,  who  headed  the  united  armies.*  The 
Brigade,  thus  concentrated,  was  called  Burke's,  com- 
manded as  it  was  by  Brigadier-Greneral  Ulick  Burke, 
and  did  wonderful  execution  at  the  battle  on  the  Re- 
torto  and  Adda,  which  O'Conor  describes  as  "  the 
fiercest  contest  that  occurred  during  the  seventeenth 
century."  A  second  battalion,  which  was  raised  at 
Arras  for  Berwick's  Regiment  at  the  latter  period,  was 
ordered  to  Spain,  and  in  1706  performed  important 
services  theref,  as  it  did  at  the  battle  of  Almanza,  in 
April,  1707.  Berwick  himself  on  the  latter  occasion 
"  led  his  cavalry  to  the  charge,  and  utterly  broke  the 
mixed  line  of  the  allies,  so  that  the  fate  of  the  day  re- 
mained no  longer  doubtful.'* J  "His  presence  of 
mind,"  adds  O'Conor,  "  was  admirable  ;  as  cool,  as 
calm  as  he  would  be  at  a  review,  he  provided  for 
every  emergency ;  wherever  the  line  yielded,  he 
brought  up  troops  from  other  posts  to  sustain  it ;  he 
was  every  where,  leading  on,  encouraging  and  exhort- 
ing the  Spaniards  in  their  own,  and  the  French  and 
Irish  in  the  respective  languages  of  their  countries." 
Immediately  after  this  splendid  victory,  which  turned 
the  tide  of  war  against  the  allies,  he  was  made  a 
Spanish  Grandee  by  Philip  the  Fiflh.  In  the  same 
year,  at  the  siege  of  Lerida,  "  one  of  the  strongest 
fortresses  in  Europe,  the  Regiments  of  Burke,  Dillon, 

*  O'Conor's  Military  Memoirs,  p.  299. 
t  Idem,  p.  318.  J  Idem,  p.  829. 


26  KINO  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

and  Berwick  were  distinguished  ;  on  the  4th  of 
October,  their  trenches  were  opened,  Berwick's, 
Burke's,  and  Dillon's  Regiments  mounted  them,  the 
fortress  and  citadel  surrendered."  *  In  1708,  two  bat- 
talions of  Berwick's,  widi  Grafton's  "  Irish  Dragoons," 
and  Bulkeley's  Irish  Regiment  of  Foot  in  the  service 
of  Spain,  formed  part  of  the  besieging  army  at  Tortosa. 
On  this  occasion,  "  the  Regiment  of  Berwick  suffered 
severely,  having  mounted  the  trenches  several  nights  ; 
the  Lieutenant-Colonel  and  several  officers  and  men 
were  killed  ;  and,  after  twenty-one  days'  siege,  the 
place  surrendered  upon  honourable  terms."  f  In  the 
July  of  this  year,  Berwick  himself,  being  encamped 
near  Douay,  received  a  letter  from  his  illustrious  op- 
ponent and  uncle,  the  Duke  of  Marlborough,  wherein 
the  latter,  perfectly  recognizing  the  kindred,  says, '  You 
may  be  sure  the  difference  of  parties  will  not  hinder 
me  from  having  that  friendship  for  you  that  becomes 
me  towards  my  relations.'  J  In  the  early  part  of  1709, 
Burke's,  Dillon's,  and  Berwick's  Regiments  served  in 
Spain  under  the  Marshal  de  Biron  ;  as  they  did  in 
1711  in  Savoy,  under  the  Marshal  Duke  of  Berwick  ; 
but,  "  from  inferiority  of  forces,  he  was  obliged  to 
abandon  that  country,  and  confine  himself  to  guard 
the  passes  of  the  Alps  into  Dauphiny.  It  is  to  his 
character  and  achievements  at  this  period,  and  the  war 
in  which  he  encountered  his  own  uncle,  the  Duke  of 
Marlborough,  that  Montesquieu  thus  alludes,  "  Telle 

*  O'Conor  s  Military  Memoirs,  p.  335. 

t  Idem,  p.  337.       J  Murray's  Marlborough  Desp.,  v.  4,  p.  1 13. 


THE  DUKE  OF  BERWICK.  27 

fiit  Tetoile  de  cette  Maison  de  Churchill,  qu'il  en  sor- 
tit  deux  hommes,  dont  Tun,  dans  le  meme  temps, 
fut  destine  a  ebranler,  et  Tautre  a  soutenir,  les  deux 
grandes  monarchies  de  TEurope." 

Berwick  was  killed  at  the  siege  of  Philpsburg  in 
Baden,  12th  June,  1734 ;  leaving  by  his  aforesaid 
wife,  the  Lady  Honora  de  Burgh  (who  died  in  1698, 
and  was  buried  at  Pontoise,  near  Paris)  one  son, 
James  Edward  Francis,  who  was  created  by  Philip 
the  Fifth,  Duke  of  Liria  and  Gherica,  and  a  Grandee 
of  Spain  of  the  first  class  ;  he  married  Catherine,  the 
daughter  and  heiress  of  Pierre  Duke  of  Veragas  orVeras 
Aquas  in  Spain  ;  in  whose  right  he  also  bore  that  title  ; 
and,  being  sent  ambassador  from  Philip  to  his  son  Don 
Carlos,  King  of  the  Two  Sicilies,  he  died  at  Naples  in 
1738,  leaving  issue  by  her,  two  sons,  the  eldest  James, 
Duke  of  Berwick  and  Liria,  Grandee  of  Spain,  and 
General  in  the  Spanish  service,  (who  was  father  of 
Charles  B.  Pascal  Janvier  Fitzjames,  Marquis  of 
Jamaica,  baptised  1751 ;)  and  the  second  son,  Duke 
Peter  Fitzjames,  called  in  Spain  Don  Pedro,  who  was 
an  admiral  in  that  service.  He  married  the  heiress  of 
Castelblanco,  and  had  issue. The  old  Duke  of  Ber- 
wick had,  on  the  decease  of  his  first  wife,  married  Miss 
Buckley,  one  of  the  maids  of  Honor  to  Queen  Mary 
d'Este,  and  by  her  had  five  children  :  James,  who  died 
without  issue  in  the  lifetime  of  his  father  ;  Francis, 
who  rose  to  eminence  in  the  Church  ;  Henry,  who  also 
entered  into  holy  orders  ;  Charles,  who  succeeded  to 
the  Dukedom  of  Fitzjames  in  France,  and  from  whom 


28  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

the  present  Duke  is  descended  ;  and  Maria,  married 
to  the  Duke  of  Mirandola,  a  Spanish  Grandee  of  the 
first  class.*  The  English  Dukedom  of  Berwick  had 
been  forfeited  on  the  attainder,  though  the  title  was 
used  bj  the  great  Duke  in  his  life-time,  and  sometimes 
by  his  descendants,  who  continued  to  be  successively 
Colonels  of  his  Brigade,  until  it  was  disbanded 
at  the  Revolution.  The  Spanish  branch  still  retains 
its  rank  and  estates. 

At  the  battle  of  Ypres,  in  1745,  the  still  Irish  names 
of  the  killed  in  Berwick's  Regiment  are  Captains 
Burke,  Nangle,  Anthony,  Cooke,  and  Higgins  ;  while, 
in  the  list  of  the  wounded,  appear  Captain  Colclough, 
and  Lieutenants  Plunket,  Carroll,  Mac  Carthy,  and 
Dease.f 


In  1792,  there  were  in  garrison  at  London,  of 
Berwick's  ci-devarU  Regiment,  Lieutenant-Colonels 
O'More  and  Mac  Dermott. 

Captains: — O'Connor,  Bryan  OToole,  Richard 
O'Toole,  —  O'Gormican,  —  Cruise,  —  Reed,  —  Egan, 
William  O'Mara,  Thaddeus  O'Mara,  John  Geoghegan, 
— Hurly,  — Tuite,  — Swinton,  — Delany,  — ^Gregory, 
and  Byrne. 

LietUenants :  — D'Alton,  — Kavanagh,  — Forbes, — 
Grace, — Mulhall, — O'Kennedy, — Garrett  Fitzsimons, 
— Blake,  Richard  O'Byrne,  — D'Evereux,  — Geraghty, 

*  Jesse's  Memoirs  of  the  Court  of  England,  v.  4,  p.  490. 
t  (rent.  Mag.  ad  ann.  p.  276. 


counties'  assessment.  29 

—  Doyle,  —  Nagle,  Patt  Piersse,  and  Gerard  Piersse. 

Sub'Lieutenants : —  O'Sullivan,  —  MacCarthy,  Pat 
Jennings,  Luke  Allen,  Andrew  Elliott,  Morris 
Cameron.  While  on  the  French  Army  List  of  1792, 
the  staff  of  this  ci-devant  French  Eegiment  numbered 
still  in  the  French  service  : — 

Colonel — O'Connor. 

Lieutenant-Colonels: — Hurly  and  Shee. 

Captains : — Swanton, — Hussey, — MacCormick, — 
Doyle,  —  Koberts,  —  Nagle,  — Delany,  Martin  Hart, 
Andrew  Mac  Donough,  —  Beed,  —  Burke,  Marcus 
Laffan,  and  —  OTlynn. 

Lieutenants :  Luke  Allen, — Merle, — D'Alton, — 
Burke,  —  Meagher,  —  Fleming,  —  Prior,  — Nagle, — 
Ravel,  —  Houdart,  —  Derenzy,  Eugene  Chancel,  and 
Shee. 

Sub-Lieutenant — Nestor  Chancel. 


This  seems  the  most  apt  place  to  introduce  the 
genealogical  evidences,  that  arise  from  a  commission 
of  the  10th  April,  1690,  which  King  James  issued  for 
applotting  £20,000  per  month  on  personal  estates 
and  the  benefit  of  trade  and  traffic,  "  according  to  the 
ancient  custom  of  this  Kingdom  used  in  time  of  dan- 
ger." Of  this  tax  he  appointed  the  following  assessors 
in  the  several  counties,  &c. 

For  the  City  and  County  of  Dublin  ;  The  Lord 
Mayor  and  Sheriff  of  the  city  for  the  time  being. 
Garret  Dillon,  Esq.  Recorder  ;  Simon  Luttrell,  Esq. 


30  KING  JAMES'S  I&ISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Governor  of  the  city  ;  Sir  Thomas  Hackett,  Sir  Wil- 
liam Ellis,  Thomas  Whitehead,  Lewis  Doe,  and  Thomas 
Browne,  Esq.  Their  applotment  on  the  city  to  be 
£5,000  for  the  three  months. 

For  the  County  of  Dublin;  The  High  Sheriff  for 
the  time  being  ;  Simon  Luttrell,  Esq.  Lord  Lieutenant 
of  the  County  ;  Colonel  Patrick  Sarsfield,  John  Tal- 
bot of  Belgard,  Esq.  Captain  Robert  Arthur,  Captain 
Kobert  Russell,  James  Hackett,  Esq.  Christopher 
Massy,  Esq.  and  Ignatius  Purcell,  Esq.  Their  applot- 
ment to  be  £2,391  6s.  9d.  for  the  three  months. 

For  the  County  of  Kildare  ;  The  High  Sheriff  j9ro 
temp. ;  Sir  Patrick  Trant,  Baronet ;  Charles  White, 
Esq.  Colonel  Charles  Moore,  Wm.  Talbot,  John  Wogan, 
Francis  Leigh,  Esqs.  the  Sovereign  of  the  Naas  pro 
temp,  and  Edmund  Fitzgerald,  Esq.  Their  applot- 
ment,  £1,643  5s.  3d.  for  the  three  months. 

For  the  County  of  Carlow  ;  The  High  Sheriff /?ro 
temp.  ;  Colonel  Dudley  Bagnall,  John  Bagot  Junior, 
Patrick  Wall,  Pierce  Bryan,  Marcus  Baggot,  Hubert 
Kelly,  Esqs.  the  Sovereign  of  Carlow  pro  temp,  and 
William  Coolie,  Esq.  Their  applotment,  £726  19s.  3d. 
for  the  three  months. 

For  the  King's  County  ;  The  High  Sheriff  pro 
temp.  Garret  Moore,  Esq.  Colonel  Francis  Oxburgh, 
Terence  Coghlan,  John  Coghlan  of  Tullamore,  Edward 
Baggott,  Owen  Carroll,  Henry  Oxburgh,  Garret 
Trant,  Esqs.  Their  applotment  to  be  £860  17s.  6d. 
for  the  three  months. 

For  the  Queeris  County;    The  High  Sheriff />ro 


counties'  assessment.  31 

temp.  Sir  Patrick  Trant,  Baronet,  Sir  Gregory  Byrne, 
Edward  Morris,  Oliver  Grace,  Thady  Fitzpatrick, 
Daniel  Doran,  John  Weaver  and  John  Warren,  Esqs. 
Their  applotment,  £956  10s.  9d.  for  the  three 
months. 

For  tlie  County  of  Longford  ;  The  High  Sheriff, 
pro  temp.^  Oliver  Fitzgerald,  Esq.,  Thomas  Nugent  of 
Colamber,  John  Nugent  of  Killasonna,  Eobert  Sans, 
Francis  Ferrall,  Robert  Farrell,  and  Robert  Dowling, 
Esqs.     Their  applotment  to  be  £573  18s.  3d. 

For  the  County  of  Meath  ;  The  High  Sheriff  pro 
temp.j  Sir  Patrick  Bamewall,  Sir  William  Talbot, 
Baronet,  Sir  John  Fleming,  Thomas  Bellew,  Henry 
Draycott,  John  Hatch,  Adam  Crane,  and  Richard 
Barnewall,  Esqs.  Their  applotment,  £2,793  2s.  for 
the  three  months. 

For  the  County  of  Westmeath  ;  The  High  Sheriff  joro 
temp.  Garret  Nugent  of  Dysart,  Edmund  Malone, 
Garret  Nangle,  William  Handcock,  James  Dease, 
Keadagh  Geoghegan,  (Jeorge  Peyton,  and  Richard 
Fitzgerald,  Esqs.  Their  applotment,  £1,434  16s. 
for  the  three  months. 

For  the  City  of  Kilkenny  ;  The  Mayor,  Recorder^ 
and  Sheriffs  pro  temp.^  Walter  Lawless,  Henry  Archer, 
Luke  Dormer,  James  Rafter,  and  John  Shee,  Esqs. 
Their  applotment,  £190  17s.  6d.  for  the  three  months. 

For  the  County  of  Kilkenny  ;  The  High  Sheriff 
pro  temp.  Colonel  Walter  Butler,  Colonel  Edward 
Butler,  John  Grace,  Marcus  Shee,  Harvey  Morris,  Esqs. 
The  Sovereign  of  Callan  j9ro  temp.  Edmund  Blanchville, 


32  KING  JAMESES  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Esq.  and  the  Portreef  of  Gowran  pro  temp.     Their 
applotment,  £1,932  4s.  3d.  for  the  three  months. 

For  the  County  of  Weaford ;  The  High  Sheriff 
pro  temp.  Colonel  Walter  Butler,  Patrick  Colclough, 
Walter  Talbot,  William  Howe,  Patrick  Lambert, 
Anthony  Talbot,  Matthew  Forde,  and  Patrick  White, 
Esqs.  Their  applotment,  £1,434  16s.  for  the  three 
months. 

For  the  County  of  Wicklow ;  The  High  Sheriff 
pro  temp.  Francis  Toole,  Wm.  Talbot  of  Fassaroe,  Ph. 
Cowdell,  Wm.  Wolverston,  William  Hoey,  Cromwell 
Wingfield,  Escjuires,  and  Thomas  Byrne,  Burgess  of 
Wicklow.  Their  applotment,  £688  14s.  3d.  for  the 
three  months. 

For  the  County  of  Louth  ;  The  High  Sheriff  pro 
temp.  Sir  Patrick  Bellew,  John  Cheever,  Roger  Gernon, 
Esqs.  John  Babe,  Henry  Townley,  Patrick  Dowdall, 
and  Nicholas  Gernon,  Esquires.  Their  applotment, 
£994  16s.  for  the  three  months. 

For  the  Town  of  Drogheda  ;  The  Mayor,  Recorder, 
and  Sheriflfe  pro  temp.  Thomas  Peppard  Fitz-George, 
Christopher  Peppard  Fitz-Ignatius,  Patrick  Plunket, 
Alderman,  and  John  Moore.  Their  applotment, 
£210  9s.  3d.  for  the  three  months. 

For  the  County  of  Limerick  ;  The  High  Sheriff 
pro  temp.  Sir  Joseph  Fitzgerald,  Dominick  Roche, 
John  Bourk  of  Cahirmoyle,  John  Rice  of  Hospital, 
Edward  Rice,  John  Baggott  Senior,  Henry  Wray, 
Thaddeus  Quinn,  and  George  Evans,  Esqs.  Their  ap- 
plotment, £1,932  Is.  3d.  for  the  three  months. 


C0UNTI£8'  ASSESSMENT.  33 

For  the  City  of  Limerick  ;  The  Mayor,  Eecorder, 
and  Sheriflfe  pro  temp.  Sir  James  Galway,  Baronet, 
John  McNamara,  John  Eice  Fitz-Edward,  Robert 
Herman,  and  John  Leonard,  Esqs.  Their  applotment, 
£382  12s.  3d.  for  three  months. 

For  the  County  of  Cork ;  The  High  Sheriff  pro 
temp.  Daniel  O'Donovan,  Daniel  O'Sullivan  Bear, 
Daniel  Mc  Carthy  Beagh,  Nicholas  Brown,  Esq.  Sir 
John  Mead,  Knight,  Sir  James  Cotter,  Knight,  Miles 
Coursey,  Charles  Mc  Carthy  alias  Mc  Donogh,  Edward 
Fitzgerald  of  Ballyverter,  Dominick  Sarsfield,  David 
Nagle,  John  Galway,  Martin  Supple,  Esqs.  the  Mayor, 
Recorder,  and  SheriflS  of  the  City  of  Cork  pro  temp. 
Andrew  Morrogh,  Stephen  Gold,  John  Longan,  Ed- 
ward Gough,  Esqs.,  the  Mayor  of  Youghal  pro  temp. 
the  Sovereign  of  Kinsale  pro  temp,  the  Sovereign  of 
Mallow  pro  temp,  the  Sovereign  of  Charleville  pro 
temp,  and  John  Power  of  Kellballer,  Esq.  Their 
applotment,  £683  lis.  for  tlie  three  months. 

For  the  City  of  Waterford ;  The  High  Sheriff 
pro  temp.  J  the  Earl  of  Tyrone,  Lieutenant-Colonel 
Thomas  Nugent,  Matthew  How,  John  Nugent,  Richard 
Marsfield,  Thomas  Sherlock,  Pierce  Walsh,  and  Nicho- 
las Power,  Esqs.  Their  applotment  for  the  three 
months,  £1,262  12s.  9d. 

For  the  County  and  City  of  Waterford ;  The 
Mayor,  Recorder,  and  Sheriffs  pro  temp.^  Richard 
Fitz-G^rald,  Michael  Porter,  Michael  Head,  and  James 
White,  Esqs.  Their  applotment,  £382  12s.  3d.  for 
the  three  months. 


34  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

For  the  County  of  Clare  ;  The  High  Sheriff/>ro  temp.^ 
Sir  Donogh  O'Brien,  John  Mc  Namara  of  Cratelogh, 
Donogh  O'Brien  of  Duogh,  Daniel  Mc  Namara,  John 
Mc  Namara  of  Moyriff,  James  Aylmer,  Florence 
Mc  Namara,  Samuel  Boyton,  John  Mc  Namara,  Col- 
lector, and  the  Provost  of  Ennis  pro  temp.  Their  ap- 
plotment,  £1,798  5s.  6d;  for  the  three  months. 

For  the  County  of  Kerry  ;  The  High  Sheriff  pro 
temp.j  Colonel  Mc  Carthy  More,  William  Brown, 
Esq.  Sir  Thomas  Crosby,  Knight ;  Stephen  Eice, 
Daniel  O'Donoghue,  Ambrose  Moore,  Esqs.;  the 
Sovereign  of  Dingle  pro  temp,  the  Provost  of  Tralee 
pro  temp,  and  Andrew  Elliott.  Their  applotment, 
£1,052  4s.  9d.  for  the  three  months 

For  the  County  of  Tipperary^  including  Holycross  ; 
The  High  SheriflF/>r(?  temp.^  Colonel  Nicholas  Purcell, 
Major  James  Tobin,  John  Cantwell,  James  Kearney, 
Thaddeus  Meagher,  Terence  Magrath,  James  Hackett, 
Ambrose  -Mandeville,  the  Mayor  of  Cashel  pro  temp. 
the  Mayor  of  Clonmel  pro  temp.  Edmund  Ryan, 
Cormick  Egan,  Nicholas  White  Fitz-Henry,  Esquires, 
the  Sovereign  of  Feathard,  and  Peter  Dalton,  Esq. 
Their  applotment,  £4,208  16s.  for  the  three  months. 

For  the  County  of  Donegal ;  The  High  SheriflF 
pro  temp.^  Captain  Manus  O'Donnell,  Henry  Nugent, 
John  Nugent,  Daniel  Mc  Swine,  Captain  Daniel 
O'Donnell,  and  Captain  Hugh  O'Donnell.  Their  ap- 
plotment, £1,951  7s.  for  the  three  months. 

For  the  County  of  Tyrone  ;  The  High  SheriflF  jK>ro 
temp.^  the  Provost  of  Strabane  pro  temp,  the  Provost 


counties'  assessment,  35 

of  Dungannon  pro  temp.  Captain  Terence  Donnelly, 
Patrick  Donnelly,  Hugh  Quinn,  and  John  Clements, 
Esquires.  Their  applotment,  £1,492  4s.  for  the  three 
months. 

For  the  County  of  Fermanagh  ;  The  High  SheriflF 
pro  temp.j  Constantine  Maguire,  Edmund  Oge 
Maguire,  Bryan  Maguire,  Constantine  Oge  Maguire, 
Philip  Maguire,  and  Captain  Thomas  Maguire.  Their 
applotment,  £1,013  18s.  9d.  for  the  three  months. 

For  the  County  of  Cavan  ;  The  High  Sheriff  pro 
temp.  Captain  Edmund  Reilly,  Luke  Reilly,  Philip 
Reilly,  Philip  Oge  Reilly,  Francis  Bourke,  and  Thomas 
Fleming,  Esqs.  Their  applotment,  £1090  9s  6d.  for 
the  three  months. 

For  the  County  of  Monaghan  ;  The  High  Sheriff 
pro  temp.  Colonel  Art  Oge  McMahon,  Captain  Hugh 
McMahon,  Captain  Bryan  McMahon,  Captain  Farrell 
Ward,  Doctor  Henry  Cassidy,  and  Alex.  MacCabe. 
Their  applotment,  £1052  4s.  for  three  months. 

For  the  County  of  Antrim^  including  the  town  of  Car- 
rickfergus ;  The  High  Sheriff  pro  temp.  Sir  Neill 
O'Neill,  Cormuck  O'Neill,  RandaD  McDonnell,  Thady 
O'Hara,  Francis  Stafford,  and  Rowland  White,  Esqs. 
Their  applotment,  £2257  8s.  9d.  for  three  months. 

For  the  County  Doum  ;  the  High  Sheriff  jt?ro  temp. 
Phelim  Magenis,  Murtagh  Magenis,  Rowland  Savage, 
John  Savage,  John  McArtan,  and  Toole  O'Neill.  Their 
applotment,  £2011  14s.  3d.  for  three  months. 

For  the  County  of  Armagh  ;  The  High  Sheriff  jt>ro 
temp,   the   Sovereign  of  Armagh  pro  temp.  Colonel 

D  2 


36  KINO  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Owen  O'NeiU,  Turlough  O'NeiU,  Paul  O'NeiU,  Hugh 
Buy  O'Neill,  and  Robert  Martin,  Esqs.  Their  applot- 
ment,  £1052  4s.  for  three  months. 

For  the  County  of  Londonderry  and  tJie  City  of 
Londonderry  and  the  Town  and  Barony  of  Coleraine  ; 
the  Mayor  and  Sheriffs  of  Londonderry  pro  tenip. 
Cormuck  O'Neill,  Conn  O'Neill,  Art  O'Hegan,  and 
John  O'Hegan,  Esqs.  Their  applotment,  £1473  Is. 
3d.  for  three  months. 

For  the  County  and  tlie  Town  of  Galway  ;  The 
Mayor,  Recorder  and  Sheriff  j^ro  temp.  Stephen  Deane, 
Peter  Kirwan,  John  Bodkin,  James  Browne,  Collector  ; 
John  Kirwan,  Thomas  Revett,  and  George  Stanton, 
Esqs.  Their  applotment,  £325  4s.  6d.  for  the  three 
months. 

For  the  County  of  Galway  ;  The  High  Sheriff  joro 
temp.  Sir  Ulick  Bourke,  Roger  O'Shaughnessy,  Richard 
Bourke  of  Derryraghaghna,  Nicholas  French,  Oliver 
Martin,  Dermot  Daly,  Laughlin  Daly,  James  Donel- 
lan,  Richard  Blake,  and  Miles  Bourke  of  Clougheroge, 
Esqs.  Their  applotment,  £2410  9s.  6d.  for  three 
months. 

For  the  County  of  Roscommon  ;  The  High  Sheriff 
pro  temp.  Colonel  Charles  Kelly,  Captain  Theobald 
Dillon,  Bryan  Fallon,  Roger  McDermott,  Cormuck 
McDermott,  and  the  Portreeve  of  Roscommon  pi^o 
temp.  Their  applotment,  £1501  15s.  3d.  for  three 
months. 

For  the  County  of  Sligo ;  The  High  Sheriff  pro 
temp.   Colonel  Oliver  O'Gara,  Henry  Croflton,  David 


counties'  assessment.  37 

Bond,  Charles  O'Hara,  John  Crofton,  James  French, 
John  Brett,  Esqs.,  and  the  Sovereign  of  Sligo  pro  temp. 
Their  applotment,  £1186  2s.  for  three  months. 

For  the  County  of  Antrim  ;  The  High  Sheriff  jK>ro 
temp.  Gerald  Kean,  Esq.,  Colonel  Henry  O'Neill,  Cap- 
tain  John  Reynolds,  Bryan  Greoghegan,  Thady  Roddy, 
Lieutenant  Jeffry  O'Rourke.  Their  applotment,  £688 
14s.  3d.  for  three  months. 

For  the  County  of  Mayo  ;  The  High  Sheriff  pro 
temp.  Colonel  Garret  Moore,  Colonel  Henry  Dillon, 
Colonel  John  Browne,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Walter 
Bourke,  George  Browne,  Esq.  Captain  Thomas  Bourke, 
Captain  John  Bermingham,  and  John  Fitzgerald. 
Their  applotment,  £1555  14s.  3d.  for  the  three 
months. 

With  all  powers  and  instructions  for  collecting  same. 
Date^  10th  April,  1690  ;  sixth  of  our  reign.* 


ACCOUNT   OF    THE  GENERAL    AND    FIELD 
OFFICERS  OF  KING  JAMES'S  ARMY, 

Out  of  the  Muster  RoUs^  2nd.  June^  1690. 

Duke  of  Tyrconnel,  Captain-General. 

Duke  of  Berwick,  Lieutenant-General. 

Richard  Hamilton,  Lieutenant-General. 

Count  Lauzun,  General  of  the  French. 

Monsieur  Lery  alias  Geraldine,  Lieutenant-General. 

Dominick  Sheldon,  Lieutenant-General  of  the  Horse. 

Patrick  Sarsfield,  Major-General. 

•  Harris's  MSS.  vol.  10,  p.  166,  &c. 


38  KING  JAMES'8  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Monsieur  Boiseleau,  Major-General. 
Anthony  Hamilton,  Major-General. 

'  Wahup. ' 

Thomas  Maxwell,  Brigadier. 

John  Hamilton,  Brigadier. 

Will  Dorrington,  Brigadier. 

Solomon  Slater,  Muster-Master-G^neral. 

Robert  Fitzgerald,  Comptroller  of  the  Mustt^rs. 

Sir  Richard  Nangle,  [Nagle]  Secretary  at  War. 

Sir  Henry  Bond,  Receiver-General. 

Louis  Doe,  Receiver-General. 

Sir  Michael  Creagh,  Paymaster-General. 

Felix  O'Neill,  Advocate-General. 

Dr.  Archbold,  Physician  to  the  State. 

Patrick  Archbold,  Chirurgeon-General. 

This  classification  of  the  Field  Officers  was  taken  by 
Dr.  King,  (State  of  the  Protestants^  App,  p.  67,  etc.) 
from  the  Muster  Rolls  drawn  up  subsequent  to  the 
date  of  this  Army  List.  It  is  followed  in  King,  by  a 
similar  detail  of  the  Field  Officers  of  each  Regiment, 
and  is  also  given  in  Story's  History  of  the  Campaign  ; 
(Pt.  ii.  p.  30.)  Wherever  these  names  or  commissions 
differ  from  what  appear  on  the  '  List,'  the  variance  is 
noted  in  the  work  ;  while  it  is  to  be  observed  that 
the  Illustrations  of  Families  are  given  respectively,  at 
the  mention  of  that  representative  thereof,  who  ranks 
highest  on  the  Roll ;  and  there  it  is  proposed  to  collect 
particulars  of  such  others  of  the  name,  as  are  recorded 
in  commission  on  other  Regiments.  The  Index  will 
mark  the  especial  places  of  Notices. 


KING  JAMES'S   IRISH   ARMY   LIST.  39 


KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Regiments  of  Horse. 

1.  Richard,  Earl  of  Tyrconnel's. 

2.  Lord  Galmoy's. 

3.  Colonel  Patrick  Sarsfield's. 

4.  Lord  Abercorn's. 

5.  Colonel  Henry  Luttrell's. 

6.  Colonel  Hugh  Sutherland's. 

7.  Colonel  John  Parker's. 

8.  Colonel  Nicholas  Purcell's. 


40 


KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARHT  LIST. 


REGIMENTS  OF  HORSE. 


RICHARD,   EARL  OF   TTRC0NNEL8. 


Citfitains. 

Comets, 

The  Colonel. 

Thomas  Beatagh. 

Peter  Caanooe. 

Dominick  Sheldon, 

Edmund  BuUer. 

John  Brjan. 

Lieut-Colonel. 

FnmcisMean, 

Major. 

John  Boch. 

Edmund  Nangle. 

James  Furlong. 

John  Arthur. 

George  Bamewall. 

Edmund  Hamej. 

Mich 

Walter  Bellew. 

Edmund  Keating. 

Thomas  Bourke. 

Ger. 

CharieaKing. 

James  Butler. 
Robert  Nugent 

Mor 

Kidiolas  Cnsack. 

Tho 

John  Talbot, 

NidiolasBamewalL  Nioholaa  Taaffe. 

Ric 

Belgaid. 

The  deficiencies,  in  the  list  of  the  above  Quarter-masters,  arise  from  the 
mutilation  of  the  ori^nal  manuscript. 


tyrconnel's  horse.  41 


RICHARD  TALBOT,  EARL  OF  TTRCONNEL. 

The  achievements  of  this  noble  family  are  em- 
blazoned in  the  history  of  every  civilized  nation,  and, 
like  most  of  the  English  Aristocracy,  they  derive  their 
origin  from  Normandy,  claiming,  as  their  ancestors  in 
far  back  time,  the  Talbots,  Barons  of  Clueville  in  the 
District  of  Caux.  In  1066,  Hugh  and  Richard 
Talbot  are  named  amongst  the  Knights  who  espoused 
the  cause  of  William  the  Conqueror,  and  as  such  they 
appear  in  Bromton's  List  and  in  the  ancient  'Chronicle 
of  Normandy.'  The  lines  into  which  they  branched 
in  England  are  fiilly  set  forth  in  the  History  of  the 
County  of  Dublin^  p.  198,  etc. 

Richard  and  Robert  Talbot,  having  accompanied 
Henry  the  Second  in  the  invasion  of  Ireland,  the  for- 
mer had  a  grant  of  the  Lordship  of  Malahide,  in  the 
County  of  Dublin,  which  has  continued  in  his  descen- 
dants to  the  present  day.  His  namesake  was  Arch- 
bishop of  Dublin  in  1262.  In  1311,  John  Talbot 
was  summoned  to  attend  the  Parliament  of  Kilkenny  ; 
and  in  1315,  Richard  Talbot,  the  lineal  descendant  in 
the  fourth  degree  of  the  first  Richard,  distinguished  him- 
self  under  the  Lord  de  Bermingham  on  the  occasion  of 
Edward  Brace's  invasion  of  this  country.  In  1373  and 
1375,  Sir  Thomas  Talbot  of  Malahide  was  summoned 
to  Irish  Parliaments ;  and  in  1378,  Reginald  Talbot 
was  Sheriff  of  the  County  of  Dublin,  at  which  time 
branches    of   the    family   were   established    in    the 


42  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Counties  ofCarlow,  Kilkenny,  Louth,  Meath,  and 
Wexford.  In  1379,  Richard  Talbot  of  Malahide  was 
summoned  to  a  great  council  at  Baltinglas,  and  he 
also  was  afterwards  Sheriff  of  the  county  of  Dublin. 
In  1414,  the  renowned  Sir  John  Talbot,  Lord  Fur- 
nival,  after  those  exploits  in  France  which  the  inspi- 
rations of  Shakspere  have  even  more  immortalised,  was 
constituted  Viceroy  of  Ireland.  In  1443,  his  brother, 
theretofore  Lord  Chancellor  of  Ireland,  was  appointed 
Archbishop  of  Dublin  ;  and  in  1447,  his  son,  who 
had  succeeded  to  the  title  of  Lord  Funiival,  was  also 
named  Lord  Chancellor  of  Ireland. 

On  the  attainders  of  1642  appear  the  names  of 
John  Talbot  of  Castletown,  County  of  Kildare,  Clerk  ; 
Gerard  Talbot  of  Naas,  Gilbert  and  Gerald  Talbot  of 
Carton,  Matthew  of  Templeogue,  George  of  Malahide, 
Clerk;  John  and  William  Talbot  also  of  Malahide; 
Thomas  of  Poerston,  County  Dublin  ;  James  of 
Robertstown,  County  Meath,  clerk  ;  James  of  Athboy, 
Merchant ;  and  Sir  Robert  Talbot,  styled  of  Castle- 
^allagh,  County  Wicklow,  Baronet.  The  latter  was,  in 
1665,  under  the  provision  of  the  Act  of  Explanation, 
restored  to  his  mansion  seat,  and  2,000  acres,  if  he 
were  seized  of  so  much  on  the  21st  Oct.  1642  ;  if  not, 
then  only  to  as  much  as  he  was  seized  of  He  was 
the  elder  brother  of  the  Richard  Talbot  at  present 
under  consideration,  who  was  the  fifth  son  of  William 
Talbot,  a  Barrister,  by  Alison  NetterviUe  (who  died 
in  1633).  "They,"  writes  Lord  Clarendon  (who  was 
TyrconneFs  brother-in-law,  and  here  alludes  to  the  sons 


ttrconnel's  horse.  43 

of  said  William  Talbot,  "  were  all  of  an  Irish  family, 
but  of  ancient  English  extraction,  which  had  always 
inhabited  within  that  circle  that  was  called  the  Pale, 
which,  being  originally  an  English  Plantation,  was  in 
so  many  years  for  the  most  part  degenerated  into  the 
manners  of  the  Irish,  and  rose  and  mingled  with  them 
in  the  late  rebellion  ;  and  of  this  family  there  were 
two  distinct  branches,  who  had  competent  estates,  and 
lived  for  many  descents  in  the  rank  of  gentlemen  of 
quality  ;  and  these  brothers  were  all  the  sons  or  grand- 
sons of  one  who  was  a  Judge  in  Ireland,  and  esteemed  a 
learned  man.  The  eldest  was  Sir  Robert  Talbot,  who 
was  by  much  the  best.  The  second,  Peter,  was  a 
Jesuit,  who  had  been  very  troublesome  to  the  King 
abroad,  but  afterwards,  on  the  Restoration,  rose  into 
Royal  favour.  The  third,  Gilbert,  was  called  Colonel, 
for  some  conmiand  he  had  against  the  King  ;  he  also 
had  been  with  the  King  in  Flanders,  and  was  looked 
upon  as  a  man  of  courage,  having  fought  a  dvd  or 
two  with  stout  men.  The  fifth  was  *  Dick '  Talbot."  * 
This  last  individual,  the  future  Earl  of  Tyroonnel, 
bom  to  no  inheritance  but  his  talent,  obtained  a  com- 
mission in  the  '  Irish '  army  after  the  insurrection  of 
1641,  and  served  during  the  ensuing  Civil  War, 
under  the  command  of  his  own  nephew.  Sir  Walter 
Dongan.  He  afterwards  went  to  Spain  with  his 
troops,  exiled  by  Cromwell,  and  thence  to  Flanders, 
following  the  fortune  of  the  exiled  Stuarts.  He  there 
distinguished  himself  by  numerous  acts  of  bravery, 

♦  Clarendon's  Life  of  Himself,  vol.  2,  p.  362. 


44  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

and  had  been  a  volunteer  in  the  famous  naval  engage- 
ment between  Van  Tromp  and  the  Duke  of  YorL  By 
his  handsome  figure,  insinuating  address  and  chival- 
rous loyalty,  he  ingratiated  himself  with  that  Prince, 
and,  on  the  Restoration,  was  enabled  to  purchase 
large  estates  in  Ireland.  When  in  1670  the  Irish 
cavaliers,  who  had  suffered  in  their  assertion  of  the 
Royal  cause,  sought  to  press  upon  the  attention  of 
Charles  the  Second  their  losses  and  privations, 
Colonel  Richard  Talbot  was  their  chosen  advocate. 
Their  petition,  signed  by  Lords  Westmeath,  Mount- 
Garrett,  Kingsland,  Dongan,  and  Trimlcston,  and  a 
large  body  of  gentlemen,  on  behalf  of  themselves  and 
the  Roman  Catholics  of  Ireland,  though  a  well  merited 
appeal,  was  considered  however  an  assault  on  vested 
interests,  and  in  truth  amounted  to  almost  a  Repeal  of 
the  Act  of  Settlement.  Too  powerful  interests  were 
awake  to  maintain  that  measure,  and  the  lapse  of 
years,  the  succession  of  families,  and  the  transfer  of 
property  have  established  its  conveyances  down  to  the 
present  day.  In  this  his  ardour  to  advance  the  claims 
of  his  Catholic  countrymen,  Talbot  incurred  the  jea- 
lousy of  the  Duke  of  Ormonde,  and  actually  applied 
such  opprobrious  language  to  that  nobleman,  that  he, 
as  Dr.  Currie  writes,  "  waiting  on  the  King,  inquired 
whether  he  should  put  off  his  doublet  to  fight  with 
Dick  Talbot." 

In  the  attack  made  by  the  Dutch  in  1672  on  the 
English  fleet  in  Solebay,  this  Colonel  was  taken 
prisoner.    In  six  years  after,  he  was  seized  in  the  gal- 


tyrconnel's  horse.  45 

lery  of  the  Castle  of  Dublin,  and  committed  to  close 
confinement ;  his  brother,  the  before  mentioned  Peter 
Talbot,  then    the    Eoman    Catholic    Archbishop  of 
Dublin,  being  at  that  time   also   imprisoned   there, 
under  the  suspicion  of  the  '  Popish  Plot.'  The  Colonel 
however  eflFected  his  own  escape  to  France,  and  while 
there  in  1679,  after  long  previous  courtship,  he  ob- 
tained the  hand  of  the  beautiful   widow   of  George 
Count  Hamilton.      This  her  first  husband  was  son  of 
the  fourth  Earl  of  Abercom,  and  Colonel  of  a  French 
Regiment  in  France,  where  he  was  killed  in  1676  ; 
leaving  issue  by  his  young  widow  three  daughters, 
Elizabeth,  afterwards  married  to  Laurence  Viscount 
Ross  ;  Frances,  to  Henry  Viscount  Dillon  ;  and  Mary, 
to  Nicholas  Viscount  Kingsland.      At  the  Viceregal 
Court  these  ladies  were  distinguished  as  the  three  Vis- 
countesses, and  were  buried  together  in  St.  Patrick's 
Cathedral,  as  was  their  mother  many  years  after.    Her 
maiden  name  was  Frances  Jennings,  the  eldest  daughter 
of  Richard  Jennings  of  Sandridge  in  Herefonlshire, 
and  sister  of  the  celebrated  Duchess  of  Marlborough. 
In  1684,  Tyrconnel  returned  from  his  exile,  and 
King  James,  on  his  accession  to  the  throne,  promoted 
him  to  the  rank  of  Lieutenant-General,  as  "  a  man  of 
great  abilities  and  clear  courage,  and  one,  who  for  many 
years  had  a  true  attachment  to  His  Majesty's  person 
and  interest."     He  also  raised  him  by  patent  of  1685 
to  the  Peerage  of  Ireland,  with  the  titles  of  Baron  of 
Talbotstown,  Viscount  Baltinglas  and  Earl  of  Tyrcon- 


46  KINQ  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

nel,*  to  hold  to  him  and  his  heirs  male,  and  for  want 
of  such  issue  to  his  nephew  Sir  William  Talbot  of 
Cartown,  Baronet,  and  his  heirs  male ;  and,  in  case 
of  failure  there,  to  another  of  his  nephews,  William 
Talbot  of  Haggardstown.  The  preamble  to  this  pa- 
tent also  lauds  the  Colonel  for  ^^  his  immaculate  alle- 
giance, and  his  infinitely  great  services  performed  to 
the  King,  and  to  King  Charles  the  Second,  in 
England,  Ireland,  and  foreign  parts,  both  by  sea  and 
land,  in  which  he  suffered  frequent  imprisonments  and 
many  great  wounds."  Then  it  was  that,  being  jealous 
of  the  support,  which  the  Duke  of  Monmouth's 
rebellion  had  received  from  his  English  subjects  of  the 
Protestant  faith,  and  fearing  the  sympathies  of  those 
of  Ireland  in  that  cause,  James  at  once  determined  on 
disarming  them ;  the  more  especially  as  the  army  of 
Ireland  at  that  time  consisted,  in  a  very  large  propor- 
tion, of  men  of  the '  new  interest,'  as  those  of  Cromwell's 
introduction  were  termed  ;  and  he  gave  ample  powers 
to  this  new  peer  to  regulate  the  existing  troops,  and  place 
and  displace  whom  he  pleased ;  at  the  same  time 
appointing  his  brother-in-law,  the  Earl  of  Clarendon, 
Lord  Lieutenant  of  Ireland.  "  Talbot,"  admits  Har- 
ris, the  historian  of  King  William,  "  proceeded  in  new 
modelling  the  army,  and  began  with  the  ofl&cers  in 
the  same  method,    that  was   designed  immediately 

•  This  title  had  been  originallj  in  the  iUustrious  Irish  Sept  of 
O'Donnell,  and  was  subsequently  enjoyed  by  Owen  Fitz- William, 
by  a  creation  of  1663,  to  him  and  his  heirs,  which  became 
extinct  by  his  death  in  1669.— S.  P. 


tyrconnbl's  horse.  47 

before  the  death  of  King  Charles  ;  which  was,  to  dis- 
place all  officers  that  had  been  in  the  Parliamentary 
or  in  Oliver's  army,  and  the  sons  of  such.  The  Duke 
of  Ormonde  had  directions  to  proceed  in  this  manner, 
yet  he  made  no  progress  in  it,  under  pretence  of  gain- 
ing time  to  find  them  out,  but  in  reality  because  he 
saw  it  was  to  make  room  for  papists."* 

A  similar  new  modelling  took  place  in  the  Corpo- 
rations, when  various  Catholics  of  this  name  were 
introduced  into  the  new  charters.  James  Talbot  was 
a  burgess  in  that  to  Athenry  ;  James  and  William 
Talbot  in  that  to  Roscommon  ;  William  Talbot  in  that 
to  Athy  ;  Major  William  Talbot  in  one  to  Banagher. 
Walter,  Anthony,  William,  Patrick,  John,  and  Charles 
Talbot  were  burgesses  in  another  to  Enniscorthy  ; 
Richard  Talbot  in  that  to  Swords  ;  while  in  the  char- 
ter to  Wexford,  Walter,  Anthony,  and  William 
Talbot  were  appointed  aldermen,  and  Patrick  Talbot 
town-clerk  of  the  borough. 

TyrconneFs  annual  salary  at  this  time  as  Lieu- 
tenant-General  of  the  Army,  was  £1,410  ;  that  of  the 
Earl  of  Clarendon,  as  Viceroy,  £6,593  6s.  8d.  On 
the  same  establishment  of  1687-^,  Sir  William 
Talbot,  Baronet,  ranks  a  pensioner  for  £500,  and 
Mr.  William  Talbot  for  other  £50. 

The  influence,  which  Lord  Clarendon  might  be  sup- 
posed at  this  period  to  have  over  his  brother,  could  not 
restrain  those  indiscretions  of  his  that  ultimately  alien- 

•  Harris's  WilUam  III^  p.  106-7. 


48  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

ated  the  kingdom  from  James.     At  the  close  of  1686, 
he  was  obliged  to  resign  the  Viceroyalty,  and  Tyrcon- 
nel  was  deputed  in  his  place.     In  August,  1687,  the 
latter  waited  on  King  James,  as  before  mentioned,^  at 
Chester ;  and  in  the  November  of  the  next  year,  when 
the  Prince  of  Orange  made  his  descent  upon  England, 
Tyrconnel,  who  was  especially  intrusted  to  support  the 
cause  of  James  in  Ireland,  promptly  l)ut  unsuccessfully 
sought  to  secure  Derry,  from  which  he  had  previously 
drawn  off  the  garrison.      In  a  fortnight  after,  King 
James  made  his  will  at  Whitehall,  and  therein  named 
this  Earl  one  of  those  to  whom  he  confided  the  conduct 
of  his  wishes  and  objects.     On  the  following  14th  of 
March,  when  James,  having  eluded  the  vigilance  of 
Admiral  Herbert,  who  was  ordered  to  intercept  him,f 
after  landing  at  Kinsale  proceeded  to  Cork,  Tyrconnel 
waited  upon  him  there,  and  gave  liim  an  account  of 
the  state  and  condition  of  this  kingdom  ;  represent- 
ing that  the  diligence  of  the  Catholic  Nobility  and 
Gentry  had  raised  above  fifty  regiments  of  Foot  and 
several  troops  of  Horse  and  Dragoons,"  (defining  thus, 
as  accurately  as  possible,  the  contents  of  the  present 
Army  List);  "that  he  had  distributed  amongst  them 
about  20,000  arms,  but  they  were  most  so  old  and 
unserviceable,   that   not   above    1,000    of  the    fire- 
arms  were  foimd  afterwards  to  be  of  any  use  ;  that 
the  old  troops,  consisting  of  one  battalion  of  Guards, 
together  with  Macarty's,  Clancarty's,   and  Newton's 

♦  Ante,  p.  13. 

t  Lansdowne  MSS.  Brit.  Museum,  No.  849,  f.  79. 


tybconnel's  horse.  49 

[Newcomen's]  Regiments,  were  pretty  well  armed, 
as  also  seven  companies  of  Mountjoy's,  which  were 
with  them  ;  the  other  six  having  staid  in  Derry  with 
Colonel  Lundy  and  Gust.  Hamilton,  who  were  respec- 
tively the  Lieutenant-Colonel  and  Major  of  that 
Regiment ;  that  he  had  three  Re^ments  of  Horse, 
.Tyrconners  (his  own),  Russell's,  and  one  of  Dragoons  ; 
that  the  Catholics  of  the  country  had  no  arms,  where- 
as the  Protestants  had  great  plenty,  and  the  best 
horses  in  the  Kingdom  ;  that  for  artillery  he  had  but 
eight  small  pieces  in  a  condition  to  march,  the  rest 
not  mounted ;  no  stores  in  the  magazines,  little 
powder  and  ball,  all  the  oflScers  gone  for  England, 
and  no  money  in  cash.*** 

In  this  the  EarVs  own  Regiment,  John  Talbot  of 
Belgard  (of  whom  hereafter)  was  a  Captain,  while  in 
Lord  Dongan's  Dragoons,  Henry,  William  and  John 
Talbot  were  Lieutenants  ;  George  Talbot  was  a  Major 
in  the  King's  Own  Infantry,  as  was  John  Talbot 
in  Colonel  John  Hamilton's  Foot,  and  Gawan 
Talbot  in  the  Earl  of  Westmeath's.  In  the  Earl  of 
Clanricarde's,  John  Talbot  was  a  Captain,  and  Luke 
Talbot  a  Lieutenant.  In  Colonel  Henry  Dillon's, 
Gilbert  Talbot  was  a  Lieutenant,  and  Mark  Talbot, 
(whom  the  Montgomery  MSS.  describe  as  ^  Tyrconnel's 

*  darkens  Life  of  James  the  II.  vol.  2.  It  appears  that  King 
Jaroes  was  entertained  on  this  occasion  at  Cross-Green  House  in 
Cork;  one  of  his  pages  was  William  Owgan,  who  in  1721  was 
Sheriff  of  that  City  ;  in  1742,  its  Mayor  ;  and  died  in  1776,  at 
the  advanced  age  of  95. — Hibernian  MagazineSj  ad  ann. 

E 


50  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

bastard')  was  Lieutenant-Colouel  in  the  Earl  of  An- 
trim's. 

On  the  24th  March,  the  last  day  of  the  year, 
(1688),  James  entered  Dublin,  the  only  Capital  which 
seemed  yet  willing  to  hail  liim  as  a  King.  On  this 
occasion  Tyrconnel,  bearing  the  sword  of  state  in  a 
carriage,  preceded  the  King,  who  followed  amidst  the 
plaudits  of  the  multitude,  gallantly  mounted  and  ac- 
companied by  the  Earl  of  Granard  and  Lonl  Powis  on 
his  right,  and  the  Duke  of  Benvick  and  Lord  Melfort 
at  his  left.*  A  short  time  after,  he  proceeded  to 
Deny,  "though  the  season  was  very  bitter,"  writes 
Colonel  0'Kelly,f  "  in  order  to  preserve  his  Protestant 
subjects  there  from  the  ill-treatment  which  he  ap- 
prehended they  might  receive  from  the  Irisli ;  but  he 
was  surprised,  when  on  appearing  before  the  City, 
instead  of  receiving  their  submission,"  he  was  assailed 
with  avowed  hostility.  Returning  to  Dublin,  he  on 
the  24th  of  April  summoned  his  Parliament  for  May  ; 
on  the  first  of  which  month,  anxiously  looking  back 
to  Deny,  he  wrote  to  Lieutenant-General  Hamilton, 
then  encamped  before  that  City,  "  you  shall  have  all 
I  can  send  you,  cannon  and  mortars,  to  enable  you 
to  reduce  that  rebellious  town  ;  and  to  make  the  more 
noise,  Tyrconnel  is  preparing  to  go  down  to  you,  it 
being,  as  you  well  ol)serve,  of  the  last  consequence  to 
ma^ster  it."J 

At  and  previous  to  this  Parliament,  and  for  the 

*  Dub.  Lit.  Gazette,  p.  174. 
t  Excidium  AlacaruB,  p.  33. 
}  MSS.  T.C.D.,  E  2,  19. 


TYRCONNEL'S  HORSE.  51 

whole  time  while  he  was  in  Dublin,  King  James  held 
his  court  in  the  Castle,  and  thence  issued  his  procla- 
mations. At  that  memorable  Parliament  the  Earl  of 
Tyrconnel  sat  as  a  peer,  while  in  the  Commons  Mark 
Talbot  was  one  of  the  representatives  of  Belfast ;  John 
Talbot  (of  Belgard)  one  for  Newcastle  ;  James  Talbot 
of  Mount-TaJbot  one  for  Athenry  ;  William  Talbot 
for  the  County  of  Louth  ;  Sir  William  Talbot,  Baronet, 
one  for  the  County  of  Meath,  and  another  William 
Talbot  was  one  of  the  members  for  the  Borough  of 
Wexford.  This  last  was  of  the  Ballynamoney  (now 
Castle  Talbot)  line,  son  of  Walter  Talbot  who  had 
been  High  Sheriff  of  the  County  of  Wexford  in  1649.* 
He  was  killed  at  I)erry  in  King  James's  service.f 
One  of  his  sons,  Gabriel,  became  a  priest  and  superior 
of  a  college  at  Oporto  ;  and  another,  James,  entered 
the  Spanish  service.J 

Early  in  this  session  of  the  Parliament  of  Dublin, 
a  fortnight  before  which  (11th  April)  King  William 
was  crowned,  Sir  William  Talbot  came  up  with  a 
message  fix)m  the  Commons,  imparting  "  their  earnest 
wish,  that  the  Bill  repealing  the  Act  of  Settlement 
should  be  passed  by  the  Lords  with  all  the  expedition 
they  could,  because  the  heart  and  courage  of  the 
whole  nation  were  bound  up  in  it." 

Tyrconnel's  patent  for  a  Dukedom  bears  date  the 

•  MS.  in  Berm.  Tower. 

t  Graham's  Hist.  Deny,  pp.  185,  192.      See  some  curious 
particulars  connected  with  him,  in  Walker's  Derry,  p.  31. 
J  Burke's  Landed  Gentry. 

E  2 


52  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

11th  July  following,  and  in  August  the  Duke  of 
Schomberg  landed  at  Carrickfergus.  The  former  Duke 
was  one  of  those,  who  would  have  held  back  King  James 
from  a  hasty  resolution  of  marching  northwards  at  once, 
to  confront  his  enemy  ;  but  illness,  which  confined 
him  at  Chapelizod,  prevented  him  from  attending  his 
Majesty.  In  September,  however,  he  joined  his  King 
at  Drogheda,  declaring  he  would  have  20,000  men 
there  by  the  next  night,  a  promise  which  he  fulfilled, 
drawing  his  supplies  chiefly  from  Munster.  On  this 
occasion  it  was  that  he  thought  it  advisable  to  oppose 
those,  who  would  have  transferred  the  scene  of  war  to 
Connaught,  urging  that  "  there  was  not  com  enough 
in  that  Province  to  subsist  the  army  for  two  months.* 
On  the  memorable  "  July  the  First,"  when  King  James 
came  to  the  ground,  "  he  found  Tyrconnel  with  the 
right  wing  of  Horse  and  Dragoons  drawn  up  before 
Old  Bridge  ;f  and  on  that  day,  fatal  for  the  Stuart 
Dynasty,  his  and  Colonel  Parker's  Horse  suffered  most. 
The  former  maintained  the  assault  of  King  William's 
most  powerful  regiment,  the  Dutch  Blue  Guards,  at 
the  ford  of  Old  Bridge,  "  the  houses,  breastworks,  and 
hedges  around  which  they  lined."  "  Had  the  French 
been  posted  there,"  writes  Story,  (part  1,  p.  80)  "it 
would  be  more  to  our  enemy's  advantage,  but  the  reason 
of  this  was  that  the  Irish  Guard  would  not  lose  the 
post  of  honour."  Nor  did  they  yield  until  after  repeated 
charges,  "  driving  the  Dutch  Guards  and  Schomberg's 

♦  Clarke's  James  II.  vol.  2,  p.  378.  t  Wem,  p.  396. 


TYRCONNEL'S  HORSE.  53 

Regiment  back  into  the  river,  with  a  loss  of  a  great 
part  of  their  oflScers."*  Of  Tyrconnel's  Regiment, 
Nugent  (Robert)  and  Casanone  (Peter)  were  wound- 
ed, Major  Meara  (Francis)  and  Sir  Charles  "  Take**  (?) 
killed.f  Yet  did  not  Tyrconnel  leave  the  field, 
until  the  King  in  his  retreat  had  passed  the  defile  of 
Duleek,  when,  joining  Lausun,  he  followed  the  Royal 

fiigitive.J 

"  Tyrconnel,"  insinuates  O'Connor,  in  his  *  Military 
Memoirs^  (p.  109)  "was  brave  in  danger,  pusillani- 
mous in  disaster.  In  the  rout  of  the  Boyne,  he  viewed 
the  cause  of  James  as  hopeless,  that  of  William  as 
triumphant.  He  had  estates  and  dignities  to  preserve, 
and  only  in  accommodation  could  he  see  security 
for  them.  If  James  remained,  the  contest  would  be 
prolonged  beyond  the  hope  of  accommodation.  He 
therefore  sent  his  chaplain  to  him,  to  press  his  flight 
to  France,  and  to  work  on  his  fears  of  falling  into  the 
hands  of  William."  Colonel  O'Kelly  (Excid.  Mac.  p. 
57)  is  yet  more  openly  severe  against  Tyrconnel, 
accusing  him  of  "  domineering  and  disregard  of  the 
Irish  f — "  designing  not  to  oppose  King  William  f — 
and  that  he  actually  "  sent  his  wife,  with  all  his  own 
wealth  and  the  King's  treasure,  into  France."  When 
the  King  left  Dublin  a  fugitive,  he  avowedly  gave 
expectation  that  he  but  sought  France  to  obtain 
thence  such  aid  as  would  establish  his  power  in  Ireland, 

♦  O'Conor  s  Military  Mem.  p.  107. 
t  Clarke's  James  II.  vol.  2,  p.  400. 
t  OTtellj's  Excid.  Mac,  p.  35. 


54  KING  JAM£S*S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

and  he  committed  tlie  conduct  of  his  cause  in  the 
meantime  to  Tyrconnel. 

In  forty  days  after  the  battle  of  the  Boyne,  King 
William  appeared  before  Limerick ;  at  which  time 
Colonel  O'Kelly,  with  the  suspiciousness  that  too  fre- 
quently  is  the  sole  response  to  Irish  patriotism,  charges 
Tyrconnel  with  favouring  a  surrender  of  the  city  to, 
and  a  treaty  with,  tliat  King ;  an  object  which  he 
relies  would  have  been  accomplished,  but  for  the 
coming  in  of  Sarsfield,  and  the  enthusiam  the  pre- 
sence of  that  darling  of  the  army  excited.  Even  King 
William  was  shaken  by  the  results  of  his  popularity, 
abandoned  the  siege,  and  returned  to  England ;  where- 
upon Tyrconnel  repaired  to  France  to  urge  the 
promised  supplies.*  His  departure  from  Ireland  at 
such  a  crisis  was  undoubtedly  reprehensible,  and 
especially  injurious  to  himself  "  No  sooner  was  his 
back  turned,"  observe  the  Royal  Memoirs,!  "than  the 
discontented  part  of  the  Army  despatched  the  Bishop 
of  Cork,  Colonels  Simon  and  Henry  Luttrell,  and 
Colonel  Nicholas  Purcell  to  St.  Germains,  with  in- 
structions to  solicit  his  recall,  addressing  themselves  to 
his  Majesty  to  this  effect, — that  my  Lord  Tyrconnel 
was  not  qualified  for  such  a  superintendence  as  he  had 
hitherto  exercised  ;  that  his  age  and  infirmities  made 
him  require  more  sleep  than  was  consistent  with  much 
business  ;  that  his  want  of  experience  in  military 
affairs  rendered  him  exceeding  slow  in  his  resolves. 


♦  Clarke's  James  II.  vol.  2,  p.  420. 
t  Idem,  vol.  2,  p.  422,  &c. 


tyrconnel's  morse.  55 

and  incapable  of  laying  projects  which  no  depending 

officer  would  do  for  him  ; they  relied  that,  should 

he  return  with  the  same  authority  again,  it  would 
dishearten  the  body  of  the  nation.  They  complained 
of  the  desponding  message  he  sent  to  the  King  after 
the  battle  of  the  Boyne,  which  occasioned  his  Majesty's 
leaving  the  Kingdom,  whereas,  had  he  but  stayed  a 
few  hours  longer  in  Dublin,  he  had  seen  such  a 
number  of  fine  troops  as  would  have  tempted  him  not 
to  abandon  them  ; concluding  with  several  per- 
sonal reflections,  particularly  against  the  Duke  of 
Tyrconnel,  and  indeed  against  all  that  had  any  tie  to 
his  interest." 

Notwithstanding  these  calumnious  representations, 
Tyrconnel,  in  January,  1690,  near  the  close  of  that 
year  (old  style),  returned  still  Viceroy  of  his  country, 
while  the  promised  supplies,  to  a  nation  disunited  and 
hopeless,  were  in  unconfiding  doubt  parsimoniously 
dispensed.  "  The  King  resolved  to  support  his  own 
authority  in  Lord  Tyrconnel,  and  hoped  to  send  back 
the  army-ambassadors  in  such  a  temper  as  would 
make  them  live  easily  with  him,  which  cost  the  King 
a  great  deal  of  trouble  and  pains,  and  was  lost  labour 
in  the  end.  But  it  was  the  King^s  hard  fate  not  only 
to  suflfer  by  his  rebellious  subjects,  but  to  be  ill-served 
by  his  allies,  and  tormented  by  divisions  amongst 
his  own  people  ;  as  if  his  enemies  gave  him  not  dis- 
quiet enough,  but  that  his  friends  must  also  come  in 
to  their  aid,  to  exercise  his  patience  and  aggravate  his 


56  KING  JAM£S  8  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

sufferings  by  turns."*  The  French  offerings  to  the 
cause,  as  they  came  with  Tyrconnel,  consisted  of  a 
scanty  supply  of  provisions,  clothes,  anus,  and  am- 
munition (by  design,  as  Colonel  O'Kelly  would  insinu- 
ate). Story  sjx^aks  of  the  contributions  (part  2,  p. 
51-2)  as  "some  soldiers'  coats  and  caps,  but  such 
sorry  ones,  that  the  Irish  themselves  could  easily 
see  in  what  esteem  the  Monarch  of  France  held  them." 
TyrconneFs  first  act  of  administration,  on  his  return, 
was  to  order  the  Duke  of  Berwick,  whose  conduct 
had  much  disappointed  him,  out  of  Ireland.!  The 
privations  of  the  Irish  Army  the  while  increased,  so 
much  so  that  they  had  it  communicated  to  their  King 
"  over  the  water,"  that  in  case  the  expected  fleet  did 
not  come  promptly  from  France,  there  would  need  no 
enemy  to  destroy  them.  The  Duke  of  Tyrconnel  had, 
however,  been  making  all  the  preparations  he  could  in 
the  interim,  and  had  distributed  the  small  resources  he 
possessed,  as  long  as  they  lasted,  with  as  much  impar- 
tiality as  possible  ;  at  last,  upon  the  8th  of  May,  1691, 
the  French  fleet  appeared  in  the  Shannon,  and  in 
it  was  "  St.  Ruth,  with  other  French  oflScers,  as  also 
those  gentlemen  who  had  been  in  France  to  solicit  the 
Duke's  removal ;  which,  though  the  King  had  not 
yielded  to,  he  however  had  so  far  given  way  to  their 
advice,  as  to  abridge  his  power  in  reference  to  the 
military  affairs,  the  direction  of  which  was  vested  so 
wholly  in  St.  Ruth,  that  Tyrconnel,  who  before  could 

♦  Clarke  8  James  II.  vol.  2,  p.  422. 
t  Idem,  vol.  2,  p.  435. 


TTlCOSJfEL'S  HOE^L  57 

have  made  a  LieutenantrGenenl,  Ind  not  mm  power 
to  make  a  CoIoneL  [thus  accountiiig  for  scoie  erf*  the 
changes  which  were  subseqnentlj  made  in  die  Armr 
List  J.     This  so  lowered  his  credit  in  die  amiT.  that 
little  regard  was  had  to  his  anthmtr  ;  but  he  pru- 
dently submitted,  and  left  the  whde  management  of 
it  to  St.  Ruth,  ^  who  seemin^j  carried  fSur,  hot  in  the 
bottom  was  prepossessed  against  him.*^     TrrconneL 
when  he  found  that  the  French  commander  brrjogfat 
no  money,  earnestly  ap[died  to  King  James  to  procure 
for  the  Irish  government  eren  a  thousand  pistoles, 
and  retrenched  even  the  necessary  expenoes  erf  hb 
own  family  and  establishment ;  but  the  request  could 
not  be  granted.     The  deserted  Irish  were  left  utteriy 
to  their  own  resources  and  exerdons,  and  this  at  a 
crisis  when  individual  views  were  so  differing  and 
distracted.     ^^  The  King,"  plead  the  Royal  MemfAn, 
^^  was  forced  to  work  with  such  tools  as  he  had,  or 
such  as  were  put  into  his  hands  by  others,  which 
required  as  much  dexterity  to  hinder  their  hurting 
one  another,  and  by  consequence  himseH^  as  Ui  draw 
any  use  fix)m  such  ill-suited  and  jarring  instruments/ 
In  the  last  stmg^e  for  the  defence   r/  Lime- 
rick, Tyrconnel  evinced -his  honour  and  allegiance, 
^^  Though  bent  with  age,  and  wei^ied  down  with  cor- 
pulency, he  assumed    no   inconsiderable  degnse  of 
activity  in  repairing  the  fortifications  of  that  t/iwn, 
establishing  magazines,  and  enforcing  discipline  ;  and 
made  the  officers  and   soldiers   (first  showing  thr^ 

♦  Clarke's  James  II.  vol.  2,  p.  450. 


58  KING  JAMES'8  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

example  himself)  take  an  oath  of  fidelity  to  James, 
embracing  a  resolution  to  defend  his  Majesty's  rights 
to  the  last,  and  never  to  surrender  without  his  con- 
sent. He  at  the  same  time  despatched  an  express  to 
St.  Germains,  [such  communications  were  then  of 
difficult  transmission],  begging  speedy  succour  or 
leave  to  make  terms.  He  was  powerfully  aided  by 
Sarsfield  [to  whom  he  had  brought  a  patent  creating 
him  Earl  of  Lucan],  whose  intentions  (says  O'Conor) 
were  always  right  and  zealous  for  the  king's  service  ; 
but  their  effi)rts  were  unhappily  counteracted  by 
treachery  and  discord,  on  which  the  English  general 
relied  more  than  on  the  number  and  valour  of  his 
own  troops.''* 

While  this  veteran  patriot  was  "  struggling  with 
the  calamitous  circumstances  of  his  country,  he  was 
seized  with  a  fit  of  apoplexy  on  St.  Laurence's  day, 
soon  after  he  had  done  his  devotion  ;  and,  though  he 
came  to  his  senses  and  speech  again,  yet  he  only  Ian- 
guished  two  or  three  days,  and  then  died,  just  when 
he  was  on  the  point  of  effecting  a  unity  at  least 
amongst  themselves,  the  want  of  which  was  the 
greatest  evil  they  laboured  under.'f  He  died  in  the 
middle  of  August,  about  a  month  before  De  Ginkell 
commenced  the  siege,  and  was  buried  in  St.  Mun- 
chins  Cathedral  within  the  city.  There  is  not  a 
stone  to  tell  where  he  lies.  Harris  says,  in  his  Life 
of  King  William,  that  this  great  Irishman  died  "  some 

♦  O'Conor  8  Military  Memoirs,  &c.  p.  162-3. 
t  Clarke's  James  II.  vol.  2,  p.  462. 


tyrconnel's  horse.  59 

say  of  poison,  administered  to  him  in  a  cup  of  ratafia, 
because  he  would  not  comply  with  the  prevailing  fac- 
tion then  in  the  town ;  while  others  attributed  his 
death  to  fever,  and  some  to  grief  for  the  ruin  of  his 
measures."  "  He  was  a  man,"  writes  Colonel  (yKelly, 
"of  stately  presence,  bold  and  resolute,  of  greater 
courage  than  conduct,  naturally  proud  and  passion- 
ate, of  moderate  parts  but  of  unbounded  ambition. 
In  his  private  friendships  he  was  observed  to  be 
inconstant  (and  some  did  not  shame  to  accuse  him  of 
it),  even  to  them  by  whose  assistance  he  gained  his 
point,  when  he  once  obtained  his  own  ends."  He 
"  headed  the  peace  party,"  says  O'Conor,  "  supported 
by  the  Hamiltons,  Talbots,  Nugents,  Burkes,  Rices, 
Butlers,  Sheldons,  all  of  English  descent,  who  pre- 
ferred William  as  king  of  Great  Britain  and  Ireland 
to  James  as  king  of  Ireland  only ;  and,  in  despair 
of  reinstating  the  latter  in  his  ancestral  throne, 
sought  to  preserve  their  own  possessions  by  accommo- 
dation."* Again  says  O'Conor,  "  the  English  praised 
Tyrconnel  as  a  lover  of  peace,  yet  confiscated  all  his 
estates  ;  which,  if  he  had  lived  a  month  longer,  would 
have  been  preserved  by  the  Treaty  of  Limerick,  "f 

Sir  Bernard  Burke  in  his  Extinct  Peerage  (page 
698)  expressively  writes  in  relation  to  Tyrconnel ; 
"Of  him  much  ill  has  been  written,  and  more 
believed  ;  but  his  history,  like  that  of  his  unfortunate 
country,  has  been  written  by  the  pen  of  party, 
steeped  in  gall,  and  copied  servilely  from  the  pages 

*  O'Conor's  Military  Memoirs,  p.  114.         t  Idem,  p.  167. 


60  KING  James's  irisii  army  list. 

of  prejudice  by  the  lame  historian*  of  modem  times, 
more  anxious  for  authority  than  authenticity.  Two 
qualities  he  possessed  in  an  eminent  degree,  wit  and 
valour ;  and,  if  to  gifts  so  brilliant  and  so  Irish  he  joined 
devotion  to  his  country  and  fidelity  to  the  unfortunate 
and  fated  family,  with  whose  exile  he  began  life 
and  on  whose  ruin  he  finished  it,  it  cannot  be  denied 
that  in  his  character  the  elements  of  evil  were  mixed 
with  great  and  striking  good.  Under  happier  cir- 
cumstances  the  good  might  have  predominated,  and 
he,  whose  deeds  are  held  by  his  own  family  in  such 
high  estimate,  might  have  shed  a  wider  lustre  on  his 
race."  All  these  views  of  Tyrconnel's  character  may 
be  closed  with  the  emphatic  words  which  Mason,  in 
his  excellent  History  of  St.  Patrick's  Cathedral, 
breathes  over  his  grave,  "  Whatever  were  his  faults, 
he  had  the  rare  merit  of  sincere  attachment  to  an 
unfortunate  master." 

He  died  without  issue  male,  when  William  Talbot 
of  Haggardstown,  his  nephew,  to  whom  the  earldom 
was  limited  in  remainder  by  the  creation  patent  of 
1685,  assumed  that  title  ;  but,  having  been  attainted 
by  the  description  of  William  Talbot  of  Dundalk,  he, 
too,  pined  in  poverty  at  St.  Germains.  His  son 
attained  the  rank  of  a  Lieutenant-General  in  the 
armies  of  France,  but  died  without  issue,  and  in  him 
the  earldom  in  this  name  became  extinct.*     Tyrcon- 

*  It  was  afterwards  revived  in  the  Herefordshire  family  of 
Carpenter,  by  a  creation  of  1761 ;  while  Sir  John  Brown  low, 
Baron  of  Charleville,  was  previously  (1718)  created  Viscount 
Tyrconnel. 


tyrconnel's  horse.  61 

nel  himself  left  issue  two  daughters,  who  married 
foreign  noblemen.  He  had  also  two  sisters,  Frances, 
married  first  to  James  Cusack  of  Cushinstown,  bar- 
rister, by  whom  she  had  three  sons ;  Captain  Thomas 
Cusack,  killed  in  France ;  Captain  William,  killed  in 
Portugal ;  and  Nicholas  Cusack,  the  captain  in  this 
his  uncle's  regiment ;  with  one  daughter,  Helen  Cu- 
sack, married  to  Robert  Arthur  of  Hacketstown, 
County  of  Dublin,  Lieutenant  of  Horse.  On  the 
death  of  Cusack,  this  lady  married  to  her  second  hus- 
band the  Honorable  Thomas  Newcomen,  Privy  Coun- 
cillor,  Brigadier  of  his  Majesty's  forces,  and  Colonel 
of  a  Foot  Regiment  in  Ireland,  and  by  him  she  had 
also  issue  five  daughters  :  1st,  Katherine,  married  to 
Simon  Luttrell,  Lieutenant-colonel  of  the  Regiment 
of  Foot  commanded  by  Sir  Thomas  Newcomen  ;  2nd, 
Alice,  married  to  Major  William  Nugent,  son  of  the 
Earl  of  Westmeath  ;  3rd,  Frances,  married  to  Sir  Ro- 
bert Gore,  Bjiight,  Captain  of  a  Foot  Company,  eldest 
son  of  Sir  Francis  Gore,  Knight ;  4th,  Margaret,  the 
wife  of  Sir  Maurice  Eustace  of  Castlemartin,  Baronet, 
Captain  in  the  Infantry  ;  and  5th,  Mary,  the  wife  of 
Charles  White  of  Leixlip,  one  of  the  Privy  Council. 
Frances,  Lady  Newcomen,  died  17th  February,  1687, 
and  was  buried  at  Clonsillagh,  near  Luttrellstown. 
[Funeral  Entries  in  Berm.  TurJ]  Tyrconnel's  second 
sister,  Lucinda,  married  Edward  Cusack  of  Lismullen, 
by  whom  she  had  a  son,  Patrick  Cusack,  a  Dominican 
friar,  who  became  Bishop  of  Meath,  and  was  King 
James's  High  Almoner  and  Grand  Chaplain,  while  he 
remained  in  this  country. 


62  KING  JAMES'S  IKISH  ABMY  LIST. 

It  may  here  be  noticed  that,  on  the  14th  of 
December,  1691,  Greorge  Talbot,  described  as  of  the 
City  of  Dublin,  who  had  been  previously  outlawed, 
obtained  a  warrant  for  a  nolle  prosequi  on  his  indict- 
ment, grounded  on  his  petition,  which  stated  him  an 
Englishman  and  a  Protestant ;  that  he  was  in  1681 
made  Captain  of  a  Company  of  Foot  in  Ireland  by 
the  Duke  of  Ormonde,  and  so  continued  until  the 
2nd  July,  1690,  when  he  was  the  first  who,  after  the 
battle  of  the  Boyne,  surrendered  himself  in  Dublin, 
and  gave  up  at  the  Castle  there,  his  own  and  other 
fire-arms  ;  that  he  had  given  protection  to  Protes- 
tants during  the  reign  of  James  ;  that,  since  his  sur- 
render, he  had  behaved  himself  peaceably  and  loyally, 
and  had  taken  the  oath  of  fidelity  before  the  Com- 
missioners ;  the  truth  of  all  which  allegations  the 
Attorney-General  certified.  About  the  same  time, 
Richard  Talbot  of  Malahide  memorialed  for  a  pardon 
and  restitution  of  his  estates,  he  having  been  also 
outlawed.  His  petition  alleged  that,  while  he  admit- 
ted he  had  held  the  office  of  Auditor-General  to  King 
James,  he  had  filled  no  other  office  or  trust,  civil  or 
military,  in  his  time;  and  relied  that  when  King 
William,  after  the  battle  of  the  Boyne,  was  advan- 
cing on  Dublin,  he  had  surrendered  himself  in  the 
camp  at  Finglas,  on  the  9th  July,  1690,  and  had 
ever  since  behaved  himself  "  civilly  and  inoffensively 
towards  that  monarch's  government ;"  the  truth  and 
sufficiency  of  which  purgation  the  Solicitor-General 
also  certified,  and  the  prayer  was  granted. 


tyrconnel's  horse.  63 

The  widow  of  Tyrconnel  and  her  daughters  lived  for 
some  time  in  the  Court  at  St.  Germains,  with  the  Ex- 
King,  supported  by  a  small  pension  which  Louis  XIV. 
allowed  them  ;  but  having  established  her  right  to  a 
portion  of  jointure  in  1703,  as  hereafter  noticed, 
and  her  daughters  being  married  on  the  Continent, 
she  resolved  on  going  over  to  Ireland.  The  state  of 
her  health,  however,  induced  her  first  to  try  the  eflB- 
cacy  of  the  baths  at  Aix-larChapelle,  and  in  Murray's 
Despatches  of  the  Duke  of  Marlborough^  is  preserved 
one  of  his  Grace,  from  the  Camp  at  Tirlemont,  to  the 
authorities  of  that  town,  written  with  the  object  of 
procuring  attention  and  welcome  for  the  Duchess, 
then  journeying  thither.  He  also  wrote  to  herself, 
5th  September,  1705  : — 

"  The  first  notice  I  received  of  your  intention  to 
go  to  Aix,  I  immediately  despatched  a  trumpet  to  the 
French  army,  who  brought  me  this  morning  the  en- 
closed pass.  I  have  likewise  ordered  eight  dragoons  to 
attend  on  you  on  your  coming  to  the  Bosch.  These 
will  wait  on  you  to  Maestricht,  where  the  Governor 
will  give  you  another  escort  on  to  Aix.  I  heartily 
wish  you  a  good  journey,  and  all  the  success  you  can 
desire  with  the  waters.  If  I  should  not  be  able  to 
have  the  satisfaction  of  seeing  you  at  the  waters,  I  hope 
to  have  that  of  meeting  you  in  Holland,  before  I  em- 
bark ;  being  with  much  truth. 
Madam, 

Tour  Grace's  most  obedient  humble  servant, 

M." 


64  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

In  1708,  she  was  in  Brussels,  and  only  then,  it 
would  seem,  on  the  eve  of  departure.  On  the  24th  of 
May  in  that  year,  Marlborough  wrote  to  his  own 
Duchess  : — "  When  I  took  leave  of  Lady  Tyrconnel, 
she  told  me  that  her  jointure  in  Ireland  was  in  such 
disorder,  that  there  was  an  absolute  necessity  for  her 
going  thither  for  two  or  three  months,  for  the  better 
settling  of  it.  As  the  climate  of  Ireland  will  not  per- 
mit her  being  there  in  the  winter,  she  should  begin 
her  journey  about  ten  days  hence  ;  she  said  that  she 
did  not  intend  to  go  to  London,  but  hoped  she  might 
have  the  pleasure  of  seeing  you  at  St.  Alban's.  I 
have  offered  her  all  that  might  be  in  my  power  to  make 
her  journey  to  Holland  and  England  easy,  as  also 
that  if  she  cared  to  stay  at  St.  Alban's,  either  at  her 
going  or  return,  you  woidd  offer  it  her  with  a  good 
heart.  You  will  find  her  face  a  good  deal  changed, 
but,  in  the  discourse  I  have  had  with  her,  she  seems  to 
be  very  reasonable  and  kind.*^  On  her  return  to 
Dublin,  she  fixed  her  residence  at  Arbour  Hill,  a 
healthy  and  picturesque  situation  near  the  Phoenix 
Park  ;  and  there,  after  founding  a  Nunnery  for  poor 
Clares  in  the  adjacent  locality  of  King-street,  this 
lady,  who  once  adorned  Courts  and  passed  through 
the  libertine  manners  of  Charles  the  Second's  days  un- 
blemished,  closed  her  life  in  March,  1730-1,  at  the 
advanced  age  of  92.  "  Her  death,"  says  Walpole, 
"  was  occasioned  by  her  falling  out  of  bed  on  the  floor 

*  Jesse's  Memoirs  of  the  Court  of  England,  vol.  4,  p.  156. 


tyrcoxnel's  horse.  65 

in  a  winter's  night,  and  being  too  feeble  to  rise  or  to 
call,  she  was  found  in  the  morning  so  perished  with 
cold,  that  she  died  in  a  few  hours."  She  is  described 
as  then  appearing  low  in  stature,  and  extremely  ema- 
ciated ;  without  the  slightest  trace  of  ever  having 
been  a  beauty.  She  was  buried,  with  her  daughters 
by  George  Count  Hamilton,  the  '  three  Viscountesses' 
before  mentioned,  ante  page  45,  in  a  vault  of  St. 
Patrick's  Cathedral ;  while  a  mural  slab,  in  St. 
Andrew's  Scotch  College  at  Paris,  is  her  commemora- 
tion in  a  land  where  she  had  passed  many  of  her  days 
of  joy  and  sorrow.  It  records  her  as  having  been  a 
great  benefactress  to  that  establishment,  and  as 
having  provided  an  endowment  for  the  celebration  of 
a  daily  mass  for  ever  there,  for  the  repose  of  her  soul, 
and  those  of  her  two  husbands. 

The  Talbots  outlawed  in  1691  were  Richard  Earl  of 
Tyrconnel,  so  attainted  by  seven  inquisitions,  and 
by  one  other  as  Richard,  son  of  William  Talbot, 
called  Lord  Tyrconnel ;  Richard  Talbot  of  Boolis, 
County  Meath  ;  Richard  Talbot  of  Malahide,  County 
Dublin  ;  John  Talbot  of  Dardistown,  County  Meath, 
John  Talbot  of  Belgard,  County  Dublin  ;  John, 
Patrick,  and  Anthony  Talbot  of  Wexford ;  Wil- 
liam Talbot  of  Kilcarty,  County  Meath,  Baronet ; 
other  William  Talbots  described  as  of  Wexford,  of 
Wicklow,  of  Fassaroe,  County  Wicklow,  of  Haggards- 
town  and  of  Dundalk,  County  Louth,  and  of  Straffan, 
County  Kildare.  James  Talbot  of  Templeogue, 
County   Dublin  ;    James   Talbot    of  Mount   Talbot, 


66  KING  James's  ibish  army  list. 

County  Roscommon;  Brine,  or  Bruno  Talbot  of 
Dublin,  (who  was  James's  Chancellor  of  the  Exche- 
quer,* but  he  early  made  his  submission  to  King  Wil- 
liam). Francis  Talbot  of  Powerscourt,  County 
Wicklow  ;  Marcus  Talbot  of  Dublin  and  of  the 
County  Derry.  (This  last  was,  as  before  mentioned, 
Lieutenant-Colonel  of  the  Earl  of  Antrim's  Infentry, 
member  of  Parliament  for  Belfast  in  1689,  and  sig- 
nalised himself  by  a  gallant  sally  on  the  occasion  of  the 
first  siege  of  Limerick,  but  was  taken  prisoner  at  Augh- 
rim).  Chariotte  Talbot,  a  daughter  of  Tyrconnel,  was 
also  attainted,  as  was  Frances  his  widow.  The  latter, 
however,  preferred  her  suit,  at  the  Court  of  Chichester 
House,  Dublin,  in  1700,  for  her  jointure  oflf  the  lands 
of  Cabragh,  County  Dublin,  forfeited  by  her  late 
husband,  and  the  claim  was  allowed.  Lucy  Talbot 
sought  and  was  allowed,  as  Administratrix  of  William 
Talbot,  the  benefit  of  a  leasehold  of  County  Roscom- 
mon lands. — Jane  Talbot  claimed  and  was  allowed  an 
annuity,  left  by  the  will  of  Colonel  Gilbert  Talbot  in 
1674,  and  charged  on  houses  in  Limerick  forfeited 
by  Sir  William  Talbot. — Mary  Talbot,  a  minor, 
sought,  by  her  guardian,  James  Donnellan,  and  was 
allowed,  a  large  charge  on  houses  in  Dublin,  forfeited 
by  James  Talbot. — Helen  and  Margaret  Talbot^ 
daughters  of  George  Talbot,  deceased,  also  minors,  by 
Patrick  Talbot,  their  guardian,  claimed  the  reversion 
of  an  estate  tail  in  County  of  Roscommon  lands,  for- 

•  Story's  Impartial  History,  part  1,  p.  65. 


tybconnel's  horse.  67 

feited  by  Greorge  Talbot,  such  reversion  accruing, 
if  their  brother  James  Talbot  should  die  without  issue ; 
and  their  claim  was  allowed,  subject  to  that  contin- 
gency ;  while  said  James  himself  claimed  and  was  al- 
lowed that  estate  tail,  and  Sarah  Talbot  was  allowed 
a  jointure  off  said  lands. — Lastly,  Henry  Talbot,  a 
minor,  by  George  Holmes,  his  guardian,  claimed  a 
remainder  in  Templeogue,  and  other  lands  in  the 
Counties  of  Dublin  and  Kildare,  forfeited  by  James 
Talbot ;  but  his  claim  was  dismist.* 

In  the  cause  of  Prince  Charles-Edward  and  his  in- 
vasion of  1745,  a  Captain  James  Talbot  and  Major 
Talbot  were  engaged  at  Prestonpans,  and  Brigadier 
General  'de  Tyrconnel'  was  taken  prisoner  by  the 
English  at  sea  in  1746.t 


LIEUT.-COLONEL  DOMINICK  SHELDON. 

The  Sheldons  are  an  existing  family  of  respecta- 
bility at  Brailes-House  in  the  County  of  Warwick, 
having  been  theretofore  established  at  Beoly  in  that 
of  Worcester.  Ralph  Sheldon  of  Beoly  accompanied 
Charles  the  Second  in  his  flight  to  Boscobel,  aiding 
his  concealment  in  the  Oak,  to  the  foot  of  which  he 
and  three  others  attended  their  Royal  master  ;X  ^^^  ^^ 

*  Registries  of  Claims  in  Custom  House  Records. 

t  Gent.  Mag.,  ▼.  14,  p.  416 ;  and  v.  16,  pp.  29,  145,  208 

t  Burke's  Landed  Gentry,  f.  1226. 

F    2 


68  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

this  line,  it  would  seem  most  probable,  was  Lieutenant 
Colonel  Dominick.  It  is  true  that  a  Lieutenant  Wil- 
liam  Sheldon  passed  patent  in  1666  as  a  '  soldier '  for 
858  acres  plantation  measure  in  the  County  Tipper- 
ary,  but  it  cannot  be  presumed  that  an  immediate  re- 
lative of  his  would  be  an  adherent  of  James.  The  sur- 
name was  even  previously  known  in  Ireland  in  the 
County  Limerick,  where  a  Miss  Sheldon  of  that  place 
intermarried  in  the  seventeenth  century  with  Mr. 
Leonard  Drew,  of  a  Devonshire  family,  a  branch  of 
which  is  yet  represented  in  Youghal.* 

The  Peerage  Books  afford  strong  confirmation  of 
this  oflScer  having  been  of  the  Brailes-House  line, 
when  they  record  that  Arthur  Dillon  of  the  noble  line 
of  Costello  at  the  close  of  the  seventeenth  century 
married  Christiana,  the  daughter  of  Ralph  Sheldon^ 
whom  Lodge  describes  as  '  niece  of  the  Colonel,'  while 
O'Callaghan  {Brigades^  p.  100)  says  she  was  maid  of 
Honor  to  the  Queen  of  James  the  Second.  Inquiries 
on  the  lineage  have  been  directed  to  Brailes-House, 
Viscount  Dillon,  and  others,  in  vain.  It  does,  however, 
seem  almost  certain  that  the  Colonel  was  brother  to 
the  Ralph  Sheldon,  whom  Sir  Bernard  Burke  in  his 
'Landed  Gentry,'  (f.  1226)  describes  as  "of  Steeple 
Barton,  afterwards  of  Weston  and  Beoly,"  and  as 
having  "  died  in  1720."  In  Clarke's  Life  of  James 
II.  (vol.  ii.  p.  252)  this  Ralph  Sheldon  is  said  to 
have  aided  that  monarch's  escape  from  Whitehall  to 
Feversham. 

•  Burke  s  Landed  Gentry,  f.  106. 


tyrconnel's  horse.  69 

This  Dominick  Sheldon,  who  had  been  a  Captain  to 
the  Duke  of  Ormonde,  (see  post^  at  '  Col.  Francis  Car- 
rol,') is  on  the  establishment  of  1687-8*  set  down  for 
a  pension  of  £200  per  annum.  Colonel  O'Kelly  repre- 
sents him  as  having  been  "  an  Englishman  by  birth, 
of  the  Roman  Catholic  religion,  brought  into  Ireland 
on  the  accession  of  James  the  Second,  by  Tyrconnel, 
and  by  him  made  Captain  of  a  company  of  men  at 
arms.  He  afterwards  promoted  him  to  be  his  Lieu- 
tenant, with  the  command  of  his  Regiment  in  his 
absence  ;  and,  by  his  uncontrollable  power  with  James, 
he  (Tyrconnel)  procured  for  this  favourite  a  commis- 
sion to  be  one  of  the  General  Officers,  though  still  a 
Lieutenant-Colonel,  and  got  his  commission  dated 
before  that  of  Sarsfield,  whom  he  designed  to  sup- 
press."f  Early  in  this  campaign,  "  the  Irish  army, 
under  Major  Greneral  Richard  Hamilton  and  '  Major ' 
Dominick  Sheldon,  having  taken  the  fort  of  Hillsbo- 
rough and  plundered  Lisbum,  Belfast  and  Antrim,  laid 
siege  to  Coleraine  ;  but  there  they  met  with  such  a 
warm  reception  from  Major  Gustavus  Hamilton,  who 
commanded  in  the  town,  and  spared  no  charge  or 
pains  to  make  it  tenable,  that  they  were  forced  to 

♦  In  the  MSS.  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  is  (E  1.  1)  the  **  List 
of  Payments  made  for  civil  and  military  affairs,  with  pensions  in 
Ireland  for  one  year,  beginning  1st  January,  1687."  It  appears 
to  be  the  original  book,  a  vellum  manuscript,  signed  by  the 
Council  in  England.  It  is  dated  Srd  February,  1687-8,  at 
Whitehall. 

t  O'Callaghan's  Macarice  Excidium,  pp.  150-1. 


70  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

draw  off  with  considerable  loss,  whereby  their  designs 
against  Derry  were  retarded. ***  When  afterwards  his 
King  retired  from  investing  the  latter  place,  '  Major  * 
Dominick  Sheldon  was  one  of  the  officers  whom  he 
left  before  it  to  continue  the  siege.  He  afterwards 
commanded  the  Cavalry  at  the  Boyne,  and  had  two 
horses  shot  under  him.f  "  A  gallant  charge  under 
General  Sheldon  at  Sheep-house  might  have  given  a 
different  termination  to  the  fight  at  the  Boyne,  but 
for  the  prompt  heroism  of  Levison's  and  Sir  Albert 
Conyngham's  Dragoons,  who,  getting  in  the  rere  of 
their  antagonists,  jumped  from  their  saddles,  lined  the 
hedges  on  both  sides  of  the  road,  and,  on  the  return 
of  the  enemy  from  their  successful  charge,  fired  on 
them  with  deadly  effect,  while  Ginkle  taking  them  in 
the  rear  completed  their  discomfiture.  "J  When,  on 
the  30th  of  August,  1690,  King  William  abandoned 
his  siege  of  Limerick,  Sarsfield  recommended  that  he 
should  be  closely  and  vigorously  pursued,  and  offered 
to  conduct  the  pursuit  in  person  ;  but,  according  to 
Colonel  O'Kelly,  Tyrconnel  gave  private  orders  to 
Sheldon,  his  Lieutenant-Colonel,  to  march  the  greater 
part  of  the  Horse  into  Connaught.  He  was  however 
ordered  back  by  d'Usson  and  De  Tesse,  when  he 
promptly  obeyed  ;  but,  after  continuing  in  Limerick 
three  days,  he  and  his  force  were  again  commanded  to 
march  into  the  country,  as  for  convenience  of  forage  ; 

*  Lodge's  Peerage,  v.  5,  p.  175. 
t  Clarke's  James  II.,  v.  2,  p.  400. 
t  Fitzgerald's  Limerick,  v.  2,  p.  326. 


tyrconnel's  horse.  71 

whereas,  says  Colonel  O'Kellj,  "they  had  sufficient 
quantity  of  oats  within  Limerick  to  feed  all  their 
horses  for  two  months  to  come,  and  the  enemy  could 
not  keep  the  field  for  half  that  time." 

Lieutenant-Colonel  Sheldon,  with  Colonels  Max- 
well and  John  Hamilton,  constituted  the  Directory 
which  Tyrconnel,  when  going  over  to  France  to  urge 
the  supplies,  deputed  to  advise  the  Duke  of  Berwick 
in  the  charge  of  government  cast  upon  him.  At  the 
last  siege  of  Limerick,  in  September,  1691,  "  when  by 
Clifford's  neglect  the  enemy  was  permitted  to  make  a 
bridge  of  boats  here  near  Annaghbeg,  and  thus  passed 
over  their  Horse  and  Dragoons  between  the  Irish 
Horse  and  the  town.  Colonel  Sheldon  could  only, 
by  advancing  the  picket,  stop  the  enemy  at  a  pass, 
till  himself  would  be  able  to  gain  the  mountains  with 
his  horse  and  foot,  and  so  make  their  way  to  Six-mile- 
bridge,  a  mancEuvre  which  was  with  great  difficulty 
performed  at  last ;  but  not  being  able  to  subsist  there, 
they  were  ordered  back  towards  Clare,  upon  which 
the  enemy  passed  a  great  body  of  horse  and  dragoons 
over  their  new  bridge,  and  came  before  Limerick  at 
Thomond  Gate.''*  Colonel  O'Kelly,  with  his  usual 
inclination  to  find  fault  with  any  of  Tyrconnel's 
party,  unjustifiably  upbraids  Sheldon  for  the  "want  of 
courage  or  conduct"  which  this  retreat,  according  to 
him,  evinced.  Pending  the  treaty  for  surrendering 
the  town,  Colonel  Sheldon  dined  at  the  English  camp, 

•  Clarke's  James  II.,  v.  2,  p.  463-4. 


72  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

and,  after  the  capitulation,  Sarsfield  entrusted  to  him 
the  care  of  embarking  the  Irish  refugees,  "  whose  de- 
parture marks  one  of  the  most  mournful  epochs  in 
our  sad  history."*  Upon  his  landing  them  in  France, 
King  James  wrote  him  a  letter  of  acknowledgment 
from  St.  Germains,  adding  how  well  satisfied  he  was 
"  with  the  behaviour  and  conduct  of  the  oflScers,  and 
the  valour  and  fidelity  of  the  soldiers  ;  and  how  sensi- 
ble he  should  ever  be  of  their  services,  which  he 
would  not  fail  to  reward  when  it  should  please  God  to 
put  him  in  a  capacity  of  doing  so.*^    Edward  Sheldon 

and   Sheldon,    Esqrs.    were   subsequently  of  the 

Board  of  Green  Cloth  at  the  Court  of  St.  Germains.  J 
It  is  somewhat  contradictory  in  Colonel  O'Kelly's 
estimate  of  Sheldon  that,  while  he  censures  as  above 
that  officer's  retreat  from  before  Limerick,  as  discou- 
raging his  party  from  defending  the  City,§  he  yet  insi- 
nuates, immediately  previous  to  the  sarcasm,  that 
"  Sheldon  and  Lord  Galmoy,  true  Tyrconnelists, 
wrote  (it  is  believed)  more  comfortably  into  France 
than  was  suggested  by  Tyrconnel,  and  that  they  en- 
gaged to  hold  out  to  the  last  extremity  in  hope  of  a 
powerful  relief  from  thence,  of  men,  money,  and  all 
other  necessaries  to  prosecute  the  war,  which  (he  adds) 
if  timely   sent  had   certainly   preserved   Ireland."^ 

*  O'Conor  8  Military  Memoirs,  p.  192. 

t  See  thia  letter  in  full  in  O'Callaghan^s  Brigades,  v.  1,  p.  63. 

J  Clarke's  James  II.,  v.  2,  p.  411. 

§  Excidium  Macarice,  p.  149. 

f  Idem,  p.  147. 


tyrconnel's  horse.  73 

This  Lieutenant-Colonel  was  outlawed  in  1691  on  two 
inquisitions,  being  in  one  styled  of  Dublin,  in  the 
other  of  Pennybum-mill,  County  Derry.  In  France, 
whither  he  passed  over,  he  ranked  Colonel  of  a 
Brigade  Regiment  of  Horse,  styled  par  excellence 
'the  King's  Regiment;'  of  which  Edmond  Prendergast 
was  appointed  Lieutenant-Colonel,  (having  theretofore 
held  that  rank  in  Colonel  Hugh  Sutherland's  Horse), 
and  Edmond  Butler,  his  Cornet  in  Tyrconnel's,  was 
appointed  Major  in  the  Brigade.  In  1702,  Sheldon 
so  distinguished  himself  against  the  Baron  de  Mercy, 
that  he  was  raised  from  the  rank  of  Colonel  to  be  a 
Lieutenant-General,  and  all  the  supernumerary  offi- 
cers of  his  Regiment  were  put  upon  full  pay.  At  the 
conflicts  of  the  Mincio  and  Po  in  1702  against  Prince 
Eugene,  "great  glory  was  acquired  by  Sheldon's 
Horse,  to  which  a  number  of  reduced  officers  were 
attached  as  volunteers.  These  gallant  gentlemen, 
exiled  from  their  native  land,  reduced  to  French 
half-pay  scarce  sufficient  for  subsistence,  preferred  the 
activity  of  a  camp  to  the  indolence  and  obscurity  of 

a  French  provincial  town King  Louis,  to  mark 

his  satisfaction  at  the  distinguished  manner  in  which 
they  had  acted,  raised  their  pay  to  an  equality  with 
that  of  officers  of  Infantry  of  the  same  rank."*  "  In 
1703,  when  the  Imperialists  under  Visconti  were 
posted  on  the  Christallo,  whose  precipitous  banks  that 
General  thought  secured  him  against  surprise  or  at- 


*  O'Conor  s  Military  Memoirs,  pp.  240-1. 


74  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

tack,  Vendome  the  French  commander,  his  opponent, 
selected  the  best  of  his  Regiments  of  cavalry,  and 
amongst  these  Sheldon's  Horse,  to  surround  and 
attack  Visconti.  The  Imperialists,  taken  by  surprise 
while  their  horses  were  at  grass,  were  overwhelmed 
and  driven  into  the  Sassoni,  a  •  river  in  their  rere, 
where  most  of  those  who  were  not  cut  down  were 
drowned.  Sheldon's  Horse  had  a  principal  share  in 
this  brilliant  affair,  in  which  their  commander  was 
himself  wounded.'^  In  1703  his  brigade  was  not  less 
distinguished  in  the  Army  of  the  Rhine,  and  at  the 
battle  of  Spire,  where  he  was  again  wounded.  The 
name  of  his  Regiment  was  afterwards  changed  to 
*Nugent's,' again  in  1733  to  Fitz-Jaijies's,  and  was  dis- 
banded  in  1763. 


MAJOR  FRANCIS  MEARA. 

The  O'Mearas  were  a  distinguished  territorial  sept 
in  the  Barony  of  Upper  Ormond,  County  Tipperary, 
and  the  name  of  their  principal  residence,  Tuaim-ui- 
Meara,  is  still  retained  in  that  of  Toomavara,  within 
that  district,  yet  the  only  individuals  of  the  name, 
who  appear  in  the  outlawries  of  1642,  are  Dermot 
Meara,  described  as  "  of  Dublin,"  and  Catherine  his 
wife. 

In  the  commencement  of  the  seventeenth  century 


O'Conor's  Military  Memoirs,  p.  256. 


tyrconnel's  horse.  75 

flourished  Dermod  O'Meara,  a  physician  and  a  poet, 
who,  Ware  says  in  his  "Writers,"  was  educated  at 
Oxford.  He  wrote  a  history  of  the  House  of  Ormond 
in  verse,  as  also  some  prose  medical  treatises.  His 
son,  Edmund  O'Meara,  also  a  Doctor  of  Oxford  and  a 
member  of  the  College  of  Physicians  of  London,  resided 
for  some  time  at  Bristol,  and  died  in  1680,  leaving 
three  sons,  William,  a  physician  also ;  the  above  Major 
Francis,  his  second  son ;  and  the  third,  a  Jesuit.* 
This  Francis  was  one  of  the  burgesses  in  King 
James's  Charter  of  1687  to  Wicklow,  and  was  sheriff 
of  that  county  in  the  following  year.  He  was  killed 
at  the  battle  of  the  Boyncf  A  funeral  entry  in 
Bermingham  Tower,  Office  of  Arms,  records  the  death 
of  Teigue  O'Meara  of  Lishenuske,  County  Tipperary, 
(son  and  heir  of  William  O'Meara  of  do.,  son  and  heir 
of  Donnell  O'Meara  of  do.),  who  had  married  Honora, 
daughter  of  Kobert  Grace  of  Courtstown,  County 
Kilkenny  ;  by  whom  he  had  issue  three  sons,  Daniel, 
William,  and  Patrick,  and  two  daughters.  Said 
Teigue  died  at  Killballykelty,  County  Waterford, 
30th  April,  1636,  and  was  interred  at  Clonmel. 
Another  member  of  this  sept,  Thomas  Meara,  was  a 
Lieutenant  in  Colonel  Dudley  Bagnall's  Regiment  of 
Foot ;  and  a  Thady  O'Meara,  having  been  seized  of 
various  lands  in  the  county  of  his  sept,  and  being  an 
adherent  of  James,  was  attainted ;  when  Daniel 
O'Meara  claimed  a  fee-tail  therein  ;  while  in  a  patent 

•  Ware  s  Writers,  p.  190. 

t  Clarke's  James  II.,  v.  2,  p.  400. 


76  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

of  lands  in  the  same  county  to  John  Otway,  a  saving 
was  contained  of  the  rights  of  Theodore  "  Manigh''  to 
certain  townlands  specified  therein. 

At  the  battle  of  Lauffield  in  1747,  Captain  O'Meara 
was  of  the  wounded  in  Clare's  Brigade.  He  was  liv- 
ing in  1793,  when  he  resided  with  his  son.  General 
Felix  O'Meara,  Commandant  of  Dunkirk.  This  lat- 
ter individual  went  into  the  French  service  in  1755, 
being  then  but  eighteen  years  of  age,  and  was  imme- 
diately received  into  Rothe's  Regiment.  In  the  same 
year  hostilities  commenced  in  Europe,  by  Admiral 
Boscawen's  taking  the  Alcide  and  Le  Lys,  French 
ships  of  war ;  and  preparations  were  made  for  land 
actions  on  both  sides.  The  Irish  regiments  embodied 
in  France  were  sent  to  garrison  Calais,  Dunkirk, 
Boulogne,  and  Ardres,  on  that  frontier  of  France 
nearest  to  England,  as  it  was  the  policy  of  the 
French  king  to  oppose  the  Irish  troops  to  those  of 
England.  Here  O'Meara,  sharing  in  all  the  services 
of  his  regiment,  gradually  rose,  as  vacancies  occurred. 
In  1778,  when  this  brigade  was  incorporated  with 
French  regiments,  O'Meara,  then  a  Captain,  had  the 
same  rank  given  him  in  that  of  Auvergne,  which  was 
the  second  in  military  estimate  of  all  the  Infantiy  of 
that  country.  Peace  had  existed  between  the  two 
kingdoms  for  some  years  previously  ;  but  hostilities 
again  breaking  out  in  the  latter  year,  (which  led  to 
the  American  war),  Captain  O'Meara  for  a  time  took 
part  with  Royalty.  In  the  succeeding  years,  however, 
of  intestine  commotion  in   France,  he,   being   then 


tyrconnel's  horse.  77 

Lieutenant-Colonel,  resigned  his  commission  to  the 
Crown,  and,  embracing  the  Republican  movement, 
received  a  fresh  commission  from  the  National  party. 
He  fought  under  General  Dumourier,  afterwards  un- 
der General  Dampierre,  and  was  subsequently  raised 
to  the  rank  of  Lieutenant-General,  with  the  defence 
of  Dunkirk  confided  to  him.*  There  he  subse- 
quently married  a  young  lady  with  a  fortune  of 
80,000  livr*^s.  Three  younger  brothers  of  his  were 
also  officers  in  the  French  service.f 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  ROCH. 

David  de  la  Roche,  son  of  Alexander  de  Rupe,  alias 
de  la  Roche,  was  the  founder  of  this  ancient  Norman 
family  in  Ireland.  He  mamed  Elizabeth,  daughter 
and  co-heiress  of  Gilbert  de  Clare,  Earl  of  Gloucester, 
by  the  Princess  Joan  his  wife,  daughter  of  King 
Edward  the  FirstJ  From  that  marriage  descended 
a  race  that  acquired  the  lordship  and  territory  of 
Fermoy,  in  the  County  of  Cork,  a  district  hence 
known  as  the  Roches'  Country.  During  the  reign  of 
that  English  monarch,  several  Royal  letters  were 
addressed  to  members  of  this  family,  requiring  their 
aid  and  personal  service  in  the  Scottish  wars ;  sum- 
monses were  afterwards  directed  to  them  to  attend 

•  Gent.'s  Mag.,  1793,  p.  449. 

t  Anth.  Hib.,  V.  2,  239. 

t  Burke  s  Landed  Gentry,  f.  1132. 


78  RING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

the  earliest  Irish  Parliaments ;  and  about  the  year 
1320,  Creorge  de  la  Roche,  who  had  been  theretofore 
twice  cited  as  a  Baron  to  Parliaments  held  in  Dublin, 
was  fined  200  marks  for  non-attendance.  In  1344 
the  King  summoned  Lord  Roche,  by  the  style  of 
"Capitaneus  des  Rocheyns,''  to  attend  him  in  the 
wars  in  France.  This  nobleman  was,  according  to 
Lodge,  John,  Lord  Roche,  who  intermarried  with 
Eleanor,  daughter  of  the  second  Lord  Kerry,  by 
whom  he  had  the  first  Countess  of  Kildare,  mother  of 
the  first  Countess  of  Carrick,  mother  of  the  first  Earl 
of  Ormond.*  In  1377,  John  Roche  of  Fermoy  had 
summons  by  writ  to  Parliament.f  It  may  be  here 
remarked,  that  in  this  and  the  two  ensuing  centuries, 
the  Lords  Roche  of  Fermoy  are,  in  the  Annals,  Eccle- 
siastical Records,  and  official  documents,  universally 
recognised  in  their  character  of  Irish  chieftains,  as 
well  as  of  Anglo-Irish  peers,  by  the  style  and  title  of 
"  Capitanei  suae  nationis  ;"  and  their  inheritance  is 
designated  the  Roches'  Country,  not  only  in  the  an- 
cient maps  of  Ireland,  but  in  the  Acts  of  Henry  the 
Eighth,  Elizabeth,  and  even  down  to  the  time  of 
Cromwell.  David  Roche,  Lord  Roche,  sumamed  the 
Great,  sat  in  Parliament  as  Viscount  Roche  of  Fer- 
moy in  the  reigns  of  Edward  the  Fourth  and  Henry 
the  Seventh.^  He  was  one  of  the  Peers  whom  the 
latter   Sovereign   invited    to   the   entertainment   at 

*  Lodge's  Peerage,  Ist  edition,  voL  2,  p.  103. 
t  Burke's  Extinct  Peerage,  f.  711. 
t  Idem,  f.  692. 


tyrconnel's  horse.  79 

Greenwich,  where  he  caused  Lambert  Simnel  to  attend 
as  a  menial.*  Before  and  after  this  year,  the  mayor- 
alty of  Cork  was  repeatedly  filled  by  a  Roche.  An 
original  letter  of  1556,  from  the  Clergy,  &c.  of  Kin- 
sale  to  Queen  Mary,  recommending  Patrick  Roche 
for  the  then  vacant  See  of  Cork  and  Cloyne,  is  pre- 
served in  the  Cottonian  Collection  of  the  British 
Museum.  In  Perrot's  memorable  Parliament  of 
1585,  Viscount  Fermoy  attended  on  summons,  while 
Philip  Roche  sat  there  as  member  for  Kinsale. 
Soon  after  the  attainders  consequent  upon  the  Des- 
mond rebellion,  John,  son  of  Dominick  Roche  of 
Limerick,  emigrated  to  Rochelle  ;  as  did  Maurice  and 
John  Roche,  two  sons  of  John  Roche  of  EUenfinch- 
town,  in  December,  1601,  with  Juan  de  Aquila,  for 
Spain,f  yhere  it  is  believed  the  name  still  exists. 
Very  extensive  estates  of  John  Roche  Fitz-Thomas, 
in  the  County  Waterford,  were  granted  in  1605  to 
Sir  Richard  Boyle.  About  the  year  1630,  the  Reve- 
rend Mr.  Roche,  President  of  the  College  of  Douay, 
and  subsequently  Roman  Catholic  Bishop  of  Ross  in 
Ireland,  founded  an  establishment  for  Irish  priests  at 
Antwerp,  where  they  were  supported,  "  partly  by  the 
alms  given  at  masses,  and  partly  by  the  benevolence 
of  the  people  f  but  Harris,  in  his  account  of  such 
Irish  establishments,  attributes  this  foundation  to  a 
Mr.  Laurence  Sedgrave. 

The  family   were   ever    warm   adherents   of   the 

*  Bermingham's  Remarks  on  Baronages,  p.  54. 
f  Pacata  Hibemia,  p.  426. 


80  KING  JAMES'S  IKISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Stuarts.  David,  Viscount  Fermoy,  lost  in  the  Royal 
cause  in  the  war  of  1641  estates  worth  £50,000  per 
annum.  He  was  himself  banished,  with  a  Regiment  of 
which  he  had  the  command,  to  France,  where  he 
died.  Amongst  those  attainted  in  1643,  were  Maurice, 
Lord  Viscount  Fermoy,  Patrick  Roche  of  Poolenelong, 
Richard  of  Gliny,  David  of  Ballynacloghy,  James  of 
Keniere,  John  of  Ballinvallagh,  William  and  Adam 
of  Rhyncorran,  Thomas  of  Aghlenane,  Ulick  of  Ballin- 
dangan,  Edmund  of  Ballinlegan,  Theobald  and  Wil- 
liam  of  Killeigh,  Redmond  of  Garravadrolane,  Miles 
and  Edward  of  Castletown,  Theobald  Fitz-John  Roche 
of  do.,  Ulick  Fitz-John  of  do.,  and  William  Fitz- 
Thomas  Roche  of  Clostage,  all  in  the  County  of  Cork. 
Amongst  the  Confederate  Catholics  at  Kilkenny,  in 
1646,  sat  Maurice  Roche,  Viscount  Fermoy,  .with  the 
Peers  ;  and  David  Roche  of  Glanaure,  John  Roche  of 
Castletown,  and  Redmond  Roche  of  Cahirdowgan  in 
the  Commons.  When  Ireton  took  Limerick  in  1651, 
Alderman  Jordan  Roche,  Edmund  Roche,  Esq.,  and 
David  Roche  were  three  of  the  twenty-four  excluded 
from  mercy  ;  and  Cromwell's  Act  "  for  settling  Ire- 
land,**  passed  in  the  following  year,  excepted  Maurice 
Roche,  Viscount  Fermoy,from  pardon  for  life  and  estate. 
After  witnessing  and  sharing  many  of  the  visitations 
of  the  civil  war,  George  and  John  Roche  withdrew  in 
exile  to  Flanders,  where  they  found  their  Prince, 
for  whom  they  had  suffered  so  much,  also  a  fugitive 
and  a  wanderer.  It  is  recorded  of  them  that,  with  their 
kinsman  Viscount  Fermoy,  they  shared  their  military 


tyrconnel's  horse.  81 

paj  with  Charles,*  a  "  service  which,"  adds  Sir  Ber- 
nard, "  the  monarch  overlooked  at  the  Restoration." 
The  reproach  was  supererogation  in  the  annals  of 
that  race.  Even  the  Declaration  of  Royal  Gratitude, 
spread  out  in  the  Act  of  Settlement,  names  of  this 
family  only  Captain  Miles  "  Roache,"  of  the  County 
of  Cork,  "  for  services  beyond  the  seas." 

In  King  James's  Charter  of  1687  to  Cork,  Patrick 
and  John  Roch  were  appointed  Aldermen,  and  Ed- 
mund Roche  a  free  Burgess.  In  that  of  the  same 
year  to  Limerick,  Dominick  Roche,  Esq.,  and  Thomas 
Roch,  merchant,  were  named  Aldermen.  The  former 
was  by  King  James,  on  his  arrival  in  Ireland,  cre- 
ated Baron  Tarbert  and  Viscount  Cahiravahilla.f  In 
the  new  Charter  to  Kinsale,  Edward,  Patrick,  and 
Edmund  Roche,  and  John  Roche  Fitz-Edmund  were 
Burgesses.  In  those  of  1688  to  Cloghnekilty, 
John  Roche  was  a  Burgess,  as  was  James  Roch  in 
that  to  Mallow.  In  the  Charter  to  Wexford,  An- 
thony, James,  and  John  Roche  were  Burgesses ;  in 
that  to  Middleton,  Philip  Roche  was  one  of  the  two 
Bailiff.  In  those  of  1689,  Edward  Roche  was  a 
Burgess  in  one  to  Fethard ;  Edward  Roche  and 
James  Roche  were  Burgesses  in  that  to  CharlevUle. 
In  the  pension  list  of  1687-8  appear  entries  of  £150 
per  annum  for  "  Lord  Roche's  children,"  and  of  £100 
per  annum  "  for  the  now  Lord  Roche." 

*  Burke  8  Landed  Gentry,  Sup.  p.  280. 
t  Ferraris  Limerick. 


82  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

In  the  Parliament  of  Dublin  sat  David  Roche, 
Viscount  Fermoy  (as  on  out-lawry  reversed)  amongst 
the  Peers.  He  was  afterwards  drowned  at  Ply- 
mouth in  the  great  storm  of  1703,  and  was  succeeded 
in  the  title  by  Ulick  Roche,*  who  dying  without 
issue,  was  succeeded  by  John  Roche  of  Ballendangan, 
"who,"  writes  Smith  in  1745,t  "is  now  in  the  ser- 
vice of  the  King  of  Sardinia,  and  has  no  issue.  He 
was  during  the  late  war  in  the  service  of  that  King, 
in  the  rank  of  a  Grcneral  Officer,  and  is  a  great  favourite 
of  the  Prince.  He  was  sent  at  diflferent  times  to  prevent 
the  French  and  Spaniards  from  crossing  the  Alps  into 
Italy,  distinguished  himself  in  a  brave  defence  of 
Augusta;  and,  when  compelled  to  surrender  Casal, 
the  French  and  Spanish  Generals  paid  him  all  military 
honors,  and  entertained  him  nobly  in  their  camp. 
After  being  a  prisoner  for  some  time,  he  returned  to 
the  Sardinian  service." 

Besides  the  above  Captain  John  Roche,  there  ap- 
pear of  the  name  on  this  List,  Mathew  Roche,  a 
Lieutenant  in  Lord  Galmoy's  Horse ;  Maurice  Roche  a 
Captain,  and  Nicholas  Roche  an  Ensign  in  Colonel 
Thomas  Butler's  Infantry ;  James  Roche  a  Captain 
in  Lord  Kilmallock's ;  James  Roche  a  Lieutenant  in 
Major-General  Boiseleau's,  in  which  David  Roche  also 
was  an  Ensign.  In  Colonel  Dudley  Bagnall's,  Edmund 
Roche  was  a  Lieutenant,  and  another  David  Roche 
an  Ensign.  In  Sir  Michael  Creagh's,  Philip  Roche 
was  a  Captain,  and  another  Philip  a  Lieutenant.      In 

*  Ni^oU's  Peerage. 

t  mBtory  of  Cork,  v.  1,  p.  345. 


tyrconnel's  horse.  83 

Colonel  Owen  MacCartie's,  Philip  and  John  Roche 
were  Captains,  Ulick  a 'Lieutenant,  and  David  and 
James  Roche  Ensigns  ;  in  Colonel  Gordon  CNeilFs, 
James  Roche  was  an  Ensign  ;  and  lastly,  in  Colonel 
John  Barrett's,  Ulick  Roche  was  a  Lieutenant,  and 
David  and  James  Roche  were  Ensigns. 

The  outlawries  of  1691  present  the  following 
Roches  of  that  period :  Philip  Roche  of  Dublin,  of 
Brickfields,  County  of  Cork,  and  of  Poulelong,  in  the 
same  County  ;  James  Roche  of  Ballymontagh,  Coun- 
ty of  Kilkenny,  and  of  Feartagh,  County  of  Cork  ; 
David  Roche  of  Aghane,  County  of  Wexford,  and  of 
Curraheen,  County  of  Waterford ;  David  Roche  of 
Limerick,  merchant ;  Michael  Roche  of  Poulenelong, 
County  of  Cork  ;  Richard  and  Maurice  Roche  of 
Kinsale,  County  of  Cork  ;  Maurice  "  Roach"  of  Cork  ; 
John  Roch  of  Ballydanton,  County  of  Cork,  of  Skib- 
bereen.  County  of  Cork,  of  Ballyadow,  County  of 
Wexford,  and  of  Hussabeg,  County  of  Clare  ;  Joshua 
Roch  of  Knocknamana,  County  of  Cork ;  Theobald 
Roach  of  Ballydallon,  County  of  Cork ;  Patrick 
Roach  of  Dundauran,  County  of  Cork ;  Patrick 
Roache  of  Kerrane,  County  of  Wexford  ;  Patrick  of 
Fountainstown,  County  of  Cork  ;  Dominick  and  An- 
drew of  Cork ;  Edward  of  Ballyadow,  County  of 
Wexford,  and  of  Curraheen,  County  of  Waterford  ; 
Redmond  Roche  of  Killehaly,  County  of  Waterford ; 
and  Stephen  Roach  of  Curwarragher,  County  of  Cork. 
This  latter,  on  his  attainder,  retired  to  Kilrush, 
County  of  Clare ;  and  afterwards  to  Pallis,  in  the 
neighbourhood  of  his  brother-inJaw,  William  Apjohn. 

G  2 


84  KING  JAM£S'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

They  had  married  two  sisters,  Anastasia  and  Cathe- 
rine Lysaght,  daughters  and  co-heiresses  of  William 
Lysaght.* 

At  the  Court  of  Chichester  House  in  1700,  Cathe- 
rine Roche,  alias  Lavallier,  widow  of  Edward  Roche, 
claimed  against  the  then  proprietor  of  Trabolgan, 
Francis,  son  of  said  Edward,  her  jointure  thereoff ; 
but  her  petition  was  dismist ;  as  was  that  of  Clara 
Roche  for  a  jointure  off  the  County  of  Cork  lands, 
forfeited  by  Philip  Roche. 

It  may  be  mentioned  that  amongst  the  Southwell 
MSS.  some  years  since  offered  for  sale  by  Thomas 
Thorpe  of  Covent  Garden,  London,  were  curious  Col- 
lege Accounts  of  Lord  Roche,  from  June,  1711,  to 
December,  1712.  His  tuition  in  dancing,  fencing 
and  riding,  quadrupled  in  amount  the  charges  for  the 
mathematics,  French,  &c.  Four  dozen  of  gloves  for 
him  cost  forty-eight  shillings,  a  pair  of  leather 
breeches  a  guinea  and  sixpence,  and  there  was  due  to 
the  perriwig-maker  twelve  pounds.  Lord  Roche  being 
then  a  mere  boy.f  The  education  of  this  young  lord 
seems  to  have  resulted  from  a  petition  of  Lady  Roche, 
forwarded  in  October,  1703,  on  her  failure  of  relief  at 
the  Court  of  Claims,  by  Mr.  Canton  Haly  on  her 
behalf,  to  Mr.  Secretary  Southwell ;  wherein  she  en- 
treated "  certain  monies  to  send  Lord  Jftoche's  chil- 
dren on  sight  for  England,  who  are  in  a  most  forlorn 

♦  Old  FamUy  MSS. 

t  Southwell  MSS.  Catal.,  p.  192. 


tyrconnel's  horse.  85 

condition  ;  which  will  be  one  everlasting  deed  of  cha- 
rity, and  an  eternal  obligation  upon  the  family.'^ 


CAPTAIN  NICHOLAS  CUSACK. 

The  origin  and  early  notices  of  this  surname  are  so 
fully  given  in  Sir  Bernard  Burke's  *  Landed  Gentry,' 
that  a  reference  to  its  pages  must  satisfy  those  seek- 
ing such  information  more  completely  than  could  any 
extended  details  here.  It  may  yet  be  observed  that 
in  1309,  Walter  de  Cusack  had  special  summons  to 
the  parliament  of  Kilkenny  ;  that  in  the  same  cen- 
tury Sir  John  Cusack,  Knight,  Lord  of  Beaupeyr  and 
Gerardstown  in  the  County  of  Meath,  had  also  sum- 
mons to  Parliament ;  that  he  married  Joan,  eldest 
daughter  and  co-heiress  of  Sir  Simon  de  Geneville, 
Baron  of  Culmullen  in  the  same  County,  by  whom 
he  left  Sir  Simon  his  eldest  son,  who  was  in  1375 
himself  summoned  to  Parliament  as  Baron  of  Culmul- 
len.f  That  in  1535,  Thomas  Cusack  of  Cushings- 
town  was  appointed  a  justice  of  the  Common  Pleas  ; 
in  1542,  made  Master  of  the  Rolls ;  and  in  1546, 
Lord  Chancellor.  In  the  succeeding  years,  other 
Cusacks  filled  the  highest  judicial  posts  in  Ireland. 

Throughout  all  the  trials  and  persecutions  of  the 
Irish  Catholics  in  the  seventeenth  century,  this  family 
espoused  their  cause  ;  and  in  the  Civil  War  of  1641, 


♦  Southwell  MSS.  Cat.,  p.  244. 
t  Burke's  Extinct  Peerage,  p.  706. 


86  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

six  were  attainted  for  their  adherence  to  that  reli- 
gion and  their  loyalty  to  the  Stuarts,  viz.  Christopher 
Cusack  of  MuUevad,  and  of  Ardreagh  ;  George  of 
Trimlestown  ;  Patrick  of  Gerardstown,  and  James  of 
Clonemaghana,  all  in  the  County  of  Meath ;  also 
Adam  Cusack  of  Monanquill  and  Henry  of  Comesal- 
lagh,  County  of  Wicklow.  In  the  Supreme  Council 
of  Confederate  Catholics  at  KUkenny  sat  James 
Cusack,  who  was  therefore  especially  excepted  from 
pardon  for  life  and  estate  in  Cromwell's  Act  of  1652, 
'*for  settling  Ireland."  The  Declaration  of  Royal 
Gratitude,  displayed  in  the  Act  of  Settlement, 
only  mentions  "  Mr.  Thomas  Cusack  of  Carrick, 
County  of  Kildare."  In  1671,  Adam  Cusack  was 
Chief  Justice  of  Connaught  ;  in  the  following  year  he 
was  appointed  a  Judge  of  the  Common  Pleas.  King 
James's  New  Charters  of  1688  have,  in  that  to 
Navan,  the  names  of  Nicholas  and  Christopher  Cusack, 
Esquires,  and  of  Christopher  and  Robert  Cusack, 
Gentlemen,  amongst  the  Burgesses.  In  that  to  Trim, 
the  above  Nicholas  Cusack  was  appointed  Portreeve; 
while  James  Cusack  of  Flemingstown,  and  Francis 
and  Christopher  Cusack,  were  Burgesses.  In  the 
charter  of  1689  to  Swords,  another  Christopher 
Cusack  was  a  Burgess,  as  was  Luke  Cusack  in  that 
to  Kilkenny. 

Besides  the  above  Captain  Nicholas,  there  appear  in 
this  Army  List,  John  and  Adam  Cusack,  of  the  Lis- 
mullen  line,  Ensigns  in  the  Royal  Regiment  of  In- 
fantry ;  Bartholomew  of  the  Rathaldron  line  and 
Christopher  of  Corballis,  Captains  in  Lord  Slane's  ; 


tyrconnel's  horse.  87 

and  Robert  Cusack  of  Staffordstown,  a  Lieutenant  in 
Colonel  Clifford's  Dragoons ;  while  in  Burke's 
"Landed  Gentry"  a  James  Cusack  of  Clonard  is 
noticed,  as  an  officer  in  King  James's  service  at  the 
battle  of  the  Boyne.  In  the  Parliament  of  1689,  at 
Dublin,  Captain  Nicholas  Cusack,  who  was  nephew  of 
Tyrconnel,  sat  as  one  of  the  Representatives  of  Trim ; 
while  the  Borough  of  Navan  was  then  represented  by 
the  above  Christopher  of  Corballis,  and  by  Christopher 
Cusack  of  Rathaldron  ;  as  was  Kells  by  said  Bartholo- 
mew Cusack.  When,  in  1690,  King  James  assumed 
to  exercise  ecclesiastical  patronage  in  Ireland,  he 
presented  Dr.  Patrick  Cusack  to  the  Rectory  of  St. 
Canice  of  Duleek,  with  the  Vicarage  of  St  Mary  of 
Drogheda  ;  and  Dr.  Robert  Cusack  to  the  Rectories 
and  Vicarages  of  Robertstown  and  KUmainham-wood. 

At  the  Capitulation  of  Limerick,  Nicholas  Cusack, 
then  a  Colonel,  was  an  executing  party  of  the  Civil 
Articles. 

The  outlawries  of  1691  record  as  attainted  Nicholas 
Cusack  of  Cushinstown,  James  of  Fieldstown,  Chris- 
topher and  Bartholomew  of  Corballis,  Patrick  of 
Philpotstown,  Robert  of  Castletown,  Robert,  Adam, 
and  Michael  of  Gerardstown,  Lucas  of  Brownstown, 
aU  in  the  County  of  Meath  ;  Philip  Cusack  of  KU- 
kenny  ;  Rowland  of  Killone,  County  of  Cork  ;  Nicho- 
las of  Lough-bryne,  County  of  Down,  with  Adam 
and  Christopher  of  Castletown-Abbey,  County  of 
Meath.  At  the  Court  of  Chichester  House,  Robert 
Cusack  claimed  and  was  allowed  a  remainder  in  tail 
in  various  lands  and  premises   in   the   Counties   of 


88  KING  James's  misn  army  ust. 

Dublin,  KUdare,  &c.  of  which  Nicholas  Cusack,  the 
forfeiting  proprietor,  had  been  seized  in  right  of  his 
wife. 

No  evidence  has  been  communicated  of  the  fortunes 
of  Colonel  Nicholas,  or  of  the  others  of  his  name  who 
passed  over  to  the  Continent;  but  it  is  stated  by  Sir 
Bernard  Burke,  *  that  of  the  Gerardstown  line 
Gerald-Alexander  Cusack,  Knight  of  St.  Louis,  was 
a  Lieutenant-Colonel  in  Roth's  Brigade.  He  signal- 
ized himself  at  the  battle  of  Fontenoy  in  1745,  and 
received  for  his  services  there  a  pension  of  600  francs  ; 
he  was  again  distinguished  at  the  battle  of  Lauffield, 
and,  after  fifty  three  years' service,  died  in  1753,  S.  P. 

A  Charles  Cusack  entered  the  Spanish  service  in 

Lee's  Regiment,  became  Captain-General  and  Knight 
of  St.  James  in  Spain,  and  died  Governor  of  Malatia, 

S.  P. Lastly,  Richard-Edmund  Cusack,    Marshal 

of  France,  and  Knight  of  the  Orders  of  the  King  of 
France,  served  at  Malplaquet,  Minden,  &c.  and  re- 
ceived in  1755  the  public  thanks  of  that  monarch  for 
his  services  at  Maestricht 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  TALBOT  OF  BELGARD. 

He  had  been  one  of  the  Chiefe  of  the  Pale  who  at- 
tended the  great  meeting  at  Swords  in  1641,  and  in 
the  Declaration  of  Royal  Gratitude,  embodied  in  the 

*  Burke's  Landed  Gentry,  sup.,  f.  87. 


tykconnel's  horse.  89 

Act  of  SettlementJ  he,  being  there  described  as  of 
Belgard,  a  Lieutenant,  was  included,  ^^for  reason 
known  unto  us  in  an  especial  manner  meriting  our 
grace  and  favour."  For  these  services  he  further 
obtained  a  restoration  of  about  half  his  estates,  which 
had  been  seized  by  the  Usurping  Powers  :  of  these 
however  he  deemed  it  prudent  to  take  out  a  fresh 
patent  in  1670,  which  expressly  included  Belgard. 
He  was  one  of  the  Representatives  of  the  borough  of 
Newcastle  in  the  Parliament  of  1689,  and,  having 
been  appointed  Lord  Lieutenant  of  the  County  of 
Wicklow,  and  Commissary-General  over  this  and  four 
other  Counties,  he  raised  and  equipped  a  Regiment  of 
Cavalry  at  his  own  expense,  fought  at  its  head  at  the 
battle  of  the  Boyne,  and  at  Aughrim ;  and,  having 
been  included  in  the  Articles  of  Limerick,  this  fine 
old  soldier  thereby  effected  the  preservation  of  his 
estate.  At  his  advanced  age  he  declined  to  emigrate, 
and,  retiring  to  Belgard,  passed  the  remainder  of  his 
days  in  the  ease  and  comfort  of  a  competent  fortune, 
with  the  consciousness  of  having  served  his  King  and 
country  to  the  utmost  of  his  abilities.  He  married  a 
daughter  of  Sir  Henry  Talbot  of  Mount-Talbot  and 
Templeogue,  and,  having  no  male  heir,  he  sought,  for 
his  only  daughter  Catherine,  a  suitable  alliance  in  the 
noble  family  of  Dillon,  which  took  place  in  1696  by 
her  marriage  with  Thomas  Dillon  of  Brackloon, 
grandson  of  Theobald  the  first  Lord  Viscount  Dillon 
ofCostello-Gallen.* 


*  D' Alton's  Hist.  Co.  Dublin,  p.  708. 


90  KING  James's  misu  army  list. 


LIEUTENANT  THOMAS  BEATAGH. 

In  the  Fourteenth  century,  and  long  after,  this  name, 
which  in  truth  seems  to  have  been  of  Danish  origin, 
and  anterior  to  the  English  invasion,  is  traced  in  the 
history  and  records  of  Meath.  In  1382,  Henry 
Beatagh  was  appointed  one  of  the  two  guardians  of 
the  Peace  in  the  Barony  of  EeUs  therein.  At 
the  close  of  the  sixteenth  century,  William  *  Betagh ' 
of  Moynalty  was  married  to  Anne,  daughter  of  the 
sixth  Lord  Eilleen.  In  1610,  Edmund  Betagh,  son 
and  heir  of  Christopher  of  Moynalty  deceased^  had 
livery  of  his  estate  according  to  the  law  of  wardships. 
The  outlawries  of  1642  included  his  name  as  Edmund 
Betagh  Senior,  with  Edmund  Betagh  Junior,  and 
James  Betagh,  all  of  Moynalty,  Robert  Muyle  *  Bea- 
tagh,'  and  Patrick  Beatagh  of  Newtown,  all  in  the 
County  of  Meath.  The  minutes  of  Courts-Martial 
held  in  St.  Patrick's  Church,  Dublin,  in  1651-2-3, 
record  those  held  on  20th  March,  and  23rd  April, 
1652,  on  Captain  Francis  Betagh  and  other  Betaghs. 
Of  the  grants  confirmed  on  the  adventurers  in 
1666,  one  to  Thomas  Taylor,  of  lands  in  the  County  of 
Meath,  contains  a  saving  for  Henry  Betagh,  Christo- 
pher, Richard,  Lucas,  James,  Mary,  Anne,  EUenor, 
Margaret,  and  Jane  Betagh,  all  children  of  Patrick 
Betagh,  of  such  rights  as  their  said  father  had  in  cer- 
tain lands  therein  specified,  and  which  had  been 
decreed  to  them  in  1663.     A  similar  saving  of  their 


tyrconnel's  horse.  91 

rights  was  reserved  in  another  patent  of  Meath  lands 
to  Nicholas  Moore,  as  also  in  similar  patents  to  James 
Stopford,  Edward  Stubbers,  and  Henry  Morton,  all 
concerning  lands  in  the  same  County. 

The  new  Charter,  granted  by  King  James  to  the 
borough  of  Kells,  contains  the  names  of  four  Betaghs, 
burgesses,  viz.  Francis,  Thomas,  William,  and 
Henry  ;  and  Thomas  Betagh  was  appointed  Town- 
clerk. 

The  outlawries  of  1691  describe  ^Thomas  Beatagh 
of  Moynalty,'  who  seems  identical  with  this  Lieu- 
tenant. Francis  Beatagh  is  also  an  outlaw,  de- 
scribed as  of  the  same  place.  Both  of  these, 
Thomas  and  Francis,  are  in  a  later  inquisition  de- 
scribed as  of  Gravelstown,  County  of  Meath.  William 
Betagh  Senior  and  William  Betagh  Junior,  styled  of 
Lisalkey,  County  of  Down,  were  also  attainted  at 
this  time. 

The  case  of  Mr.  Francis  Betagh  of  Mojrnalty,  as 
iniquitously  affected  by  the  Acts  of  Settlement,  is 
especially  recorded  in  Mr.  O'Callaghan's  'Irish  Bri- 
gades,' where  it  is  stated  that  his  grandson,  the 
Chevalier  de  Betagh,  was  a  Captain  in  Fitz-James's 
Regiment  of  Horse,  previous  to  the  battle  of  Fontenoy, 
and  was  living  with  the  title  of  Count  in  1775.*  It 
appears  from  the  notes  in  Hardiman's  Irish  Minstrelsy, 
vol.  1,  that  some  members  of  the  Moynalty  Beataghs 
settled  at  Mannin  in  the  County  of  Mayo,  where  a 
daughter   of  Captain   Gerald   Dillon,   becoming  the 

♦  O'Callaghan's  Brigades,  v.  1  p.  94. 


92  KINO  JAMES'S  IRISH  A&MT  LIST. 

wife  of  James  Betagh,  was  the  object  of  one  of  Carolan's 
poetical  efiusions. 


LIEUTENANT  CHARLES  KING. 

It  would  seem  that  this  officer  was  a  relative  of 
George  King,  theretofore  proprietor  of  the  town  and 
manor  of  Clontarj^  whose  house  and  town  Sir  Charles 
Coote  burned  and  wasted  with  his  wonted  cruelty. 
The  outrage,  which,  as  Borlase  writes,  was  "excel- 
lently well  executed,"  was  attempted  to  be  justified 
by  an  allegation  that  Mr.  King  had  been  one  of  the 
gentlemen  of  the  Pale  who  had  previously  assembled 
at  Swords,  and  who  had  further  abetted  the  pillaging 
of  a  ship.  This  King  was  immediately  after  attainted, 
a  reward  of  £400  offered  for  his  head,  and  his  estates, 
comprising  the  manor  and  island  of  Clontarf,  with 
Hollybrook,  were  granted  to  John  Blackwell,  a  favour- 
ite of  Oliver  Cromwell,  who  assigned  to  John  Vernon, 
the  ancestor  of  the  present  proprietor.*  Lodge 
relates  that  Captain  James  Brabazon,  son  of  Sir 
Anthony  Brabazon,  was  killed  in  1676  by  a  Charles 
King.t 

The  attainders  of  1642  have  but  one  of  this  sur- 
name, George  King,  described  as  of  Galtrim,  County 
of  Meath.     Those  of  1691  exhibit  only  John  King  of 

♦  D'Alton's  Hist.  Co.  Dub.  p.  89. 

f  Arohdairs  Lodge's  Peerage,  vol.  5,  p.  274. 


tyrconnel's  horse.  93 

Boyle,  and  Henry  otherwise  Martin  King  of  Galway. 
A  Thomas  King  was  Prebendary  of  Swords  in 
1703  ;  and  in  1776,  a  Charles  King  was  one  of  the 
Kepresentatives  of  that  Borough. 


CORNET  EDMUND  BUTLER. 

The  notices  applicable  to  this  great  historic  name 
are  collected  at  tiie  ensuing  Horse  Regiment  of  Vis- 
count  Galmoy  ;  it  may,  however,  be  here  observed, 
that  this  officer  appears  to  have  been  the  same  Ed- 
mund Butler,  who,  when  Dominick  Sheldon,  the 
Lieutenant-Colonel  of  TyrconneFs  Horse,  formed  a 
Brigade  in  the  service  of  France,  appointed  him,  his 
old  companion  in  arms,  a  major.*  The  gallant  ser- 
vices of  that  force  on  the  Continent  are  hereinbefore 
briefly  alluded  to,  under  the  names  of  *  Berwick'  and 
^Sheldon.' 


CORNET  EDMUND  HARNEY. 

He  appears  to  have  been  of  the  County  of  Wicklow, 
and,  although  his  own  outlawry  is  not  mentioned  on 
the  roll  of  attainders,  there  do  appear  there  Matthew 
and  Thomas  Harney,  both  described  of  Wicklow. 

The  name    of  *  Hemy '  (John,  and  Margaret  his 

*  O'Conor's  Military  Memoirs,  p.  197. 


94  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

wife)  is  of  record  in  the  Chancery  rolls  of  Ireland  in 
1325  ;  and  in  1381,  Thomas  Herny  was  an  ofl&cer  of 
the  customs  in  Waterford  and  Cork. 


QUARTER  MASTER  PETER  CASINONE. 

This  individual  is  expressly  described  as  he  appears 
on  this  List,  in  Tyrconnell's  Regiment,  in  the  report 
of  the  wounded  at  the  Boyne,  given  in  Berwick's 
Memoir ;  though,  according  to  Walker's  Diary,  &c. 
(p.  60),  '  Quarter  Master  Casinone '  was  killed  at  the 
previous  siege  of  Deny. 


QUARTER  MASTER  JOHN  BRYAN. 

Sm  Thomas  Loftus,  who  died  in  1636,  left  with  other 
issue  a  daughter  Jane,  who  had  married  John  Bryan 
of  Whiteswell,  alias  Bawnmore,  and  had  issue  by 
him  four  sons,  the  youngest  of  whom,  John  Bryan,* 
seems  identical  with  this  Quarter  Master.  Alderman 
James  Bryan,  of  Jenkinsto^vn,  was  one  of  the  Repre- 
sentatives for  the  City  of  Kilkenny  in  the  Parliament 
of  1689  ;  and  a  Walter  Bryan,  described  as  of  Akipp, 
in  the  Queen's  County,  was  attainted  in  1701. 

*  Archdall's  Lodge's  Peerage,  vol.  7,  p.  355. 


galhot's  horse. 


95 


Captaint, 
The  Colonel. 


REGIMENTS  OF  HORSE. 

PIERS,  LORD  VISCOUNT  GALMOY'S. 

lAduimants.  Comets.  Quarter-masten. 

Richard  OxVisglL      Ambrose  GarrolL      John  Kelly. 


Laurence  Dempsej,  ^ 

let  Lieat.-Col.   I 

VMathew  Cooke. 
[Charles  Carroll,    ft 
2nd  Lieut-Col]  ^ 


Robert  Arthur, 
Mijor. 


James  Mathews. 


Henry  Fleming,       Qeoige  Qemon. 
brother  to  Lord 
Slane. 

Lord  Baron  Trim-    Patrick  Kearney. 
Isfton. 


Anthony  Dnlhnnty.  Qeorge  Cooke. 

Morgan  Ryan. 

Jefiry  Burke.  Piers  Butler. 

Roger  O'Connor.      Robert  Molloy. 


Ifidiael  Bourke. 
Edward  Butler. 
James  Bryan. 
PieFB  Butler. 
[Denis  O'Keny.] 


Laurence  Fitzgerald.  Lewis  Welsh. 
Edmund  Butler.        James  PurceH 
Mathew  Roche.         John  Smith. 

Thomas  Dwyer. 

Oliver  Welsh. 


QeflBryBnike. 
James  Butler. 
James  Shoe. 
Charles  O'Connor. 


H  ftlSC  iAlf£8*8  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 


MEBS  BUTLER,  LORD  VISCOUNT  GALMOY. 

Of  this  great  historic  family,  whose  annals  in  the  bio- 
grqihy  of  but  one  individual  have  extended  over  three 
large  folio  volumes,  the  notices  for  this  work  must  be 
necessarily  circumscribed  within  the  limits  fore- 
marked  in  the  Prospectus. 

The  influence  and  conduct  of  the  great  Ormonde 
prevented  the  attainder  of  any  one  of  his  name  in 
1642,  with  the  exception  of  John  Butler,  an  obscure 
miller  of  Westpalstown,  County  Dublin.  Some  indi- 
viduals of  the  name  however  attended  the  memorable 
assembly  of  the  Confederate  Catholics  at  Kilkenny 
in  1646.  Of  the  Temporal  Peers  on  that  occasion 
were  Richard  Butler,  Viscount  Mountgarret ;  Piers 
Butler,  Viscount  Ikerrin  ;  and  Edward  Butler,  Vis- 
count Galmoy.  Of  the  Commons  were  Edmond  But- 
ler  of  Idough,  Piers  of  Banshagh,  James  of  Swyneene, 
John  of  Foulsterstown,  Piers  of  Barrowmount,  Piers 
of  Cahir  and  Walter  Butler  of  Paulstown.  The  afore- 
said Lord  Mountgarret  was  not  overlooked  in  Crom- 
well's Act  for  settling  Ireland  ;  he,  with  James  Butler, 
Earl  of  Ormonde,  was  especially  excepted  from  par- 
don for  life  and  estate. 

The  Act  of  Settlement  of  1662,  in  its  clause  of 
Royal  Gratitude  for  services  rendered  the  exiled  Roy- 
alists beyond  the  seas,  includes  the  names  of  Viscount 
Mountgarret,  Viscount  Ikerrin,  Viscount  Galmoy  and 
Lord    Dunboyne  ;    with   Ensign   Walter   Butler  of 


galmoy's  horse.  97 

Shanbally,  Ensign  Pierce  (Duff)  Butler  of  Tipperary, 
Ensign  Theobald  Butler  of  Barnane  in  said  County, 
Lieut.-Colonel  William  Butler  of  Ballyfooky,  Captain 
Stephen  Butler,  Captain  Walter  Butler,  Captain 
Theobald  and  Ensign  Thomas  Butler.  The  same  Act 
contained  also  savings  from  its  confiscations,  of  the 
estates  of  Colonel  Richard  Butler,  of  Thomas  Butler 

of  Kilconnel,  of Butler,  son  of  Theobald,  son  of 

James  Butler  of  Derryluscan,  County  of  Tipperary, 
and  of  Richard  Butler  of  Ballynakill  in  same  County ; 
of  Lord  Dunboyne's  and  Lord  Mountgarref  s,  and  also  a 
saving  for  James  (then)  Duke  of  Ormonde  and  his 
Duchess,  of  their  lands.  The  latter  were  fiirther  con- 
firmed in  "their  parts  of  the  regicides'  estates,  ex- 
cepted out  of  the  Duke  of  York's  confirmation." 

In  May,  1686,  the  above  Viscount  Galmoy  was 
added  to  the  Privy  Council.*  On  the  establish- 
ment of  1687-8,  Viscount  Ikerrin  is  mentioned  as 
having  an  allowance  of  £235  4s.,  as  Captain  of  the 
Grenadiers,  with  an  addition  of  £100  charged  on 
the  pension  list;  while  the  Lord  Baron  of  Dunboyne  is 
set  down  on  the  latter  list  for  another  £100.  In 
King  James's  New  Charters  of  1687  et  seq.  Theobald 
Butler  was  appointed  of  the  Common  Council  of 
Dublin.  In  that  to  Clonmel,  James  Butler,  mer- 
chant, was  named  Mayor  ;  James  Butler,  Junior,  an 
Alderman ;  Theobald  Butler  a  free  burgess ;  another 
Theobald,  Recorder ;  and  Theobald  Fitz-James  Butler 

•  Singer's  Correspondence  of  Loid  Clarendon,  v.  1,  p.  400. 

U 


98  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Town  Clerk. — In  that  to  Cashel,  James  Butler  and 
James  Fitz-Richard  Butler  were  Burgesses. — In  Bal- 
linakill's,  John  Butler  was  one  of  the  Burgesses. — In 
Kilkenny's,  Lord  Viscount  Mountgarret  and  Thomas 
Butler  were  Aldermen. — In  New  Ross,  Thomas  But- 
ler was  appointed  one  of  the  Bailiflfe,  and  Walter  and 
Richard    were     Burgesses. — In     Callan,    John    and 
Walter  Butler  were  Burgesses  ;    In  Gowran,  this  Vis- 
count Galmoy  was  at  the  head  of  the  Burgess  Roll, 
William  Butler  being  another  thereon.     Lord  Gal- 
moy  also  headed  the  Burgess  Roll  for  Thomastown, 
with  WiUiam  Butler  for  a  Burgess.    He  was  likewise 
first  on  the  Charter  to  Old  Leighlin,  where  Richard 
Butler  was  another  Burgess.     In   that  to  Wexford, 
Walter  Butler  was  an  Alderman.     In  Derry,  Robert 
Butler  was  one  of  the  Burgesses,  as  was  James  Butler 
in  that  to  Fethard,  Walter  Butler  in  that  to  Ennis- 
corthy,  and  Edward  and  Thomas   Butler  in  that  to 
Knocktopher. 

On  the  present  Muster  Roll  : — In  this  Regiment, 
besides  the  Colonel,  Edward  and  Piers  Butler  were 
Captains,  Edmund  Butler  a  Lieutenant,  and  Piers 
and  James  Butler  Quarter-masters. — In  TyrconneVs 
Horse,  Edmund  and  James  were,  as  before  mentioned. 
Comets. — In  Sarsfield's,  Edward  and  Piers  were  Lieu- 
tenants.— In  Colonel  Nicholas  Purcell's,  James  Butler 
of  Dunboyne  was  a  Captain,  Theobald  a  Lieutenant, 
and  another  James  a  Cornet. — In  Lord  Dongan's 
Dragoons,  Piers  Butler  was  a  Comet.  In  the  Earl  of 
Tyrone's  Infantry,  Edward  Butler  was  a  Captain. — 


galmoy's  horse.  99 

Robert  was  a  Captain  in  Colonel  Cormuck  O'Neiirs. 
— In  Sir  Neill  O'Neiirs,  William  was  a  Captain,  ss 
was  Walter  in  the  Earl  of  Clancarty's. — In  Lord 
Eilmallock's,  Richard  was  a  Captain,  James  a  Lieu- 
tenant, and  Toby  Butler  an  Ensign. — In  Major 
General  Boiseleau's,  Thomas  Butler  was  a  Lieutenant. 
— In  Colonel  John  Grace's,  Edmund  was  a  Captain, 
another  Edmund  a  Lieutenant,  and  John  Butler  was 
an  Ensign. — In  Colonel  Dudley  Bagnall's,  Edmund 
was  a  Lieutenant,  and  Thomas  and  Edward  were  En- 
signs.— In  Sir  Michael  Creagh's,  Edmund  was  a  Cap- 
tain, as  was  another  Edmund  in  Colonel  Owen  Mac 
Carty's. — Colonel  Thomas  Butler  had  a  Regiment  en- 
tirely  of  his  own  'raising,'  in  which  James  and  Rich- 
ard Butler  were  Captains  ;  so  had  Colonel  Edward 
Butler,  in  which  two  Edmunds  Butler  and  one  John 
were  commissioned. — In  Colonel  John  Barrett's,  John 
Butler  was  a  Captain,  and  lie  may  probably  be  identi- 
fied with  the  'Colonel'  John  Butler,  who  commanded 
a  troop  of  Grenadiers  at  Aughrim,  was  there  taken 
prisoner,  and  so  committed  to  the  Tower  in  1695.* 
Previous  to  the  forming  of  this  Muster  Roll,  a  George 
Butler  was  Captain  in  Colonel  Fairfax's,  a  then  exist- 
ing Regiment ;  and  of  him  the  Earl  of  Clarendon,  in 
January,  1685,  wrote,  that  he  had  "served  abroad 
when  the  late  King  had  forces  in  Flanders,  and  had 
as  good  a  character  as  any  young  man  can  have  ;" 

*  Singers  Correspondence  of  Lord  Clarendon,  v.  2,  p.  893. 

H  2 


100  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

but  he  was  killed  in  the  following  year,  by  Captain 
Twisleton  of  Sir  Thomas  Newcomen's  Regiment.* 

At  the  close  of  the  year  1688,  Lord  Galmoy  came 
to  Belturbet,  and  made  an  unsuccessful  attempt  to 
besiege  the  Castle  of  Crom  ;  he  was  repulsed  by  the 
Enniskilleners,  who  had  thrown  succours  into  itf 
This  Peer  was  one  of  the  Privy  Council,  who  a  short 
time  previously  caused  proclamations  to  issue  from  the 
Council  Chamber  of  Dublin  against  meetings  of  dis- 
aflfected  persons,  "in  a  riotous  and  warlike  manner 
assembled;"  who,  according  to  informations  received 
by  the  Lord  Deputy,  "have  taken  upon  them  to  fortify 
themselves  by  possessing  of  places  of  strength,  and 
dividing  themselves  into  Troops  and  Companies,  pro- 
viding  themselves  of  arms  and  ammunition ;"  and  the 
Lord  Deputy  and  Council  thereby  ordered  all  persons 
80  assembled  to  disperse,  or  that  directions  shall  be 
given  to  proceed  against  any  defaulters  as  for  high 
treason.  In  further  relation  to  this  family,  it  may 
be  here  noted  that  a  Regiment,  commanded  by 
Colonel  Richard  Butler,  was  one  of  those  sent  by 
King  James  to  France  in  exchange  for  the  French 
auxiliaries. 

In  the  Roll  of  the  memorable  Parliament  of  Dublin 
(1689),  appear  of  this  name  in  the  Upper  House  the 
above  Piers,  Viscount  Galmoy,  Viscount  Mountgar- 
rett.  Viscount  Ikerrin,  Lords  Dunboyne  and  Cahir ; 
while  in  the  Commons  sat  Walter  Butler  as  one  of 

♦  Singer's  Correspondence  of  Lord  Clarendon,  v.l,  pp.  207, 336. 
t  Hamilton's  Enniskilleners,  p.  10,  <&c. 


galmoy's  horse.  101 

the  representatives  of  the  Borough  of  Callan,  Richard 
for  that  of  Gowran,  Walter  of  Munfine  for  the 
County  of  Wexford,  Richard  for  the  County  of  Wick- 
low,  Theobald  of  Strathnagallen  for  Enniscorthy, 
James  of  Grangebeg  for  the  County  of  Tipperary,  and 
Richard  for  the  Borough  of  New  Ross. 

On  the  4th  of  July,  in  the  year  of  this  Parliament, 
Lord  Viscount  Mountgarret  led  the  forlorn  hope  of  Horse 
against  Deny,  when  he  was  taken  prisoner.  "  The 
besieged  took  three  colours  of  Colonel  Butler  into  the 
town,  and  have  them."*  It  may  be  added  that,  after 
the  Revolution,  in  October,  1692,  this  Peer  laid  claim 
to  his  seat  in  Parliament,  and  took  the  oath  of  allegi- 
ance, but,  being  required  to  take  that  of  supremacy, 
he  refused  so  to  do,  declaring  it  was  not  agreeable 
to  his  conscience,  whereupon  he  was  ex*cludedf . 

Crossley,  in  his  "  Peerage  of  Ireland,''  published  in 
1725,  has  an  absurd  story,  that  this  Lord  Viscount 
Galmoy  was  obliged  to  do  public  penance  in  St.  Wer- 
burgh's  Church,  Dublin,  "  for  some  insolent  or  ill  action 
committed  by  him  in  that  Church,  but  that  he  after- 
wards  left  Ireland  with  King  James."  As  the  latter 
part  of  this  story  is  erroneous,  the  whole  may  be  con- 
sidered  apocryphal.  Lord  Galmoy,  so  far  fram  going 
oflF  with  King  James,  remained  with  his  Regiment  to 
the  last,  was  taken  prisoner  at  Aughrim,  and,  havfng 
been  exchanged,  was  one  of  the  contracting  parties  on 
the  Irish  side  to  the  Treaty  of  Limerick,  3rd  October, 
1691.' 


♦  Thorpe's  Cat.  SouthweU  MSS.,  p.  188. 
t  Graham's  Derriana,  p.  37. 


102  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

In  the  outlawries  of  1691,  et  seq.  Viscount  Gal- 
moy  was  attainted  on  six  inquisitions  in  Dublin, 
Westmeath,  Kilkenny,  Wexford,  Tyrone  and  King's 
County. — Richard  Viscount  Mountgarret  on  four,  in 
Kildare,  Kilkenny,  Wexford  and  Londonderry. — Two 
on  Lord  Dunboyne,  in  Clare  and  Meath. — One  on 
John  Butler,  son  of  Lord  Galmoy. — On  James  Butler 
in  the  latter  County. — On  Tobias  and  Theobald  in 
Dublin. — In  Wexford  on  Walter,  senior  and  junior, 
and  Edmund  of  Munfyne,  Richard  of  New  Ross,  Ed- 
ward of  Leckan,  and  James  of  Ballyborough. — In 
Kilkenny  on  Walter  of  Callan,  Edmund  of  Bally- 
ragget,  Edward  of  Flemingstown,  William  of  Bram- 
blestown,  Edward  Fitz-Edward  of  Fiertagh,  Richard  of 
Low  Grange,  Peter  of  Kilkenny,  Edward  Fitz-Rich- 
ard  of  Kilkenny,  Piers  of  Coolmanan,  and  on  Thomas 
and  Richard  of  Garry ricken. — In  Tipperary,  on 
James  Butler  of  Grangebeg. — In  Carlow,  on  Richard 
of  Rahalin  and  Edward  of  Dunganstown. — In  Water- 
foni  on  Edward  and  John  of  Ballynaclogh  ;  on  Tobias 
of  Knockanebuy,  James  of  Kilcorr,  and  William  of 
Munvehogg. — In  the  Queen's  County,  on  Richard 
and  Edward  of  Kilderrick,  and  on  William  of  Car- 
ran:  and  lastly,  in  the  County  of  Roscommon,  on 
James  Butler  of  Coneragh.  Lord  Galmoy 's  forfeitures 
alone  comprised  nearly  10,000  acres  plantation  mea- 
sui^  in  the  County  of  Kilkenny,  and  about  half  that 
qiuuitity  in  the  Barony  of  Bantry,  County  of  Wex- 
fi^ni.      The^>hjdd  Butler,  seventh  Baron  of  Cahir.  was 


galmoy's  horse.  103 

also  outlawed,  but  his  attainder  was  reversed  in  1693, 
and  his  Lordship  restored  to  his  estates.* 

While  King  James  was  in  Dublin,  on  the  10th  of 
May,  previous  to  the  battle  of  the  Boyne,  he  gave 
licence  to  the  Lady  Butler  and  her  sisterhood  of  the 
order  of  St.  Benedict,  to  found  a  Nunnery  in  that 
City  for  themselves  and  their  successors,  under  the 
name  and  style  of  "  the  Abbess  and  Convent  of  our 
Royal  Monastery  of  St.  Benedict,  called  Gratia  Dei." 

At  the  battle  of  Landen,  fought  29th  July,  1693, 
the  Duke  of  Ormonde  (who,  according  to  Clarendon,! 
after  King  James  had  gone  to  bed  at  Andover,  26th 
November,  1688,  turned  over  to  William)  was 
wounded  and  taken  prisoner  fighting  on  the  English 
side. J  At  the  Court  of  Claims  in  1700,  (Jeorge 
Butler  claimed  an  estate  tail  in  Ballyraggett,  County 
of  Kilkenny,  forfeited  by  Edmund  Butler ;  he  also 
sought  and  was  allowed  a  remainder  in  tail  in  Cranagh, 
County  of  Kilkenny,  forfeited  by  Edward  Butler ;  as 
did  James  Butler  a  similar  remainder  in  Tipperary 
lands,  late  the  estate  of  James  Butler,  but  his  petition 
was  dismist.  Another  James  Butler,  a  merchant, 
claimed  the  absolute  fee  of  various  lands  in  the 
County  of  Carlow,  forfeited  by  Viscount  Galmoy. 
John  Butler,  as  surviving  devisee  and  Executor  of 
Colonel  Walter  Butler  of  Garryricken,  claimed  and 
was  allowed  a  mortgage  afiecting  Tipperary  lands  of 

*  Burke's  Peerage,  p.  434. 

t  Singers  Correspondence  of  Lord  Clarendon. 

X  Rawdon  Papers,  p.  377. 


104  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Lord  Dunboyne ;  and  Walter  Butler  petitioned  for 
and  was  allowed  mortgages  affecting  Lord  Galmoy's 
estates  in  the  County  of  Kilkenny  ;  while  Theobald 
Butler,  *CounseUor  at  Law'  was  a  claimant  on  lands 
forfeited  by  'the  late  Lord  Clare.' 

The  name  of  this  last  claimant  is  entitled  to  especial 
notice,  deeply  and  influentially  as  he  was  projected  in 
the  affairs  of  the  period.  He  was  the  advising  Counsel 
in  all  the  negotiations  for  the  Capitulation  of 
Limerick,  and  an  executing  party  to  the  Civil  Arti- 
cles. Accordingly,  when,  in  violation  of  these  Arti- 
cles, the  "Act  against  the  further  growth  of  Popery" 
was  devised,  he,  with  Sir  Stephen  Rice  and  Coun- 
sellor Malone,  appeared  at  the  Bar  of  the  Irish  House 
of  Commons,  to  protest  against  its  provisions,  as  a 
direct  attempt  to  infringe  on  one  or  other  of  these 
Articles,  which  he  held  in  his  hand,  presented  to  the 
House,  and  commented  upon  with  thrilling  but  inef- 
fective eloquence.*  He  was  buried  in  St.  James's 
Churchyard,  Dublin,  the  great  Catholic  burial-place 
at  that  time  and  long  subsequently  ;  where,  in  the 
centre  of  that  graveyard,  a  tall  monument  was 
erected,  with  a  large  mural  slab  inserted,  and  in- 
scribed with  his  commemoration. 

Sir  Piers  Butler,  the  fourth  Viscount  Ikerrin,  was 
knighted  and  constituted  a  member  of  King  James's 
Council,  for  which  distinctions  and  his  services  to 
that  monarch  he  was  attainted,   but  afterwards  ob- 

*  Dr.  Curry  gives  full  notes  of  his  argiunents,  Hist.  Rev.  vii. 
pp.  237, 386  to  397. 


galmoy's  horse.  105 

tained  a  reversal  thereof,  and  in  October,  1698,  took 
his  seat  in  the  House  of  Peers. 

The  Abbe  Geoghegan,  in  his  Histoire  de  Vlrelande^ 
acknowledges  that  the  accounts  which  he  gave  of  this 
campaign  were  amongst  other  sources  derived  from  a 
journal  left  by  the  late  Edmund  Butler  of  Kilcop, 
who  was  Marshal-General  of  the  Cavalry  of  Ireland, 
and  was  the  more  worthy  of  credence  as  he  had  him- 
self seen  what  he  wrote  of.  He  died,  adds  the  Abbe, 
in  1725,  at  Saint  Germain-en-Laye,  Field  Marshal  of 
the  Cavalry  in  the  French  service.  On  the  first 
formation  of  the  Irish  Brigades  in  France,  this  Ed- 
mund Butler  was  a  Major  in  what  was  styled  the 
*  King's  Regiment ;'  while  the  above  Lord  Galmoy 
was  Colonel  of  the  '  Queen's  Own.'  Rene  de  Came, 
a  Frenchman,  was  his  Lieutenant-Colonel,  and  James 
Tobin  his  Major.  This  latter  Regiment  comprised 
two  squadrons,  four  companies,  six  Lieutenants,  and 
six  Comets.  For  the  services  of  this  Brigade  on  the 
Continent  in  1701,  and  the  succeeding  years,  see 
notices  ante^  page  24,  &c.,  at  Berwick's,  with  which  this 
co-operated.  In  the  movements  of  the  Italian  cam- 
paigns of  1703  and  1706,  Galmo/s  Regiment  was 
likewise  distinguished.*  In  1715,  it  was  drafted 
into  Dillon's. 

At  the  battle  of  Lauffield  in  1747,  Piers  Butler,  a 
Lieutenant  in  Lally's  Brigade,  was  badly  wounded ; 
while  another  Piers  Butler,  in  Bulkeley's,  was  taken 
prisoner.! 

•  See  O'Conor's  Military  Memoirs,  p.  234,  &c. 
t  Gent.  Mag.  ad  ann,  p.  377. 


106  RING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 


LIEUTENANT  COLONEL  LAURENCE 
DEMPSEY. 

The  O'Dempseys  were  Chiefs  of  Clan-MaoUughra 
(Glenmalira)  a  territory  extending  over  part  of  the 
King's  and  Queen's  Counties  ;  and,  on  the  Chancery 
RoUs  after  the  English  invasion,  are  recorded  sundry 
licenses  and  mandates  to  the  Lords-Lieutenant  of  Ire- 
land, to  treat  and  parley  with  the  sept  of  '  CDymsy.' 
When  Edward  the  Second  meditated  his  invasion 
of  Scotland  in  1314,  he  directed  a  special  letter  mis- 
sive to  '  Fyn   O'Dymsy,'  for  his  aid. Necessarily 

passing  over  remoter  annals  of  this  powerful  Irish 
sept,  it  appears  that  in  1615,  James  the  First 
directed  a  surrender  to  be  received  from  Terence 
O'Dempsey  of  premises  in  the  King's  and  Queen's 
Counties,  with  the  object  of  regranting  same  to  him 
in  tail  male,  remainder  in  tail  male  to  Dermot  Mac 
Hugh  O'Dempsey,  reversion  still  in  the  Crown.  The 
Clan  continued  Lords  of  this  their  recognised  terri- 
tory until  the  attainders  of  1641  and  1688  shook 
them  from  their  inheritance.  Those  denounced  on 
the  former  occasion  were  Lewis  Dempsey  of  Baskets- 
town,  Robert  of  Ballybeg,  James  of  Tully  (Clerk), 
Dominick  also  of  Tully,  Edmund  '  Dempsie'  of  Kil- 
dare,  and  Henry  Dempsy  of  Ballybrittas,  all  in  the 
County  of  Kildare. 

In  the  Assembly  of  Confederate  Catholics  at  Kil- 
kenny,  in    1646,    Edmund   O'Dempsey,    Bishop   of 


galmoy's  horse.    -  107 

Leighlin,  was  of  the  Spiritual  Peers ;  while  of  the 
Temporal  was  Lewis  O'Dempsey,  Viscount  '  Clanma- 
lier  ;'  and  Barnabas  Dempsey  of  Clonehork  was  of  the 
Commons.  Cromwell's  Act  of  1652  excepted  the 
above  Viscount  Lewis,  as  also  Lysagh  O'Dempsey  of 
the  King's  County,  from  pardon  for  life  and  estate  ; 
and  the  Declaration  of  Boyal  Gratitude,  promulgated 
in  the  Act  of  Settlement  (1662),  includes  only  an 
*  Ensign  Phelim  Dempsey.'  In  the  List  of  Pensions 
on  the  Irish  establishment,  1687-8,  appear  the  names 
of  Mrs.  Anne  Dempsey  for  £150,  and  of  Mr.  James 
Dempsey  for  £50  per  annum. 

Besides  Colonel  Laurence  Dempsey,  Thomas  Demp- 
sey is  in  this  Army  List  a  Lieutenant  in  Sarsfield's 
Horse ;  while  two  other  Colonels  of  the  name  were  in 
the  service,  though  not  in  this  List,  Lieutenant-Colonel 
Francis  Dempsey  (of  whom  hereafter),  and  Colonel 
James  ;  of  which  latter  the  Earl  of  Clarendon  writes 
to  Rochester,  in  January,  1685  : — "The  Providence 
is  cast  away  upon  the  coast  of  Carlingford,  and  but 
one  man  of  all  the  Company  saved.  In  her  were 
Colonel  Dempsey's  horses  and  servants,  and  all  his 
goods,  which,  I  doubt,  will  almost  undo  the  poor 
man.''*  And  again  writes  the  same  Earl : — "  I  have 
known  him  for  many  years,  and  always  for  a  man  of 
honour,  and  a  good  oflScer  ;  and  I  do  not  in  the  least 
doubt  his  integrity  and  sincerity."!     In  the  ensuing 

*  Singers  Correspondence  of  Clarendon,  v.  1,  p.  214. 
t  Idem,  V.  2,  p.    130. 


108  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

April,  this  Colonel  himself  arrived  in  Ireland.*  His 
name  will  be  found  included  in  the  subsequent  extract 
of  1688  outlawries. 

King  James's  Charters  of  1687  have  Charies 
Dempsey  a  burgess  in  that  to  Kildare,  and  James 
Dempsey,  the  Colonel,  in  that  to  Athy.  In  his  Par- 
liament of  1689  sat  Maximilian  O'Dempsey,  then 
Viscount  Clanmalier,  the  Great-grandson  of  Sir 
Terence  O'Dempsey,  who  was  knighted  in  May,  1599, 
by  Robert  Devereux,  Earl  of  Essex,  Lord  Lieu- 
tenant of  Ireland;  he  was  in  1631  created  Baron 
of  Philipstown  and  Viscount  Clanmalier,  and  died  in 
the  following  year.  His  son  and  heir,  Anthony ,f  was 
the  father  of  Lewis,  above  mentioned,  who  also  died 
in  1 683,  when  Maximilian,  the  Peer  of  King  James's 
parliament  succeeded.  This  Sovereign  constituted 
him  Lord  Lieutenant  of  the  Queen's  County. 

On  Sunday,  the  22nd  June,  1690,  (eight  days 
previous  to  the  battle  of  the  Boyne),  King  James 
gained  what  was  construed  an  omen  of  success,  in  a 
skirmish  with  a  detachment  of  his  Royal  rival's  forces, 
which  had  been  despatched  to  reconnoitre  what  lines 
of  march  would  be  most  advisable  for  King  William's 
advance  ;  and,  *'  it  being  observed,"  say  the  Royal 
Memoirs,  "  that  every  night  the  latter  sent  a  party 
to  a  pass  called  the  Half-way  Bridge,  to  press  a  guard 
of  Horse  and  Dragoons  which  King  James  had  there 
between  Dundalk  and  Newry,  this  King  ordered  out 

*  Singer's  Correspondence  of  Clarendon,  v.  1,  p.  341. 
t  Crossley's  Peerage,  p.  115. 


galmoy'3  horse.  109 

a  party  of  Horse  and  Foot,  under  the  command  of 
Colonel  Dempsey  and  Lieutenant-Colonel  Fitz-gerald, 
to  lie  in  ambuscade,  and  if  possible  to  surprise  them ; 
which  was  performed  with  such  success,  that  the 
enemy's  force  of  200  Foot  and  60  Dragoons  fell  into  it 
at  break  of  day,  and  were  most  of  them  cut  off ;  the 
four  captains  that  commanded  and  most  of  the  sub- 
alterns being  either  killed  or  taken  prisoners,  with 
the  loss  of  a  few  common  men.  On  the  King's  side, 
only  Colonel  Dempsey  himself  was  wounded ;  but  he 
died  in  two  or  three  days  after."  His  namesake. 
Viscount  Maximilian,  died  in  the  same  year  with  the 
Colonel,  S.  P.,  as  did  his  widow  (who  had  been  one  of 
the  co-heiresses  of  John  Bermingham  of  Dunfiert) 
within  a  few  years  after. — Lieutenant  Colonel  Francis 
distinguished  himself  in  the  defence  of  Limerick, 
where,  in  the  last  days  of  the  siege  (22nd  Sept. 
1691),  he,  together  with  Lieutenant-Colonel  Edward 
Hurley  and  Major  Matthew  French,  was  taken 
prisoner,  as  was  also  Colonel  James  Skelton,  who 
died  soon  aft«r  of  his  wounds.*  The  outlawries  of 
1691  exhibit  the  names  of  Laurence  Dempsey  of 
Drynanstown,  County  of  Kildare,  and  Colonel  James 
'  Dempsy  '  of  Moone,  in  said  County  ;  the  latter  for- 
feited a  moiety  of  the  manor  of  Moone  therein,  and 
upwards  of  300  acres  in  the  Barony  of  Moydow, 
County  of  Longford.  He  also  lost  on  his  attainder 
certain  interests  in  Meath,  off  which  his  widow,  Ho- 
nora  Dempsey,  and  his  daughter  Mary  sought  respec- 

*  Story's  Impartial  History,  part  2,  p.  225. 


110  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

tively  jointure  and  portion  at  the  Court  of  Claims,  but 
both  their  petitions  were  dismist.  Dr.  Mac  Dermott, 
in  his  notes  on  the  Four  Masters  (Geraghty's  Edition, 
p.  248),  suggests  that  Terence  O'Dempsey  of  this 
family  settled  in  Cheshire,  and  died  in  1769,  leaving 
issue  still  extant  in  or  about  Liverpool. — William 
Dempsey,  '  a  Roman  Catholic,'  one  of  the  state  prison- 
ers in  the  service  of  Prince  Charles-Edward,  was 
executed  at  York  in  1746.* 


CAPTAIN  LORD  BARON  TRIMLESTON. 

One  of  the  Knights  who  accompanied  the  Conqueror 
into  England  was  Le  Sieur  de  Barneville, 

Barneville  et  Berners, 

Cheyne  et  Chalers, 
as  old  Bromton  quaintly  links  the  Roll  of  that  warlike 
importation.  The  family  was  early  distinguished  in 
the  Crusades,  and  extended  itself  over  large  pos- 
sessions in  England.  At  the  commencement  of  the 
thirteenth  century,  Ulfran  de  Barneville  obtained 
estates  in  '  the  Vale  of  Dublin,'  which  his  posterity 
held  until  the  reign  of  James  the  First,  when  they 
were  granted  principally  to  Adam  Loftus.  In  the 
previous  annals  of  the  Pale,  this  family  was  much 
projected  ;  members  of  the  name  were  frequently  sum- 
moned  to  Parliaments  and  Great  Councils,  and  were 

*  Gent.  Mag.  v.  16,  p.  614. 


galmoy's  horse.  hi 

sdected  for  the  highest  judicial  situations.  In  1435, 
Christopher  Bamewall  of  Crickstown  was  appointed 
Chief  Justice  of  the  King's  Bench  in  Irelwid,  (his 
mother  was  daughter  of  the  celebrated  Lord  Fumi- 
val).  In  1461,  Nicholas  Bamewall  was  appointed 
Chief  Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas ;  he  was  the  lineal 
ancestor  of  the  present  Sir  Reginald  Aylmer  Barnewall, 
and  brother  to  Robert  Barnewall,  who  in  the  follow- 
ing year  was  constituted  a  Lord  of  Parliament  by 
the  above  title,  Baron  of  Trimleston,  to  hold  said 
dignity  in  tail  male.  In  1487,  Christopher,  the 
second  Lord,  was  one  of  the  Irish  magnates  who, 
deceived  by  the  pretensions  of  Lambert  Simnel,  as- 
sisted  at  his  coronation  in  Christ  Church,  Dublin  ;  but 
soon  after,  on  unreserved  submission,  he  received  his 
pardon.  In  1504,  this  Lord,  under  the  command  of 
the  Earl  of  Kildare,  then  Lord  Deputy  of  Ireland, 
defeated  the  Lord  of  Thomond,  Ulick  Burke,  O'Carrol, 
and  others  of  their  party  at  the  great  battle  of  Knock- 
tow,  near  Galway.*  In  1534,  John,  the  third  Baron 
of  Trimlestown,  was  raised  to  the  woolsack  ;  and  three 
years  afl«r  was  selected  to  open  a  parley  with  O'Neill, 
on  which  occasion  he  succeeded  in  making  peace. 

In  1563,  and  for  years  after.  Sir  Christopher 
Bamewall  of  Turvey  was  the  popular  leader  of  the 
Irish  Parliament ;  he  died  at  Turvey  in  1575, 
"the  lamp  and  light  as  well  of  his  house  as  of 
that  part  of  Ireland  wherein  he  dwelt ;  zealously 
bent  to  the  reformation  of  his  country  ;  measuring," 

*  D' Alton  s  Droghcda,  v.  2,  p.  181. 


112  KING  JAMES'8  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

adds  the   record,    "  all  his   affairs   with   the   safety 
of  conscience,   as  true  as  steel,   close  and  secret, 
fast  to  his  friend,  stout  in  a  good  quarrel,  a  great 
householder,  sparing  without  pinching,  spending  with- 
out wasting,  of  nature  mild,  rather  choosing  to  plea- 
sure  where  he  might  harm,  than  willing  to  harm  where 
he  might  pleasure."*     Within  the  old  church  of  Lusk, 
near  the  family   mansion  of  Turvey,  stood  a  noble 
monument  commemorative  of  him  and  his  Lady,  who 
afterwards   married   Sir  Lucas   Dillon   of  Moymet, 
County  of  Meath.     The  tomb  was  erected  in  a  section 
of  the  religious  house,  which,  since  the  Reformation, 
was  appropriated  for  the  service  of  the  Established 
Church.      Sir    Christopher    is    represented    on   the 
monument  in  a  rich  suit  of  armour,  his  head  bare, 
and  his  hands  joined  over  his  breast  in  a  devotion- 
al posture,  his  feet  resting  on  the  body  of  a  grey- 
hound.    His  Lady  lies  beside  him,  her  cap  round, 
her  ruffles  high,  her  gown  thickly  plaited  round  the 
waist,  puffed  on  the  shoulders,  and  richly  embroidered; 
her  petticoat  is  designed  as  of  cloth  of  gold,  and  from 
her  girdle  hangs  a  chain  of  superior  workmanship, 
to  which  is  appended  a  scapular  two  inches  square  ; 
at  her  feet,   which  can  scarcely  be  distinguished,  is 
placed  a  lapdog.     Her  hands,  like  those  of  her  bus- 
band,  are  crossed  devoutly  on  her  bosom,  and  the 
head  of  each  reposes  on  an  embroidered  pillow  :  the 
sides  are  sculptured  with  armorials  of  the  Dillons  and 

*  Annals  of  the  Four  Masters. 


galmoy's  horse.  118 

BamewaJls.*  The  whole  of  this  fine  piece  of  sculp- 
ture was  smothered  up  since  the  Refonnation,  by  the 
steps  and  platform  into  a  pulpit,  which  rested  on  the 
&ce  of  the  monument,  and  were  so  when  the  work 
cited  below  was  drawn  up.  A  new  church  has  been 
since  erected,  and  the  monument  now  stands  relieved 
of  the  disfiguring  woodwork,  outside  the  walls  of  the 
new  edifice,  but  perhaps  not  less  exposed  to  mutilation 
and  decay. 

In  the  Parliament  convened  by  Sir  John  Perrot, 
which  the  native  chiefe  were  first  invited  to  attend, 
Lord  Trimleston  sat  as  a  Baron,  while  John  Bamewall 
was  one  of  the  Representatives  for  Drogheda,  Robert 
Barnewall  for  Ardee,  and  Richard  Bamewall  for  the 
County  of  Meath.  In  1605,  Sir  Patrick  Bamewall, 
the  active  agent  of  the  Recusants,  was,  on  account  of 
his  zeal  in  their  service,  sent  over  to  London,  and 
committed  to  the  Tower.f  At  the  hill  of  Crofty, 
where  the  Civil  war  of  1641  first  broke  out,  on  the 
summons  of  Lord  Gormanston,  who  had  taken  an 
active  part  in  the  politics  of  the  day.  Lord  Trimleston, 
five  other  Peers  of  the  Pale,  Sir  Patrick  Barnewall, 
and  Patrick  Bamewall  of  Kilbrae,  with  one  thousand 
others  of  its  leading  gentry,  were,  according  to 
a  preconcerted  arrangement,  there  met  by  Roger 
Moore  and  others,  the  leaders  of  the  Ulster  move- 
ment, attended  by  a  detachment  of  their  forces ;  when 
an  interesting  parley  took  place,  which  may  be  seen 
as  below  referred  to.J      It  was  then  that,  affecting  a 

•  D'Alton's  Co.  Dub.  p.  415.  f  Idem,  p.  306. 

t  D'Alton's  Hist.  Drogheda,  v.  2,  p.  457. 

I 


114  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

show  of  confidence  in  these  Palesmen,  the  Lords  Just- 
ices and  Council  directed  a  commission  for  the 
government  of  the  County  of  Dublin,  to  Nicholas 
Bamewall,  who  was  of  the  Turvey  line,  and  repre- 
sented that  County  in  the  Parliament  of  1639. 

On  the  attainders  of  1642,  are  the  names  of  Mat- 
thew Bamewall  of  Bremore,  County  of  Dublin  ;  Sir 
Richard  Bamewall  and  Christopher  Bamewall  of 
Creekstown,  County  of  Meath  ;  William  of  Stephens- 
town  ;  George  of  Seneschalstown,  County  of  Wicklow ; 
Richard  and  Francis  of  Lis^wbel,  County  of  Dublin  ; 
Andrew  Bamewall  of  Lusk,  Andrew  of  Kilbrue, 
Richard  of  Trimlestown,  Simon  of  Cooledarry,  Rich- 
ard and  Robert  of  Rossetown,  James  of  Rathregan, 
George  of  Spracklestown,  County  of  Meath,  and 
Gerald  of  Robertstown,  ditto.  Amongst  the  Con- 
federates of  Kilkenny  in  1646  were  George  Bame- 
wall of  Creekstown,  Henry  Bamewall  of  Castle- 
rickard,  James  and  Sir  Richard  Bamewall  of  Creeks- 
town. This  last  was  denounced  by  Cromwell's  Act 
of  1652,  and  transplanted  into  Connaught ;  but  the 
Act  of  Settlement  provided  for  the  restoration  of  his 
estates,  as  also  for  those  of  Lord  Trimleston,  who  had 
been  likewise  denounced  by  Cromwell.  These  two 
Baraewalls  were  included  in  the  Royal  Thanks'  clause 
of  that  statute. 

In  King  James's  Charters,  John  Bamewall  was 
named  Recorder  of  Dublin,  Matthew  Bamewall  one 
of  its  Aldermen,  and  Nicholas  a  Burgess.  Richard 
was  a  Burgess  in  that  to  Carysfort ;  while  in  that 


oalmoy's  horse.  115 

to  Swords,  Lord  Kingslainl  headed  tlie  Koll,  and 
Robert,  Richard,  James,  and  Nicholas  Barnewall 
were  named  Burgesses.  Loi-d  Trimleston  was  at 
the  head  of  the  Municipal  Roll  of  Trim,  on  which 
Francis  and  Nicholas  Barnewall  were  subsequently 
named  Burgesses.  In  that  to  Kells,  Francis  Barne- 
wall was  a  Burgess,  and  James  in  that  to  Mary- 
borough. These  two  Lords,  Trimleston  and  Kings- 
land,  sat  amongst  the  Peers  in  the  Parliament  of 
1689  ;  while  in  the  Commons,  Francis  Barnewall  of 
Woodpark,  County  of  Meath,  was  one  of  the  Repre- 
sentatives of  the  Borough  of  Swords  ;  as  was  Sir 
Patrick  Barnewall  one  for  the  County  of  Meath.  In 
the  Pension  List  of  1687-8,  the  name  of  Lonl  Trim- 
leston appears  for  a  pension  of  £100  per  annum, 
which  may  explain  the  occurrence  of  this  represent- 
ative of  so  ancient  a  family  being  but  a  Captain  in 
the  Regiment.  In  the  Royal  Infantry,  William 
Fitz-William  Barnewall  was  a  Lieutenant,  while  Ro- 
bert Barnewall  was  an  Ensign.  In  FitzJames's, 
James  Barnewall  was  a  Lieutenant ;  in  the  Earl  of 
Westmeath's,  Miles  was  an  Ensign  ;  and  in  Tyi-con- 
nel's,  as  shown  before,  George  and  Nicholas  Barnewall 
were  Lieutenants.  At  the  siege  of  Derry,  a  Captain 
and  an  Ensign  Barnewall  were  killed.* 

The  attainders  of  1691  include  Matthew,  I^)rd 
Trimleston,  by  three  Inquisitions,  one  in  Meath  and 
two  in  Kildare  ;  Patrick  and  Richard  Barnewall  of 
Newcastle,  County  of  Meath  ;  Matthew  of  Archers- 

♦  Walker's  Derry,  p.  61. 

1  2 


116  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

town  and  Cruiserath  ;  Henry  of  Kilmainham, 
Dominick  and  Sylvester  of  Arrolstown,  Christopher 
of  Portlester  and  Moylough,  Bartholomew  and  Patrick 
of  Crickstown,  Simon  and  Patrick  of  Kilbrue,  Nicholas 
of  Begstown,  James  of  Dunbro',  George  Bamewall 
(son  of  the  Countess  Dowager  of  Fingal)  of  Westown ; 
John  of  Dublin,  Knight ;  Robert  Bamewall  of  Dublin, 
Alderman ;  Nicholas  Bamewall  of  Dublin,  merchant ; 
and  George  of  Rathesker,  County  of  Louth. 

At  the  Court  of  Claims,  Bridget  Bamewall  claimed 
a  rent-charge  on  Trimlestown  ;  Thomasina  Bamewall, 
alias  Preston,  claimed  an  estate  in  fee  in  King's 
County  lands,  forfeited  by  Sir  John  Bamewall ;  Eliza 
Bamewall,  dower  off  all  the  lands  forfeited  by  Matthew 
Bamewall ;  Cicely  Bamewall,  alias  Hussey,  widow, 
jointure  off  forfeitures  of  Dominick  Bamewall.  On  the 
latter  forfeitures,  John  Bamewall  claimed  interests  on 
behalf  of  himself  and  five  children  of  his  second 
brother ;  his  claims  were,  however,  dismist ;  while 
John  Bamewall,  "  called  Lord  Trimleston,"  claimed 
and  was  allowed  a  remainder  in  tail  on  Trimlestown, 
forfeited  by  Matthias,  Lord  Trimlestown,  subject  to  a 
claim  of  Mary  Bamewall  for  a  portion. 

On  the  formation  of  the  Irish  Brigade  in  France, 
Alexander  Bamewall  was  constituted  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  in  Lord  Clare's  *  Queen's  Dismounted  Dra- 
goons,' *  while,  about  the  same  time.  Lord  Tiimleston 
had  three  sons  in  foreign  service,  Thomas  in  France, 
James  in   Spain,    and    Anthony,    who    went    into 

*  O^Conor^s  Military  Memoirs,  p.  198. 


galmot's  horse.  117 

Germany  at  the  age  of  seventeen,  in  General  Hamil- 
ton's Regiment  of  Cuirassiers.  He  was  engaged  in 
every  battle  against  the  Turks  until  cut  down  at  the 
battle  of  Critzka  in  1739. 

In  1745,  amongst  the  adherents  of  the  Stuart 
dynasty,  who  were  crossing  the  sea  for  the  expedition 
into  Scotland,  Lieutenant  George  Bamewall,  of 
Berwick's  Regiment,  was  taken  prisoner  off  Montrose, 
on  board  the  *  Louis  the  Fifteenth,'  by  the  *  Milford ;' 
as  was  another  Lieutenant  Bamewall  on  board  the 
Charit^,  in  1746.  Lieutenants  William,  Edward, 
and  Basil  Bamewall  were  also  captured  at  sea,  being 
enrolled  in  the  same  service.  At  the  battle  of  Lauf- 
field,  in  1747,  Captain  Bryan  Bamewall,  being  then 
in  Clare's  Regiment,  was  killed ;  while  in  Berwick's, 
Captains  Edward  and  Thomas  Bamewall  were  badly 
wounded.*  In  1795,  Lord  Trimleston,  father  of  the 
present  Peer,  obtained  an  absolute  reversal  of  the  out- 
lawry which  affected  the  title  in  his  line. 


[  CAPTAIN  DENIS  O'KELLT.  ] 

Tms  young  officer  was,  as  particularly  noted  in  Mr. 
O'Callaghan's  ably  edited  Exddium  Macarioe^  the 
son  and  heir  of  Colonel  Charles  O'Kelly  of  Screen, 
County  of  Galway,  the  author  of  that  work.  That 
fisither  was  the  eldest  son  of  John  O'Kelly,  bom  in 
1621,  educated  at  St.  Omer ;  and  when,  in  twenty 

*  G«nt.  Mag.,  ad  ann.j  p.  377. 


118  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

years  after,  the  great  Civil  war  broke  out,  he  was 
called  over  to  Ireland  to  support  the  Royal  cause,  he, 
by  his  services  on  that  momentous  occasion,  so 
deeply  incurred  the  odium  and  hostility  of  the  usurp- 
ing power,  that  in  prudence  he  expatriated  himself 
to  Spain,bringing  with  him  thither  two  thousand  of  his 
countrymen.  In  that  country  he  for  a  time  served 
the  interest  of  Charles  the  Second,  whom  he  after- 
wards followed  to  France,  where  a  Kegiment  was 
formed  chiefly  of  his  own  officers  and  Irish  soldiers, 
and  which  he  was  commissioned  to  command.  Thence 
he  returned  to  Spain,  on  Charles  being  obliged  to  seek 
protection  there  ;  and  remained  in  the  latter  country 
until  the  Restoration,  when  he  came  to  live  in 
England.  In  1674,  on  the  death  of  his  father,  (said 
John  O'Kelly)  he  succeeded  to  the  family  estate  of 
Screen.  In  the  new  Charter  of  1687,  granted  to 
Athlone  by  James  the  Second,  this  Charles  O'Kelly 
was  nominated  one  of  the  Burgesses  ;  and,  in  the 
Parliament  of  1689,  he  sat  as  one  of  the  members  for 
the  County  of  Roscommon.  In  the  summer  of  that 
year,  he  was  commissioned  to  raise  a  Regiment  of  In- 
fantry for  King  James,  to  be  commanded  by  himself, 
with  his  brother  John,  (who  was  at  the  same  time  one 
of  the  Representatives  of  the  Borough  of  Roscommon) 
as  his  Lieutenant-Colonel.  His  Regiment  does  not 
appear  in  this  Army  List,  nor  was  it  long  kept  up  ; 
but  Colonel  Charles's  eldest  son,  the  above  Denis,  was 
transferred  to  Lord  Galmoy's  Horse,  as  above.  When 
affairs  in  Ulster  wei^e  beginning  to  wear  an  untoward 


galmoy's  horse.  119 

aspect,  Colonel  Charles,  though  then  sixty-eight  years 
of  age,  was  selected  by  Brigadier  Sarsfield  to  oppose 
the  enemy  in  Connaught,  with  such  force  of  the 
country  militia  as  he  could  collect.  With  this  object, 
he  advanced  to  Boyle,  but  was  there  overthrown  with 
considerable  loss  by  Colonel  Thomas  Lloyd,  popularly 
styled  "  the  little  Cromwell."  Story  says,*  that  the 
Colonel  was  here  taken  prisoner,  "  with  forty  more 
officers  and  a  body  of  about  8,000  cattle."  From 
that  period  certainly  no  mention  is  made  of  him  or 
any  of  his  family,  until  the  battle  of  Aughrim,  where 
the  horse  of  this  Captain  Denis  was  shot  under  him. 
After  the  surrender  of  Galway,  when  the  attention  of 
King  William's  Brigadier  was  directed  to  the  Isle  of 
Boffin,  then  held  with  a  garrison  for  King  James  by 
Colonel  Timothy  Reyrdon  (O'Rierdon)  as  its  go- 
vernor, and  its  capitulation  was  necessitated,  one  of 
the  articles  prescribed  that  Lieutenant-Colonel  John 
Kelly,  and  all  the  inhabitants  of  said  island,  shall 
possess  and  enjoy  their  estates,  as  held  under  the  Act 
of  Settlement ;  and  the  said  Lieutenant-Colonel,  and 
Captain  Richard  Martin,  were  given  as  sureties  for 
the  due  ratification  thereof.  After  its  surrender  he 
retired  to  his  family  residence,  where  he  devoted  his 
remaining  years  to  literature  and  religion,  his  first 
patriotic  labour  having  been  the  Excidiu7n  Macarice^ 
often  cited  herein.  The  family  estates  of  this  branch 
of  the  O'Kellys  were  secured  by  the  Treaty  of  Lime- 
rick ;  and  consequently,  on  the  death  of  the  Colonel, 

*  Impartial  History,  part  1,  p.  25. 


120  KINO  James's  irish  army  list. 

which  took  place  in  1695,  Captain  Denis  succeeded 
to  it.  Under  a  suspicion  of  being  concerned  in  a  plot 
to  restore  the  House  of  Stuart,  he  was  committed  to 
the  Tower  in  1722  ;  but,  by  an  order  of  Council,  was 
admitted  to  bail  in  the  following  year  ;  and,  appear- 
ing upon  his  recognizance  within  a  few  months  after, 
was  fully  discharged.  He  had  married  in  1702  Lady 
Mary  Bellew,  daughter  of  Lord  Bellew  and  niece  to 
Lord  Strafford,  by  whom  he  had  a  son,  Thomas 
O'Kelly,  born  in  1704  ;  and  daughters.  This  son 
died  in  1704.  His  father  survived  to  1740,  when 
with  him  the  male  line  of  Colonel  O'Kelly  became 
extinct.  Denis  Henry  Kelly  of  Castle  Kelly  is  the 
lineal  male  descendant  of  John  O'Kelly,  before  men- 
tioned as  having  been  the  brother  of  Colonel  Charles. 

Amongst  the  O'Kellys  attainted  in  1642  were 
William  O'Kelly  of  Adamstown,  and  Shaun  O'Kelly 
of  Ballaghmoon,  County  of  Kildare  ;  John  Kelly  of 
Trimbleston,  Richard  of  Pasloeston,  Matthew  and 
James  of  Lusk,  Bartholomew  Kelly  and  James  Kelly 
the  younger  of  Lusk,  Thomas  O'Kelly  of  Ballyowen, 
in  the  County  of  Dublin,  and  William  Kelly  of 
Allenstown,  County  of  Meath. — Of  the  Confederate 
Catholics  at  Kilkenny,  were  Daniel  O'Kelly  of  Colan- 
geere  and  John  O'Kelly  styled  of  Corbeg. 

The  Act  of  Settlement  provided  that  Colonel  John 
Kelly  of  Serine  should  be  restored  to  his  estate  ;  and 
the  clause  declaratory  of  Royal  gratitude  for  services 
beyond  the  seas,  includes  the  names  of  Ensign  Kelly 
and  Captain  Charles  Kelly  of  Serine. 


galmoy's  horse.  121 

In  1686,  John  O'KeUy  of  Clonlyon,  the  before- 
mentioned  brother  of  Colonel  Charles  (ancestor  of  the 
Castle  Kelly  line,  as  well  as  of  that  which  settled  in 
France,  known  as  Counts  O'Kelly  Farrell),  was  She- 
riff of  Galway,  as  was  Edward  Kelly  of  Dublin  in 
the  following  year.  This  Edward  was  a  Burgess 
in  the  new  Charter  to  Dublin  ;  Robert  in  that  to 
Carlow ;  Colonel  Charles,  Laurence,  and  Edmund 
OTCelly  were  Burgesses  in  that  to  Athlone ;  while 
Thomas  O'Kelly  was  Bailiff  therein  ;  John  was  a 
Burgess  in  that  to  Tuam,  Denis  in  that  to  Athenry, 
Daniel  in  Boyle,  Hugh  in  Castlebar  ;  and  in  that  to 
Roscommon,  Charles,  John,  Edmund,  and  Hugh  Kelly 
were  Burgesses ;  the  Milesian  *  0'  being  omitted 
in  many  instances. 

On  the  present  Army  List,  besides  Captain  Denis 
Kelly  in  this  Regiment,  John  Kelly  was  Quarter- 
Master  to  Lord  Galmoy's  own  troop  therein  ;  Bryan 
Kelly  was  Lieutenant  in  Colonel  Henry  Luttrell's 
Horse  ;  Thomas  Kelly  a  Comet  in  Lord  Dongan's 
Dragoons ;  Constant  Kelly  a  Quarter-Master  in  the 
Regiment  of  Sir  Neill  O'NeiU.  In  the  Earl  of 
Chuiricarde's  Infantry,  Teigue  O'Kelly  was  Lieute- 
nant, and  Bryan  and  William  Kelly  Ensigns.  In 
Lord  Galway's  Foot,  William  Kelly  was  a  Lieutenant. 
In  Lord  Slane's,  Richard  Kelly  was  a  Captain  ;  Mau- 
rice Kelly  was  a  Lieutenant  in  Sir  Maurice  Eustace's. 
In  Lord  Boffin's,  Hugh  Kelly  was  an  Ensign.  In 
Colonel  O'Gara's,  Daniel  and  John  Kelly  were  Cap- 
tains, and  another  Daniel  Kelly  an  Ensign.     In  Sir 


122  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

Michael  Creagh's,  George  Kelly  was  an  Ensign  ;  as 
was  Hugh  Kelly  in  Colonel  Reward  Oxburgh's.  A 
Lieutenant  Kelly  was  killed  at  the  siege  of  Derry  ;* 
and  in  the  list  of  general  and  field  officers  taken  at 
the  battle  of  Aughrim,  a  Major  Kelly  is  particularly 
noticed.f 

The  attainders  of  1691  comprise  John  Kelly  of 
Athlone,  Laurence  of  Dunavally,  Charles  and  John 
of  Athlone,  Edward  of  Athlone,  merchant ;  Thomas  of 
Clonbrush ;  Hubert  of  Waterstown,  County  of  Car- 
low  ;  Constantine  of  Old  Leighlin,  County  of  Carlow  ; 
Nicholas  of  Gowran,  County  of  Kilkenny  ;  Garrett 
of  Cadamstown,  County  of  Kildare,  and  of  Ross, 
County  of  Wexford  ;  Patrick  O'Kelly  of  the  County 
of  Down  ;  Hugh  Kelly  of  Drumballyryny,  ditto ; 
Thaddeus  O'Kelly  of  Bolies,  ditto  ;  William  Kelly  of 
Coolenbrack,  Queen's  County  ;  Terence  and  Thomas 
of  Ballyrahin,  ditto  ;  John  and  Dominick  Kelly  of 
Gort ;  Loughlin  Kelly  of  Ardgool,  County  of  Mayo, 
clerk ;  Bryan  Kelly  of  the  County  of  Galway ;  Oli- 
ver of  Fidane,  ditto ;  Philip  Kelly  of  Waterford  ; 
Laurence  Kelly  of  the  County  of  Roscommon  ;  Far- 
gus  Kelly  of  ditto  ;  and  James  Kelly  of  the  County 
of  Galway. 

At  the  Court  of  Claims,  in  1700,  Timothy  Kelly 
claimed  a  fee  in  County  of  Roscommon  lands,  forfeited 
by  Hugh  Kelly, — dismist ;  John  Kelly  petitioned 
for  a  leasehold  interest  in  the  County  of  Galway,  for- 

♦  Walker's  Derry,  p.  60. 

t  Story's  Impartial  History,  part  2,  p.  137. 


galmot's  horse.  123 

feited  by  the  Earl  of  Clanricarde, — dismist ;  William 
Kelly  and  Clare  his  wife  sought  to  recover  a  jointure 
off  lands  in  the  Counties  of  Galway  and  Roscommon, 
forfeited  by  Laurence  Kelly, — dismist ;  while  in  the 
latter  lands  Francis  and  Margaret '  Kelley,'  minors, 
claimed  by  their  guardians  certain  remainders, — dis- 
allowed.  Mary  Kelly  claimed  and  was  allowed  her 
jointure  off  Roscommon  lands  forfeited  by  Fargus 
Kelly.  Denis  Kelly  claimed  a  leasehold  in  County 
of  Roscommon  lands, — disallowed.  Edmund  Kelly,  as 
son,  heir,  and  administrator  of  Colonel  Edmund  Kelly, 
claimed  and  was  allowed  a  freehold  in  County  of 
Galway  lands  forfeited  by  Lord  Viscount  Galmoy. 
John  Kelly,  Junior,  by  John  Kelly  his  father,  sought 
a  remainder  for  years  in  Roscommon  lands  forfeited 
by  Loughlin  Kelly  ;  while  John,  son  of  Daniel  Kelly, 
claimed  and  was  allowed  the  fee  of  said  lands.  Hugh 
Kelly  of  Cultraghbeg  claimed  the  fee  thereof,  forfeited 
by  Hugh  Kelly  of  Ballyforan  ;  but  his  petition  was 
dismissed.  Bryan  Kelly  claimed,  as  surviving  bro- 
ther of  Hugh  Kelly,  who  was  heir  of  Loughlen  Kelly, 
an  equity  of  redemption  affecting  Galway  lands  for- 
feited  by  John,  son  and  heir  of  Edmund  Kelly. 
Hugh  Kelly,  a  minor,  claimed  and  was  allowed  a 
remainder  in  tail  in  Galway  lands  forfeited  by  Hugh 
Kelly  of  Ballyforan  ;  while  Bryan  Kelly,  as  eldest 
son  of  said  Hugh,  claimed  and  was  allowed  an  estate 
tail  in  said  lands,  which  comprised  Ballyforan,  &c.; 
and  Mary  Kelly,  alias  Donnelan,  claimed  jointure  off 
Galway  lands  forfeited  by  Edmund  Kelly, — dismist. 


124  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

So  much  has  been  published  concerning  this  ancient 
Irish  sept  in  Burke's  Landed  Gentry,  and  in  the  *  Hy 
Maine'  of  the  Irish  Archaeological  Society,  that  it 
would  not  be  justifiable  to  transfer  their  details  to 
these  pages.  It  may  be  remarked,  however,  that  the 
Chancery  Records  yet  fiirther  illustrate  the  annals, 
possessions,  and  lineage  of  this  family,  even  from  the 
year  (1314)  when  Edward  the  Second  directed  his 
special  missive  to  Gilbert  O'Kelly,  *I>uci  Hibemi- 
corum  de  O'Many.'*  Of  their  continental  reputation 
it  may  be  noticed  as  a  fragment,  that,  in  1699,  Wil- 
liam O'Kelly,  *  bom  in  the  parish  of  Aughrim,'obtained 
from  the  Emperor  Leopold  the  chairs  of  Philosophy, 
History,  and  Heraldry,  with  many  other  honours.f — 
In  1747,  Lieutenant  William  Kelly,  of  Lally's  Regi- 
ment,  was  one  of  the  wounded  at  the  battle  of  Lauf- 
field. 


LIEUTENANT  MATTHEW  COOKE. 

This  officer  is  described  in  the  Inquisition  taken  on 
his  attainder  as  of  Painstown,  County  of  Carlow. 
George  Cooke,  a  Quarter-master  in  the  same  com- 
pany of  this  Regiment,  was,  it  may  be  presumed,  a 
relative  of  Matthew.  The  only  individual  of  the 
name  outlawed  in  1642,  was  Thomas  Cooke,  de- 
scribed as  *  of  Beldoyle.'  Other  Cookes,  projected  to 
notice  about  this  time,  were  John  Cooke,  a  Justice 

♦  Rymer  s  Foedera.  f  Ware's  Writers,  p.  287. 


GALMOT'fi  HORSE.  125 

of  the  Bench  during  the  Commonwealth ;  and  Colonel 
Creorge  Cooke,  whose  relict  and  children  the  Act  of 
Settlement  confirmed  in  their  estate.     It  also  saved 

the  right  of Cook,  an  infant,  *  grandchild  to 

Sir  John  Cook,'  in  lands  of  Feartry,  County  of  Wick- 
low.  In  King  James's  Charter  to  Carlow,  William 
Cook  was  a  Burgess,  as  was  Peter  Cook  in  that  to 
Fethard.  Amongst  those  attainted  in  1691  were 
Marcus  Cooke  of  Cradany,  the  above  Matthew  of 
PainstoWn,  County  of  Carlow,  and  John  Cooke  of 
Ballyhaurigan,  County  of  Kerry.  On  these  lands  of 
Painstown,  with  which  Lieutenant  Matthew  was  so 
connected,  William  Cooke  was  a  claimant  for  the  fee 
under  a  conveyance  of  1684,  witnessed  by  the  said 
Matthew,  and  of  which  the  late  proprietor  was  Dud- 
ley Bagnall.  His  claim  was  allowed,  as  was  also 
that  of  Thomas  Cooke  for  the  fee  of  forfeited  lands  in 
the  County  of  Cork. 


LIEUTENANT  GEORGE  GERNON. 

The  name  of  Gremon  appears  of  Irish  record  and 
history  from  a  very  early  period.  When  Edward 
Bruce  invaded  Ireland  in  1315,  Roger  Gemon  and 
John  Gemon  his  brother  were  of  the  King's  lieges 
who  vigorously  opposed  his  incursion.  Early  in  the 
reign  of  Edward  the  Third,  the  said  Roger  and  John, 
styled  of  Killingcoole,  were  summoned  to  attend  John 
D'Arcy,  the  Irish  Justiciary,  with  arms  and  horses  in 


126  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

his  expedition  to  Scotland  ;  the  latter  (John)  Ger- 
non  was  in  eight  years  after  (1344)  appointed  a 
Justice  of  the  Bench,  while  in  1374  Roger  (Jernon  was 
constituted  a  Baron  of  Parliament  by  writ.* 

The  George  Gernon  here  under  consideration  was, 
as  described  in  his  outlawry,  of  Dunany  in  the 
County  of  Louth,  a  locality  more  anciently  included 
in  Gemonstown  ;  and  was  also  seized  of  estates  in 
the  County  of  Roscommon,  the  fee  of  which  was 
claimed  before  the  Court  at  Chichester  House  in 
1703,  by  Edward  Gernon,  who  appears  to  have  been 
his  son.  George  Gernon  was  one  of  the  Catholics 
admitted  to  the  freedom  of  Drogheda  under  the  new 
Charter  of  1685.  In  that  to  Drogheda  Hugh  and 
Bartholomew  Gernon  were  Aldermen,  and  in  that  to 
Ardee  James  Gernon  was  named  Provost,  Hugh  Ger- 
non a  Burgess,  and  Thomas  Gernon  Town-clerk. 
Martin  Gernon  was  one  of  the  Burgesses  in  that  to 
Belfast.  Hugh,  the  Burgess  of  Ardee,  was  one  of  its 
Representatives  in  the  Parliament  of  1689. 

But  one  other  of  the  name  appears  on  this  Muster 
Roll,  a  John  Gernon,  who  also  was  a  Lieutenant  in 
Colonel  Cormuck  O'NeiU's  Infantry. 

The  outlawries  of  1691,  besides  that  of  Lieutenant 
George,  record  the  names  of  Nicholas  Gernon,  of  Ju- 
lianstown.  County  of  Meath,  who  died  at  the  close  of 
the  year  1689  ;t  Hugh  Gernon  of  Ardee  and  Killing, 
cool,  Thomas  Gernon  of  Dublin,   George^  as  *  son   of 

♦  Burke's  Ext.  Peer.  p.  708. 

t  Inqmsition,  3  Will.  &  Mary,  in  Cane.  Hib. 


galmoy's  horse.  127 

Roger'  G^mon  of  Dunany,  Bartholomew  of  Drogheda, 
Patrick  and  Edward  also  of  Dunany,  Richard  of  Sta- 
bannon,  Martin  of  Crookedstone,  and  Nicholas  of 
Clough,  County  of  Antrim.  The  greater  part  of  the 
Gernon  estates  were  granted  in  1694  to  Colonel 
Henry  Baker,  who  did  such  service  for  King  William 
at  Derry.  The  claims  at  Chichester  House  were, 
Patrick  Gemon's  for  a  remainder  in  tail  in  Killing- 
coole  and  other  Louth  lands  forfeited  by  Hugh 
Gremon  ;  and  his  claim  was  allowed  ;  Edward  Ger- 
non's  for  a  similar  remainder  in  Dromisken  and  other 
Louth  lands  forfeited  by  Nicholas  Gernon  ;  but  his 
claim  was  not  allowed.  The  above  Martin  Gernon 
of  Crookedstone  claimed  various  interests  affecting 
the  lands  of  Sir  Neill  O'Neill  in  Antrim  ; — petition 
dismist. 


LIEUTENANT  PATRICK  KEARNEY. 

O'DuGAN,  in  his  Topography  of  Ireland,  locates  the 
sept  of  O'Keamey  in  that  part  of  Meath  ( Westmeath) 
called  Teffia.  A  clan  of  the  name  is  placed  near 
Kinsale  in  the  County  of  Cork  on  Ortelius's  map, 
and  they  also  appear  to  have  been  territorial  in  the 
Baronies  of  Tulla  and  Bunratty,  County  of  Clare. 
The  elder  family  of  this  name,  those  of  Teffia,  took 
the  cognomen  of  Sionnach  (Fox),  by  which  English 
appellation  one  of  the  family  got  the  title  of  Baron 
of  Eilcoursey  in  the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth.     In 


128  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

1095,  Carbrie  ^O'Kerny'  was  Bishop  of  Fems.  In 
1198,  Giolla  Criost  'O'Ceamey'  was  elected  Abbot  of 
Derrj-Columb-kille,  '  by  the  Chiefe  and  Clergy  of  the 
Nortii  of  Ireland;'  he  was  afterwards  appointed 
Bishop  of  Connor,  to  which  See  James  O'Kemy  was 
appointed  Bishop  in  1324.     In  1571,  a  John  Kemy 

is  remembered  as  one  who,  in  connection  with 

Walsh,  then  Chancellor  of  St.  Patrick's  Cathedral, 
Dublin,  first  introduced  Irish  types,  and  was  himself 
author  of  the  earliest  catechism  printed  in  that  lan- 
guage.    About  the  year  1601  he  died. 

This  Lieutenant  Patrick  appears,  from  an  ancient 
pedigree  in  the  Trinity  College  Collection  (F.  iii.  27), 
to  have  been  of  a  Tipperary  branch  of  this  family  ; 
thus  :  Daniel  Kearney  of  Ballyknock  in  that  County, 
in  the  middle  of  the  sixteenth  century,  married  Alice, 
daughter  of  William  Butler ;  his  grandson  Patrick 
Kearney  married  Ellen,  daughter  of  Teigue  *  Cur- 
rane'  of  Mohernan  in  the  same  County,  and  died  in 
1641  at  the  advanced  age  of  eighty.  His  son,  Brien 
Kearney,  whom  Patrick  survived,  left  two  sons, 
Donogh  and  Edmund  :  the  eldest,  Donogh,  married 
Alice,  daughter  of  Patrick  Comerford  of  Modeshill, 
in  the  same  County,  and  had  by  her  three  sons, 
Patrick,  (the  above  Lieutenant,  as  it  is  surmised), 
Michael,  and  Nicholas,  and  a  daughter. 

The  attainders  of  1642  present  but  William  Ker- 
ney  of  Wicklow,  while  amongst  the  Confederate 
Catholics  of  Kilkenny  was  only  James  O'Keamey  of 
Ballyluskey.     In  1685,   Sir  Richard  'Carney'  was 


galmoy's  horse.  129 

Ulster  King  of  Arms.  In  the  New  Charters  of  King 
James  that  immediately  succeeded,  John  Kearney 
was  Town  Clerk  in  that  to  Dublin,  as  also  in  that  to 
Carlow.  Thomas  Kearney  was  appointed  Sovereign 
in  that  to  Kilmallock,  in  which  a  Patrick  Kearney 
was  a  Burgess.  Denis  Kearney  was  a  Burgess  in  that 
to  Fethard,  while  a  Patrick  Kearney  was  Recorder  and 
Town  Clerk.  Philip  Kearney  was  Town  Clerk  in 
that  to  Blessington,  Denis  Kearney  in  that  to  Tho- 
mastown  ;  and  in  the  Charter  to  Cashel  Patrick 
Kearney  was  named  an  Alderman,  while  Edmund, 
John,  Paul  senior,  and  Paul  junior  were  Burgesses 
therein.  In  the  Parliament  of  Dublin  (1689)  Dennis 
Kearney  was  one  of  the  Representatives  of  the  Bo- 
rough of  Cashel. 

A  few  months  before  the  battle  of  the  Boyne,  King 
James  appointed  Patrick  Kearney  to  the  office  of 
*  Comptroller  of  the  Pipe  and  second  Engrosser  of  the 
Great  Roll  of  the  Pipe  of  the  Exchequer  of  Ireland.*' 
In  this  Army  List,  a  Michael  Kearney  was  a  Lieute- 
nant in  Colonel  Purcell's  Horse,  and  he  would  seem 
to  be  the  second  son  of  Donogh  by  Alice  Comerford, 
and  brother  to  Lieutenant  Patrick.  It  is  mentioned 
in  King  James's  Memoirs  that,  before  Schomberg  had 
landed  in  Ireland,  a  Sir  Charles  'Carney'  was  by 
order  of  that  King  stationed  at  Coleraine  with  one  or 
two  Regiments,  and  another  higher  up  upon  the  Ban 
water,  to  secure  that  river ;  that,  on  Schomberg's 
landing,  he  was  ordered  to  retire,  ^  for  fear  of  being 

•  Rolls  Office  Index,  James  II.  f.  72. 

K 


130  KING  JAMES'S  lEISH  ARMY  LIST. 

cut  off  by  the  enemy  f  and  that  ultimately  he  com- 
manded the  reserve  at  the  Boyne.*  The  attainders 
of  1691  include  Murtagh  *  Kearny'  of  Athlone,  John 
Kearney  of  Dublin,  Denis  of  Cashel,  John  of  Parks- 
town,  County  of  Kilkenny ;  Nicholas  *  Kamey'  of 
Athfane,  County  of  Waterford  ;  Moriarty  Kearney  of 
Clonmacnoise,  King's  County,  clerk ;  John  of  Por- 
tumna,  County  of  Galway  ;  James  of  the  Barony  of 
Muskerry,  and  John  and  Richard  Kearney  of  Cork. 
At  the  Court  of  Claims,  Anstace  Kearney,  as  widow 
of  Edmund  Kearney,  sought  dower  off  County  of 
Cork  lands  forfeited  by  James  Kearney  ;  but  her 
petition  was  dismist  Richard  Kearney,  as  "only 
son  or  executor"  of  Daniel  Kearney,  claimed  and  was 
allowed  a  freehold  remainder  in  estates  in  Tipperary 
forfeited  by  Sir  John  Everard  of  Fethard  ;  while 
Mary  Kearney,  alias  Comerford,  and  James  Kearney, 
administrators  of  Bryan  Kearney,  claimed  and 
were  allowed  leaseholds  in  said  lands.  At  the 
battle  of  Lauffield  in  1747,  Richard  '  Kearny'  was 
wounded  fighting  in  Bulkeley's  Irish  Brigade,  as  was 
also  Lieutenant '  Kearny'  in  Lally's  Regiment  on  the 
same  day.f 

•  Clarke's  James  II.  vol.  2,  pp.  372  &  397. 
t  Gent.  Mag.,  ad  ann.,  p.  377. 


SAfiSFIELD'S  HORSE. 


131 


REGIMENTS  OF  HORSE. 

PATRICK   SARSFIELD'a   (EARL  OF   LUCAN). 


QqtUmu, 

LimUenantt. 

Comeet. 

Quari^.Masteri. 

The  Colonel 

John  Gaydon. 

George  Slaogfater. 

James  Planket. 

AlmerionB,  Lord 
Kinaale,  Lieut. 
Colonel 

James  St.  John. 

Thomas  Taaffe. 

Boger  McEettigaa, 
Major. 

Bene  de  Came. 

Thomas  Leicester. 

Christopher  FiUGerald 

1.  Thomas  Lilly. 

Daniel  O'Neill 

Bene  Maaandier. 

James  Pnrcell 

William  Synnott. 

John  Bonrke. 

Geoige  Mayo. 

Edmund  Morris. 

Thomaa  Burke. 

Thomas  Dempoej. 

Patrick  Dillon. 

WiUiam  Meaner. 

Franois  Magle. 

Bichard  TyrreU. 

SylTesterDoTenish 

Bichard  Tyrrell. 
Mnitogh  O'Brien.    Edward  Butler. 
John  Macnaroara.     Piers  Butler.  Thomas  Bourke. 


Edward  Dowdall. 


K  2 


132  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 


COLONEL  PATRICK  SARSFIELD. 

Thomas  de  '  Sarsefeld/  '  premier  porte-banniere  du  Roi 
Henri  ii.  A.  D.,  1172/  is  said  to  be  the  first  who 
brought  this  surname  into  Ireland.*  In  1302,  King 
Edward  the  First  invited  Thomas  and  Stephen  de 
*  Saresfeld  '  to  aid  him  in  the  Scottish  wars.  In  the 
time  of  Edward  the  Third,  Henry,  son  of  David 
Saresfeld,  resided  in  the  County  of  Cork.  During  the 
same  reign,  a  branch  of  the  family  settled  in  Meath, 
one  of  whom,  after  some  generations,  stiled,  '  of 
Lucan,'  sent  two  archers  to  the  Hosting  of  Tara.  In 
1566,  Sir  William  Sarsfield  of  Lucan  was  knighted 
by  Sir  Henry  Sydney,  for  his  services  against  Shane 
O'Neill,  and  he  was  seneschal  of  the  Royal  manor  of 
Newcastle  in  1591.  In  1609,  SirDominick  Sarsfield, 
being  Premier  Baronet  of  Ireland,  and  Chief  Jus- 
tice of  Munster,  was  one  of  the  three  commissioners 
whom  King  James  assigned  to  demarcate  the  munici- 
pal boundaries  of  Cork.  In  1609,  he  was  appointed 
second  justice  of  the  Irish  Court  of  King's  Bench  ; 
in  1610,  was  promoted  to  the  Chief  Justiceship  of  the 
Common  Pleas,  and  in  1612,  had  a  grant  from  that 
Monarch  of  the  Castle  of  Carriglemlary,  with  thirteen 
plowlands,  licence  to  export  com  and  victuals  raised 
on  the  premises  fi^e  of  all  customs,  with  all  tithes, 
fisheries,  courts  of  pie-poudre,  and  the  usual  tolls, 
liberty  to  empark  with  free  warren  ;  said  Sir  Domi- 

•  Biirke^s  Landed  Grentry,  p.  119. 


sarsfield's  horse.  133 

nick  being  therefor  bound  to  plant  ninety  families 
on  the  lands.  All  these  premises  are  stated  to  have 
come  to  the  Crown  by  the  attainder  of  Philip  Fitz- 
Edmond  Roche.  In  1627,  this  Royal  favourite  was 
unadvisedly  created  Lord  Viscount  of  Kinsale,  a  title 
for  centuries  maintained,  with  unbroken  succession,  in 
the  ancient  and  noble  family  of  De  Courcey  ;  where- 
upon John  Lord  Courcey,  existing  Baron  of  Kinsale, 
and  Gerald  his  son,  petitioned  the  King  and  Lords  of 
the  Council  in  England,  against  Sarsfield's  assumption 
of  the  dignity.  This  petition  was  referred  to  the 
Judges,  who  transferred  the  question  to  the  Earl 
Marshal  of  England,  from  whose  Report  it  appeared 
that  the  De  Courceys  had  from  time  immemorial  been 
.  stiled  Barons  of  Kinsale  and  Ringrone  ;  and  he  held 
that  to  have  two  titles  standing,  one  of  the  Barony  in 
de  Courcey,  and  another  of  the  Viscounty  in  Sarsfield, 
would  be  an  ill-confounding  of  titles  of  honour,  and 
that  therefore  Sir  Dominick,  though  he  may  retain 
his  rank,  should  take  his  title  from  some  other  place 
in  Ireland,  or  be  called  Viscount  Sarsfield  ;  whereupon 
he  took  that  of  Kilmallock.  In  the  outlawries  of 
1642  appears  the  name  of  Peter  Sarsfield  of  Tully 
County  of  Kildare.  His  son  Patrick*  had  two  sons, 
WiUiam  of  Lucan,  who  married  Marie,  sister  of  the 
Duke  of  Monmouth  ;  and  Patrick,  the  Colonel  at  pre- 
sent under  consideration.  This  latter  "was  highly 
accomplished,  and  in  personal  appearance  of  a  tall 
and  manly  figure  ;  he  had  been  an  Ensign  in  France 

*  Burke's  L#anded  Gentry. 


134  KING  JAMES'S  lElSH  ABMT  LIST. 

in  Monmouth's  Eegiment,  and  a  Lieutenant  of  the 
Guards  in  England.''*  When  James  came  over  to 
Ireland,  he  ranked  as  a  Brigadier-general,  and  by  his 
own  influence  had  embodied  this  noble  body  of 
fiorse ;  soon  after  which,  by  the  death  of  his  elder 
brother  William,  s.p.m.,  he  succeeded  to  the  family 
estates,  then  considered  of  the  value  of  £2,000  per 
annum.  He  was  a  Burgess  in  King  James's  Charter 
to  Middleton,  while  Dominick  and  James  were  Alder- 
men  in  that  to  Cork,  and  John  a  Burgess  in  that  to 
Limerick. 

In  the  Parliament  of  1689,  sat  Dominick  Sarsfield, 
Viscount  Kilmallock,  of  the  Peers.  *  He  had  a  Regi- 
ment of  Infantry  in  this  service,  as  shown  hereafter  ; 
while,  in  others  of  this  List,  James  Sarsfield  was  an 
Ensign  in  Colonel  Thomas  Butler^s,  as  was  Joseph 
Sarsfield  in  Colonel  Charles  O'Brien's,  in  which 
Ignatius  Sarsfield  was  a  captain.  This  Ignatius  was 
the  son  of  Patrick  Sarsfield  of  Limerick,  theretofore 
Governor  of  Clare  ;  his  descendants,  of  kindred  col- 
lateral to  Colonel  Patrick,  bore  the  title  of  Counts  of 
Sarsfield  in  the  French  army. 

Early  in  the  Irish  campaign,  after  Mountcashel's 
defeat  before  Enniskillen,  Sarsfield,  then  "  a  young 
Captain  beloved  by  the  soldiery,"  was  stationed  with 
some  troops  at  Sligo,  for  the  defence  of  Connaught 
from  the  Ulster  adherents  of  William  ;  a  position 
which  he  held  until  directed  to  remove,  to  maintain 
Athlone  against  the  meditated  attack  of  Lieutenant- 

*  O'Conor  s  Military  Memoirs. 


SAESFI£LD's  hoese.  135 

General  James  Douglas.  The  announcement  of  his 
approach  affected  the  object  for  the  moment,  Greneral 
Douglas  retiring  to  rejoin  his  King.  It  is  said  of 
Sarsfield  that,  even  after  King  William  had  passed 
the  Boyne,  he  "implored  James,  before  he  left  the  hill 
of  Dunore,  to  strike  another  blow  for  empire.''  At 
the  first  siege  of  Limerick,  while  Major-General 
Boiseleau  had  the  command  of  the  Garrison,  the  Duke 
of  Berwick  and  Colonel  Sarsfield  were  next  under 
him.  The  latter,  pending  the  siege,  (on  the  12th 
August)  surprised,  at  Kelly-na-Mona,  a  convoy  that 
was  conducting  to  the  besiegers  provisions  and  am- 
munition. This  gallant  achievement  is  fiilly  detailed 
by  Story,  the  Chaplain  of  King  William.  He  spiked 
their  cannon  and  exploded  their  ammunition ;  and  the 
same  day  re-entered  Limerick  amidst  the  triumphant 
shouts  of  his  fellow-soldiers,  thenceforth  more  than  ever 
their  idol.  Encouraged  by  his  daring  exploit,  those 
who  were  wavering  before  abandoned  all  thoughts  ot 
capitulation.*  On  the  30th  August,  King  William 
directing  his  last  assault  upon  the  City,  left  1200 
regular  troops  killed  in  the*  trenches,  and  in  five  days 
after  embarked  himself  fix)m  Waterford  to  England. 
When  the  Duke  of  Tyrconnel  went  to  France,  Sars- 
field was  one  of  those  whom  he  put  in  commission  to 
direct  the  inexperienced  Duke  of  Berwick ;  to  whom, 
as  befi)re  menjiioned,  he  had  entrusted  the  command 
of  the  army.  Soon  afterwards  the  Duke  and  he 
attacked  the  Castle  of  Birr,  the  family  residence  of 

•  Clarkes  James  II.,  v.  2,  p.  416. 


136  KING  JAM£S'8  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Sir  Lawrence  Parsons,  ancestor  of  the  present  Earl 
of  Rosse  ;  "the  principal  design,  however,  of  this 
movement  was  to  break  down  the  bridge  of  Banagher, 
but  the  attempt  was  found  too  hazardous  at  that  time, 
not  only  as  the  enemy  was  very  strong  on  the  other 
side,  but  as  it  was  defended  by  a  Castle  and  another 
work  which  commanded  it  on  two  sides,*^  and  the 
project  was  consequently  abandoned.  Sarsfield  is 
represented  by  Colonel  O'Kelly,  in  the  ^Exddium 
Macarioe^'  as  suspecting  Berwick  about  this  time  of 
treacherous  correspondence  with  his  Uncle  Colonel 
Churchill,  in  King  William's  service. 

Tyrconnel,  when  he  returned  from  France,  brought 
with  him  a  patent  from  King  James,  creating  this 
officer  Earl  of  Lucan,  Viscount  of  Tully,  and  Baron 
of  Rosberry;  titles  which  King  Williams  Chaplain, 
Story,  seems  willing  to  concede  to  liim,  even  aflber  the 
conclusion  of  the  campaign.  '  Lord  Lucan,'  he  says, 
*for  so  we  may  venture  to  caD  Lieutenant-General 
Sarsfield,  since  the  Articles  of  Limerick  do  it.'  King 
James  then  also  constituted  Sarsfield  a  Colonel  of  his 
Life  Guards,  and  Commander-in^hief  of  the  Forces 
in  Ireland  ;  the  last  appointment  proved  however  soon 
but  titular,  as  in  May,  1691,  the  Marquess  de  St. 
Ruth  landed,  a  foreigner  placed  over  his  head  by  the 
French  King.  Yet  no  jealousy  of  Sarsfield  at  this 
step  induced  him  to  abate  his  zeal  fo^  the  cause  he 
had  espoused;  and  when,  on  Tyrconnel's  death, 
D'Usson,  the  senior  officer,  assumed  the  command  of 

♦  Harris's  Life  of  WiUiam  III. 


sarsfield's  horse.  137 

of  Limerick,  "  Sarsfield  attended  to  all  the  details, 
superintended  the  repair  of  the  fortifications,  the 
providing  of  ammunition  and  stores,  watched  the 
motions  and  defeated  the  designs  of  the  peace  party. 
His  vigilance  and  activity  admitted  of  no  relaxation ; 
his  ardour  inspired  the  troops  with  confidence.*^  At 
the  Battle  of  Aughrim  he  had  been  placed  by  St. 
Ruth  at  the  left  wing  of  the  Irish  army,  with  positive 
instructions  not  to  stir  from  that  position  until  he 
received  St.  Ruth's  orders,  an  injunction  which  held 
him  inactive  until  the  death  of  that  Commander 
closed  the  contest,  the  more  effectuaUy  as  Sarsfield, 
though  second  in  command,  was  wholly  ignorant  of 
the  plans  of  his  commander  ;  the  officers  of  the  Irish 
army  waited  for  orders,  but  none  was  there  to  give 
them.f 

Sarsfield,  after  long  opposing  the  capitulation  of 
Limerick,  excited  much  astonishment  by  ultimately 
joining  those  who  advocated  it.  Colonel  O'Kelly 
could  not  see  any  justification  for  this  change  of 
opinion,  and  is  the  more  inclined  to  impeach  it,  as, 
pending  the  arrangement  of  the  terms  for  surren- 
der, this  General  dined  with  the  Duke  of  Wurtem- 
burgh  in  the  English  camp.  O'Conor,  in  his  '  Military 
Memoirs,'  (p.  174)  defends  Sarsfield's  motives  in  a 
manner  that  would  leave  without  stain  the  memory 
of  this  truly  illustrious  Irishman.  At  a  very  ad- 
vanced  state  of  the  siege,  "  his  constancy  gave  way, 

•  O'Conor  8  Military  Mem.  p.  167. 

t  O'Callagban's  Excidium  Macarke,  p.  461. 


138  KING  JAM£S'S  IRISH  A&MT  LIST. 

he  apprehended  probably  that  some  of  the  gates  or 
works  would  be  betrayed  to  the  enemy,  that  the  whole 
garrison  would  be  involved  in  the  horrors  of  a  town 
taken  by  storm,  and  that  no  terms  could  in  that  case 
be  made  for  the  religion  or  the  nation.  Overpowered 
by  such  considerations,  he  ultimately  acquiesced  in 
the  wishes  of  the  majority."  The  Treaty  that  he 
sought  proposed  indemnity  for  the  past,  free  liberty 
of  worship,  security  of  titles  and  estates,  admission  to 
all  employments  civil  and  military,  and  equal  rights 
with  the  Protestants  in  all  the  Corporations.  Such 
was  the  Treaty  he  sought;  such  he  construed  the 
Articles  of  Limerick,  to  which  he  was  an  executing 
party.  He  had  however  been  himself  previously  at- 
tainted on  several  Inquisitions  taken  in  Dublin,  Eil- 
dare,  Cork  and  Kerry ;  Lady  Honoria  Sarsfield,  his 
wife,  was  also  outlawed,  as  were  Daniel  and  David 
Sarsfield  of  Sarsfield's  Court. 

At  the  Court  of  Claims,  Francis  Sarsfield  claimed 
and  was  allowed  a  fee  in  lands  at  Saggard,  County  of 
Dublin,  forfeited  by  Patrick  Sarsfield ;  and  in  all  his 
other  estates  in  the  County  of  Kildare,  &c.  — Dominick, 
James,  and  Patrick  Sarsfield,  minors,  claimed,  by  their 
father  Dominick  Sarsfield,  an  estate  tail  in  Cork  lands 
of  which  he  was  the  late  occupant ; — disallowed.  Pa- 
trick Sarsfield,  in  behalf  of  his  son  John,  a  minor, 
claimed  an  estate  tail  in  Cork  lands  forfeited  by  the 
said  Patrick ;  allowed,  after  the  decease  of  John's 
father  and  mother.  Said  Patrick  Sarsfield  also  claim- 
ed an  estate  tail  in  Lucan,  Rathbride,  &c. ; — dismist. 


sarsfield's  horse.  139 

The  only  existing  male  representative  of  this  illus- 
trioos  name  now  in  Ireland  appears  to  be  Domi- 
nick  Ronayne  Sarsfield  of  Dough-Cloyne,  County  of 
Cork  ;  the  lineal  descendant  of  Dominick,  the  above 
minor,  claimant.  William  Sarsfield,  the  aforesaid 
brother  of  the  Earl  of  Lucan,  left  by  the  Duke  of 
Monmouth's  sister  a  daughter  Charlotte,  who,  after 
the.  attainder  and  forfeiture  of  her  unde,  obtained  a 
grant  of  some  of  his  estates.  She  married  Agmon- 
disham  Vesey,  son  of  the  Archbishop  of  Tuam,  and 
had  by  him  two  daughters ;  Henrietta,  who  married 
Caesar  Colclough  of  Tintem  Abbey,  County  of  Wex- 
ford ;  and  Anne,  who  married  John  Bingham  of 
Castlebar,  ancestor  of  the  present  Earl  of  Lucan. 

On  the  surrender  of  Limerick,  Sarsfield  sedulously 
urged  the  removal  of  many  of  his  old  comrades  to 
France,  with  a  sanguine  hope  of  such  aid  from  King 
Louis  as  would  secure  their  triumphant  return.* 
"The  Irish  Officers,''  says  Harris,  "went  on  board 
with  the  best  of  their  forces  on  the  22nd  of  Dec. 
1691,  and  with  them  Sarsfield  embarked  to  seek  a 
fortune  in  a  strange  country,  when  he  might  have  re- 
mained an  ornament  to  his  own  ;  but  he  was  actu- 
ated by  a  strong  bias  to  what,  in  his  opinion,  was  the 
true  religion,  and  by  the  false  principle  of  honor  and 
loyalty  to  a  Prince,  who  had  made  it  the  whole  busi- 
ness of  his  reign  to  overturn  an  established  constitu- 
tion." He  landed  in  due  course  at  Brest,  with  4,500 
of  the  expatriated  Irish,  while  a  remainder  of  19,059 

*  O'Conors  Military  Mem.,  p.  189. 


140  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

men  and  officers  arrived  in  France  about  tte  same 
time,  in  three  other  divisions  *  all  of  whom  King 
James  reviewed  and  regimented.f  On  Sarsfield's 
arrival  in  France,  that  King  appointed  him  to  the 
command  of  the  second  troop  of  Irish  Horse  Guards, 
that  of  the  first  having  been  committed  to  the  Duke 
of  Berwick.  During  the  short  interval  that  he  out- 
lived the  Stuart  Dynasty,  he  addressed  various  letters, 
(offigred  for  sale  in  the  Southwell  Collections  some  few 
years  since)  signed  by  himself  as  Earl  of  Lucan,  to  De 
Ginkle,  Earl  of  Athlone ;  in  which  he  set  forth  the 
displeasure  of  Louis  the  Fourteenth,  by  reason  that 
"  the  articles  of  the  Capitulation  of  Limerick  had  not 
been  punctually  performed,"  and  requiring  that  the 
delay  to  so  doing  should  be  removed  with  all  imagina- 
ble despatch.  These  communications  passed  in  the 
year  1692.  In  the  following  year,  he  fell  on  the  field 
of  battle.  "This  year,"  (1693)  says  O'Conor,  "is 
memorable  in  the  annals  of  the  Irish  Brigade,  for  the 
death  of  Patrick  Sarsfield,  Earl  of  Lucan.  He  had 
been  instrumental  in  bringing  over  a  great  part  of  the 
Irish  army  to  the  service  of  France,  and  had  the  com- 
mand of  the  troops  destined  for  the  invasion  of  Eng- 
land. After  the  destruction  of  the  French  fleet  off* 
La  Hogue,  the  Irish  troops  marched  to  Alsace  ;  and 
Sarsfield,  at  the  close  of  1692,  was  ordered  to  join 
the  French  army  in  Flanders  under  the  Duke  of  Lux- 
embourg ;  in  1693,  he  was  killed  in  the  battle  of 

•  O'Conor's  Military  Mem,  p.  193. 
t  O'Callaghan's  Brigades,  v.  1,  p.  64. 


sa&sfield's  horse.  141 

Landen,  at  the  head  of  a  French  division.  He  fell 
leading  on  the  charge  of  strangers  ;  his  contempora- 
ries long  deplored  the  loss  of  this  gallant  officer,  and 
his  memory  is  still  cherished  with  entlmsiastic  admi- 
ration in  his  native  country As  a  partisan,  and 

for  desultory  warfare,  Sarsfield  possessed  admirable 
qualifications.  Brave,  patient,  vigilant,  rapid,  indefa- 
tigable,  ardent,  adventurous,  and  enterprising  ;  the 
foremost  in  the  encounter,  the  last  to  retreat ;  he  har- 
rassed  his  enemy  by  sudden,  unexpected,  and  gener- 
ally  irresistible  attacks  ;  inspiring  his  troops  with  the 
same  ardour  and  contempt  of  danger  with  which  his 
own  soul  was  animated.  His  valour  prolonged  the 
contest  in  Ireland,  and  if  he  had  but  possessed  a  cor- 
responding  degree  of  military  skill,  might  materially 

have  altered  the  issue  of  the  contest.*** "  Patrick 

Sarsfield,**  writes  a  more  recent  biographer,  "  may  be 
quoted  as  a  type  of  loyalty  and  patriotic  devotion.  In 
the  annals  of  Irish  History  he  stands  as  a  parallel  to 
Pierre  du  Terrail,  Chevalier  de  Bayard,  in  those  of 
France,  and  may  be  equally  accounted  '  sans  peur  et 
sans  reproche.*  In  his  public  actions  firm  and  consis- 
tent, in  his  private  character  amiable  and  unblem- 
ished ;  attached,  by  religious  conviction  and  heredi- 
tary  reverence  for  the  *  right  divine  *  of  Kings,  to  the 
falling  House  of  Stuart,  he  drew  a  sharp  sword  in  the 
cause  of  the  Monarch  he  had  been  brought  up  to  be- 
lieve his  lawful  sovereign,  and  voluntarily  followed 

♦  O'Conor's  Military  Mem.  p.  222. 


142  KING  James's  irish  akmt  list. 

him  into  exile  when  he  could  wield  it  no  longer.*** 
Arminius  was  never  more  popular  among  the  Ger- 
mans than  was  Sarsfield  among  the  Irish. 

He  had  married  the  Lady  Honoria  de  Burgh, 
daughter  of  the  Earl  of  Clanricarde,  by  whom  he  had 
one  son,  James  Edward  Francis,  of  whom  see  ante^  p. 
27.  He  fought  under  his  illustrious  stepfather,  the 
Marshal  Duke  of  Berwick,  in  Spain,  and  was  honor- 
ably provided  for  by  King  Philip  the  Fifth.  The 
Earl  of  Lucan  left  also  one  daughter,  who  intermar- 
ried with  the  well-known  Baron  Theodore  de  New- 
burgh,  King  of  Corsica.  Sarsfield's  widow  married 
the  Duke  of  Berwick  in  1695,  by  whom  she  had 
issue  as  before  mentioned.  Soon  after  the  death  of 
Lord  Lucan,  in  October,  1693,  King  James  appointed 
Donough  McCarthy,  Earl  of  Clancarthy,  his  succes- 
sor in  the  command  of  the  second  troop  of  Guards.f 
A  Captain  Peter  Drake,  of  Drake-Rath,  County  of 
Meath,  who  left  Ireland  on  the  fall  of  James  the 
Second's  cause,  says  in  a  diary  kept  by  him,  "  From 
Paris  I  went  (in  1694)  to  St.  Germains,  where  I  met 
with  Mrs.  Sarsfield,  mother  of  Lord  Lucan,  and  her 
two  daughters,  Ladies  Ejlmallock  and  Mount  Leins- 
ter ;  the  eldest  of  whom.  Lady  Kilmallock,  was  my 
godmother.  These  ladies,  though  supported  by  small 
pensions,"  adds  the  Captain,  "  received  me  with  great 
generosity,  and  treated  me  with  much  good  nature.  J 

•  Dublin  University  Magazine,  November,  1823. 
t  O'Callaghan's  Brigades,  v.  1,  p.  135. 
X  Cited,  Idem,  p.  334. 


sarsfield's  horse.  143 

Of  the  many  Sarsfields  distinguished  in  the  armies 
of  the  Continent,  see  O'Callaghan's  History  of  the 
Irish  Brigades,  (vol.  1,  p.  321) ;  but  they  were,  from 
the  fact  stated,  not  of  Patrick's  descendants. 


LIEUTENANT-COLONEL   ALMERIC  DE 
COURCY,  LORD  KINSALE. 

This  noble  family  claims  alliance  with  most  of  the 
Royal  Houses  of  Europe ;  paternally  through  the 
Dukes  of  Lorraine,  and  maternally  through  those  of 
Normandy.  Robert  de  Courcy  accompanied  William 
the  Conqueror  to  England,  distinguished  himself  at 
the  battle  of  Hastings,  and  partook  largely  of  the 
spoils  of  the  conquest,  in  grants  of  estates  in  Somerset 
and  Oxford  Shires.  His  lineal  descendant.  Sir  John 
de  Courcy,  having  signalised  himself  in  the  wars  of 
Henry  the  Second  in  England  and  Gascony,  was  sent 
into  Ireland  in  1177,  as  an  assistant  to  William  Fitz- 
Adelm  in  the  government  of  that  country.  He  it  was 
who,  having  obtained  from  King  Henry  the  Second, 
while  in  Ireland,  a  grant  of  Ulster,  with  the  naifve 
proviso  that  he  should  first  subdue  it  by  the  force 
of  his  arms,  invaded  that  province  with  twenty-two 
Knights,  fifty  Esquires,  and  about  three  hundred  foot 
soldiers;  where  he  did  such  '  service  in  the  English  in- 
terest,'  that  the  Annals  of  the  North  during  his  visita- 
tion are  but  the  chronicle  of  successful  carnage.     His 


144  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

course  was  traced  by  ruined  districts,  depopulated  vil- 
lages, desecrated  churches ;  not,  however,  without  found- 
ing  sundry  other  religious  houses  in  atonement  as  at 
Neddrum,  the  Black  Abbey,  Iniscourcy,  Tobberglory, 
&c.  His  achievements  acquired  for  him  the  dignity 
of  Earl  of  Ulster,  but  afterwards  incurring  the  dis- 
pleasure of  King  John,  he  was  only  released  from  its 
infliction  on  succeeding  against  a  French  Champion 
in  a  wager  of  battle,  concerning  the  very  important 
political  question  of  the  day,  the  Royal  right  to  Nor- 
mandy. John  then  also  conferred  upon  him  that 
privilege,  which  has  been  since  sometimes  asserted 
by  his  descendants,  of  wearing  the  head  covered  in 
the  presence  of  Majesty.  Henry  the  Third  rewarded 
his  son  Miles  more  substantially  with  the  Barony  of 
Kinsale.  In  1302,  Nicholas  de  Courcy  was  one  of  the 
Magnates  of  Ireland  who  attended,  on  summons, 
Richard  de  Burgo  in  the  wars  of  Scotland.* 

The  Lieutenant-Colonel  here  under  consideration 
was  Almericus  de  Courcy,  the  twenty-third  in  the  suc- 
cession of  that  ancient  Baronage.  He  succeeded  to 
the  title  in  1669,  being  then  only  five  years  old,  and 
was  sent  early  to  Oxford  ;  where  his  education  was 
conducted  under  the  eye  of  the  famous  John  Fell, 
Dean  of  Christ  Church,  and  Bishop  of  Oxford  ;  whose 
letters  in  1677-8  represent  his  young  Lordship  as 
"addicted  to  the  tennis  court,  proof  against  all 
Latin  assaults,  and  prone  to  kicking,  beating,  and 
domineering  over  his  sisters  ;  fortified  in  the 

•  Burke's  Peerage. 


sarsfield's  horse.  145 

conceit  that  a  title  of  honor  was  support  enough,  with- 
out the  pedantry  and  trouble  of  book-learning."*  One 
of  these  sisters,  Ellen,  was  married  to  Sir  John 
Magrath,  of  Attivolan,  County  of  Tipperary,  who  was 
created  a  Baron  under  singular  circumstances  here- 
after alluded  to  at  that  name.  This  Lord's  first  posi- 
tion in  King  James's  service  was  as  Captain  of  a 
Troop  of  Horse ;  he  was  afterwards  raised  to  this 
Lieutenant-Colonelcy  in  Sarsfield's  Regiment,  and 
enjoyed  the  continuance  of  a  pension  which  had  been 
previously  granted  to  the  22nd  Lord  by  Charles  the 
Second.  He  sat  as  a  Peer  in  the  Parliament  of  1689 ; 
while  in  the  Commons,  on  that  occasion.  Miles  de 
Courcy  was  one  of  the  Representatives  of  Eansale. 
That  Miles  was  a  Captain  in  Major-General  Boiseleau's 
Infantry,  as  was  also  Garrett  '  Coursey '  and  another 
Garrett  Coursy,  a  Lieutenant. 

The  Baron  was  attainted  in  1691,  but  the  outlawry 
having  been  subsequently  reversed,  he,  in  October, 
1692,  took  his  seat  in  the  House  of  Peers  of  Ire- 
land, and  sat  a  second  time  in  1719  ;  at  the  close  of 
which  year  (Feb.  9th)  he  died,  and  was  buried  in  West- 
minster Abbey.  He  left  no  issue,  whereupon  his 
cousin-german,  Myles  de  'Coursy,'  the  Captain  in 
Major-General  Boiseleau's  Foot,  succeeded  to  the 
title,  t 

*  Catal.  Southwell  MSS.,  p.  891. 
t  Crossley's  Peerage,  p.  208. 


146  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

MAJOR  ROGER  '  M'KETTIGAN; 

Tffls  Sept  were  anciently  the  territorial  proprietors  of 
Clan-diannada,  a  denomination  still  recognisable  in 
the  parish  of  Clan-dermot,  County  of  Deny,  over 
which  County  and  that  of  Donegal  the  name  is  still 
extant.  It  was  borne  by  a  late  Roman  Catholic 
Bishop  of  Raphoe,  Dr.  Patrick  '  Mc  Gettigan.' 


CAPTAIN  RENE  DE  CARNE. 

He  being  one  of  the  French  OflScers,  as  was  Lieute- 
nant Rene  Mezandine,  they  and  others  of  that  nation 
in  the  Roll  are  not  within  the  scope  of  the  present 
Illustrations.  Of  Captain  Rene  de  Came,  however, 
it  may  be  observed  that,  on  the  formation  of  the  Irish 
Brigade,  called  the  Queen's  Own,  this  Captain  was  ap- 
pointed its  Lieutenant-Colonel,  as  before  mentioned, 
ante  p.  105. 


CAPTAIN  FRANCIS  NAGLE. 

This  is  one  of  the  families  that  branched  from 
Gilbert  de  Angulo,  who  came  into  Ireland  with 
Strongbow,  and  altered  the  name  into  Nangle  in  the 
County  of  Meath,  and  Nagle  in  Cork.  A  Manuscript 
Book  of  Obits,  &c.  in  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  (F.  3, 
27)   gives   links  of  the  lineage  of  the   Nagles   of 


sarsfield's  horse.  147 

Monanimy,  County  of  Cork,  for  nine  generations  in 
the  fifteenth  and  sixteenth  centuries.  The  attainders 
of  1642  include  the  names  of  Richard  Nagle  and 
John  Nagle  of  that  place.  The  Declaration  of  Royal 
gratitude  from  Charles  the  Second,  for  services  beyond 
the  seas,  makes  special  mention  of  Pierce  Nagle,  also 
of  Monanimy.  In  King  James's  New  Charters  to 
the  Corporations  of  Ireland,  David  Nagle  was  an 
Alderman  in  that  to  Cork,  wherein  Peter  Nagle  was 
a  Burgess.  In  that  to  Mallow,  Piers,  David,  and 
Edward  were  Burgesses  ;  to  Dungarvan,  Peter  and 
Andrew  were  named  Burgesses,  and  William  Nagle, 
Town  Clerk.  James  was  Town  Clerk  in  those  to 
Trim  and  Belturbet.  In  that  to  Charleville,  David, 
Piers,  Richard,  John,  and  James  Nagle  were  named 
Burgesses;  while  last  in  that  to  Youghal,  Piers, 
Andrew,  and  William  Nagle  were  Burgesses  ;  Sir 
Richard  Nagle  was  an  Alderman. 

This  latter  individual,  the  most  memorable  of  his 
name  at  that  period,  (ofi«n  called  *  Nangle '  in  Lord 
Clarendon's  Letters)  was  "  an  active  and  skilfol 
lawyer  of  the  Popish  party,***  knighted  on  being 
appointed  King  James's  Attorney-General  for  Ireland. 
Tyrconnel,  who  particularly  admired  his  shrewdness, 
brought  him  with  him  to  England  "  in  June,  1685, 
after  having  disbanded  a  great  part  of  the  Officers  of 
the  Irish  Army.     The  Earl  Powis,  Lord  Bellasis,  and 

*  Leland'fl  Ireland,  v.  8,  p.  515.     King  says  he  was  originallj 

designed  for  the  Roman  Catholic  priesthood State  of  the  Pro- 

testania^  p.  73. 

l2 


148  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

other  Lords  were  so  exasperated  on  being  informed  of 
Nagle's  arrival,  that  they  would  have  him  expelled 
from  London  immediately.  As  it  was,  some  time 
elapsed  before  he  was  admitted  to  kiss  the  King's 
hand  ;  however,  to  complete  in  private  what  he 
dared  not  attempt  upon  the  public,  it  was  agreed 
among  them  that  Nagle  should  set  forth,  by  way  of 
a  letter  to  a  friend,  the  great  injustice  and  oppression 
of  the  Acts  of  Settlement  and  Explanation,  to  open 
a  way  to  their  repeal  ;  the  time  being  now  thought 
favourable  for  that  purpose,  when  the  King,  who, 
while  Duke  of  York,  had  always  patronised  the 
scheme,  avowed  himself  ready  to  countenance  it  with 
all  his  power,  and  no  Parliament  was  at  present 
sitting  to  control  his  proceedings.  In  the  following 
year,  accordingly,  Nagle  wrote  this  letter  (October, 
1686)  to  Tyrconnel,  with  great  virulence  and  ran- 
cour,  and  not  without  a  considerable  share  of  sophis- 
try and  cunning.  He  laid  the  scene  at  Coventry, 
and  introduced  it  as  the  fruits  of  two  sleepless  hours 
there,  whence  it  took  the  name  of  '  the  Coventry 
Letter  ;'  whereas  it  was  the  labour  of  so  many  weeks 
in  London.  In  this  letter  he  endeavours  to  show 
some  nullities  and  invalidities  in  the  said  Acts,  and 
confidently  affirmed  that  it  was  not  for  murder  or 
rebellion,  but  for  religion  that  the  estates  of  the 
Irish  were  sequestered,  and  mainly  insisted  on  the 
inconvenience  that  would  accrue  to  the  Popish  inte- 
rest by  the  continuance  of  these  Acts.  His  invectives 
against  King  Charles  the  Second  were  so  virulent^ 


sarsfield's  horse.  149 

that  he  dared  not  to  own  his  production  ;  but  in 
Ireland  gave  out  that  he  would  arrest  any  man  in 
an  action  of  £10,000,  who  should  presume  to  father 
it  on  him.  Yet  afterwards,  when  Speaker  of  James's 
Irish  Parliament,  he  pleaded  it  as  a  merit,  and  the 
Repeal  of  the  Acts  was  urged,  founded  on  his  argu- 
ments."* His  presence  at  the  Conference  which 
Bang  James  held  at  Chester,  in  1687,  was  thus 
necessitated  ;  and  accordingly,  in  the  Rolls  Office  of 
Ireland  is  preserved  a  licence  of  absence  to  Sir 
Richard  Nagle  for  one  month,  under  the  Lord 
Deputy's  warrant,  dated  18th  August,  1687,  nine 
days  before  the  King  came  up  to  Chester. 

On  the  assembling  of  the  Parliament  of  Dublin  in 
1689,  he  was  elected  their  Speaker.f  He  sat  as  one 
of  the  Representatives  of  Cork,  and  was,  as  might  be 
expected,  one  of  the  most  violent  impugners  of  the 
Act  of  Settlement.  In  the  summer  of  that  year,  on 
the  retirement  of  Lord  Melfort,  he  was,  by  the  Duke 
of  Tyrconnel's  interest,  appointed  Secretary  of  State, 
as  well  as  Secretary  of  War  to  His  Majesty.  After 
the  defeat  at  the  Boyne,  he  was  one  of  the  Council 
whom  King  James,  on  his  arrival  in  Dublin,  con- 
vened to  advise  proceedings.  "  They  were  all  unani- 
mously of  opinion  that  he  should  lose  no  time  in 
going  to  France,  otherwise  he  would  run  a  great  risk 
of   being  taken  by  the   enemy,  who  they  believed 

♦  The  original  letter  was  sold  in  the  Southwell  MSS. — See 
Thorpe's  Catalogue,  pp.  223-4. 

t  Somers'  State  Tracts,  v.  11,  p.  407. 


150  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

would  be  there  next  morning"*  When,  after  the 
first  siege  of  Limerick,  Tyrconnel  went  over  to  St. 
Germains,  he  was  accompanied  by  Sir  Richard  Nagle, 
the  duty  of  Secretary  of  State  being  confided  in  his 
absence  to  the  newly  created  Lord  Riverston  ;  he 
returned  with  the  Duke  in  January,  1690,  and,  on 
the  death  of  that  great  man,  he  feelingly  laments 
the  event  in  a  letter,  August,  1691,  to  Lord 
Merrion,  as  "  a  fatal  stroke  to  this  poor  country,  in 
this  nick  of  time,  the  enemy  being  within  four  miles 
of  the  town,"  adding,  "he  is  to  be  buried  privately 
to-morrow,  about  ten  of  the  clock  at  night.  As  he 
appeared  always  zealous  for  his  country,  so  his  loss  is 
at  this  time  extremely  pernicious  to  this  poor  nation."f 
In  the  too  confident  contemplation  of  his  death,  a 
Royal  Commission  had  been  fore-drawn,  providing  that 
the  Government  should,  in  such  event,  be  administered 
by  this  Sir  Richard  Nagle,  Francis  Plowden,  Com- 
missioner of  the  Revenue  (who  brought  it  over),  and 
Baron  Gawsworth  the  Lord  Chancellor,  as  Lords 
Justices,  with  the  usual  forms.  J  Sir  Richard  was 
attainted  by  no  less  than  seven  Inquisitions.  Im- 
mediately on  his  outlawry,  an  order  of  the  Govern- 
ment issued,  "  requiring  such  persons  as  might 
have  papers  or  books  of  his  in  their  custody  at  the 
Castle  of  Dublin,  to  deliver  same  to  George  Clarke, 
the  new  Secretary  of  War.''§ 

*  Clarke's  James  IT.,  p.  401. 

t  O'Callaghan's  Excidium  Afacatice,  p.  472. 

I  Idem,  pp.  478-9. 

§  Clarke's  MSS.  T.C.D.,  Letter  ccUu 


SARSFIELD'S  H0&8E.  151 

In  the  mean  time,  Sir  Richard  preferred  adhering 
to  the  £dlen  fortunes  of  the  Stuart^  rather  than  to 
compromise  with  the  new  government.  At  the  petty 
court  of  St.  Germains  he  still  filled  the  office  of 
*  Secretary  of  State  for  Ireland/  while  his  son  James 
married  in  that  country  Margaret,  daughter  of  Colonel 
Walter  Butler,  one  of  the  Officers  of  this  list  here- 
after alluded  to.  Colonel  O'Eelly  speaks  of  Sir 
Richard  Nagle  as  "  a  person  of  ability  and  parts, 
generally  believed  an  honest  man  ;"*  while  the  Duke 
of  Berwick,  in  his  able  memoir  says,  "  he  was  a 
courteous  man,  of  good  sense,  and  well  skilled  in  his 
profession,  but  by  no  means  versed  in  the  affairs  of 
state."  Besides  the  above  Captain  Francis  Nagle, 
there  are  enrolled  in  Colonel  Gordon  O'Neill's  Infantry, 
Arthur  '  Nagle,'  a  Lieutenant,  as  was  David  Nagle 
in  Sir  John  Barrett's.  This  David  was  one  of  the 
Representatives  of  Mallow  in  the  Parliament  of  1689. 
The  Nagles  attainted  in  1691,  were  Sir  Richard,  as 
before  mentioned,  John  Nagle  of  Dublin,  James  and 
David  of  Carrigeen,  County  of  Cork,  Andrew  of 
Youghal,  Piers  of  Annakissy,  Garret  of  Drummins- 
town,  Richard  of  Shanballymore,  all  in  the  County, 
and  Peter  of  the  City,  of  Cork.  Sir  Richard's  for- 
feitures  extended  over  nearly  5000  acres  in  the 
Baronies  of  Fermoy  and  Duhallow  in  this  County, 
also  much  in  Waterford.  David  Nagle  claimed  and 
was  allowed  an  estate  for  lives  in  Cork  lands  ;  while 
James  Nagle,   by  Michael    Kearney    his    guardian, 

*  Exddium  Macarice,  p.  106. 


152  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

claimed  certain  rights  in  the  Cork  lands  forfeited  by 
Piers  of  Annakissy,  and  was  allowed  same  after  the 
death  of  Piers.  Joan  Butler,  alias  Everard,  also 
claimed  the  benefit  of  an  assignment  of  the  equity  of 
redemption  in  premises  forfeited  by  said  Piers. 

At  the  battle  of  Lauffield,  in  1747,  a  Francis 
Nagle,  of,  it  would  seem,  the  kindred  of  the  above 
OflScer,  being  then  a  Lieutenant  in  Bulkeley's 
Brigade,  was  taken  prisoner. 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  MAC  NAMARA. 

This  Sept  were  Chiefs  of  the  territory  now  known 
as  the  Barony  of  Tulla,  with  part  of  that  of  Bunratty, 
County  of  Clare  ;  and  enjoyed  the  rank  of  hereditary 
marshals  of  the  O'Briens,  Kings  of  Thomond.  They 
were  very  powerful,  and  had  many  castles.  In  1402, 
Quin  Abbey  was  founded  in  this  County  for  Fran- 
ciscan friars  by  Shedagh  Cam  Mac  Namara,  Lord  of 
Clan-Cuilein  ;  who  appointed  it  the  burial  place  for 
himself  and  his  posterity.*  In  1408,  Henry  the 
Fourth  granted  to  Margaret,  daughter  of '  the  Mac  Na- 
mara,' of  the  Irish  Nation,  that  she  and  all  her  issue 
might  be  free,  and  use  the  English  habit  and  law. 
In  1496,  the  Castle  of  Feyback  was  taken  by  the 
Lord  Deputy  from  Eugene  Mc  Namara.  In  1543, 
the  Privy  Council  of  Ireland  transmitted  a  recom- 
mendation to  the  King,  advising  his  Majesty  that  "  an 

*  Annals  of  the  Four  Masters. 


sarsfield's  horse.  153 

Irish  Captain,  called  Shedagh  Mac  Namara,  bordering 
on  O'Brien's  lands  and  possessing  those  of  Clan-Cullen 
in  Thomond,  sought  to  be  advanced  to  the  honor  of 
Baron  of  Clan-Cullen,  with  his  place  in  Parliament, 
offering,  if  he  obtained  such  distinction,  to  hold  his 
territory  by  Knight's  service  ;  and,  for  that  the  said 
Mac  Namara  is  a  man  whose  ancestors  have  in  those 
parts  always  borne  a  great  sway,  and  one  that  for 
himself  is  of  honest  conformity,  and  whose  lands  lie 
wholly  on  the  *  fiirside '  of  the  Shannon,  we  beseech 
Tour  Majesty  to  regard  him,  but  so  as  not  to  entitle 
him  or  his  heirs  to  any  land  or  dominion  on  this  side 
of  the  Shannon."*  On  the  occasion  of  Perrot's  Con- 
cilation  Parliament  of  1585,  "  there  went  thither 
Turlogh,  son  of  Teigue,  son  of  Conor  O'Brien,  and 
the  Lord  of  the  western  part  of  Clan-Cullen,  namely, 
John  Mac  Namara,  i.  e.,  John  the  son  of  Teigue,  as 
one  of  the  Knights  of  Parliament  for  the  County  of 
Clare."  So  say  the  Four  Masters,  whose  Annals 
abound  with  notices  of  this  ancient  Sept.  Daniel 
Mac  Namara  of  Doone  and  John  Mac  Namara  of  Mori- 
orsky  were  of  the  Supreme  Council  that  assembled  in 
1646  at  Kilkenny. 

This  Captain  John  had  livery  of  his  estates  in  the 
County  of  Clare,  out  of  the  Court  of  Wards  in  1637, 
and  having  been  ousted  in  the  civil  war  of  1641,  he 
was,  by  a  clause  in  the  Act  of  Settlement,  restored  to 
his  principal  seat  with  2,000  acres  of  land  ;  and  the 
same  statute,  in  the  Declaration  which  it  contains  of 

♦  D'Alton  8  County  Dublin,  p  162. 


154  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  A&MT  LIST. 

Royal  gratitude  for  services  during  the  exile,  names 
this  Mac  Namara  as  one  who,  ^^  for  reasons  known  to 
us,  in  an  especial  manner  merited  our  grace  and 
finrour.''  He  would  seem  to  be  identical  with  John 
Mac  Namara  of  Cruttilagh  or  Oratloe,  who  was  Sheriff 
of  Glaxe  in  1686-7,  and  one  of  its  representatives 
in  the  Irish  Parliament  of  1689,  having  previously  ob- 
tained,  in  October,  1685,  a  patent  firom  King  James 
for  erecting  the  lands  of  Cratillow  into  a  manor. 

In  King  James's  New  Charters,  Thomas  Macna- 
mara  was  a  Burgess  in  that  to  Limerick  ;  as  were 
Florence  and  John  in  another  to  Ennis.  Florence 
Macnamara  was  one  of  the  Deputy  Lieutenants  of 
the  County  of  Clare,  and  he  was  a  C^tain  in  Lord 
Clare's  Dragoons,  in  which  Laurence  and  Daniel 
Macnamara  were  Quarter-Masters.  Hugh  Macna- 
mara commanded  a  troop  of  Grenadiers  in  the  Earl 
of  Tyrone's  Infantry  ;  Miles  was  a  Quarter-Master  in 
Colonel  Cormuck  O'Neill's  ;  while  in  Colonel  Charles 
O'Brien's,  Donogh  and  Thady  Macnamara  were 
Captains,  and  a  second  Donogh  a  Lieutenant  Teigue 
Macnamara,  of  the  Ayle  line  of  this  Sept,  raised  an 
independent  troop  for  King  James's  service  after  the 
battle  of  the  Boyne,*  with  which  he  garrisoned  the 
Castie  of  Clare,  and  held  it  until  the  capitulation  of 
Limerick ;  in  the  Articles  for  which  he,  being  included? 
saved  his  estate  and  removed  to  the  old  family  man- 
sion at  Ayle.f 

*  Singer's  Correspondence  of  Lord  Clarendon,  v.  2,  p.  514. 
t  Burke's  Landed  Grentry,  p  813. 


sarsfield's  horse.  155 

Captain  John  rose  to  be  a  Lieutenant-Colonel  in 
this  service.  He  married  to  his  first  wife  the  Lady 
Elizabeth  O'Brien,  eldest  daughter  of  Murrough,  the 
first  Eari  of  Inchiquin.  She  died  in  1688,*  when  it 
would  appear  he  married  a  second  time  the  relict  of 
Richard  Southwell,  Esq.,  father  of  Sir  Thomas  South- 
well,  afterwards  Lord  Southwell.f  John  was  outlawed, 
but  was  subsequently  adjudged  within  the  Articles  of 
Limerick.  Others  of  the  name  then  attainted  were 
Florence  Macnamara  of  Dromore,  Donogh  of  Mohir, 
Thomas  of  Limerick,  and  John  of  Ralshine,  County  of 
Limerick. 

At  the  Court  of  Chichester  House,  John  Macna- 
mara, styled  of '  Creevagh,'  claimed  and  was  allowed 
a  mortgage  affecting  estates  of  Lord  Clare ;  as  did 
John,  the  son,  heir,  and  executor  of  his  father  James, 
the  benefit  of  a  mortgage  affecting  said  estates,  and 
his  claim  was  also  allowed.  Teigue  Macnamara 
claimed,  in  right  of  his  wife,  an  interest  in  lands  in 
the  County  of  Clare,  the  forfeiting  proprietor  of  which 
was  Redmond  Magrath, — but  his  claim  was  disal- 
lowed ;  as  was  another  claim  of  his  to  a  £reehold  in 
Clare  lands,  forfeited  by  Lord  Clare,  and  which 
Teigue  claimed,  in  right  of  his  father,  John  Macna- 
mara, to  whom  they  had  been  leased,  and  who  died  in 
1690. 

In  1745  Lieutenant  Macnamara,  of  the  Irish  Bri- 

♦  ArchdaU's  Lodge,  v.  6,  p.  18. 

t  Thorpe's  Cat.  Southwell  MSS.,  241. 


156  KING  JAMES'S  lEISH  ARMY  LIST. 

gade,  was  killed  in  Flanders.*  And  in  two  years  after 
died  in  France,  John  Macnamara,  a  distinguished 
Admiral  in  that  service ;  he  was,  according  to  Mac- 
Geoghegan,  of  the  grand  military  order  of  St.  Louis, 
and  Governor  of  the  Port  of  Rochford.  His  nephew 
was  commander  of  the  '  Frepinne,'  in  which  he  took  a 
number  of  valuable  prizes.f 


LIEUTENANT  JOHN  GAYDON. 

An  Inquisition,  taken  post  mortem^  6th  July,  1613, 
at  Naas,  finds  that  John  Gaydon,  alias  Gayton,  died 
in  1596,  seized  in  fee  of  a  castle,  lands,  tenements, 
&c.  in  the  town  of  Irishtown,  formerly  called  Bally- 
spedagh,  in  the  County  of  Kildare  ;  and  also  of  the 
Castle,  &c.  of  Strafian,  &c.  in  said  County,  and  of 
the  lands  of  Hatton  and  Ardrosse  therein ;  and 
that  his  heir  is  Nicholas  Gaydon,  now  aged  thirty- 
eight  years,  and  married  ;  who  is  in  occupation  of 
said  premises,  which  he  holds  in  common  soccage  of 
the  heir  of  a  certain  John  Fannyn,  son  and  heir  of 
John  Fannyn,  Knight. J  The  outlawries  of  1642 
record  only  of  this  name  John  *  Gaydon'  of  Irishtown ; 
it  may  be  presumed  a  son  of  the  last  mentioned 
Nicholas,  and  identical  with  the  Lieutenant  at  present 
under  consideration.  The  name  seems  now  extinct 
in  Ireland. 

*  Gent.  Mag.  v.  15,  p.  276.       t  Ferrar's  Limerick,  p.  349. 
{  Inq.  in  Cane.  Hib. 


sarsfield's  horse.  157 


LIEUTENANT  JAMES  ST.  JOHN. 

This  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  in  the  fourteenth 
century,  and  in  the  seventeenth  was  one  of  tenure 
at  Mortellstown  in  the  County  of  Tipperary ;  of 
which  place  it  will  be  remembered  was  Thomas  St. 
John,  who  signed  the  Petition  of  1661,  ante^  page 
8  ;  but  nothing  worth  relating  has  been  discovered 
of  this  individual  or  of  the  name,  except  that,  at  the 
Court  of  Chichester  House  in  1703,  a  James  St.  John 
claimed  and  was  allowed  an  estate  for  lives  in  Carlow 
lands  forfeited  by  Dudley  Bagnall.  A  Lieutenant 
St.  John  is  said  to  have  submitted  to  the  Government 
of  King  William  ;  and  it  is  not  unlikely  that  this 
officer  was  the  person,  as  well  by  the  absence  of  his 
name  from  the  KoU  of  Attainders,  as  by  the  presump- 
tion that  he  was  the  above  claimant.  His  name 
appears  to  be  also  now  extinct  in  Ireland. 


LIEUTENANT  THOMAS  LEICESTER. 

This  name,  in  various  modes  of  spelling,  is  traced 
in  Irish  records  from  Edward  the  Third.  In  1357, 
John  '  de  Lecestere,'  was  nominated  Attorney-General 
for  Ireland.  In  1402,  William  *  Lyster'  was  appoint- 
ed to  the  office  of '  Water-Bailly'  of  Ulster,  with  a 
Clerkship  of  the  Escheats  in  said  County  ;  he  had  also 


158  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

a  grant  of  lands  in  the  County  of  Dublin,  for  the 
term  of  his  life. 

At  its  dissolution,  the  Religious  House  of  Kil- 
carmick,  in  O'Mulloy's  Country,  (the  King's  County) 
having  vested  in  the  Crown,  was  granted  by  James 
the  First,  soon  after  his  accession,  to  Robert  Ley- 
cester,  Grent.  with  sundry  lands  in  said  country.  He 
subsequently  passed  patent  more  extensively  for  Cas- 
tles, Abbeys,  Chiefries,  and  Lands  in  the  several 
Counties  of  Wicklow,  Westmeath,  Limerick,  Sligo, 
Donegal,  Fermanagh,  and  Tyrone,  with  licences  for 
fairs  and  markets,  &c.  The  estates  in  the  King's 
County  (some  of  which,  as  Killishell,  were  parcel  of 
the  estates  of  the  O'Connors  of  that  County,  attainted) 
remained  in  his  descendants  until  forfeited  by  the 
above  Lieutenant  Thomas.  His  forfeitures  in  that 
County  alone  comprised  two  thousand  three  hundred 
acres  ;  his  father,  John  Leicester,  also  forfeited  con- 
siderable  interests  therein.  A  Funeral  Entry  of  1684 
in  the  Office  of  Arms  of  Dublin  describes  this  latter  indi- 
vidual as  "  John  Leicester  of  Kilcormick  in  the  King's 
County,  son  of  Robert,  son  of  Robert,  son  of  John, 
son  of  John.  The  first  mentioned  John  died  last  day 
of  March,  and  was  buried  10th  of  April  at  Ballyboy 
in  said  County.  He  married  Margaret,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Tyrrel  of  Simon's  Court,  County  Westmeath, 
second  son  of  Richard  Tyrrell  of  Kilbride  ;  by  whom 
he  had  issue  one  son,  Thomas  (the  above  Lieutenant), 
and  two  daughters,  Mary  and  Joane.  This  Funeral 
Entry  is,  as  required,  testified  by  Edward  Tyrrel, 


sarsfield's  horse.  159 

brother  [in  law]  of  the  deceased.  Lieutenant  Tho- 
mas was,  therefore,  it  would  appear,  the  great  grand- 
son of  Robert,  the  patentee  of  1604,  who,  from  an 
examination  of  the  lineage  of  the  Leicesters  of  Toft 
Hall  in  Cheshire,  was  probably  one  of  the  younger 
sons  of  Sir  George  (who  died  in  1612),  by  Alice, 
eldest  daughter  of  Peter  Leicester  of  Tabley.  The 
Inquisition,  taken  on  his  attainder,  describes  him  as 
late  of  Ballyboy  in  the  King's  County,  and  to  have 
been  seised  of  about  one  thousand  acres  in  that 
County,  including  Corraghmore,  Ballycollane,  Gur- 
teen.  Dune,  Eilleshill,  Eilduff,  and  the  town  and 
lands  of  the  Monastery  of  Kilcormick,  with  a  mill, 
market,  and  &ir  to  the  latter  appertaining. 


LIEUTENANT  GEORGE  MAYO. 

This  surname  does  not  occur  again  in  the  List, 
nor  does  it  at  all  appear  in  the  Roll  of  Outlawries  ; 
where,  however,  some  Meaghs  and  Meyaghs  do.  The 
name  of  *  May  owe*  is  in  the  Chancery  Rolls,  as  in 
Kerry,  in  the  fourteenth  century.  That  of '  Mayhew' 
also  occurs  in  Irish  records  of  about  the  same  period  ; 
and,  in  a  Roll  of  Amerceaments  of  Fines  laid  upon 
Sheriflfe,  Mayors,  Seneschals,  &c.,  of  record  in  the 
Chief  Remembrancer's  Office,  is  one  of  Geoffirey 
^Mayhoo'  in  1428. 


160  RING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

CORNET  GEORGE  HAUGHTON. 

Neither  does  this  name  appear  again  on  the  List, 
nor  in  the  attainders  of  the  period.  On  the  21st  of 
December,  1690,  Thomas  *  Haghton'  was  appointed 
to  the  office  of  Second  Sergeant  at  Arms,  and  on  the 
28th  March  following  had  a  grant  of  the  office  of 
Clerk  of  the  Crown  and  Peace  of  the  County  of  Dub- 
lin.* A  certain  George  Haughton  obtained,  in  the 
time  of  Charles  the  Second,  a  fiat  for  a  grant  of  the 
manor,  town  and  lands  of  Bame,  in  the  County  of 
Longford  ;  but  died  in  1682,  before  obtaining  pos- 
session, leaving  George  Haughton,  Junior,  his  son 
and  heir,  then  a  minor  of  but  five  years  of  age. 
It  is  just  possible  that,  in  the  enthusiasm  of  the 
period,  he,  though  only  thirteen  years  of  age  at  the 
time  of  this  campaign,  may  have  been  the  above 
Cornet  Greorge.  George  junior  was,  during  his 
life,  involved  in  litigation  concerning  the  said 
manor  of  Bame,  and  died  in  1732,  seised  of  two 
other  manors,  that  of  Bormount  in  Wexford,  and 
Eilthorpe  in  Rutlandshire,  England.f 


QUARTER  MASTER  THOMAS  LILLY. 

Neither  is  this  name  again  on  the  List,  nor  in  the 
Outlawries. 

*  Rolls  Office.  t  Appeal  Cases. 


sarsfield's  nORSE.  161 


QUARTER.MASTER  WILLIAM  SYNNOTT. 

This  family  is  descended  from  an  ancient  and 
honorable  stock  of  Norman  extraction.  They  were 
possessed  of  lands  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of  the 
Invasion,  and  in  the  County  where  it  first  found 
footing.  In  1365,  John  'Synath'  was  one  of  the 
influential  proprietors  of  this  County  (Wexford) 
directed  by  the  Crown,  according  to  the  custom  of 
the  time,  to  elect  its  Sheriffi  Sir  John  Synnot,  after 
the  Desmond  war,  passed  out  of  Ireland  to  foreign 
parts.*  In  1607,  William  Synnatt  of  Ballyfemock 
had  a  grant  of  various  lands  within  the  district  of 
O'Murrough's  Country  (County  of  Wexford),  "with 
certain  custom  sheep,  called  summer  sheep,  and  cer- 
tain ^akates^  upon  and  in  O'Murrough's  Country, 
where  the  said  lands  lie ;  with  all  other  customs, 
duties,  and  hereditaments  to  same  belonging,  and 
which  came  to  King  Edward  the  Sixth  by  the  attain- 
der of  Donell  O'Murrough.^f  This  grant  was  subse- 
quently renewed  to  his  son   Walter  Synnott.      In 

1649,  David  Synnot  was  Governor  of  Wexford  when 
that  town  was  besieged  by  Cromwell ;  and  in  its  gal- 
lant though  unsuccessful  defence  he  lost  his  life.     In 

1650,  Oliver  Synnot  came  over  in  commission  from 
the  Duke  of  Lorraine,  on  the  occasion  of  his  Grace's 

♦  Manuscripts  T.C.D.,  E  3,  15. 
t  Pat.  Roll  in  Cane.  Hib. 

M 


162  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

memorable  proffer  of  aid  to  the  Royal  cause.*  This 
same  Oliver,  it  would  appear,  was  in  the  following 
year  Commander  of  the  Fort  of  Ardkyn  in  the  Isle  of 
Arran.f  No  other  Synnott  appears  in  this  Army 
List,  and,  from  the  'Landed  Gentry^  of  Sir  Bernard 
Burke  (f.  1347),  this  Quarter-Master  William  would 
seem  to  have  been  of  the  Ballytramoi^  line. 

In  King  James's  Charters,  Dominick  Synnot  was 
an  Alderman  in  that  to  Waterford ;  Richard  a  Bai- 
liff in  that  to  Wexford  ;  and,  on  the  Establishment  of 
1687-8,  James  Synnot  was  placed  for  a  pension  of  £50. 

The  outlawries  of  1691  comprise  the  names  of 
John  *  Sinnott'  of  Middletown,  County  of  Wexford  ; 
as  also  of  James  and  Richard  Synnott  of  Wexford, 
Richard  and  Walter  '  Sinnott'  of  Church  town,  Ross- 
beare ;  Stephen  '  Sinnott'  of  Ballynant,  Pierce  '  Sin- 
nott'  of  House  wood,  and  John  Synnott  of  Kilcotty, 
all  in  the  County  of  Wexford  ;  with  Francis  Synnott 
of  Waterford,  and  Michael  Synnott  of  Graigue,  County 
of  Leitrim. 


QUARTER-MASTER    SYLVESTER   DEVENISH. 

The  Norman  surname  of  'Le  Devenys,'  is  of  the  earli- 
est introduction  into  Ireland.  In  1302,  Nicholas 
*Deveneys'  had  military  summons  for  the  Scottish 
war.     In  1308,  William  'de  Devenys'  was  one  of  the 

*  O'Conor's  Hist  Address,  part  2.  p.  446. 
t  Hardiman's  Galway,  p.  319. 


SARSFIELD'S  HORSE.  163 

Justices  of  the  Irish  Bench  ;  and  in  the  same  year, 
John  'Le  Devenys' had  livery  of  seisin  of  his  lands 
there,  as  holding  in  capite  from  the  Crown.  In  1356, 
Maurice  and  Nicholas  Devenys  were  of  the  influential 
proprietors  of  Kilkenny,  who  in  that  year  elected  John 
Fitz-Oliver  de  la  Freyne  into  the  Shrievalty  of  their 
County.  In  1488,  Richard  Devenys  did  homage  to 
Sir  Richard  Edgecombe  at  Kinsale.*  In  1509,  Pet^r 
'Devenish'  was  a  prebendary  of  Saggard,  in  St. 
Patrick's  Cathedral;  and,  while  in  that  office,  witnessed 
the  surrender  of  the  possessions  of  Glendalough  to  the 
See  of  Dublin.t 

An  old  Family  Pedigree,  however,  derives  this 
Quarter-master  from  Sir  John  Devenish  of  Hellen- 
leagh  in  England,  a  descendant  of  whom,  Edmund 
Devenish,  came  to  Ireland  in  1512,  and  married  a 
daughter  of  Sir  Roland  Penthony.  Their  eldest  son 
George,  the  first  of  the  family  born  in  Ireland,  built 
the  large  mansion  in  the  town  of  Athlone,  (hence 
known  to  a  very  recent  period  as  Court  Devenish) 
where  he  settled  ;  and,  marrying  Cecilia,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Fitzgerald,  was  the  lineal  ancestor  of  the 
above  Sylvester,  as  well  as  of  George  and  Thomas 
Devenish,  who  were  attainted  with  him  in  1691,  all 
being  described  as  'of  Athlone,  County  Westmeath.' 
From  said  George,  likewise  sprung  the  existing 
family  of  Devenish  of  Rush-hill  and  Mountpleasant, 
in  the  County  of  Roscommon.      Edmund,  who  mar- 

*  Harrises  Hibernica,  part  2,  p.  36. 
f  D' Alton's  Archbishops  of  Dublin. 

M  2 


164  RING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

ried  Miss  Penthony,  had  by  her  a  second  son,  James, 
who  was  seised  of  premises  in  the  County  of  Dublin, 
in  1637,  and  was  the  ancestor  of  Major-General  John 
James  Devenish,  in  1728  Governor  of  Courtray  in 
the  Low  Countries. 

It  is  to  be  observed  that  a  Major  Devenish  is  noted 
in  the  Raicdon  Papers  (p.  355)  as  having  been  killed 
in  this  campaign,  in  William's  service  ;  while  a  de- 
spatch of  the  Duke  of  Marlborough  in  1716,  from  the 
camp  before  Dundermond,  mentions  that  a  Colonel 
Devenish  had  proffered  to  bring  over  an  Irish  regi- 
ment to  the  Allies  from  the  service  of  the  '  Enemy,'  a 
proposal  which  was  afterwards  entertained.* 


REGIMENTS    OF    HORSE. 

CLAUD  HAMILTON,  EARL  OF  ABERCORN'S. 


Captamg. 

Lieutenants. 

Comets.           Quarter.  Masters. 

The  Colonel. 

Lieatenant-Colonel. 

Thomas  Corbet, 

Major. 

Gerald  Aylmer. 

Nicholas  Bellew. 

John  Hnrlin. 

John  Rice. 

Thomas  Hiffernan. 

Gerald  Dillon. 

Thomas  Boorke. 

Charles  Redmond. 

*  Murray's  Marlborough  Despatches,  v.  3,  p.  117. 


AB£RCORN*S  HORSE.  165 

COLONEL  CLAUD  HAMILTON,  EARL  OF 
ABERCORN. 

The  Illustrious  House  of  Hamilton  claims  descent 
from  Bernard,  a  noble  of  the  blood  Royal  of  Saxony, 
second  in  command  to  RoUo,  the  renowned  Duke  of 
Normandy,  at  the  close  of  the  ninth  century.  Hum- 
phrey, the  great  grandson  of  this  nobleman,  lived  in  the 
eleventh,  founded  and  endowed  the  Abbey  of  Preaux 
in  Normandy,  and  was  there  buried.  His  son,  Roger 
de  Beaumont,  was  one  of  the  council  who  encouraged 
William  the  Conqueror  to  invade  England ;  and 
Roger's  son,  Robert,  married  the  grand-daughter  of 
Henry  the  First,  King  of  France,  commanded  the 
right  wing  of  the  Conqueror's  army  at  the  great  bat- 
tle of  Hastings,  and  was  created  Earl  of  Leicester  in 
1103.  Robert,  the  third  Earl  of  Leicester,  grandson 
of  the  first,  died  and  was  buried  in  Greece  on  his 
return  from  the  Holy  Land  in  1190.  His  sister, 
having  been  married  to  the  Earl  of  Pembroke,  was 
mother  of  '  Strongbow.'  The  eldest  son  of  the  last 
named  Robert  died  without  issue  ;  his  second  son, 
Roger,  was  Bishop  of  St.  Andrews  ;  and  his  third  son, 
William,  having  been  born  at  Hambledon  in  Leicester- 
shire, took  his  surname  '  de  Hamilton '  from  that 
place,  and  was  the  more  especial  stock  of  the  widely 
extended  families  of  the  name.  About  the  year 
1215,  having  gone  into  Scotland  to  visit  his  sister, 
who  was  married  to  the  Earl  of  Winton,  he  was 
there   well   received  by    the   Scottish   King,   under 


166  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

whose  favour  he  settled  there,  and  intermarried  with 
the  daughter  and  representative  of  the  Earl  of 
Strathem.  His  son,  Sir  Gilbert,  married  Isabella, 
niece  to  Sir  Robert  Bruce,  and  their  son  particularly 
distinguished  himself  at  Bannockburn,  on  whose  field 
he  was  knighted.  It  is  of  family  tradition  that  Sir 
Gilbert,  the  younger  son  of  this  knight,  having  spoken 
in  honorable  terms  of  Robert  Bruce  at  the  Court  of 
King  Edward  in  1325,  received  a  taunting  insult 
from  John  de  Spencer,  and  a  rencontre  was  the  con- 
sequence, in  which  the  latter  fell.  Hamilton,  there- 
upon, a  stranger  as  he  was,  apprehensive  of  court 
influence  and  resentment  against  him,  fled  for  Scot- 
land ;  when,  being  closely  pursued  into  a  forest,  he 
and  his  servant  change^l  clothes  with  two  wood- 
cutters, and,  taking  their  Kaw,  were  cutting  through 
an  oak  tree  when  their  purwui^rs  came  up.  Perceiving 
his  servant's  attention  UMt  much  fixed  upon  them,  he 
hastily  reminded  him  of  the  part  he  was  to  act,  by  the 
word  ^through;'  rebuked  by  which  presence  of  mind, 
the  servant  resumed  his  work,  the  pursuers  passed 
unsuspectingly,  and  Sir  Gilbert  adopted  the  call 
^throughy  with  the  oak  tree  and  saw,  as  his  motto  and 
crest.  Such  were  the  armorials  of  the  Earl  of  Aber- 
com,  and  the  many  Hamiltons  that  succeeded  of  that 
stock.  Soon  after  Sir  Gilbert's  arrival  in  Scotland,  he 
obtained  a  grant  of  the  Barony  of  Cadzow  in  Lanark- 
shire, thenceforth  called  Hamilton.*  In  1346,  Sir 
David  '  Huml)l('t()n '  of  Cadzow,  accompanied   King 

*  Soc  ArchdalTs  Lodged  Piiorago,  v.  5,  p.  88  ct  soq. 


abercorn'8  horse.  167 

David  Bruce  to  the  battle  of  Durham,  where  he  was 
taken  prisoner  with  his  Royal  master  ;  but  having 
been  soon  after  ransomed,  he  was  one  of  the  *  Mag- 
nates  Scotise,'  who  assembled  at  Scone  to  acknowledge 
John,  Earl  of  Carrick,  eldest  son  of  King  Robert  the 
Second,  to  be  undoubted  heir  to  the  throne.  In  1445, 
Sir  John  Hamilton,  grandson  of  the  before  mentioned 
Sir  David  of  Cadzow,  was  joined  with  the  Earl  of 
Angus  in  the  command  of  the  Royal  Army,  on  the 
memorable  occasion  when  the  Earl  of  Douglas  was 
totally  routed.  In  1474,  Sir  James  Hamilton,  Lord 
Hamilton  of  Cadzow,  the  lineal  descendant  of  William 
who  first  assumed  the  name,  was  married  to  the  Prin- 
cess Mary,  eldest  daughter  of  James  the  Second,  King 
of  Scotland.  His  daughter  married  the  Earl  of 
Lennox  and  Damley,  and  was  thus  the  ancestress 
of  James  the  Second  of  this  campaign. 

Having  so  far  written  of  this  noble  family  in  Scot- 
land, its  introduction  into  Ireland  in  the  time  of 
James  the  First,  and  its  rapid  and  honorable  exten- 
sion over  that  kingdom  to  the  time  of  the  Revolution, 
are  subjects  of  more  native  interest.  In  1698,  Hans 
Hamilton,  the  lineal  descendant  of  the  Lords  of  Cad- 
zow,  died  minister  of  Dunlop  in  Scotland.  His  eldest 
son,  James  Hamilton,  was  the  first  of  the  family  who 
settled  in  Ireland  in  his  father's  life-time,  having  been 
sent  thither  with  James  Fullarton,  by  James  the  Sixth, 
afterwards  the  First  of  England,  to  encourage  his  ad- 
herents and  secure  his  interest  in  that  country.  The 
more  prudently  to  efiectuate  which  object,  and  not  to 


168  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

obtrude  the  real  motives  of  their  mission,  they 
assumed  the  character  and  office  of  school-masters, 
and  actually  presided  over  that  Grammar-school 
where  Primate  Usher  received  his  rudiments,  and 
from  which  he  entered  Trinity  College  under  said 
James  Hamilton,  then  a  Fellow  of  tliis  University. 
King  James,  on  his  accession  to  the  Crown  of  Eng- 
land, rewarded  the  services  of  this  his  agent  by  exten- 
sive  grants  of  lands  in  the  County  of  Down,  and  con- 
ferred on  him  successively  the  honour  of  Knighthood 
and  the  titles  of  Viscount  Claneboy  and  Earl  of  Clan- 
brassil,  which  title  became  extinct  on  the  failure  of 
his  line  in  his  grandson  Viscount  Claneboy.  The 
Earl  also  acquired  considerable  estates  in  the  County 
of  Louth,  by  assignment  from  Sir  Nicholas  Bagnal, 
and  having  invited  his  brothers  from  Scotland  to  par- 
ticipate in  the  advantages  which  his  rank,  property 
and  influence  gave  him  in  Ireland,  five  of  them  accord- 
ingly came  over.  Of  these,  Archibald,  the  second 
son  of  Hans,  became  the  ancestor  of  the  Hamiltons  of 
Killileagh  and  Killough ;  Gawen,  the  third  son,  was  an- 
cestor of  Robert  Hamilton  of  Kildare ;  John  Hamilton, 
the  fourth  son,  settling  in  Armagh,  married  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Sir  Robert  Brabazon,  and  from  their 
union  sprang  the  Hamiltons  of  Mount  Hamilton, 
County  of  Carlow,  those  of  Sheep  Hill,  County  of 
Dublin,  and  of  Rock-Hamilton,  County  of  Down. 
William  Hamilton,  the  fifth  son  of  Hans,  was  ancestor 
of  the  lines  of  Bangor,  Tyrella,  Balbriggan,  and  Tolly- 
more  ;  as  was  Patrick  Hamilton  of  the  Hamiltons  of 


abercorn's  horse.  169 

Granshaw,  and  Mount  Clithero,  some  of  whom 
returned  to  Scotland,  while  others  are  yet  established 
in  the  Barony  of  Ardes. 

In  1615,  James  Hamilton  of  Cadzow  acquired  the 
manor  of  Drumkea,  with  the  Islands  in  the  County  of 
Fermanagh  ;  which  he  afterwards  sold  to  John  Arch- 
dall,  who  took  out  a  fresh  patent  thereof  Robert 
Hamilton  likewise  then  acq;uired  considerable  estates 
in  that  County,  and  Sir  Claud  Hamilton  became 
seized  of  upwards  of  3,000  acres  in  the  County  of 
Cavan,  as  were  other  members  of  this  family  of  differ- 
ent tracts  therein.  In  1618,  James,  the  second  Earl 
of  Abercorn,  eldest  son  of  the  first,  was  created  Lord 
Hamilton,  Baron  of  Strabane  ;  which  honor  was  how- 
ever, on  his  Lordship's  petition,  transferred  to  his  next 
brother,  the  Honorable  Claud  Hamilton,  who  had 
married  a  daughter  of  the  first  Marquis  of  Huntly, 
and  died  in  1638,  leaving  by  her  Sir  James,  his  eldest 
son.  Lord  Strabane,  who  was  drowned  in  1655 ;  when 
the  title  devolved  upon  Claud,  the  fourth  Lord  Stra- 
bane, and  fifth  Earl  of  Abercorn,  he  having  been  the 
son  and  heir  of  George  Hamilton,  (the  brother  of 
James)  by  a  sister  of  Richard  Fagan  of  Feltrim, 
hereafter  mentioned,  a  Captain  in  the  Royal  Regiment 
of  Infantry ;  and  this  Earl  Claud  was  the  Colonel  of 
the  present  Regiment  of  Horse. 

Other  sons  of  James,  the  first  Earl  of  Abercorn, 
besides  James  the  second  Earl,  and  Claiide  the  third, 
were  Sir  William  Hamilton,  who  died  s.p.,  and  George 
of  Dunalong,  created  a  Baronet  of  Ireland  in  1660,  for 


170  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

his  services  to  the  Royal  cause.  His  issue  will  be 
alluded  to  hereafter.  The  Acts  of  Settlement  and 
Explanation,  in  1662-5,  contained  a  saving  for 
arrears  due  to  this  Sir  George,  and  also  an  appropri- 
ation of  one  third  of  the  estate  of  Sir  Nicholas 
Plunkett  for  him.  In  1673,  he  was  commissioned  by 
the  Earl  of  Essex,  then  Lord  Lieutenant  of  Ireland, 
on  the  King's  order,  to  recruit  a  Regiment  of  Infantry 
for  the  service  of  France,  which  was  ultimately  raised 
and  did  active  duty  under  Turenne  on  the  Rhine,  in 
that  year  and  the  ensuing.* 

The  Colonel  at  present  under  consideration 
attended  King  James  from  France  to  Ireland  ;  on 
his  arrival  in  Dublin,  was  sworn  of  the  Privy  Council, 
and  sat  in  the  Parliament  of  1689.t  He  was 
engaged  in  Lord  Mount-Cashers  unsuccessful  expedi- 
tion against  the  Enniskilleners,  and  was  wounded  on 
that  occasion.  On  the  28th  of  April,  1688,  when 
James  Hamilton,  who  afterwards  succeeded  to  the 
Peerage,  had  brought  arms  and  ammunition  into 
Derry,  this  Lord  Claud,  says  Walker,  in  his  work  on 
the  siege,  (p.  23)  "  came  up  to  our  walls,  making  us 
many  proposals  and  offering  his  King's  pardon,  protec- 
tion, and  favour,  if  we  would  surrender  the  town;  but 
these  fine  words  had  no  place  with  the  Garrison." 
After  the  defeat  at  the  Boyne,  when  the  Duke  of  Ber- 
wick sought  to  rally  about  7,000  foot  at  Brazeel,  near 
Dublin,  three  of  the  troops,  sent  out  by  King  James 

*  O'Conor's  Military  Memoirs,  p.  87. 
t  Somers'  State  Tracts,  v.  11,  p.  434. 


abercorn's  horse.  171 

to  cover  his  retreat,  were  of  Abercorn's  Horse.  This 
colonel  himself  subsequently  embarked  for  France 
with  James,  but  lost  his  life  on  the  voyage.  He  was 
attainted  in  1691,  the  earliest  act  of  his  treason 
having  been  assigned  to  the  1st  of  March,  1688.  The 
Inquisition  held  on  his  outlawry  at  Strabane,  finds 
him  to  have  been  seized  of  an  immense  tract  of 
townlands  in  the  County  of  Tyrone,  with  sundry 
chief  rents  and  tenements.  On  his  attainder,  the 
estates  and  title  of  Strabane  became  forfeited,  but  the 
Earldom  descended  to  his  brother  Charles,  who,  far- 
ther obtaining  a  reversal  of  Lord  Claud's  outlawry, 
succeeded  to  the  restored  title  of  Strabane,  and  died 
in  1701  without  issue,  when  the  honours  and  estates 
devolved  upon  his  kinsman, 


JAMES  HAMILTON: 

Who  had  been  in  the  military  service  and  confidence 
of  James  the  Second,  but,  espousing  the  cause  of  Wil- 
liam, took,  as  before  suggested,  a  distinguished  part 
at  the  siege  of  Derry  against  his  former  master.*  He 
arrived  in  that  city  on  the  20th  of  March,  1688,  from 
England,  with  arms  and  ammunition  for  the  citizens, 
and  a  Conmiission  for  Colonel  Lundy  to  be  Governor; 
whereupon  William  and  Mary  were  proclaimed  the 
sovereigns  in  that  city.      In  June,  1690,  previous  to 


*  Burke's  Peerage,  pp.  1  &  2. 


172  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

the  battle  of  the  Boyne,  this  James  Hamilton  was  ixj- 
commended  to  the  especial  notice  of  Sir  Robert  South- 
well, then  King  William's  Irish  Secretary,  by  a  letter 
from  Colonel  Fitz-patrick,  in  which  he  said,  "  the 
bearer  hereof.  Colonel  James  Hamilton,  married  the 
Earl  of  Monmouth's  sister  ;  he  has  the  best  estate  of 
all  the  Hamiltons  in  the  North  of  Ireland,  is  a  very 
rational  and  well  affected  gentleman,  and  as  such  I 
recommend  him  to  you.  If  there  he  any  occasion  to 
employ  stick  men,  you  will  find  him  an  honest  sober 
man."*  On  the  death  of  Colonel  Lord  Claud  in  1701, 
this  latter  individual  succeeded  to  the  titles,  and  in 
1706  took  his  seat  in  the  Scottish  Parliament.  Ire- 
land however  was  his  usual  place  of  residence,  and  of 
that  realm  he  was  in  December,  1701,  created  Baron 
Mountcastle  and  Viscount  Strabane.  He  had 
married  Elizabeth,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Sir  Robert 
Reading,  Baronet,  of  Dublin,  by  whom  he  had  nine 
sons  and  four  daughters,  and  died  in  November, 
1734.t 

There  were  various  other  Hamiltons  concerned  at 
each  side  in  this  unfortunate  Civil  War.  On  James's 
side  were  also, 

BRIGADIER-GENERAL    RICHARD 
HAMILTON, 

Of  whose  policy,  the  Commissioners,  who  were  sent 

♦  Thorpe's  Cat.  SouthweU  MSS.,  p.  179. 
f  Burke's  Peerage,  p.  2. 


abercorn's  horse.  173 

over  to  St.  Gemiains  to  complain  of  Tyrconnel, 
expressed  great  dissatisfaction  *  they  considering  it 
temporising.  His  name  appears  on  the  establishment 
of  1687-8,  as  one  of  the  Brigadiers  on  pay  of  £497 
10s.  He  was  a  Roman  Catholic,  the  fifth  son  of  the 
aforesaid  Sir  George  Hamilton  of  Donalong,  and  had 
served  with  considerable  reputation  in  France  ;  but 
was  banished  from  that  country  on  account  of  his  un- 
pardonably  aspiring  addresses  to  the  Princess  de 
Conti,  the  daughter  of  the  French  King.  He  was  the 
officer  whom  Tyrconnel  entrusted  with  the  command 
of  2,500  men,  to  make  head  against  the  rebels  in 
Ulster,  and  whose  partial  success  against  them  at 
Dromore,  and  forcing  them  back  to  Coleraine,  was  the 
first  auspicious  intelligence  which  King  James 
learned  on  his  arrival  in  Dublin.  He  forced  the  pass 
at  Clareford,  "  his  horse  swimming  across  the  water, 
because  the  enemy  had  broke  the  bridge :"!  and  had 
afterwards  the  important  confidential  command  of  the 
army  besieging  Deny.  On  the  15th  June,  1689,  he 
caused  the  boom  to  be  drawn  across  the  Foyle,  to  pre- 
vent  the  entry  of  expected  vessels  for  the  relief  of 
that  city.  It  was  by  his  advice  King  James  took  the 
precaution  of  stationing  Sir  Neill  O'Neill,  with  his 
Dragoons,  at  the  ford  of  the  Boyne  near  Slane,J  and  on 
the  day  of  the  battle  he  led  a  Regiment  of  Infantry  to 
the  very  margin  of  that  river,  to  oppose  the  passage 
of  King  William's  forces.     In  the  last  charge,  he  was 

♦  Clarke's  James  II.  vol.  2,  p.  423.         f  l^em,  v.  2,  p.  331. 
X  D'Alton  s  Drogheda,  v.  2,  p.  823. 


174  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

routed,  wounded  and  taken  prisoner.  On  the  close  of 
the  campaign  he  betook  himself  to  France,  where,  in 
1696,  at  Calais,  the^oyal  Exile,  possibly  under  some 
expectation  of  an  invasion  for  the  assertion  of  his 
restoration,  confirmed  him  Lieutenant-General  of  his 
forces,  and  in  a  few  days  after  appointed  him  Master  of 
the  Robes.*  Leslie  says  that  throughout  his^  service 
in  Ulster  he  zealously  protected  the  Protestants,  and 
kept  his  soldiers  under  strict  discipline-f 

Another  officer  of  this  name  and  service,  but  not 
commissioned  on  this  Roll,  though  afterwards  ap- 
pointed the  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  Lord  Mount- 
CasheFs  Infantry,  was 

COLONEL  ANTHONY  COUNT  HAMILTON. 

He  had  distinguished  himself  in  the  command  of  the 
Regiment  which  his  father.  Sir  George  Hamilton  of 
Dunalong,  had,  as  before  mentioned,  raised  in  1673, 
and  was  honored  with  the  rank  of  Major-General  by 
the  French  King.  In  1676,  he  served  under  the 
Duke  of  Luxemburg  in  Alsace.  (See  of  him,  post^ 
at  Lord  Mount-CasheFs  Infantry.)  He  had  a  brother 
the  more  remarkable  and  truly  gallant 

GEORGE  COUNT  HAMILTON ; 

Of  whom,  although  not  strictly  within  the  proposed 

•  Clarke's  James  II.,  v.  2,  p.  643. 
t  Leslie's  Answer  to  King. 


abercorn's  horse.  175 

scope  of  these  Illustrations,  it  may  be  said  that, 
having  been,  some  years  previous  to  this  Civil  War, 
banished  on  account  of  his  persecuted  creed  from  the 
Court  of  Charles  the  Second,  he  commanded  an  Irish 
Regiment  under  Louis  the  Fourteenth,  and  was 
engaged  in  the  campaigns  of  1673-5  under  Marshal 
Turenne.  In  the  latter  year,  when  Turenne  fell  by 
a  cannon  ball,  the  French  army  was  saved  from  utter 
destruction  by  this  gaUant  Irishman,  as  very  fully  and 
graphically  detailed  in  O'Conor's  ^Recollections  of  Swit- 
zerland.^ In  1676,  he  was  serving  under  the  Prince 
de  Conde ;  but  on  the  march  towards  Sauveme,  was 
killed  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Zebernstieg,  with  a 
large  part  of  the  three  Regiments  which  he  commanded, 
and  but  for  whose  gallant  conduct  the  French  would, 
as  on  the  former  occasion,  have  been  entirely  cut 
down. 

So  numerous  nevertheless  were  the  Hamiltons,  who 
espoused  the  cause  of  King  William,  even  before  his 
coming  over  to  Ireland,  that,  in  King  James's  Parlia- 
ment  of  May,  1689,  no  le3s  than  forty-six  of  the  name 
were  attainted  or  otherwise  proscribed.  Colonel  Gus- 
tavus  Hamilton,  it  may  be  mentioned,  particularly 
distinguished  himself  for  William  at  the  battle  of  the 
Boyne ;  and  yet  more  signally  by  wading  through  the 
Shannon,  and  storming  the  town  of  Athlone,  at  the 
head  of  the  English  Grenadiers. 

George  Hamilton,  fifth  son  of  the  Earl  of  Selkirk? 
likewise  distinguished  himself  at  the  Boyne  under  the 
same  Monarch,  as  well  as  at  Aughrim  in  1691,  at 


176  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Steenkirk  in  1692,  and  at  Landen  in  the  following 
year.  By  reason  of  all  which  and  other  military 
achievements,  he  was  in  1695  advanced  to  the  Peerage 
as  Earl  of  Orkney,  and  had  grants  of  a  considerable 
proportion  of  the  private  estates  of  King  James  in 
Ireland.  In  1704,  he  acquitted  himself  heroically  at 
the  battle  of  Blenheim  ;  in  1706,  was  at  the  siege  of 
Menin ;  in  1708,  commanded  the  van  of  the  army  at 
the  passing  of  the  Scheldt,  assisted  at  the  siege  of 
Tournay,  was  at  the  battle  of  Malplaquet,  and  render- 
ed numerous  other  services,  which  were  rewarded  with 
a  succession  of  honors  to  the  time  of  his  death  in 
1736. 

In  1691,  Henry  Hamilton  of  Baillieborough, 
(lineal  ancestor  of  James  Hans  Hamilton,  Esq.  of 
Sheep-Hill,  one  of  the  present  Members  of  Parliament 
for  the  County  of  Dublin,)  was  killed  on  the  walls  of 
Limerick.  The  outlawries  of  this  year  exhibit  the 
names  of  the  above  Earl  of  Abercorn,  Darby  Hamil- 
ton of  Athlone ;  John,  Richard,  and  Anthony  Hamil- 
ton of  Dublin  ;  Robert  of  Hamilton's-Bawn,  County 
of  Armagh  ;  and  Richard  and  John  Hamilton  of 
Pennyburn-Mill,  County  of  Londonderry.  In  1693, 
a  petition  was  got  up  on  behalf  of  the  British  Protes- 
tants of  Ireland,  setting  forth  their  services  in  estab- 
lishing English  Government,  and  suggesting  that,  as 
intentions  were  avowed  by  certain  outlawed  exiles,  of 
bringing  writs  of  error  to  reverse  their  attainders,  the 
petitioners  therefore  prayed  securities  from  the  Legis- 
lature against  any  such  attempts.     This  document 


abercorn's  horse.  177 

was  signed  by  James  Hamilton,  M.P.  for  the 
Borough  of  Tullamore,  another  James  Hamilton,  one 
of  the  Representatives  of  the  County  of  Down,  and 
Hans  Hamilton,  M.P.  for  Killileagh.* 

At  the  Court  of  Claims  in  1700,  the  charges  which 
were  sought  to  be  established  against  this  Earl  of 
Abercorn's  estates  were,  by  William  Hamilton,  who 
claimed,  and  was  allowed,  as  "  grandson  and  heir  of 
William,  who  was  son  and  heir  of  William  Hamilton," 
a  fee  farm  by  descent  in  the  Tyrone  lands  forfeited  by 
the  Earl.  James  Hamilton,  senior,  claimed  and  was 
allowed  sundry  other  interests  therein,  as  was  also 
John  Hamilton ;  while  Lady  Elizabeth,  Baroness  Dow- 
ager of  Strabane,  claimed  dower  thereoff ;  and  many 
creditors  and  sub-lessees  petitioned  for  the  benefit  of 
their  several  interests.  Colonel  Gustavus  Hamilton 
also  sought  and  was  allowed  the  amount  of  sundry 
bond-debts  against  this  estate.  On  the  same  occasion, 
Anne  Hamilton,  widow  of  Sir  Robert  Hamilton, 
Knight,  and  others,  as  Executors  of  James  Hamilton 
deceased,  claimed  and  were  allowed  a  judgment  debt 
charged  on  the  estates  of  Valentine  Russell  attainted. 


COLONEL  JOHN  HAMILTON 

Is  particularly  mentioned  hereafter,  as  the  Colonel  of 
an  Infantry  Regiment. 

•  Rawdon  Papers,  pp.  372-3. 


178  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

In  relation  to  the  Balbriggan  Hamiltons,  (sprung 
from  William,  the  fifth  son,  as  before  mentioned,  of 
the  Keverend  Hans  Hamilton,  the  lineal  descendant 
of  the  Lords  of  Cadzow,)  Alexander,  who  from  the 
year  1739  to  1760  represented  the  Borough  of  Kil- 
lileagh  in  the  Irish  Parliament,  became  the  purchaser 
of  Balbriggan,  which  passed  on  his  decease  to  his 
son,  the  Honorable  George  Hamilton,  member  of  Par- 
liament for  Belfast,  afterwards  a  Baron  of  the  Ex- 
chequer, and  yet  more  distinguished  for  public  spirit 
in  promoting  the  trade  and  welfare  of  his  country. 
He  died  at  Oswestry  in  1793,  and  was  buried  in  the 
family  vault  at  Balrothery.  Alexander  had  another 
son,  Hugh,  a  Fellow  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  Dean 
of  Armagh,  next  advanced  to  the  See  of  Clonfert,  and 
afterwards  to  that  of  Ossory.  On  the  Baron's  death, 
the  Balbriggan  property  descended  to  his  son,  the 
Reverend  George  Hamilton,  and  from  him  to  his  son, 
George  Alexander  Hamilton,  heretofore  a  member  of 
Parliament  for  the  City  of  Dublin,  and  now  for  its 
University.  He  is  the  lineal  descendant  in  the 
twenty-fifth  degree  from  Bernard,  the  nobleman  of 
Saxony  noticed  as  the  founder  of  the  Family  of 
Hamilton ;  and  this  long  line  of  ancestry  could  not  be 
more  proudly  represented  in  honour,  integrity,  and 
honesty  of  purpose  than  by  George  Alexander  Hamil- 
ton. 


abercorn's  horse.  179 


MAJOR  THOMAS  CORBET. 

This  surname  is  traced  on  Irish  record  from  the  time 
of  Edward  the  Third,  in  which  reign  John  '  Corbett ' 
was  'Constable'  of  the  Castle  of  Limerick.  It  is  not, 
however,  associated  with  the  character  of  achieve- 
ment that  marks  the  chief  families  of  this  '  List.'  In 
1655,  Miles  Corbet,  one  of  the  Regicides,  of  whom  a 
full  account  is  given  in  '  The  History  of  the  County 
of  Dublin^  (p.  194)  was  appointed  Chief  Baron  of 
the  Irish  Exchequer,  and  was  subsequently  one  of  the 
Commissioners  of  the  Great  Seal  of  Chancery.  The 
above  Major  Thomas,  having  risen  in  the  campaign, 
appears  to  have  been  the  'Lieutenant-Colonel  Cor- 
bet,'  who,  according  to  Story,  "  came  to  De  Ginkle, 
and  proposed  the  bringing  over  of  Tyrconnel's  and 
Gralmoy's  Regiments  of  Horse,  and  out  of  them  to 
make  one  good  regiment  to  serve  their  Majesties  in 
Flanders,"  provided  he  should  have  the  command. 

Another   Corbet  was    appointed   Major  of 

Colonel  Dudley  Bagnall's  Infantry,  as  noted  post. 


CAPTAIN  GERALD  AYLMER. 

This  family,  (which  deduces  its  descent  from  Saxon 
times,  from  Ailmer  Earl  of  Cornwall,  who  lived  in  the 
reign  of  King  Ethelred,)  settled  in  the  County  of 
Kildare  at  the  close  of  the  thirteenth  centuiy.     In 

N  2 


180  KING  JAMES'8  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

1525,  Sir  (Jerald  Aylmer  was  advanced  to  the  Chief 
Justiceship  of  the  Common  Pleas,  and  in  1535,  was 
made  Chief  Baron  ;  in  which  latter  year  Richard 
Aylmer  was  appointed  Chief  Sergeant  of  the  County 
of  Kildare.  He  was  then  residing  at  Lyons  in  that 
County,  which  became  thenceforth,  as  in  truth  it  had 
long  previously  been,  the  ancestral  seat  of  the  elder 
stock.  'From  him  in  the  direct  line  descended  George 
Aylmer,  hereafter  alluded  to  as  a  Captain  in  Colonel 
Roger  Mac  EUigott's  Infantry.  Gerald,  the  third  son 
of  Richard,  settled  at  Donadea,  was  knighted  in  1605, 
became  a  Baronet  in  1621,  and  his  line  is  still  re- 
presented in  Sir  Grerald  George  Aylmer  of  Donadea 
Castle,  Premier  Baronet ;  while  another,  that  of  Bal- 
rath  or  Dollardstown,  was  founded  by  the  Right 
Honourable  Gerald  Aylmer,  Knight,  second  son  of 
Bartholomew  Aylmer  of  Lyons.  lie  was  appointed 
one  of  the  Justices  of  the  Common  Pleas  in  Ireland 
in  1532;  promoted  to  the  Exchequer  in  1534;  in 
1535,  further  elevated  to  the  Chief  Justiceship  of  the 
Common  Pleas  ;  in  which  latter  year,  on  the  occasion 
of  the  Battle  of  Bellahoa,  where  the  forces  of  the  Pale 
defeated  O'Neill,  this  Chief  Justice  was,  with  Talbot 
of  Malahide  and  the  Mayors  of  Dublin  and  Drogheda, 
respectively  knighted  on  the  field ;  and,  as  Cox 
observes,  "well  they  merited  the  honor  for  their  good 
service  in  obtaining  so  great  a  victory,  which  broke 
the  power  of  the  North  and  quieted  the  borders  for 
some  years."*     In  1553,  he  was  appointed  Lord  Chief 

♦  D' Alton  s  Drogheda,  v.  2,  p.  193. 


abercorn's  horse.  181 

Justice  of  the  Queen's  Bench.  His  descendant,  Mat- 
thew Aylmer,  a  distinguished  naval  oflScer,  was  in 
1692  appointed  Rear  Admiral  of  the  Red  Squadron, 
and  sent  to  the  Mediterranean,  where  he  acquired 
great  reputation  by  his  management  in  arranging 
treaties  with  the  various  states  of  Northern  Africa. 
He  for  some  time  represented  Dover  in  Parliament, 
and  was  raised  to  the  Peerage  of  Ireland  in  1718,  by 
the  title  of  Lord  Aylmer,  Baron  of  Balrath,  a  dignity 
which  still  exists.  Of  his  line  was  the  above  Captain 
Gerald. 

On  the  dissolution  of  Monasteries,  Nicholas  Aylmer 
acquired  parcels  of  the  possessions  of  the  respective 
religious  houses  of  Monasterevan  and  Naas,  County  of 
Kildare,  and  of  the  Commandery  of  Knights  Hospital- 
lers  of  Killure,  County  of  Waterford.  Garret  Aylmer 
was  one  of  the  gentry  who  attended  in  1641  the 
meeting  on  Crofty  Hill. 

The  Act  of  Settlement  (1662)  contained  a  saving 
for  Sir  Andrew  Aylmer  of  Donadea  of  his  estate,  while 
the  clause  of  Royal  Thanks  therein,  for  "  services 
beyond  the  seas,"  includes  the  name  of  Captain  Gar- 
ret Aylmer. 

In  Colonel  Roger  Mac  Elligott's  Infantry,  George 
Aylmer  was,  as  before  suggested,  a  Captain  ;  while 

Peter  Aylmer  was  a  Lieutenant. At  the  siege  of 

Deny  in  1689,  Sir  Garret  Aylmer  was  taken  prisoner, 
nor  was  he  released  on  exchange  until  May,  1691.* 
^The  Aylmers  attainted  in  the  last  year  were 

•  Story's  Impartial  History,  part  2,  p.  76. 


182  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Gerald  or  Garret  Aylmer  of  Balrath,  George  Ayl- 
raer  of  Caronstown,  Christopher  and  Richard  of  Senes- 
chalstown,  Garret  of  Lyons,  George  of  Dublin,  Gar- 
ret of  Pennybum-mill,  County  of  Deny,  Knight,  and 
Lady  Ellen  Aylmer  of  Sallins.  Sir  Gerald  Aylmer 
was  held  entitled  to  the  benefit  of  the  Articles  of 
Limerick^  as  were   also  Peter  Aylmer   and   Colonel 

George  (of  whom  post). In  1705,  a  'Mr.  Aylmer,' 

having  memorialled  for  leave  to  return  to  Ireland, 
his  petition  was  referred  to  Sir  Richard  Cox,  who  at 
the  close  of  September  in  that  year  writes,  "  I  don't 
see  any  great  difficulty  in  it  ;  he  must  by  Act  of  Par- 
liament pay  40  shillings  per  annum  to  a  Free 
School,  and  his  licence  costs  about  30s.  to  the  several 
officers  ;  and  it  cannot  be  of  any  consequence,  that  a 
few  silly  fellows  may  be  suffered  to  eat  potatoes  and 
spend  their  money  in  their  native  country.''  A  few 
days  after  he  writes,  ''  I  won't  bum  my  fingers  about 
Aylmer  ;   if  there  be  any  difficulty  in  it,  let  it  alone." 

At  the  Battle  of  Lauffield,  in  1747,    'Elmer,'  a 
Lieutenant  in  Clare's  Regiment,  was  wounded. 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  RICE. 

This  name  is  recognised  in  Ireland  since  the  thirteenth 
century.  In  1294,  John  Rice  was  Lord  Treasurer  of 
this  Kingdom.  In  the  fifteenth,  the  name  appears 
amongst  the  Corporate  Officials  of  Limerick,  of  which 
town,  Walter  Rice  was  Mayor  in  1520.     In  the  reign 


abercorn's  horse.  183 

of  Elizabeth,  Stephen  Rice  came  over  as  an  under- 
taker, and  settled  at  Dingle  in  Kerry,  which  County 
he  represented  in  the  Parliaments  of  King  James  the 
First.  He  married  Ellen  Trant,  and  died  in  1622,  as 
commemorated  by  an  old  gravestone  in  the  churchyard 
of  Dingle,  whereon  it  is  stated  that  his  age  at  the 
time  of  his  decease  was  80  years,  and  that  his  '  loyal 
wife,'  EUena  Trant,  who  died  five  years  before  him, 
lies  there  also. — His  eldest  son  and  heir,  James  Rice, 
stiled  of  Ballinruddell,  first  married  Eleanor,  daughter 
of  Robert  White  of  Limerick,  and  secondly,  Phillis 
Fanning  of  Limerick,  by  which  last  wife  he  left  issue 
eight  sons  and  three  daughters.  His  eldest  son,  James, 
who  succeeded  to  the  family  estate,  was  attainted  in 

1 642,    and  his   confiscation    was    granted   to 

MuUins ;  while  James's  son  and  heir,  Edward  Rice, 
(who  was  one  of  the  Confederate  Catholics  at  Kilken- 
ny  in  1646),  marrying  Alice,  daughter  of  Sir  William 
Sheircliffe,  one  of  Cromwell's  officers,  acquired  through 
her  the  estate  of  Castle-Gregory,  theretofore  forfeited 
by  one  of  the  Husseys.  Stephen  Rice,  the  fifth  son  of 
said  James,  by  Phillis  Fanning,  was  in  1685  ap- 
pointed a  Privy  Councillor,  and  in  1686  a  Baron  of 
the  Irish  Exchequer,  though  '  a  papist,'  his  taking 
the  oath  of  supremacy  having  been  dispensed  with.* 
In  the  following  year  he  was  made  Chief  Baron,  and 
knighted,  was  of  Tyrconnel's  suite  in  the  interview 
with  King  James  at  Chester,  and  was  the  chief  agent 
in  representing  to  His  Majesty  such  an  aspect  of  Irish 

♦  Clarendon's  State  Letters,  v.  2,  p.  420. 


•184  RLNG  James's  irish  army  list. 

'  feeling  as  he  thought  he  was  justified  in  offering. 
On  Tyrconners  departure  for  France,  Sir  Stephen 
Rice  was  left  by  him,  joined  in  commission  with  Sir 
Richard  Nagle,  for  the  government  of  Ireland  ;  and  it 
is  said  that  the  unexecuted  patents  for  making  him, 
Sir  Patrick  Trant,  and  Robert  Grace,  Peers  of  Ire^ 
land,  were  found  at  Dublin  Castle  on  King  William's 
arrival  there.*  Sir  Stephen  was  attainted  in  1691, 
but  adjudged  within  the  articles  of  Limerick.  His 
exertions,  in  opjwsing  the  passing  of  the  unfortunate 
Bill  "  to  prevent  the  further  growth  of  Popery,"  are 
alluded  to  ante^  at  Lord  Galmoy,  p.  104.  After  the 
Revolution  he  remained  in  Ireland  in  possession  of  a 
large  property,  died  in  1714,  and  was  buried  in  St. 
James's  churchyard,  Dublin,  with  many  of  his  fellow 
labourers  in  the  Stuart  cause,  and  more  especially 
beside  Sir  Toby  Butler.  By  his  will,  he  left  his 
estates  chiefly  to  his  eldest  son,  Edward  Rice  ;  but, 
as  Sir  Stephen  died  *  a  Papist,'  these  estates  would 
have  passed  in  gavel  had  not  Edward  conformed, 
which  he  did,  and  died  himself  in  1720,t  having 
erected  a  costly  monument  over  his  father's  grave. 
The  other  sons  of  Sir  Stephen,  by  his  wife  Mary 
Fitzgerald,  were  James  and  Thomas.J  His  lady 
survived  him,  and  was  executrix  of  his  will. 

In  King  James's  new  Chaiiiers,  Francis  Rice,  mer- 
chant,  was  a  Burgess  in  that  to  Dublin ;  while  in  that 

♦  Memoirs  of  the  Grace  Family,  p.  42. 

t  Howard's  Popery  Cases,  p.  71,  &c. 

X  Archdairs  Lodge's  Peerage,  v.  2,  p.  54. 


ABEROPRX'S  horse:  18i5 

to  Limerick,  John  Rice  Fitz-William,  John  Rice  Fitz^ ' 
Edward,  and  the  above  Sir'  Stephen  Rice  were  Bip:- . 
gesses,  the  latter  being  also  named  an  Alderman  in 
the  Charter  to  Waterfbrd.    Peter  Rice  was  a  Burgess 
in  that  to  Ennis,  as  was  Robert  in  that  to  Einsale. 

^ In  the  Parliament  of  1689,  Edward  was  one  of 

the  Representatives  of  the  Borough  of  Askeaton,  as 
was  Edward  Fitz- James  Rice,  of  Ballinleggin,  County 
of  Limerick,  (who  had  been  previously  Sheriff  of 
Limerick)  one  of  those  for  the  Borough  of  Dingle-i- 
couch. 

Of  the  few  contemporaneous  documents  that  have 
been  sent  in  to  aid  those  Illustrations,  one  concerns 
the  above  Captain.  It  is  an  order  from  the  Colonel 
of  this  Regiment  to  Alderman  John  Leonard  of  Lim- 
erick, directing  him  to  pay  to  this  Captain  John  Rice 
the  sum  of  £175  ;  "being  the  proportion  that  comes 
to  him  for  the  *  mounting*  our  two  troops,  he  '  given' 
you  his  receipt  for  it.^  The  order  is  dated  9th  of 
March,  1689,  three  days  before  the  King  landed  at 
Kinsale,  and  the  receipt  is  indorsed  14th,  two  days 
after  that  event. .  Another  John  Rice  was  a  Captain 
in  Colonel  Charles  O'Bryan's  Infantry,  and  either  of 
these  Johns  appears  identical  with  the  Colonel  John 
Rice,  who,  after  the  surrender  of  Limerick,  brought  in 
to  King  William  a  Regiment  of  Horse,  on  the  faith 
of  being  received  into  the  establishment  on  English 
pay. 

The  Rices  attainted  in  1691  were  Edward  Rice  of 
Askeaton,  Edward  Fitz- James  Rice  of  Ballyquelig, 


186  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

County  of  Limerick,  John  Rice  of  Clonee,  County  of 
Carlow,  John  Rice  of  Limerick,  merchant,  and  David 
of  Dingle,  County  of  Kerry ;  while  Nicholas  and  Tho- 
mas  Rice  were  adjudged  within  the  Articles  of  Lime- 
rick.  Edward  Rice  forfeited  a  fishing  weir  and  some 

lands  and  tenements  in  Kerry,  with  very  large  estates 
in  Limerick ;  portions  charged  upon  which  were 
claimed  by  his  only  daughter  Elizabeth,  wife  of 
Thomas  Arthur,  and  by  others.  Claims  were  also 
made  at  Chichester  House  by  Thomas  Rice  for  a 
leasehold  mortgage  on  Kerry  lands,  forfeited  by  Ni- 
cholas Skiddy  ;  the  deed  creating  the  incumbrance 
was  witnessed  by  Dominick  Rice,  Thomas  Rice,  &c. 
and  the  claim  was  allowed.  Thomas  Rice  and  Mary 
his  wife  claimed  and  were  allowed  a  portion,  charged 
by  the  will  of  her  father  James  Rice  on  Kerry  lands 
forfeited  by  Edward  Rice.  John  Rice  Fitz- William 
claimed  and  was  allowed  a  freehold  interest  in  lands 
in  the  County  of  Limerick,  forfeited  by  Nicholas 
Browne  and  Helen  his  wife.  Piers  Arthur  and  Mary 
his  wife,  late  widow  of  Edward  Rice  Fitz-James, 
claimed  her  jointure  off  the  lands  of  Ballyneety,  in 
the  County  of  Kerry,  forfeited  by  said  Edward. 

James  Rice,  before  mentioned  as  the  eldest  son  of 
Sir  Stephen  by  his  second  wife,  married  Susanna, 
daughter  of  Sir  Henry  O'Brien,  by  whom  he  had 
issue  two  sons,  Stephen  and  Francis.  Stephen,  the 
eldest  son,  succeeded  at  Mount-Rice,  and  died  in 
1755,  leaving  issue  Stephen,  who  married  the  daugh- 


abercorn's  horse.  187 

ter  of  Joshua  Meredith.*  From  Thomas,  the  second 
son  of  Sir  Stephen,  it  is  alleged  that  Lord  Monteagle 
is  descehded. 

In  1790,  the  Right  Honorable  James  Louis  Count 
Rice,  of  the  Holy  Roman  Empire,  sold  the  lands  of 
Dingle  to  George  Nagle. 


CORNET  THOMAS  HIFFERNAN. 

The  O'Heffernans  possessed  a  territory  about  Corofin 
in  the  County  of  Clare,  called  from  them  Muintir- 
Ifemain,  from  which  stock  a  branch  was  transplanted 
to  the  Barony  of  Owny  and  Arra,  County  of  Tippe- 
rary.  "  Their  war-cry ,**  says  Ware,t  "  was  '  Ceart- 
na-suas-aboe,'  i.  e.  *the  cause  of  right  from  above,' 
alluding  perhaps  to  their  crest,  which  was  an  armed 
hand,  couped  at  the  wrist  and  erect,  holding  a  broken 
sword,  all  proper^  signifying,  as  it  would  seem,  that 
there  was  no  justice  to  be  expected  from  the  sword, 
but  from  the  protection  of  Heaven.*'  Mr.  Hardiman, 
in  his  Irish  Minstrelsy^  has  preserved  a  poem  written 
about  a  century  since,  much  in  the  spirit  of  that 
war-cry  as  Ware  interprets  it,  and  by  an  O'Heffeman, 
William  *dall,'  the  blind.  The  poem  is  entitled 
'  Cliona  of  the  Rock,'  and,  while  the  editor  says  this 
William  "  composed  many  other  poetical  pieces  which 
are  deservedly  popular,"  he  adds,  "  if  he  had  left  no 

*  Archdall's  Lodge's  Peerage,  v.  3,  p.  205. 
t  Antiqiiities,  p.  163. 


188  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

other  than  '  Cliona,'  it  would  be  sufficient  to  rescue 
his  name  firom  oblivion.*'* 

The  Four  Masters  record  the  death  of  Madadain 
O'Heffeman,  Chief  of  Clan-Cruain,  in  1047,  and  an 
engagement,  in  1150,  between  Turlough  O'Brien  on 
the  one  part,  and  the  O'Carrols  and  O'Rourkes  on 
the  other,  wherein  many  of  the  latter  party  and  the 
son  of  0"lfernan'  were  slain.  They  also  make  men- 
tion  of  the  Clan-Hiffernan  at  1170.  In  1543,  ^neas 
O'Hiffernan,  who  had  been  an  Hospitaller  and  Pre- 
ceptor of  Any,  in  the  County  of  Limerick,  was  pre- 
sented to  the  See  of  Emly  on  the  nomination  of  King 
Henry  the  Eighth.f 


CORNET  CHARLES  REDMOND. 

The  origin  and  lineage  of  this  family  are  so  largely 
given  in  Sir  Bernard  Burke's  *  Landed  Gentry,'  that 
reference  to  that  work  will  best  satisfy  inquiry.  On 
Ortelius's  map,  the  Sept  is  located  in  the  Barony  of 
Forth,  County  of  Wexford.  This  Cornet  Charles 
was  a  Burgess  in  King  James's  Charter  to  Enniscor- 
thy.  He  was  attainted  in  1691  by  the  description 
of  Charles  Redmond  of  the  City  of  Dublin,  Gent. ;  as 
were  Alexander  and  Richard  Redmond  as  of  Dun- 
ganstown,  and  John  Redmond  of  Askenmuller,  in  the 
County  of  Wexford.     In  the  Southwell  Collection  of 

•  Hardiman^s  Irish  Minstrelsy,  v,  2,  pp.  25  &  125. 
t  Ware's  Bishops,  p.  499. 


luttrell's  horse. 


189 


State  Manuscripts  were  "  papers  said  to  have  been 
found  about  prisoners  taken  by  Colonel  Wolseley, 
discovering  the  design  of  the  Papists'  meeting  at 
Mullingar,  and  among  them  letters  to  Captain  Red- 
mond, whom  Wolseley  hanged^* 

After  the  Revolution,  some  members  of  the  family 
are  traceable  in  the  French  and  Spanish  services. 


REGIMENTS    OF    HORSE. 

HENRY   LUTTRELL'S. 


CapUMM. 

CcmeU. 

Quarter-Matters, 

The  Colonel. 

Sir  James  Modare 

'♦ 

Lieut-Col. 

Major. 

John  Connor. 

Bryan  Kelly. 

Thady  Connor. 

John  Ash. 

Hanrey  Morris. 

Edmnnd  Power. 

William  Fanning. 

Badmond  Morris. 

Lord  Dnnsanj. 

Gerard  Etcts. 

Ralph  E^ers. 

Thomas  Carew. 

Walter  Lawless. 

James  Lawless. 

Joseph  Cripps. 

Da^id  Fanning. 

John  Oxhni^. 

Thady  Connor. 

COLONEL  HENRY  LUTTRELL. 

The  estate  of  Luttrelstown,  beautifully  situated  in 
the  vale  of  the  Liffey,  was,  after  the  English  Invasion, 

♦  Thorpe's  Catal.  of  Southwell  MSS.  p.  182. 


190  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

granted  by  King  John  to  Sir  Geoffrey  Luttrell.* 
From  him  it  took  that  name,  and  for  centuries  was 
inherited  by  his  descendants.  In  1236,  Robert  Lut- 
trell, then  Treasurer  of  St.  Patrick's  Cathedral,  was 
sworn  Lord  Chancellor  of  Ireland.  In  1534,  Sir 
Thomas  Luttrell,  styled  of  Luttrelstown,  was  ap- 
pointed Chief  Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas ;  and  to 
the  exertions  and  cai^e  of  this  wise  Judge,  posterity 
has  been  indebted  for  the  preservation  of  the  public 
records  and  rolls  of  Chancery,  which  he  found  piled 
in  a  ruinous  tower  of  Dublin  Castle,  at  a  considerable 
distance  from  St.  Patricks,  where  the  Courts  were 
then  kept.  By  an  order  of  Council  he  effected  their 
removal  to  the  Library  of  that  Cathedral,  where  the 
Clerk  of  the  Hanaper  was  ordered  "  to  provide 
presses,  chests,  doors,  locks,  and  all  other  necessaries, 
as  well  in  said  Library  as  in  the  better  portion  of  the 
Tower,  for  their  safe  custody. f"  In  1613,  Thomas 
Luttrell  was  one  of  the  Representatives  of  the  County 
of  Dublin  in  Parliament.  Those  of  the  name  at- 
tainted in  1642  were  Robert  Luttrell  of  Girstown, 
and  Oliver  Luttrell  of  Tankardstown,  County  of 
Meath. 

The  above  Colonel  Henry  Luttrell  was  ancestor  of 
the  Lords  Carhampton,  and  younger  brother  of 
Simon,  hereafter  mentioned.  In  King  James's  Parlia- 
ment of  Dublin  he  was  one  of  the  Representatives  of 
the  County  of  Carlow.    Graham,  in  his  Derriana^ 

*  D'Alton  s  Hist.  Co.  Dublin,  p.  569. 
t  D' Alton  s  Hist.  Drogheda,  v.  2,  p.  190. 


luttrell's  horse.  191 

(p.  29),  ranks  him  as  Colonel  of  the  Sixth  Regiment 
of  Horse,  as  does  the  article  in  Somers'  State  Tracts 
(v.  xi.,  p.  398)  ;  but  the  variance  arises  from  Colonel 
Hugh  Sutherland's  Horse  being  there  placed  between 
Sarsfield's  and  Abercom's,  not  as  here  ;  the  number 
of  the  Horse  Regiments  is  the  same.  A  Spottiswode 
Luttrell  is,  on  a  different  list,  recorded  to  have  com- 
manded, after  the  battle  of  the  Boyne,  an  Indepen- 
dent  Troop.*  Previous  to  that  battle,  when  King 
James  had  fallen  back  upon  Ardee,  he  despatched 
Sarsfield  with  this  Henry  Luttrell's  Horse,  Sir  Neill 
O'Neill's  Dragoons,  and  Charles  Moore's  and  O'Gara's 
Infantry,  to  retard  the  advance  of  King  William. 
This  Regiment  was  afterwards  sent  to  relieve  Sars- 
field  in  Connaught,  against  whom  his  enemy  was 
advancing  from  Ulster.  Colonel  Henry  Luttrell's 
conduct  on  this  occasion  is  much  commended,  and, 
mainly  by  his  exertions,  Sarsfield  was  enabled  to  take 
possession  of  Sligo,  "the  very  key  of  Connaught  on 
that  side."  When  the  '  Young  Ireland'  party  of  that 
day,  in  jealousy  of  Tyrconnel's  policy,  despatched  the 
deputation  to  St.  Germains,  Henry  Luttrel  was  one 
of  those  on  the  mission  chiefly  entrusted  with  their 
complaints,  as  before-mentioned  at '  Tyrconnel,'  ante^ 
p.  54.  He,  in  truth,  "  and  the  native  Irish  used  all 
exertions  to  undermine  the  power  of  Tyrconnel,  and 
denounce  his  adherents  to  public  scorn."  It  was  he, 
tJiey  said,  that  fled  to  Galway  on  the  approach  of 
William  to  Limerick,  and  during  that  first  siege  sup- 

*  Singers  Correspondence  of  Lord  Clarendon,  v.  2,  p.  614. 


192  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

plied  only  beans  and  oats  to  the  garrison,  while 
wheat  was  abundant  in  the  Commissariat.  He  was, 
says  O'Conor,  represented  as  a  coward,  and  was,  in 
fact,  believed  to  be  such  by  the  war  party.  It  was 
with  the  hope  of  refuting  these  too  popular  opinions, 
that  Tyrconnel  passed  over  to  St.  Germains,  there  to 
urge  his  defence  before  James ;  judiciously  giving 
out  that  he  had  that  Monarch's  orders  to  repair  to 
France,  to  give  an  account  of  aflfairs  in  Ireland.* 
The  result  has  been  before  alluded  to. 

The  defeat  at  Aughrim,  says  Burke,f  was  popularly 
attributed  to  Henry  Luttrell's  defection  ;  in  corrobo- 
ration of  which,  the  Williamite  Diary  of  the  last  siege 
of  Limerick,  preserved  in  the  '  Harleian  Collections,' 
(Vol.  vii.,  p.  481),  says,  at  the  18th  August,  1691, 
"  We  had  an  account  this  day  that  Henry  Luttrell 
had  been  lately  seized  at  Limerick,  by  order  of  the 
French  Lieutenant-General,  D'Usson,  for  having  made 
some  proposals  for  a  surrender  of  the  place  ;  and  that 
he  was  sentenced  by  a  Court  Martial  to  be  shot ; 
upon  which  our  General  sent  them  word  by  a  trum- 
pet,  that  if  they  would  put  any  man  to  death  for 
having  a  mind  to  come  over  to  us,  he  would  revenge 
it  on  the  Irish."  He  was  in  truth  on  the  clearest 
evidence  found  guilty  by  Court  Martial,  and  sen- 
tenced  to  remain  in  prison  until  King  James's  plea- 
sure could  be  known ;  but,  on  the  intermediate 
reduction  of  Limerick,  having  been  released,  he  was 

•  O'Conors  Military  Memoirs,  p.  122. 
t  Peerage,  p.  1120. 


luttkell's  horse.  193 

mainly  instrumental  in  enlisting  the  Irish  over  to  the 
English  interest*  Whereupon  he  was  put  upon  the 
new  Establishment  for  a  yeariy  pension  of  £500  ; 
yet  was  he,  together  with  a  Thomas  Luttrell,  both 
described  of  Luttrellstown,  County  of  Dublin,  out- 
lawed in  1691 ;  as  were  Robert  Luttrell  of  Simons- 
town,  County  of  Kildare,  and  William  Luttrell  of 
Dublin,  Junior.  Simon  Luttrell  and  his  wife  were 
likewise  attainted  ;  but  Colonel  Henry  Luttrell,  hav- 
ing obtained  a  custodiam  grant  to  him  of  his  brother's 
lands,  had  in  1694  a  patent  of  exemption  from  the 
rent,  except  the  quit  rents  which  were  payable  thereout 
under  the  Acts  of  Settlement  and  Explanation.  A 
letter  of  his  to  the  Lord  Lieutenant  in  1699  was  in 
the  Southwell  Collection,  written  in  reference  to  his 
sister-in-law.  Colonel  Simon's  lady,  who  had  returned 
into  Ireland  "  by  an  old  pass  of  Lord  Romney  ;"  and 
he  therein  begs  that  he  may  have  permission  ^Ho 
make  use  of  the  outlawry  against  her,  in  case  she 
should  give  me  trouble  by  an  attorney.  She  is  a 
very  intriguing  woman,  and  it  was  thought,  when 
she  went  for  France,  she  went  on  a  very  intriguing 
message.  I  am  sure  I  heard  my  Lord  repent  might- 
ily the  giving  her  a  pass ;  and  I  need  not  tell  your 
Lordship  that  there  will  be  nothing  left  undone  by 
the  Jacobites  here  to  perplex  me  in  this  affair.^f  In 
1702,  he  was  appointed  a  Major-General  in  the  Dutch 
army,  with  a  Regiment,  and  nominated  to  conmiand 

•  O'Conor's  Military  Mem.,  p.  188. 

t  Thorpe's  Catal.  of  Southwell  MSS.,  p.  104. 


194  KING  JAMES'8  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

on  a  military  enterprise  of  importance ;  but,  on  the 
death  of  Bong  William,  he  retired  to  his  country 
seat  at  Luttrelstown,  where  he  thenceforth  chiefly 
resided,*  until,  in  October,  1717,  he  was  shot  in  his 
sedan  chair,  while  passing  through  the  streets  of 
Dublin.  He  left  two  sons ;  Richard,  who  died 
abroad,  and  Simon,  who  succeeded  his  brother  in 
Luttrelstown,  and  was  created  Earl  of  Carhampton 
in  1785.  His  only  son,  John,  died  in  1829,  without 
issue,  when  the  title  became  extinct.  O'Callaghan, 
in  reference  to  these  descendants  of  Colonel  Henry 
Luttrel,  says,  "  He  was  a  bad  man,  the  father  of  a 
bad  man,  and  the  grandfather  of  a  bad  man."f  Of 
Henry  himself  O'Conor  writes,  "He  was  possessed  of 
great  talents,  and  was  one  of  the  best  officers  in  the 
Irish  army ;  but  recklessly  bent  on  pushing  himself 
forward  by  the  popularity  of  Sarsfield,  and  by  raising 
him  to  the  chief  command.  He  had  served  in 
France  with  distinction  ;  but  was  so  eager  of  perso- 
nal  advancement,  that  he  would  shrink  as  little  from 
in&my  as  from  danger,  to  promote  his  fortunes."! 

•  Burke's  Peerage,  p.  1120. 
t  Excidium  Macance,  p.  397. 

X  O'Conors    Military    Memoirs,   p.    121  ;    and  more   fully 
O'Callagban's  Brigades,  v.  1,  p.  196,  &c. 


luttbell's  horse.  195 


LIEUTENANT-COLONEL    SIR    JAMES 
MOCLARE. 

He  was  outlawed  in  1691,  being  described  as  "of  the 
City  of  Dublin,  Knight."  The  family,  which  was 
then  and  previously  chiefly  located  in  the  County  of 
Tipperary,  seems  to  have  been  connected  with  the 
Luttrells,  Edward  Moclare  being  also  in  commission 
as  Major  in  Colonel  Symon  Luttrell's  Regiment  of 

Dragoons. In  Colonel  Dudley  Bagnall's  Infantry, 

John  Moclare  was  a  Captain  and  James  Moclare  an 
Ensign. 


CAPTAINS  HARVEY  AND  REDMOND  MORRIS. 

This  name  was  introduced  to  Ireland  in  the  person 
of  Harvey  de  Monte  Maurisco,  who  accompanied  the 
Earl  of  Pembroke  (Strongbow)  thither,  and  was  by 
him  appointed  Seneschal  over  the  vast  territory  he 
had  acquired  on  his  marriage  with  Eva,  the  heiress 
of  Dermot  Mc  Murrough.  This  Harvey  was  the  early 
founder  of  the  noble  Cistercian  Religious  House  of 
Dunbrody,  which  he  filled  with  monks  from  Bildewas 
in  Shropshire;  and  in  the  monastery  of  the  Holy 
Trinity  at  Canterbury  he  closed  his  days.  In  1335, 
John  Morice,  Knight,  was  despatched  to  England  by 
the  Irish  Council  on  urgent  business,  and  had  a 
Treasury  order,  'as  well  for  money  expended  on  his 
journey  thithei:^  as  for  services  rendered  by  him  in 

02 


196  KING  James's  ikish  army  list. 

Munster.  In  the  following  year,  being  Justiciary  of 
Ireland,  he  summoned  a  Parliament  at  Dublin,  but, 
although  he  was  the  Representative  of  the  King,  he 
had  not  the  confidence  and  did  not  command  the  co- 
operation of  the  country.  It  was  on  this  occasion 
that  the  Earl  of  Desmond  proved  the  extraordinary 
influence  he  possessed  over  all  classes  of  the  Kingdom  : 
feeling  indignant  at  Sir  John  Morice's  proceedings  in 
relation  to  himself,  he  invited  the  Nobles  and  Prelates 
to  meet  him  at  Kilkenny ;  and  there,  while  the 
Justiciary  was  unable  to  procure  a  sufficient  atten- 
dance in  Dublin,  the  Earl  saw  assembled  at  his  in- 
vitation the  Prelates,  Earls,  Barons,  and  Commons  of 
Ireland,  who  joined  him  in  a  remarkable  Remonstrance 
to  the  King  against  the  proceedings  of  Sir  John  and 
his  Irish  ministry.* 

In  1447,  D.  Redmond  Morris,  a  native  of  Ireland, 
ecclesiastically  styled  Cardinal  de  Castres,  died  at 
Rome.  It  is  said  that,  in  his  honor  and  to  perpetuate 
his  Christian  name  in  that  province  of  the  country 
from  which  he  was  descended,  the  Morris  fiunilies  of 
Castle-morres,  Latragh,  Knockagh  and  Rathlin,  in  the 
Counties  of  Kilkenny  and  Tipperary,  have  constantly 
preserved  the  '  Redmond '  in  their  lines. 

The  Act  of  Settlement  contained  a  saving  of  the 
rights  of  John  *  Morish '  as  a  Trustee  in  Wexford 
lands,  while  the  declaration  of  Royal  gratitude  there- 
in,  for  services  beyond  the  seas,  includes  the  name  of 
Captain  Neal  Morris.  A  *  Mr.  Morris '  was  on  the 
♦  Red  Book  of  the  Exch.  in  Ch.  Reiaemb.  Off. 


luttrell's  horse.  197 

pension  list  of  1685,  for  £500  per  annum.*  In 
1687,  Edmund  Morris  was  sheriff  of  the  Queen's 
County,  which  was  represented  in  the  Parliament  of 
Dublin  by  Edward  Morris,  while  the  above  Harvey 
Morris  was  one  of  the  members  for  the  borough  of 

Knocktopher,  County  of  Kilkenny. Captain  ^  Red- 

mond '  Morris  rose  to  the  rank  of  Lieutenant-Colonel 
in  this  Regiment,  as  appears  by  the  warrant  for  his 
pardon,  dated  28th  June,  1701,  wherein  it  is  recited 
that  he  ^^  had  served  in  the  Irish  army  as  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  in  Colonel  Henry  Luttrell's  Horse  ;  that,  on 
the  surrender  of  Limerick,  he  came  over  to  our  ser- 
vice in  said  regiment,  until  it  was  broke  ;  that  being 
afterwards  reduced  to  a  low  condition,  he  was  neces- 
sitated, contrary  to  his  own  inclination,  to  go  into 
France  and  enter  into  the  French  King^s  service,  in 
order  to  a  subsistence  for  himself  and  his  £unily ; 
that,  being  desirous  to  return  into  Ireland,  which  wss 
his  native  country,  he  humbly  prayed  for  a  licence 
to  enable  him  so  to  do,  which  was  allowed  ;  but  being 
advised  that  he  cannot  live  there  with  security,  with- 
out a  free  pardon,  he  prayed  for  this  also,"  and  it  was 
thereby  accordingly  granted.f  In  1703,  a  private 
Act  was  passed  to  prevent  the  disinherison  of  Redmond 
Morris,  as  was  in  two  years  after  a  ftirther  Act,  to 
enable  John  Morris,  an  in&nt,  son  and  heir  of  Red- 
mond Morris,  Esq.  deceased,  ^'  to  make  a  jointure  on 
any  woman  he  shall  marry,  and  for  relief  of  the 

*  Singer's  Gorrespondenoe  of  Lord  Clarendon,  y.  1,  p.  658. 
t  Harris's  MSS.  vol.  10,  p.  308. 


198  KING  JAMES'8  IKISH  ARMY  LIST. 

younger  children  of  said  Redmond,  and  for  amending 
and  explaining  some  clauses  in  the  first  Act."  This 
legislation  originated  in  a  petition  of  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  Redmond  Morris,  of  30th  September,  1703, 
in  which  he  set  forth  that  he  was  the  eldest  son  of  Sir 
John  Morres  of  Knockagh,  County  of  Tipperary, 
Baronet,  a  Roman  Catholic  ;  who,  by  reason  of  the 
Petitioner  being  a  Protestant,  threatened  to  disinherit 
him,  and  he  therefore  prayed  relief  from  the  legisla- 
ture to  prevent  his  being  so  disinherited,  and  for  a 
maintenance  for  himself  during  his  father's  life.* 

Captain  Harvey  Morris  was  a  younger  son  of  Sir 
Redmond  of  Knockagh.  He  had  previously  pur- 
chased  the  Castle  and  site  of  Derrylough  in  the 
County  of  Kilkenny,  near  Knocktopher,  which  had 
been  forfeited  by  a  member  of  the  Comerford  family, 
and  granted  by  Cromwell  to  one  Matthew  Westmore- 
land, a  Lieutenant  in  his  army.  The  grandson  of 
this  Harvey  Morris  was  created  Viscount  Mount- 
morris  of  Castle-morris. Edmund  Morris  was  also 

an  officer  in  this  service,  but  not  on  the  present  List. 
He  was  killed  at  the  battle  of  Aughrim,  and  his  estate 
was  granted  in  1696  by  King  William  for  services  to 
Richard  Fitzpatrick,  who  was  in  1715  elevated  to  the 
Peerage  by  the  title  of  Baron  Gowran  of  Gowran,  and 
took  his  seat  in  Parliament  in  the  November  following. 
The  estate  of  this  Edmund  Morris  was  situated  at 
Grantstown  in  the  Queen's  County,  off  which  dower 
was  claimed  by  Anne  Morris  as  his  widow,  and  por- 

*  Irish  Commons  Journal,  v.  3,  p.  24. 


luttrell'8  horse.  199 

tions  by  Mary  and  Anne,  his  daughters,  but  their 
petitions  were  dismist ;  while  another  part  of  his  estate 
was  sold  by  the  Commissioners  in  1703  to  Amyas 

Bush  of  Kilfane. Amongst  those  outlawed  at  this 

time  was  also  Edward  Morris,  styled  of  Maryborough, 
in  the  same  County.  ' 


CAPTAIN  LORD  DUNSANY  (PLUNKETT.) 

This  name,  of  Danish  origin,  was,  after  centuries  from 
the  time  of  its  first  establishment  in  Ireland,  ennobled 
in  the  person  of  the  Earl  of  Fingal,  from  whom 
branched  the  Barons  of  Dunsany  and  Earls  of  Louth. 
Richard  Plunkett  had  summons  to  Parliament  by 
writ  in  1374,  was  afterwards  Chief  Justice  of  the 
King's  Bench,  and  in  1388  was  appointed  Lord  Chan- 
c^or.  Few  names  have  held  higher  place  in  the 
judicial  preferments  than  this,  even  to  the  illustrious 
Chancellor,  who  died  but  a  few  years  since.  In  1461, 
Thomas  Plunkett  was  appointed  Chief  Justice  of  the 
King's  Bench ;  Alexander  Plunkett,  Lord  ChanceUor 
in  1492 ;  and  in  1559,  John  Plunkett  of  Dunsoghly, 
Knight,  was  Chief  Justice  of  the  Queen's  Bench. 

The  Act  of  attainder  of  the  Earl  of  Tyrone  in  16,12 
included  in  its  penalties  Christopher  Plunkett,  late 
of  Dungannon.  At  the  Assembly  of  1641,  on  Crofly 
Hill,  Lords  Louth  and  Dunsany  were  present.  The 
Attainders  of  the  following  year  included  of  this 
name,  the  Earl  of  Fingal,  James  and  George  Plun- 


200  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

kett  of  Killeen,  Michael  Plunkett  of  Feltown,  Nicholas 
of  Killallon  and  Balrath,  Robert  of  Athboy,  merchant; 
Christopher  of  Girly,  Thomas  of  Clonecatt,  Alexander 
of  Jackstown,  Patrick  and  Henry  of  Grange,  Richard 
of  Dunshaughlin,  John  of  Castlearron,  Robert  of 
Rathmore,  and  Henry  of  Iskeroon,  all  in  the  County 
of  Meath  ;  John  Plunkett  of  Durre,  clerk  ;  'Garrald' 
Plunkett  of  Gardoge,  County  of  Kildare,  and  Robert 
Plunkett  of  the  Grange  of  Portmamock,  County  of 
Dublin.  Amongst  the  Confederate  Catholics  who  as- 
sembled at  Kilkenny  in  1646,  Christopher  Plunkett, 
Earl  of  Fingal,  and  Oliver  Plunkett,  Baron  of  Louth^ 
were  of  the  Peers  ;  while  in  the  Commons  sat  Nicho- 
las Plunkett  of  Balrath.  Cromwell's  Act  of  1652,  "for 
settling  Ireland,''  excepted  from  pardon  for  life  and 
estate  the  aforesaid  Lords  Fingal  and  Dunsany,  and 
Nicholas  Plunkett.  Tiie  Act  of  Settlement,  in  the 
re-acting  clause,  declaratory  of  Royal  gratitude, 
includes  the  names  of  both  these  Lords,  while  it 
restored  Lord  Dunsany  to  his  estates  ;  Sir  Walter 
Plunkett  to  his  ;  Sir  Nicholas  Plunkett  to  two  thirds 
of  his ;  it  provided  that  Mabel,  Countess  Dowager  of 
Fingal,  should  have  lands  set  out  to  her  to  the  yearly 
value  of  her  jointure,  and  the  civil  establishment  was 
afterwards  charged  with  a  pension  of  £100  per  annum 
for  the  Lord  Dunsany. 

In  1662,  (2nd  Dec.)  died  William  Plunkett  of 
Portmarnock,  '  son  of  Luke,  anciently  of  Dublin,'  and 
was  buried  at  St.  Audoen's  in  Dublin.  He  had  mar- 
ried  Anne,  daughter  of  Sir  Theodore  Duff  of  that  city, 


luttrell's  horse.  201 

and  had  issue  by  her  a  son,  Luke,  living  at  that 
time.*  In  1681,  Oliver  Plunkett,  then  Roman 
Catholic  Primate  of  Ireland,  was  hanged  at  Tyburn, 
denying  to  the  last  various  charges  of  treason  that 
had  been  alleged  against  him.f  Besides  the  above 
Captain  Lord  Dunsany,  there  appear  upon  this  List, 
in  Colonel  Sarsfield's  Horse,  James  Plunkett  a 
Quarter-Master ;  in  Lord  Dongan's  Dragoons,  Oliver 
Plunkett  a  Captain;  in  the  King's  own  Infantry, 
Walter  Plunkett  a  Lieutenant,  and  John  Plunkett  an 
Ensign  ;  in  Fitz^ames's,  Garrett  Plunkett  a  Lieu- 
tenant ;  in  Lord  Louth's,  Henry  Plunkett  was  a 
Lieutenant,  as  was  Greorge  Plunkett  in  Sir  Walter 
Creagh's,  and  Walter  in  Colonel  John  Hamilton's. 
The  two  latter  having  been  promoted  to  Captain- 
cies,  one  of  them  may  be  identical,  with  the  Captain 
Plunkett  related  in  contemporaneous  reports  as  having 
been  killed  at  the  siege  of  Deny,  and  the  other 
with  a  second  Captain  there  wounded*.  Lord  Louth 
was  himself  at  the  siege.  A  Captain  Plunkett  is  also 
noted  as  of  Lord  Gormanstown's  Regiment  at  the 
siege  of  Limerick.J 

The  Earl  of  Fingal,  and  Lords  Dunsany  and 
Louth,  sat  in  the  Parliament  of  Dublin,  and  were 
accordingly  attainted  in  1691,  as  were  Christopher 
Plunkett  of  Lagore  and  Killeen,  Richard  Plunkett 
of  Rathregan,  Gerald  of   Curraghstown,  Thomas  of 

*  Funeral  Entry  in  Berm.  Tor.        f  Hawdon  Papers,  p.  244 
}  O'Callaghan's  Excid.  Mac.  p.  374. 


202  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Carrick,  William  and  Francis  of  Tullaghmoge,  Oliver 
of  Onganstown  and  Oldcastle,  Nicholas  of  Eilleen, 
Edward  of  Gibbonstown,  Angel  Plunkett  of  Ratiimore, 
Thomas  of  Dirpatrick  and  Newcastle,  Alexander  of 
Pichelstown,  Edward  of  Girly,  John  and  Richard  of 
Croskeele,  Patrick  of  Leytrim  and  Tankardrath, 
Thomas  of  Tallonstown,  and  Peter  of  Enockveagb, 
all  in  the  County  of  Meath,  Edward  Plunkett  of 
Kilrush,  County  of  Westmeath  ;  George  and  William 
Plunkett  of  Portmamock,  County  of  Dublin  (the 
latter  had  been  personally  engaged  at  th^  battle  of 
the  Boyne)  ;  Matthew  Plunkett  of  the  City  of  Dublin, 
Oliver  Plunkett,  son  of  Matthew  Lord  Baron  Louth, 
Thomas  Plunkett,  second  son  of  said  Lord,  Patrick 
Plunkett  of  Castlelumney,  Simon  and  Richard  of 
Priorstown,  Randall  of  GreenhiU,  Thomas  of  Ard- 
keenagh,  and  Patrick  and  John  of  Castleplunkett, 

County  of  Roscommon. The  Earl  of  Fingal  was 

attainted  erroneously  by  the  name  of  Lucas,  his  real 
Christian  name  being  Peter,  and  the  outlawry  was 
consequently  reversed  in  1697.  The  Lord  Dunsany 
was  included  in  the  Articles  of  Limerick,  whereby 
his  estates  were  also  protected  for  him  ;  "  neglecting, 
however,  the  forms  necessary  to  re-establish  himself 
in  tJie  peerage,"  neither  his  Lordship  nor  his  im- 
mediate  descendants  had  a  seat  in  the  House  of 
Lords.* 

At  the  Court  of  Claims,  Margaret  Plunkett  claimed 
a  child's  portion  oflf  the  County  of  Roscommon  lands 

*  Burke's  Landed  Gentry,  p.  342. 


luttrell'8  horse.  203 

of  Patrick  Plunkett  of  Castleplimket,  but  her 
petition  was  dismist  for  non-prosecution.  Thomas 
Plunkett,  and  Catherine  his  wife,  claimed  an  estate 
for  life  to  Thomas,  and  a  jointure  to  Catherine  on  the 
lands  of  Portmamock  and  Carrickhill,  forfeited  by 
the  afore  said  William,  son  and  heir  of  Luke  Plunkett ; 
their  claims  were  also  dismist  as  being  already  before 
Parliament ;  while  George  Plunkett,  and  Johanna 
his  wife,  who  had  been  the  widow  of  said  Luke, 
claimed  and  were  allowed  the  benefit  of  her  jointure 
thereoff.* 

At  the  battle  of  Lauffield  in  1747,  Watt  Plunkett 
of  Clare's  Brigade  was  wounded.f 


CAPTAIN  WALTER  LAWLESS. 

So  early  as  the  year  1285,  Thomas  'Laghles'  ap- 
pears oh  Irish  record  as  Constable  of  Connaught.  In 
1312,  Richard  Lawless  was  Mayor  of  Dublin,  and  in 
1318,  Hugh  Lawless  and  others,  his  adherents,  were 
commissioned  to  parley  with  the  Irishry  of  the  south- 
eastern parts  of  the  Pale,  the  OTooles,  O'Bymes, 
and  MacMurroughs.J  In  1354,  Stephen  'Lawless' 
succeeded  to  the  See  of  Limerick;  and  in  1431, 
anotJier  Stephen  Lawless  was  the  mitred  Abbot  of  the 

•  D' Alton  8  County  of  Dublin,  p.  179. 

t  Grent.  Mag.  ad  ann.  p.  377. 

t  Rot.  Pat.,  13  Edi*.  II.  in  Cane.  Hib. 


204  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH. ARMY  LIST. 

splendid  religious  House   of  the   Blessed   Virgin    at 
Dublin. 

In  1550,  died  Walter  Lawless,  a  burgess  of  Kil- 
kenny, and  then  the  holder  of  Talbot's-Inch,  in  that 
County,  under  the  See  of  Ossory.  His  son  and  heir 
was  Richard,  whose  heir  was,  acccording  to  family 
respect,  another  Walter.  This  last  was  found  to  have 
been,  during  his  life-time,  seized  of  the  manor  of  Cal- 
lan,  with  certain  chief  rents  and  customs,  "a  certain 
yearly  custom  of 'plows,'  viz.,  one  plow  for  one  day 
every  season  within  the  town  of  Callan  ;  the  custom 
of 'rjrping'  hooks  every  harvest  yearly  upon  the  bur- 
gesses and  inhabitants  of  said  town,  (excepting  the 
chief  brethren  or  'Cunsell'  of  Callan,)  a  custom  of 
ale,  &c.,  out  of  every  ale  'brued'  to  be  sold  in  the 
town  aforesaid,  (fee."  He  also  claimed  the  Castles  of 
Callan,  Killmacoliver,  Tullaghmayne,  and  Ballydon- 
nell,  all  in  said  County,  and  was  seized  of  premises  in 
Gowran,  under  the  Earl  of  Ormond,  with  the  afore- 
said  lands  under  the  See  of  Ossory.  This  Walter  died 
in  1627,  leaving  Richard  Lawless  his  son  and  heir, 
then  of  full  age  but  unmarried.  He  however  soon 
afterwards  married  Margaret  Den  of  the  old  family  of 
Grenan,  and  their  issue  was  the  above  Captain  Wal- 
ter. He  inherited  Talbot's-Inch  and  other  estates  in 
Kilkenny,  of  which  county  he  was  at  one  time 
Sheriff;  and,  manying  Anne,  sister  of  James  Bryan 
of  Jenkinstown,  had  by  her  two  sons,  Richard  and 
Patrick,  who  with  their  father  were  engaged  in  this 
service.      A  James  Lawless  was  also  a  Lieutenant  in 


luttrell's  horse.  205 

this  Regiment ;  he  was  Town  Clerk,  prothonotary, 
and  Clerk  of  the  Crown  and  Peace  for  Kilkenny  ; 
while  an  Edward  Lawless  was  an  Ensign  in  Sir 
Maurice  Eustace's  Infantry. 

The  above  Patrick  Lawless,  Captain  Walter's  son, 
was  taken  prisoner  at  Aughrim;*  he  was  then  a 
Major.  Leaving  this  country  on  the  Revolution,  he 
took  refiige  in  Spain,  where  in  the  middle  of  the  last 
century  he  held  high  rank  in  the  army  of  his  Catholic 
Majesty,  and  was  Governor  of  Majorca  and  Minorca.f 
In  the  Inquisition  of  1691  on  his  attainder,  he  was 
described  as  of  Colemanstown  in  the  County  of  Dub- 
lin ;  his  father,  Walter,  being  expressly  named  as  of 
Talbot's-Inch  and  Brownstown,  as  were  his  other  sons 
Richard  and  John.  There  were  also  then  attainted 
Thomas  and  Dominick  Lawless  of  Dublin,  and  James 
Fitz-Adam  Lawless  of  Kilkenny  City. 

The  Earl  of  Clarendon,  while  Viceroy  of  Ireland, 
makes  mention  in  1686  of  a  Major  Lawless,  who  had 
been  quartered  at  Kinsale,  holding  that  rank  in 
Colonel  Macarty's  Regiment ;  he  died  in  this  year  at 
Cork,  whereby  a  pension  of  £200  per  annum  reverted 

to  the  Crown. J At  the  Court  of  Claims  in  1700, 

those  preferred,  as  affecting  the  estate  of  the  above 
Captain  Walter,  were  Anne's  as  his  widow  for  her 
jointure — allowed  ;  and  one  of  Thomas  Lawless  for 
the  amount  of  a  bond  debt  charged  on  same  and  on 

*  Story's  Impartial  History,  part  2,  p.  187. 

t  De  Burgo's  ffib.  Dom.,  p.  894. 

X  Singer's  Correspondence  of  Clarendon,  v.  2,  pp.  351-5-8. 


206  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

the  inheritance  of  Richard  his  son.  A  portion  of  these 
estates  was  sold  in  1703  to  the  Hollow  Swords 
Blades'  Company ;  the  other  portions,  within  the  Liber- 
ties of  Kilkenny,  to  GriflSth  Drisdale  and  Amyas 
Bush  of  Kilfane,  while  the  fee  of  Talbot's-Inch  re- 
verted to  the  See  of  Ossory. In  the  Cathedral  of 

Kilkenny  are  monuments  to  many  members  of  this 
family. 


LIEUTENANT  GERALD  EVERS. 

This  family  name  is  found  at  a  very  early  period 
after  the  Invasion  connected  with  Meath.  A  close 
Roll  of  1373  purports  to  provide  for  expenses  of 
Robert  '  de  Evere,'  a  clerk  of  the  Exchequer  in  Ire- 
land, in  his  journey  to  England  on  the  business  of  the 
Bishop  of  Meath,  who  was  then  Treasurer  of  Ireland. 
In  1386,  the  Marquis  of  Dublin  committed  to  Robert 
Evere  (probably  the  same  individual,)  the  custody  of 
the  Mills  of  Trim,  Ardmulchan,  &c.,  which,  by  reason 
of  the  death  of  Edward  de  Mortimer  and  the  minority 
of  his  heir,  Roger,   were   then  in  the  seisin  of  the 

Crown.* In  1498,  Robert  Evers,  an  Englishman, 

was  Prior  of  the  great  mitred  Abbey  of  Kilmain- 

ham.f In  1631,  Thomas  Evers,  Mayor  of  Dublin, 

married  Edith  Mortimer,  of  another  Meath  family. 

♦  Rot.  Pat.  10  Ric.  2,  in  Cane.  Hib. 
t  D'Alton's  Co.  Dub.,  p.  622. 


LUTTRELL^S   HORSE.  207 

He  died  in  the  following  year,  and  was  buried  in  St. 
John's  Church,  Dublin. 

The  Attainders  of  1642  include  the  names  of  Alex- 
ander and  James  Evers  of  Eatain  ;  Patrick  of  Bellar- 
din,  and  Edward  of  Noshingstown,  all  in  the  County 
of  Meath.  Those  of  1691  were  of  the  above  Gerald 
Evers,  described  as  of  Moyrath,  County  of  Meath, 
Randolf  alias  Ralph  Evers  of  Tokeroane,  do.  (a  Cor- 
net in  this  Company,)  Matthew  Evers  of  Galmoys- 
town,  County  of  Westmeath,  Charles  Evers  of  Ballin- 
ralline,  Queen's  County ;  and  Christopher  Evers  of 
Bellardin,  aforesaid.  This  latter  estate,  comprising 
about  300  acres,  was  purchased  in  1703,  with  other 
possessions,  by  John  Asgill  of  Dublin.  Cicely  Darcy, 
otherwise  Evers,  claimed  an  estate  for  life  thereon, 
but  her  right  was  not  admitted.  Gerald  Evers 
claimed  a  remainder  in  tail  therein,  and  his  petition 
was  also  dismist ;  while,  at  the  same  Court,  Mary 
Evers,  as  Relict  and  Administratrix  of  William 
Evers,  deceased,  and  Matthew  Evers,  son  and  heir  of 
said  William,  claimed  and  were  allowed  sundry 
interests  in  County  of  Westmeath  lands,  forfeited  by 
Sir  John  Nugent. 


CORNET  JOSEPH  CRIPPS. 

*Ceipps'  does  not  occur  elsewhere  on  this  Army  List, 
but  this  oflScer  in  his  attainder  of  1691,  is  described 
as  'of  Killemey,  County  of  Kilkenny,   Gentleman.' 


208  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

The  name  b  now  traceable  only  in  the  County  of 
Limerick,  in  connection  with  that  of  Villiers. 


QUARTER-MASTER  THOMAS  CAREW. 

Neither  does  'Carew'  occur  elsewhere  upon  this  List, 
or  at  all  in  the  Attainders  of  1641  or  1691,  nor  does 
he  appear  of  kindred  with  the  noble  family  of  CasUe- 
borough,  or  with  that  of  Ballinamona. 

At  the  close  of  the  reign  of  King  John,  Raymond 
'de  Karreu'  granted  the  Church  of  'Stacklorgan,' 
with  the  advowson  and  the  land  around  it,  as  an  en- 
dowment to  Christ  Church,  Dublin  ;  and  about  the 
same  time  he  gave  to  the  noble  monastery  of  St 
Thomas-a-Becket  in  said  city,  a  burgage  in  Dungar- 
van,  as  also  the  Church  of  St.  Colman  of  Cork,  and 
those  of 'Matre,'  Caroulton,  and  Tullaghrathen,  with 
all  their  appurtenances,  and  the  whole  tithes  and  eccle- 
siastical dues  thereto  appertaining.*  In  one  of  the 
Grenealogical  Manuscripts  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin, 
(F  3,  27),  is  a  pedigree  of  the  Carews  of  Garry vroe, 
for  twelve  generations ;  but  it  closes  with  Robert 
Carew  of  Garryvroe,  who  died  in  1633,  and  the 
Christian  name  of  Thomas  does  not  appear  on  the 
whole  line.  It  may  be  mentioned  from  Sir  Richard 
Cox,  that  in  1575,  Sir  Henry  Sydney,  while  Lord 
Deputy  of  Ireland,  attended,  at  Waterford,  the  burial 
of  Sir  Peter  Carew,  "whose  ancestors  had  been  Mar- 

•  Kings  MSS.,  p.  180. 


SUTHERLAND'S  HORSE. 


209 


quises  of  Cork,  and  claimed  a  mighty  estate,  compris- 
ing the  greater  part  of  ancient  Desmond  in  the 
Counties  of  Cork,  Waterford  and  Kerry,*'  and  that 
claim  the  Mac  Cartys,  Barrys,  and  many  other  chiefs 
of  Munster  offered  to  recognize,  "in  opposition  to  the 
Earls  of  Desmond  ;  and  proposed  that,  if  Sir  Peter 
would  come  and  reside  amongst  them,  they  would  ad- 
vance him  three  thousand  kine,  with  sheep,  hogs,  and 
corn,  and  annually  pay  him  all  reasonable  demands; 
but  his  death  put  an  end  to  all  these  speculations." 


REGIMENTS    OF    HORSE. 


HUGH    SUTHERLAND'S. 


Captaing.  Lieutenants.  Comet*. 

Colonel 
Lord  Brittaa. 
Edward  Prendergast,  Derraott  McAaliffe.    John  Burke. 

Lieut. -Col. 

William  Cox, 

Major. 
Comeliua  Callaghan.  Godfrey  CoDTngham.  William  Verdon. 
Drury  Wray.  Jamea  McDonnell       John  Prendergast. 

James  Bryan.  Matthew  Roth.  Francis  Bryan. 


Toby  Matthews. 


William  Matthews. 
Edmund  Walsh. 


John  Ryan. 
Edward  Danter. 


Quarter- 3 ffistert. 


John  Hynes. 


Jsmes  Butler. 

Ryan. 

Maguire. 

Thomas  Matthews 
John  Walsh. 


210  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 


COLONEL  HUGH  SUTHERLAND. 

Early  in  this  Campaign  he  was  constituted  a  Briga- 
dier, and,  while  the  siege  of  Deny  was  pending,  was 
despatched  with  two  Regiments  of  Infantry,  one  of 
Dragoons,  and  two  troops  of  Horse,  to  *  straiten ' 
Enniskillen  on  the  side  of  Belturbet ;  while  Colonel 
Sarsfield,  with  whom  he  was  to  correspond,  was 
stationed  within  twelve  miles  of  that  town  with  three 
troops  of  Horse,  one  of  Dragoons,  and  three  battalions 
of  Foot.  On  Sutherland's  arrival  for  this  object  at 
Belturbet,  he  received  an  order  from  Marshal  Rosen, 
then  at  Derry,  to  proceed  to  Omagh,  to  protect  the 
Irish  blockading  army  in  that  direction.*  Accord- 
ingly,  on  the  fifth  of  July,  Berwick  wrote  to  Lieu- 
tenant-General  Hamilton,  the  Irish  Commander  at 
the  camp  before  that  City,  "  I  marched  yesterday- 
morning  from  Newtown-Stewart,  and,  joining  Colonel 
Sutherland  at  '  Omey,'  I  marched  hither  my  advanced 
guard,  cut  ofi*  several  of  their  sentries,  and  pushed  a 
great  many  of  the  Rebels'  party  with  such  vigour  as 
they  beat  with  thirty  Dragoons  three  Troops  of 
Horse  of  theirs,  which  were  drawn  up  at  a  distance 
fipom  us."f  Colonel  Sutherland  was  engaged  at  the 
Boyne,  and,  though  he  was  wounded,  his  Regiment 
suffered  little,  "  having  to  do  only  with  the  enemy's 
horse,  which  he  soon  repulsed."! 

♦  O'Callaghan's  Green  Book,  p.  267. 
t  Manuscripts  T.C.D.,  E  2,  19. 
J  Clarke's  James  II.  vol.  2,  p.  400. 


SUTHERLAND'S   HORSE.  211 

LIEUTENANT. COLONEL    EDWARD 
PRENDERGAST. 

This  name  came  into  Ireland  with  Earl  *  Strongbow/ 
who  induced  Maurice  de  Prendergast  to  accompany 
him  in  the  Invasion,  and  made  over  to  him  a  tract  of 
country,  called  Femegenelan,  to  hold  by  the  service 
of  ten  Knights.*  In  1207,  King  John,  having  found 
the  Barons  of  Leinster  and  Meath  opposed  to  giving 
effect  to  the  Royal  Writs  of  Right,  &c.  sent  mandates 
to  Walter,  Hugh,  and  Robert  de  Lacy,  Lords  of 
Meath  and  Ulster  ;  to  Richard  de  Tuite,  Philip  de 
Prendergast,  &c.  wherein  he  expressed  surprise  "  that 
they  should  attempt  establishing  a  new  form  of  trial 
without  his  assent,  or  seek  his  Justiciary  to  deliver 
to  them,  without  his  orders,  what  had  been  taken  at 
the  hands  of  the  Crown  by  royal  precept ;  and  he 
commanded  them  not  to  '  default '  towards  him,  their 
Lord,  and  declared  with  God's  and  his.  rights  he  will 
acquire,  according  to  time  and  place.^'t  I^  1229, 
King  Henry  summoned  Gerald  de  Prendergast,  as 
one  of  the  *  Fideles '  of  Ireland,  to  a  military  muster 
at  Portsmouth  for  service  in  Brittany ;  and  again,  in 
1244,  for  the  Scottish  war.  This  Gerald,  being 
Patron  of  the  Abbey  of  Canons  Regular  at  Ennis- 
corthy,  made  a  grant  thereof  to  be  a  cell  to  the  noble 
House  of  St.  Thomas-a-Becket  in  Dublin.J     A  List 

•  Ware's  Ant.,  V.  1,  p.  191. 

t  Rot.  Pat.  Tut.  Lond.  8  Jac.  1. 

X  Kings  MSS.  Dub.  Soc.,  pp.  178-9. 

P  2 


212  KING  James's  irisu  army  list. 

of  the  Barous  and  Knights  of  Richard  de  Burgo's 
Palatinate  in  Connaught,  in  1242,  names  this  Gerald 
de  Prendergast  as  one.*  In  1278,  Geoffrey  de 
Prendergast  sued  Paganus  de  Hinteberg  for  the 
estate  of  his  mother  Alienora,  in  the  County  of  Limer- 
ick,  by  wager  of  battle.  It  was  fought  accordingly  with 
all  legal  formalities  of  the  day,  and  the  appellant 
gained  the  battle  and  the  lands.  In  1326,  Geoffrey 
de  Prendergast  was  one  of  the  Commissioners  of 
Array  for  the  County  of  Kilkenny.  In  1414,  Robert 
Prendergast  was  Abbot  of  the  mitred  House  of  the 
Blessed  Virgin  of  Dublin  ;  and,  in  the  Parliament  of 
1585,  Edward  Prendergast  was  one  of  the  Repre- 
sentatives for  the  County  of  the  Crosses  of  Tipperary. 
In  a  MS.  Volume  of  the  Royal  Dublin  Society's  Col- 
lection,  entitled  '  Collectanea  de  Rebus  Hibemicisj 
occurs  (at  page  384)  a  transcript  of  an  extraordinary 
deed,  by  which  the  Lady  Eleanor  Butler,  being  a 
co-heiress  to  the  title  of  Baron  of  Caliir,  affected  to 
convey  same  to  Sir  Thomas  Prendergast,  about  the 
time  of  Charles  the  First. 

Of  the  Confederate  Catholics  at  Kilkenny,  in 
1646,  was  James  Prendergast  of  Tullivellan  ;  and 
the  Royal  declaration  of  gratitude,  contained  in  the 
Act  of  Settlement,  includes  Ensign  John  Prender- 
gast, the  same  individual  possibly  who  was  a  Comet 
in  this  Regiment.  This  name  is  especially  distin- 
guished in  Colonel  Dudley  Bagnall's  Infantry,  where 
Geoffrey  Prendergast  was  a  Captain,    Walter    and 

♦  MS.  in  Trin.  Coll.  Lib.,  Dublin. 


SUTHERLAND'S   HORSE.  213 

Robert  Prendergast,  Lieutenants,  and  James  Prender- 
gast  an  Ensign.  The  latter  James  was  indicted  in 
1691,  by  the  description  of  Harristown,  County  of 
Kilkenny  ;  as  was  another  James  as  of  Butlerstown, 
County  of  Wexford.  Thomas  Prendergast  of  Bally- 
femogue,  and  Nicholas  Prendergast  of  Enniscorthy, 
were  then  likewise  attainted,  and  a  Geoffry  Prender- 
gast, at  this  time,  forfeited  estates  in  Galway  and 
Mayo. 

After  the  Revolution,  this  Lieutenant-Colonel  Ed- 
ward passed  into  France,  and  was  there  appointed  to 
the  same  rank  in  Colonel  Sheldon's  Brigade. 

At  the  battle  of  Lauffield,  in  1747,  Dennis  Prender- 
gast, a  Lieutenant  in  Lally's  Brigade,  was  wounded.* 


MAJOR  WILLIAM  COX. 

This  name  does  not  otherwise  appear  in  the  Army 
List  or  attainders,  nor  has  any  notice,  that  could 
identify  him  or  his  family,  been  discovered.  The 
most  remarkable  individual  of  the  name  at  this  period 
was  of  the  Williamite  politics,  Richard  Cox  of  Wilt- 
shire descent ;  who,  in  September,  1690,  was  appoint- 
ed a  Justice  of  the  Irish  Common  Pleas,  vice  Justice 
Denis  Daly,  hereafter  alluded  to.  He  was  knighted 
in  the  following  year,  promoted  to  the  Chief  Justice- 
ship in   1701,  and  in   1703,  appointed  Lord  High 

*  Gent.  Mag.,  ad  ann.,  p.  377. 


214  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

Chancellor  of  Ireland,  from  which  he  vfBs  preferred 
to  be  Chief  Justice  of  the  King's  Bench  in  1711. 
The  manuscript  Diary  of  Primate  Narcissus  Marsh, 
(preserved  in  the  public  Library  in  Dublin  which 
l)ears  his  name,)  contains  at  the  26th  of  April,  1693, 
an  interesting  notice  of  Judge  Cox : — "  This  evening, 
at  six  of  the  clock,  we  met  at  the  Provost's  lodgings 
in  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  in  order  to  the  renewal  of 
our  philosophical  meeting,  where  Sir  Richard  Cox, 
one  of  the  Justices  of  '  the  King's  Bench,'  read  a 
geographical  Description  of  the  City  and  County  of 
Derry,  and  of  the  County  of  Antrim,  being  part  of 
an  entire  Geographical  Description  of  the  whole  King- 
dam  of  Ireland,  that  is  designed  to  be  perfected  by 
him  ;  wherein  also  will  be  contained  a  Natural 
History  of  Ireland,  containing  the  most  remarkable 
things  to  l>e  found  that  are  the  product  of  nature." 
This  work,  however,  never  was  printed,  though  others 
from  his  pen  have  been.  In  October,  1706,  Sir 
Richard  was  created  a  Baronet,  and  died  in  1733,  of 
apoplexy,  leaving  issue.  Ware,  in  his  '  Writers  of 
Ireland,'  gives  forty-four  pages  illustrative  of  the  life 
and  times  of  this  Sir  Richard  Cox. 


CAPTAIN  DRURY   WRAY. 

Neither  does  this  name  appear  elsewhere  upon  the 
present  'List.'  The  family  was  originally  seated 
within  the   Bishopric  of  Durham,  and  subseciuently 


SUTHERLAND'S  HORSE.  215 

possessed  estates  in  Riclimondshire,  County  of  York. 
From  it  descended  Sir  Christopher  Wray,  Knight, 
who  was  a  member  of  all  the  Parliaments  of  Queen 
Mary's  reign,  and,  in  that  of  Elizabeth,  was  Speaker  of 
the  House  of  Commons.  He  was  ultimately  consti- 
tuted Lord  Chief  Justice  of  the  Queen's  Bench,  in 
which  high  oflSce  he  died,  in  1592.  His  son,  Sir 
William  Wray,  was  created  a  Baronet ;  and  the  above 
Captain  Drury  Wray,  his  descendant  and  heir  male, 
was  the  sixth  in  the  succession.  He  was  so  attainted 
in  1691,  and  his  estates  in  the  County  of  Limerick 
were  consequently  sold  by  the  Commissioners  of  the 
Forfeitures,  partly  to  John  Berry  of  Ballinacargy, 
in  said  County,  and  partly  to  the  Hollow  Swords 
Blades'  Company  ;  while  the  Rectories  and  Rec- 
torial tithes  which  he  possessed  therein,  were,  accord- 
ing to  the  policy  of  the  Settlement,  granted  to  the 
See  of  Limerick  for  the  augmentation  of  vicarages. 

At  the  Court  of  Claims,  Major  Christopher  Wray, 
the  eldest  son  of  Sir  Drury,  claimed  and  was  allowed 
a  reversion  in  fee,  after  his  father^s  decease,  in  various 
lands  in  Limerick,  and  also  in  others  in  Cork.  He 
preferred  his  claim  as  by  descent,  being  the  eldest 
son  and  heir  to  Anne  Casey  his  mother  :  he  also 
claimed  and  was  allowed  an  annuity  off  said  lands. 
Major  Christopher  offers  one  of  many  instances  of 
the  sad  domestic  severance  which  this  campaign 
effected,  fighting  as  he  did  at  the  Boyne  for  King 
William.  He  afterwards  served  in  the  wars  of  Flanders, 
Spain,  and  Portugal,  as  Lieutenant-Colonel  in  Colonel 


216  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Farrington's  Regiment  ;  and  eminendy  distinguished 
himself  at  the  attack  of  Ostend .♦  His  father,  Sir 
Drury,  dying  in  1710,  he  became  the  seventh 
Baronet. 


CAPTAIN  TOBY  MATTHEW. 

This  noble  family  is  located  in  Ortelins's  map  in  the 
Barony  of  Eliogurty,  County  of  Tippeniry.  On  Irish 
law  records  the  name  appears  from  early  in  the  com- 
mencement of  the  fourteenth  century ;  in  the  fifteenth, 
King  Henry  the  Fourth  committed  to  Thomas  Mat- 
thew, of  the  County  of  Meath,  the  custody  of  various 
lands  therein,  and  in  Drogheda.f 

The  attainders  of  1642  have,  of  this  family,  only 
David  Matthew  of  Castlemore,  County  of  Cork.  In 
the  Assembly  of  Confederate  Catholics,  Emir  '  Mat- 
thews' sat  amongst  the  Spiritual  Peers  as  Bishop  of 
Clogher. — In  King  James's  Charter  to  Cashel,  William 
Matthew  was  a  Burgess,  as  was  James  Matthew  in 
that  to  Carlingford,  (he  was  a  Lieutenant  in  Galmoy's 
Horse,)  and  Francis  Matthew  in  that  to  Ardee. 

In  1686,  the  Earl  of  Clarendon,  Lord  Lieutenant, 
visited  the  noble  establishment  of  Captain  Matthew, 
at  Thomastown,  County  of  Tipperary.  He  seems  to 
have  been  the  above  named  oflScer,  and  the  lineal  de- 

♦  Burke's  Landed  Gentry,  Sup.  p.  246-7. 
t  Rot.  Pat,  4  Hen.  IV.  in  Cane.  Hib. 


SUTHERLAND'S   HORSE.  217 

scendant  of  David  Matthew,  the  great  Standard 
Bearer  of  Edward  the  Fourth,  whose  monument  is 
still  to  be  seen  in  the  Cathedral  of  Landaff,  and 
whose  issue  were  Lords  of  Raydor  in  Glamorganshire, 
as  also  of  Landaff.  "I  came  hither,"  writes  Lord 
Clarendon,  "last  night,  where  I  have  been  most 
kindly  used.  It  is  a  very  fine  place  and  the  most 
improved  of  any  situation  I  have  ever  seen  since  I 
came  into  this  kingdom  ;  especially  considering  that 
it  is  but  sixteen  years  since  he  first  sat  down  there, 

when  there  was  no  house  upon  it.*^ His  estate 

Lord  Clarendon  styles,  "of  the  new  interest,"  thus 
distinguishing  it  from  those  of  the  old  native  Septs. 
More  extended  details  of  the  singular  hospitality 
lavished  at  Thomastown  by  his  heir  in  the  following 
century,  when  it  became  a  hotel  for  all  who  chose  to 
visit  it,  where  each  guest  might  have  a  separate  room 
and  meals  ;  and  a  distinct  department,  called  a  tavern, 
was  appropriated  for  the  use  of  the  less  temperate  ;  are 
given  in  the  biography  of  Dean  Swift,  who,  during 
the  early  part  of  his  residence  in  Ireland,  was  a  visitor 
there. 

A  Colonel  Matthew  of  the  Irish  forces  was  taken 
prisoner  at  Aughrim,f  and,  amongst  those  outlawed 
in  1691,  was  Toby  or  Theobald  Matthew,  styled  of 
Thomastown,  County  of  Tipperary,  Esq.  on  whose 
estate  the  right  of  Catherine  Matthew,  his  widow,  for 
a  leasehold  interest,  preferred  on  behalf  of  herself,  and 

•  Singer's  Correspondence  of  Clarendon,  v.  2,  p.  6. 
t  Bawdon  Correspondence,  p.  351. 


218  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

her  children,  Theobald,  Mary,  Frances,  Catherine  and 
Neville  Matthew,  was  allowed  by  the  Commissioners 

at  the  Court  of  Claims. Others  of  this  name  then 

outlawed  were  William  Matthew,  also  described  as  of 
Thomastown,  Gent.  ;  James  Matthew  of  Carlingford, 
above  mentioned  ;  Patrick  and  Sylvester  Matthew  of 
Dunbin,  Blackall-Andrew  Matthew  of  Melleshant 
[Mellefont,]  clerk  ;  James  Matthew  of  Charlestown, 
County  of  Louth  ;  and  George  Matthew  of  Carlow  ; 
while  Patrick  and  Sylvester  forfeited  lands  in  the 
Barony  of  Cremorne,  County  of  Monaghan,  which 
were  sold  by  the  Commissioners  of  the  forfeited 
estates  to  William  Fortescue  of  the  County  of  Louth. 


LIEUTENANT  GODFREY  CONYNGHAM. 

This  name  does  not  appear  elsewhere  on  the  Army 
List,  nor  at  all  on  the  Attainders  ;  while  a  doubt  of 
this  officer's  adherence  to  King  James  is  raised  by  the 
fact,  that  at  the  Court  of  Claims  in  1703,  a  'Lieute- 
nant Godfrey  Conyngham'  claimed  and  was  allowed 
sundry  leasehold  interests  affecting  lands  in  the 
County  of  Cork,  forfeited  by  Donogh,  Earl  of  Clan- 
carty.  On  this  occasion  also,  a  James,  son  of  Andrew 
Conyngham,  petitioned  for  premises  in  Strabane, 
while  Josias  'Cunningham'  claimed  and  was  allowed 

a  freehold  in  the  County  of  Antrim. Under  the 

latter  spelling  of  this  surname,  it  may  be  noticed  that 


SUTHERLAND'S   HORSE.  219 

a  Colonel  'Cuningham'  is  stated  to  have  fought  for 
King  William  at  the  battle  of  Aughrim.* 


CORNET  WILLIAM  VERDON. 

The  subordinate  rank  of  this  officer  here,  evinces  how 
much  this  once  illustrious  family  had  then  declined 
from  its  early  and  influential  character.  Previous  to 
the  Invasion  of  Ireland  by  Henry  the  Second,  the 
chivalrous  family  of  De  Verdon  was  settled  at  Alton, 
where  is  now  the  splendid  seat  of  the  Earl  of  Shrews- 
bury. From  thence,  in  1184,  Bertram  Verdon  ac- 
companied Prince  John  to  Ireland,  and  was  appointed 
Seneschal  of  the  Pale,  with  a  grant  of  the  Barony  of 
Dundalk,  the  Lordship  of  Clonmore,  and  other 
estates  in  the  County  of  Louth.  In  his  time  the 
Borough  of  Dundalk  was  incorporated,  and  there  he 
founded  a  Priory  for  the  order  of  Cross-bearers. 
Nicholas,  his  son  and  heir,  succeeded  to  these  estates, 
and  died,  leaving  issue  only  a  daughter,  who  married 
Theobald  le  Botiller.  Their  son,  John  de  Verdon, 
assumed  the  family  name  of  his  mother,  and  he  it  was 
who  founded,  in  the  time  of  Henry  the  Third,  the 
Gray  Friary  at  Dundalk.  His  son,  Theobald  de 
Verdon,  was  present  at  the  Parliament  of  Westmin- 
ster in  1275,  where  he  gave  the  important  consent, 
that  the  same  customs  should  be  payable  upon  wool, 

*  Rawdon  Papers,  p.  857. 


220  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

wool-fells,  and  hides  shipped  from  the  ix)rts  of  his 
Liberties  in  Ireland,  in  the  same  manner  as  had  been 
granted  by  the  Archbishops,  &c.,  of  England  upon 
wool,  woolfells,  &c.,  exported  therefrom.  In  two  years 
after  and  subsequently,  he  was  engaged  in  those  expedi- 
tions against  Wales,  which  extinguished  the  struggles 
of  that  country  for  independence.  In  1288,  he  was 
besieged  in  the  Castle  of  Athlone,  by  Richard  de 
Biirgo,  the  'Red'  Earl  of  Ulster,  who  then  pretended 
title  to  the  Lordship  of  Meath.  He  had  frequent  mili- 
tary summonses  to  King  Edward's  wars  from  that 
period,  as  one  of  the  'Fideles'  of  Ireland.  In  1299, 
he  was  called  on,  as  a  Baron,  to  do  service  against 
the  Scots,  as  was  his  son  Theobald,  the  younger,  in  the 
same  year,  '  by  reason  of  his  father's  declining  health.' 
In  1310,  this  younger  Theobald  succeeded  to  the 
estates  and  honors  of  his  father,  then  deceased.  In 
three  years  after,  he  was  appointed  Lord  Justice  of 
Ireland,  and  died  in  1314,  leaving  only  female  issue, 
"who,"  as  Baron  Finglas  remarks  in  his  Breviate, 
"being  married  to  noblemen  who  dwelled  still  in  Eng- 
land, and  took  such  profits  as  they  could  get  for  a 
while,  and  sent  small  defence  for  their  lands  in  Ire- 
land ;  so  as,  within  few  years  after,  all  their  portions 
were  lost  except  certain  manors  within  the  English 
Pale,  which  Thomas,  Baron  of  Slane,  and  Sir  Robert 
Hollywood,  Sir  John  Cruise,  and  Sir  John  Bellew 
purchased  in  King  Richard  the  Second's  time  ;  and 
this  hath  been  the  decay  of  half  of  Meath,  which  did 
not   obey  the  King's  laws  this  hundred  years  and 


SUTHERLAND'S    HORSE.  221 

more."  The  name  of  De  Verdon  continued  however 
to  be  represented  in  Louth  by  the  male  descendants 
of  other  sons  of  the  founder.  At  the  Parliament  of 
York,  in  1319,  the  King  granted  to  Nicholas  de  Ver- 
don, (who  was  one  of  the  next  heirs  male  of  John, 
who  first,  as  before  mentioned,  assumed  the  name,) 
the  manor  of  Mandevilleston,  County  of  Louth  ; 
which  had  come  to  the  Crown  by  the  surrender  of 
Ralph  Pipard.  In  1335,  Milo  de  Verdon,  another  of 
those  male  descendants,  received  a  Royal  Mandate  to 
attend  John  D'Arcy,  the  Justiciary,  with  arms  and 
horses  in  his  expedition  for  the  King's  aid  against 
Scotland.*  In  1374,  Patrick  Verdon  had  summons 
to  Parliament  by  writ,  and  in  the  same  year,  on  the 
occasion  of  the  memorable  Parliament  of  Westmin- 
ster, to  which  Edward  the  Third  required  the  attend- 
ance of  a  certain  number  of  the  Representatives  of 
Irish  interests,  Richard  de  Verdon  and  Roger  Gemon 
were  chosen  as  members  for  the  ancient  borough  of 
Drogheda.f 

The  above  notices  have  been  extracted  from  '  CoU 
lections  for  a  History  of  Dundalk^  which  the 
compiler  of  these  'Illustrations'  had  drawn  up  some 
years  since,  (never  published)  ;  but  to  extend  this 
article  by  the  many  other  available  annals  of  this 
great  name  would  not  be  allowable  ;  here,  therefore, 
it  must  suflSce  to  add,  that  in  1624  Christopher  Ver- 
don died,  seised  in  fee  by  a  long  ancestral  line  of  suc- 

•  D' Alton's  Hist.  Drogheda,  v.  2,  p.  84. 
t  Idem,  V.  1,  p.  244. 


222  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

cession,  of  the  Castle  and  manor  of  Clonmore,  with 
mills,  lands,  &c.,  and  of  chiefries  of  the  aforesaid 
manor  of  Mandevillstown  ;  leaving  John  Verdon,  his 
eldest  son  and  heir,  then  22  years  of  age  and  married, 
and  two  other  sons,  Patrick  and  Robert.  This  John 
was  the  only  one  of  the  name  attainted  in  1642 ;  and 
the  ruins  of  the  Castle  which  he  and  his  ancestors 
had  theretofore  held  at  Clonmore,  are  still  traceable. 
His  namesake  and  descendant,  John  Verdon,  (titu- 
larly)  styled  of  Clonmore,  was  attainted  in  1691, 
while  the  name  of  this  William,  who  must  have  been 
of  the  family,  does  not  appear  in  the  Outlawries,  nor 
does  any  other  Verdon  on  this  Army  List. 


CORNET  EDWARD  DANTER. 

There  is  no  other  of  this  name  on  the  List  nor  any 
in  the  Outlawries. 


QUARTER-MASTER  JOHN  HYNES. 

Amongst  the  Confederate  Catholics  at  Kilkenny  in 
1646,  was  Thomas  '  Heynes  of  Feathard,'  but  the 
name  does  not  otherwise  appear  on  this  List,  nor  at 
all  in  the  Outlawries. 


PARKER'S   HORSE. 


223 


REGIMENTS  OF  HORSE. 


JOHxN  PARKER'S. 


Cagplaku, 


Limtenantt, 


Comeit. 


Qtiarler.Mattert. 


The  Oolonel.  Thomas  Greene. 

Fnmcis  Giffiurd,  Bohert  Lowich. 

Lieut. -Colonel. 
John  Methmm, 

Major. 

Robert  Nugent.  Isidore  Delagarde. 

James  Doddington.  George  Bamfield. 

Thomas  Eceleston.  Robert  Chemock. 

Walter  Hastings.  George  Oldfield. 

James  Hobb.  Charles  Skelton. 
Edward  Weddering- 

ton. 


Edward  Halj.  Edward  Conforth. 

Thomas  Smallbone.  Joseph  Acton. 


John  Hnis. 
Philemon  MacCartie. 


Cormick  0*Sallivan. 
Michael  Stritch. 
Thomas  Selbj. 


COLONEL  JOHN  PARKER. 

This  name  is  of  Irish  record  from  the  time  of  Richard 
the  Second.  In  1403,  Geoffrey  Parker  was  consti- 
tuted Mayor  of  the  Staple  in  Dublin.  Immediately 
after,  a  John  Parker  filled  the  office  of  Grand  Sergeant 
of  the  County  of  Kildare.* 

In  1552,  John  Parker  was  appointed  Master  of  the 
Rolls  in  Ireland  ;  and  he  was  in  1561,  an  Ecclesiasti- 
cal  Commissioner.  From  him  descended  his  name- 
sake, the  above   Colonel.f     When,   on  the*  26th  of 


Bolls  in  Chancery. 


t  Graham's  Derriana,  p.  31. 


224  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

August,  1689,  King  James  resolved  on  going  to  meet 
the  recently  landed  Schomberg,  he  took  with  him  to 
Drogheda  a  hundred  of  his  own  Horse  Guards,  with 
two  hundred  of  Parker's  Horse,  for  the  object  of  being 
nearer  to  the  enemy,  where  he  might  better  observe 
their  motions*.  This  Regiment  sustained  especial 
loss  at  the  Battle  of  the  Boyne,  where  several  of  its 
officers  fell,  and  the  Colonel  was  himself  wounded. 
His  Lieutenant-Colonel  (then  Greene),  and  his  Major 
James  Doddington,  (Captain  on  this  list)  and  many 
other  officers  were  also  killed  ;  "  of  the  two  squadrons 
of  that  Regiment,  there  came  off  only  about  thirty 
sound  men."!  It  and  Tyrconnel's  suffered  most  on 
that  critical  day. In  Clarke's  Correspond- 
ence, preserved  in  the  manuscripts  of  Trinity  College, 
is  a  letterj  written  by  Robert  Southwell  to  George 
Clarke,  Secretary  of  War,  in  which  he  recommends 
the  bearer.  Lieutenant  Cleere,  as  "  a  person  of  prin- 
cipal  consideration  in  the  town  of  Clonmel,  and  ex- 
tremely zealous  to  promote  His  Majesty's  service 
throughout  the  whole  County.  He  lies  under  some 
hardships,  which  are  not  to  be  suffered  towards  such 
a  person."  An  endorsement  on  the  letter  states  that 
"  said  Cleere  had  taken  several  horses  and  brought  in 
divers  persons,  and  that  he  desires  the  horses  he 
took  from  Colonel  Parker's  Troopers  :"  the  prayer 
was  granted. 

On  the  attainders  of  1642,  is  the  name  of  Edward 

♦  Clarke's  James  II.  vol.  2,  p.  373.  t  Wem,  p.  400. 

}  Clarke's  Corresp.  MSS.,  v.  1,  Letter  74. 


PARKER'S   HORSE.  225 

Parker  described  as  of  Templeogue,  County  of  Dublin; 
on  those  of  1691,  is  this  Parker,  styled  of  the  City  of 
Dublin,  Esq.  While,  in  the  claims  preferred  in 
1703,  a  John  Parker  made  a  remarkable  one  for 
£5,000,  which  he  alleged  to  be  due  to  him,  on  foot  of 
a  mortgage  of  lands  and  rectories  in  the  County  of 
Kildare,  forfeited  by  the  Earl  of  Tyrconnel ;  but  his 
claim  was  disallowed  as  false,  and  he  was  adjudged 

to  pay  £10,000. The  name  does  not  otherwise 

appear  upon  the  Army  List. 


LIEUTENANT-COLONEL  THOMAS  GIFFORD. 


• 


This  name  does  not  occur  here  again,  and  Colonel 
Thomas  appears  to  have  early  retired  from  the  ser- 
vice  ;  as  at  the  Boyne  the  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  this 
Regiment  was  Greene,  who  was  killed  there.  The 
name  is  of  high  antiquity  in  Ireland,  and  to  the 
memorable  parliament  of  Westminster  in  1376,  the 
Clergy  of  the  Diocese  of  Cashel  sent  John  '  Geffard ' 
to  be  their  Representative.  In  that  of  1560,  Henry 
*  Geaflford '  was  one  of  the  Representatives  of  the 
Borough  of  Dungarvan.  By  the  Act  of  Settlement 
in  1662,  arrears  of  pay  due  to  Sir  Thomas  Giflford, 
Baronet,  then  deceased,  were  directed  to  be  paid  to 
his  relict  Dame  Martha  Giflford.  The  Colonel,  it 
would  seem,  was  of  this  family. 


226  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 


MAJOR  JOHN  METHAM 

Is  subject  to  much  the  same  remarks  as  was  the  last 
officer.  The  Major  at  the  Boyne  was  James  Dodding- 
ton,  the  Captain  on  this  muster. 


CAPTAIN  JAMES  DODDINGTON, 

Promoted  to  the  Majority  and  killed  at  the  Boyne,  as 
supra.  A  Captain  Edward  Doddington  had  the 
command  of  100  foot  soldiers  under  the  Lord  Presi- 
dent of  Munster,  in  the  war  of  that  Province  during 
the  reign  of  Elizabeth.  When,  at  the  close  of  the 
year  1602,  it  was  resolved  to  storm  the  Castle  of 
Dunboy,  a  breach  having  been  made  that  was  con- 
sidered  assailable,  the  decision  of  who  was  to  lead  the 
assault  having  been  referred  to  the  dice,  it  fell  upon 
this  Captain  Doddington,  who  was  *  shot  with  two 
bullets  in  his  body,  but  not  mortal.'* 


CAPTAIN  THOMAS  ECCLESTON. 

A  branch  of  the  Ecclestons  of  Eccleston  in  Lancas- 
shire  settled  previous  to  this  reign  in  the  County  of 
Louth,  where,  in  the  churchyard  of  Drumshallon, 
within  the  ruins  of  the  old  church,  are  monuments 
commemorating   the  family,  from  Walter  Eccleston 

♦  Pacata  Hibernia,  pp.  568  &  674. 


park£r's  horse.  227 

of  Drumshallon,  in  December,  1675,  to  WiUiam,  who 
died  in  August,  1798.  A  manuscript  book  of  pedi- 
grees in  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  (F  3,  27)  suggests 
that  the  said  Walter  was  the  son  of  Tristram  Eccles- 
ton  (who  died  in  1636),  by  his  second  wife  Dorothy, 
daughterof  William  Cranshaw  of  Lancashire ;  and  that 
Tristram  was  himself  the  youngest  son  of  James,  who 
was  the  son  of  Hugh  Eccleston  of  the  house  of  Eccles- 
ton  in  Lancashire. 


CAPTAIN  WALTER  HASTINGS. 

A  *  Major  '  Hastings,  possibly  this  '  Captain,'  was 
committed  a  prisoner  to  the  Tower  in  1690. 


CAPTAIN  JAMES  HOBB. 

This  name  is  not  again  on  this  Army  List,  while  on 
the  Attainders  only  that  of  Eichard '  Hobbs '  of  Creagh, 
County  of  Wexford,  appears. 


LIEUTENANT  THOMAS  GREENE. 

He  was  attainted  in  1691,  by  the  description  of 
Thomas  Greene,  Junior,  of  Corrstown,  County  of  Kil- 
kenny ;  but  nothing  more  has  been  ascertained  con- 
cerning him,  nor  what  might  be  his  kindred  (as  there 
probably   was  such,)    with   the    Lieutenant-Colonel 

q2 


228  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

killed,  as  before  mentioned,  at  the  Boyne.  The  war- 
rant for  pardon  to  a  Nicholas  Greene  of  Cork,  dated 
in  1701,  is  preserved  in  Harris's  MSS.  in  the  Royal 
Dublin  Society,*  from  which  it  appears  that  he  was  a 
merchant,  and  had  transported  the  '  King's '  provisions 
to  France  in  the  ship  '  James,'  in  time  of  war.  His 
pardon  was,  however,  granted,  on  the  ground  "  that 
said  Greene  was  ignorant  of  the  freightage  at  the 
time ;  that  theretofore,  while  the  Irish  party  was  in 
possession  of  Cork  and  for  ten  years  since,  he  had 
adhered  to  the  Protestant  religion  and  interest ;  and 
that,  when  the  Williamite  forces  landed  in  the  har- 
bour of  Cork,  he  was  the  person  who,  at  the  hazard 
of  his  life,  guided  them  over  that  part  of  the  sea 
which  encompassed  the  east  marsh  next  adjoining 
the  said  City,  whereupon  the  garrison  capitulated  ; 
and  that  he  hath  shewed  his  affection  to  our  interest 
by  exposing  his  life  whenever  our  affairs  required 
his  service  ;  and  for  that  particularly,  with  his  own 
hands,  he  took  and  brought  in  several  proclaimed 
Traitors  and  Tories,  who  suffered  punishment  for  their 
crimes,   and   that    there   were    not  wanting   ample 

testimonies   to  his  integrity." At  the   Court   of 

Chichester  House,  in  1700,  a  John  Greene  claimed 
the  benefit  of  a  leasehold  interest  in  "  the  Castle  and 
great  White  House  at  Lucan,"  the  land  called  the 
Wood,  and  several  other  premises,  as  forfeited  by 
Patrick  Sarsfield.  His  petition  was  however  dismist 
for  non-prosecution. 

•  Vol.  10,  p.  309. 


Lieutenants, 


Parker's  horse.  229 

ROBERT  LOWICH, 
ISIDORE  DELAGARDE,  (French) 
GEORGE  BAMFIELD, 
ROBERT  CHERNOCK. 


None  of  these  names  occur  again  on  the  Army 
List,  or  at  all  on  the  Attainders. 


LIEUTENANT  GEORGE  OLDFIELD. 

He  appears  to  have  been  of  a  Wexford  family.  The 
Outlawries  of  1691  present  the  names  of  James  and 
Thomas  Oldfield,  of  Duncannon  in  the  County  of 
Wexford. 


LIEUTENANT  CHARLES  SKELTON. 

A  SKETCH  of  Pedigree  of  the  Skeltons  of  Sleaty  in 
the  Queen's  County,  is  preserved  among  the  Manu- 
scripts of  Trinity  College,  Dublin  (F  3,  27)  ;  and, 
although  the  Christian  name  of  this  officer  does  not 
appear  upon  it,  he  may  probably  have  belonged  to 
the  line. 

Sir  Bevil  Skelton  was  the  first  who,  while  Envoy 
at  the  Hague  in  1688,  having  intercepted  a  letter  by 
which  he  learned  the  meditated  expedition  of  the 
Prince  of  Orange,  communicated  it  to  King  James;  but 


230  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

not  being  accredited,  he  only  incurred  hostility  there- 
by, which  led  to  his  committal  to  the  Tower.  He 
was,  however,  within  a  few  days  made  Lieutenant 
of  the  place  which  he  had  entered  a  prisoner.* 
On  this  '  List '  a  Thomas  Skelton  appears  Lieu- 
tenant in  the  King's  Own  Foot,  while  a  James  Skelton 
is  described  as  one  of  the  witnesses  to  the  Capitu- 
lation of  Galway,  21st  July,  1691.  In  the  Septem- 
ber following,  this  James,  described  as  then  a  Colonel, 
was  taken  prisoner  at  the  siege  of  Limerick,  when 
defending  the  fort  at  Thomond  Bridge.     He  died  of 

the  wounds  he  there  sustained.f The  Attainders 

of  1691  exhibit  the  names  of  John  and  Bevil  Skelton 

of  Dublin,  and  Maria  Skelton,  otherwise  O'Brien. 

Another  Colonel  Skelton  passed  over  with  James  the 
Second  to  France,  and  was  Comptroller  in  the  Estab- 
lishment at  St.  Germains.J 


CORNET  THOMAS  SMALLBONE. 
r,  ^,  i  EDMOND  CONFORTH, 

QuARTER-MaBTERS,   jjQgjj^(.TQjj 

None  of  these  surnames  occur  again  upon  this  List 
or  on  the  Attainders. 


•  Harris's  Life  of  William  III.,  p.  127. 

t  Story's  Impartial  History,  part  2,  pp.  180  <fe  226, 

t  Harleian  Collections,  v.  11,  p.  391. 


park£r's  horse.  231 

QUARTER-MASTER  JOHN  HILL. 

The  Attainders  of  1641  include  the  names  of  Sir 
William  Hill,  Knight,  of  Ballybeg  or  Allenstown, 
County  of  Meath  :  and  of  Philip  and  Patrick  Hill  of 
Dromyn,  County  of  Wicklow.  Those  outlawed  in 
1691  were  Arthur,  Dominick,  and  James  Hill  of 
Allenstown  aforesaid,  Gentlemen  ;  but  no  mention  is 
made  of  a  John  Hill. 


QUARTER-MASTER    CORMICK    O'SULLIVAN. 

This  noble  Sept  was  possessed  of  the  ancient  territory 
of  Beara,  comprising  the  modern  Baronies  of  Beare 
and  Bantry  in  the  County  of  Cork,  whence  their 
Chiefs  took  their  respective  designations  of  the 
O'Sullivan  Beare  and  the  O'Sullivan  Bantry  ;  while 
another  branch,  styled  O'Sullivan  More,  lorded  over 
Dunkerrin  and  part  of  Iveragh  in  the  County  of 
Kerry,  and  a  third  were  Chiefe  of  Knockgraflfon  in 
Tipperary.  At  the  close  of  the  twelfth  century, 
Laurence  O'Sullivan  succeeded  to  the  See  of  Cloyne  ; 
as  did  Alan  O'Sullivan  thereto  in  1240,  in  some 
years  aft«r  which  he  was  promoted  to  that  of  Lismore, 
where  he  died  in  1253.  In  1376,  the  King,  at  the 
instance  of  "  his  faithful  liege,  MacCarty  of  Des- 
mond, Captain  of  his  Nation,"  granted  to  Thomas 
(y  *Soulevan,'  and  Mac  Creagh  O'Soulevan,  liberty  to 
pass  over  to  the  Court  of  Rome,  provided  they  carried 


232  KING  JAUES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

or  did  nothing  prejudicial  to  the  English  King.  The 
Four  Masters  relate  that  in  1398,  Mac  Cartie  of 
Carbeny,  in  Cork,  gave  the  O'Sullivan  a  complete 
overthrow,  when  two  of  his  sons,  Owen  and  Connor, 
with  many  others,  were  slain.  They  give  melancholy 
importance  to  an  annal  of  1404,  where  it  is  said,  "  A 
contest  arose  between  Mac  Carty  and  O'Sullivan 
Buidhe  ;  and  Turlogh  Meith  Mac  Mahon  was  Mac 
Carty's  admiral  at  that  time,  who  overtook  O'Sullivan 
at  sea ;  and  also  the  sons  of  Dermod  Mac  Carty, 
who  were  aiding  O'Sullivan  against  Mac  Carthy  ;  he 
drowned  O'Sullivan  on  that  occasion,  and  took  Donal, 
son  of  Dermod  Mac  Carthy,  prisoner."  In  1563, 
"  O'Sullivan  Beare,  i.  e.  Donal,  the  son  of  Dermod, 
son  of  Donal,  son  of  Donal,  son  of  Dermod  Balbh,  (the 
stammerer)  fell  by  the  hand  of  a  bad  chief,  namely, 
Mac  Gillicuddy  ;  and  though  famous  as  had  been  his 
father  Dermod,  that  Donal  was  a  worthy  heir  to  him  ; 
and  his  kinsman,  Owen  O'Sullivan,  succeeded  in  his 
place." 

In  the  year  1581,  the  son  of  O'Sullivan,  i.  e.  Donal, 
the  son  of  Donal,  (of  1563)  defeated  the  people  of 
Carberry.  "  The  manner  in  which  that  happened 
was  this ;  Captain  Siuits  (Zouch)  having  proceeded 
from  Cork  through  Carberry  to  the  monastery  of 
Bantry,  sent  the  sons  of  Turlogh,  the  son  of  Maol- 
murry,  son  of  Donagh  Mac  Sweeny,  the  son  of 
O'Donovan,  and  a  number  of  the  chiefs  of  Pobbles 
and  of  the  gentlemen  of  Carberry,  to  plunder  the 
son  of  O'Sullivan.     The  forces  sent  by  the  Captain 


PARKER'S   HORSE  233 

having  taken  immense  spoils  and  much  booty,  Donal 
thought  it  a  great  mortification  to  suffer  his  property 
to  be  carried  away,  and  he  himself  alive  ;  and  he 
therefore  attacked  the  Irish  clans  who  were  about 
the  booty,  and  it  was  verified  on  that  day,  that  it  is 
not  by  a  numerous  force  that  a  battle  is  gained,  for 
nearly  three  hundred  of  the  Carberians  were  slain  by 
Donal,  although  his  own  party  did  not  number  much 
more  than  fifty  men  who  were  able  to  fight  in  that 
battle."  To  Sir  John  Perrot's  Parliament  of  1585 
went  "the  O'Sullivan  Beare,  i.  e.  Owen,  the  son  of 
Dermod,  son  of  Donal,  son  of  Donogh,  son  of  Der- 
mod  Balbh  ;  as  also  O'Sullivan  More,  i.  e.  Owen,  son 
of  Donal,  son  of  Donal-na-Sgreadaighe."  At  the 
crisis  of  the  Munster  War,  O'Neill  and  O'Donnell 
confided  the  command  and  control  of  their  forces 
(according  to  the  Four  Masters)  to  the  O'Sullivan 
Beare,  then  Donal,  son  of  Donal,  son  of  Dermod  ; 
*for  he  was  the  chief  commander  of  his  party  in  Mun- 
ster, at  that  time,  in  wisdom  and  valour/  The 
O'Sullivans,  who  had  many  strong  castles  over  their 
extent  of  maritime  country,  were  inalienably  at- 
tached to  the  Desmond  (see  the  '  Pacata  Hibemia ' 
passim).  By  that  devotion,  and  the  discomfiture  at 
Kinsale,  they  suffered  large  confiscations,  and  their 
chie^  the  aforesaid  Donal  or  Daniel,  retiring  to 
Spain,  distinguished  himself  there  in  military  service 
under  the  title  of  Count  of  Berehaven.* 

In   1604,   according  to   the  state  policy  of  the 

•  Ferrar's  Limeiick,  p.  174. 


234  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  A&MT  LIST. 

time,  Dermot,  Daniel,  and  Cnogher  O'Sullivan,  de- 
scribed as  sons  of  Daniel  O'Sullivan  More,  deceased, 
surrendered  all  their  lands  and  chiefiies  in  Kerry, 
with  the  object  of  obtaining  a  re-grant  thereof  to 
them  in  fee  from  the  Crown.  In  the  following  year, 
at  the  Royal  instance,  a  similar  surrender  and  re- 
grant  of  the  estates  of  Owen  O'Sullivan,  called  the 
O'Sullivan  More,  was  effected  by  patents,  with  an 
arrangement  for  the  extinction  of  that  Captaincy, 
and  for  granting  said  Owen  the  title  of  Baron  in 
lieu  thereof.  He  had  afterwards,  in  1612,  an  en- 
larged grant  of  various  Castles,  Lands,  Fisheries, 
Duties,  Markets,  Courts,  Tolls,  and  Chief  Rents,  as 
formerly  granted  to  his  father  '  Sir'  Owen  O'Sullivan, 
(the  rents  having  been  payable  to  the  Earl  of  Des- 
mond) to  hold  same  to  him,  the  said  Owen,  in  tail 
male.*  In  1613,  Sir  Thomas  Roper  had  a  grant  of 
large  estates  in  Munster,  and  amongst  these  were 
"  parcels  of  the  estates  of  Teigue Mc Daniel  C'Swelli- 
van,'  and  of  Owen  M'Donnell  M'Donough  O'Swellivan, 
late  of  Cahirdonellmore,  both  slain  in  rebellion."  In 
1632,  when  the  sea  at  the  south  of  Ireland  was  in- 
fested with  Algerine  Rovers,  the  Lord  President  of  that 
Province,  in  a  letter  to  the  Lords  Justices,  in  reference 
to  the  precautions  he  had  taken  to  secure  the  coast  of 
Cork,  writes : — "Mr.  Daniel  O'SuUivan  has  a  house  of 
reasonable  strength  at  Berehaven,  and  takes  upon 
him  to  defend  it  and  Ballygobbin  ;    he  promises  to 

•  Rolls,  Temp.  Jac.  1,  in  CaDC.  Hib. 


Parker's  horse.  235 

erect  five  beacons  upon  the  Dorseys,  and  four  upon 
the  great  island.  I  have  directed  O'Sullivan  More, 
who  lives  on  the  river  of  Eenmare,  to  take  warning 
from  the  beacon  erected  on  the  promontory  over  the 
Dorseys,  and  by  one  of  his  own,  to  assemble  his 
tenants  and  servants  at  his  strong  and  defensible 
castle  ;  but  I  think  this  caution  needless,  as  the 
inhabitants  on  both  sides  of  that  river  are  but  few, 
till  as  far  up  as  Glaneraught,  where  the  pirates  dare 
not  venture."* 

In  the  Attainders  of  1642  were  Donell  O'Sullivan 
Beare,  of  Berehaven,  PhOip  O'Sullivan  of  Loughandy, 
Owen  of  InQhiclough  and  Drimdavane,  Donell  Mac 
Owen  of  Drumgarvan,  John  Mac  Dermody  of  Der- 
ryne,  Gillicuddy  O'Sullivan  of  Traghprashy,  Connor 
O'Sullivan  of  Loughane,  and  Owen  Neagh  O'Sullivan 

of  Drumgowlane,  all  in  the  County  of  Cork. This 

Sept  was  represented  at  the  supreme  Council  of  Kil- 
kenny by  O'Sullivan  More  of  Dunkeiran,  and  Daniel 
O'Sullivan  of  Culmagort ;  while  the  Declaration  of 
Boyal  gratitude,  in  the  Act  of  Settlement,  preserves 
the  names  of  Captain  Dermot  O'Sullivan  of  Kilmeloe, 
Lieutenant  O'Sullivan  of  Fermoyle,  and  Ensign 
Owen  O'Sullivan,  all  in  the  County  of  Cork. 

Of  these  outlawed  in  1691,  were  Daniel  O'Sullivan 
of  Rosmacone,  McDermott  Cnogher  Sullivan,  and 
Cornelius  Sullivan  of  Shiskeen  ;  Owen  MacMurtough 
Sullivan  of  Berehaven,  John  Mac  Murtough  Sulli- 
van of  Lanlaurence,  Thady  Sullivan  of  Killiebane, 

•  Smith's  Cork,  v.  1,  p.  279. 


236  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Clerk,  all  in  the  County  of  Cork  ;  with  Dermot  Mac 
Donell  '  Soolevane '  of  Litton,  and  Florence  '  Soole- 
vane '  of  Nodden  in  the  County  of  Kerry.  In  1696, 
Henry  Lord  Shelbume  passed  patent  for  lands  of  the 
O'Sullivan  More  in  the  Barony  of  Dunkerron,  County 
of  Kerry,  his  widow  Mary  receiving  jointure  off  part 

thereof. ^"At  the   Court    of  Claims,  however, 

Daniel  0' '  Sullevane,'  styled,  '  More,'  claimed  and  was 
allowed  a  fee  by  descent  from  Daniel  O'Sullivan,  his 
grandfather,  in  the  romantic  district  of  Thomies  at 
Killamey,  forfeited  by  Sir  Nicholas  Browne ;  while 
Sheely  Sullivane,  widow  and  executrix  of  Donald 
Sullevane  More,  and  Desmond  Sullevane,  their  son 
and  heir,  claimed  interests  in  Cork  lands,  forfeited  by 
the  Earl  of  Clancarty.  Teigue  Sullevane  sought  a 
freehold  near  Killamey,  also  forfeited  by  Nicholas 
Brown,  but  his  petition  was  dismist ;  while  William 
Sullevane  claimed  and  was  allowed  a  freehold  in 
Kerry  lands,  forfeited  by  Valentine  Brown;  and 
Daniel  Sullevane  and  Henrietta  his  wife,  for  them- 
selves and  their  children,  petitioned  (but  were  dis- 
mist) for  freeholds  and  remainders  in  the  Counties 
of  Wicklow,  Kildare,  and  Kilkenny, — the  confiscations 
of  Sir  Edward  Scott. 

A  Sullivan  was  the  lasfc  companion  of  the  unfortu- 
nate Prince  Charles  Edward,  and  shared  all  the  hard- 
ships and  perils  of  his  outcast  days  in  Scotland. 

At  Ypres,  in  1745,  Tim  O'Sullivan  and  Florence 
Sullivan  were  of  the  wounded ;  while  at  the  battle  of 
Lauffield,   in    1747,   Murtough   Sullivan  of  Clare's 


PARKER'S   HORSE.  237 

Brigade  was  wounded,  and  subsequently  Major  O'Sul- 
livan  was  for  many  years  Town-Major  of  Prague.* — 
"  There  is  (1750)  in  Spain,"  writes  Smith,  in  his 
History  of  Cork,  (vol.  1,  p.  294)  "  a  descendant  of 
O'Sullivan  Bear,  who  is  ennobled  and  called  the 
Count  of  Berehaven,  and  is  also  said  to  be  hereditary 

Governor  of  the  Groyne." In  the  American  War, 

John  Sullivan  supereeded  Arnold  in  the  command  of 
the  American  army  in  Canada,  in  June,  1776  ;  but 
was  soon  driven  out  of  that  Province.  He  was  after- 
wards distinguished  in  the  battles  of  Brandywine  and 
Germantown.  In  1778,  he  laid  siege  to  Newport, 
and  in  the  following  year  commanded  an  expedition 
against  the  Six  Nations  of  Indians  in  the  State  of 
New  York  ;  but  resigned  his  command  in  chagrin  at 
the  end  of  that  year.  In  1786,  1787,  and  1789,  he 
was  Governor  of  New  Hampshire,  and  died  in  January, 
1795.t 


QUARTER.MASTEE  MICHAEL  STRITCH. 

The  Stritches  are  located  on  Ortelius's  Map  in  the 
Barony  of  Small-County,  Limerick.  When  Ireton 
took  that  City  in  1651,  Alderman  Thomas  Stritch 
was  one  of  the  citizens  excluded  from  mercy.  In 
May,  1640,  Nicholas  Stritch,  as  son  and  heir  of  Rich- 
ard  Stritch  of  Limerick,  sued  out  'livery'  of  his 

*  Burke's  Landed  Gentry,  p.  498. 
t  Gent.  Mag.,  1855,  p.  122. 


238  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

estates  from  the  Court  of  Ward.  Besides  this  oflScer, 
Stephen  '  Stretch'  is,  in  the  present  Army  List,  an 
Ensign  in  Sir  Charles  O'Bryan's  Infantry  (post). 
On  the  Outlawries  of  1691  the  above  Quarter-Master 
is  described  as  of  Kilrush,  County  of  Clare;  an 
Edward  'Stretch'  of  Limerick  was  likewise  then 
attainted.  At  the  Court  of  Claims  none  were  pre- 
ferred against  estates  of  the  Stritches ;  but  Bartholo- 
mew  Stritch,  as  son  and  heir  of  Patrick  Stritch, 
claimed  and  was  allowed  a  mortgage  charged  on  lands 
in  Clare,  forfeited  by  Daniel  Mulloney. 


QUARTER-MASTER  THOMAS  SELBY. 

This  name  does  not  otherwise  occur  on  the  List,  nor 
on  the  Attainders.  The  '  Pacata  Hibemia'  makes 
mention,  (p.  656)  of  a  Thomas  Selby,  Lieutenant  to 
Captain  Francis  Slingsby,  in  the  War  of  Munster, 
temp.  Elizabeth,  who,  in  a  sharp  engagement  with  the 
*  Rebels'  of  that  Province,  succeeded  in  taking  from 
them  2000  cows,  4,000  sheep,  and  1000  '  garrans' 
(horses). 


purcell's  horse. 


239 


REGIMENTS  OF  HORSE. 

COLONEL    NICHOLAS    PURCELL'S 


Capiams. 

The  Colonel.  James  Fitzgerald. 

Robert  Pnroell,        Thomas  PnroelL 

Lieat-ColoneL 
Gharks  Mc  Domiel, 

Major. 


John  Everard. 
IfilesBourk. 
Daniel  Mo  Carthj. 
Anthonjr  Morres. 
JohnPoroeU. 
James  Batler,  of 
Dimboyne. 


Michael  Kemj. 
Cornelias  Meagher. 
Piers  Power. 
John  Kenned  jr. 
Theobald  PnroelL 
Theobald  Bntler. 


Contet$, 

James  Bntler. 
Anthonjr  PnrcelL 


Thomas  Travers. 
Bryan  Meagher. 
Owen  Mc  Carthjr. 
Hugh  Kennedjr. 
Hngh  PnrcelL 
Thomas  Meagh. 


Quarter'M(uier$. 

William  Bannon. 
Daniel  Qninn. 


James  Tnmj. 
John  Fitzgerald. 
Edmund  Meagher. 
Richard  Keating. 
James  Wale. 


COLONEL  NICHOLAS  PURCELL. 

The  meagre  Army  List  printed  in  the  Somers'  Col- 
lection of  Tracts,  (vol.  XL  p.  411)  classes  this  Regi- 
ment among  the  Dragoons,  and  reports  its  strength 
as  twelve  troops,  totting  720  men.  It  was  chiefly 
raised  in  Tipperary.  Sir  Hugh  Purcell,  the  ancestor 
of  this  family  in  Ireland,  married  Beatrix,  daughter  of 
Theobald  Butler.  The  name  was  early  introduced 
into  Munster,  where  it  soon  became  so  numerous 
that  the  rolls  of  licences  for  protection  and  pardon 
in  the  year  1310,  (in  prudence  then  necessitated) 
include  no  less  than  thirteen  adult  Purcells  ;  while 


240  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

eight  years  previously  Hugh,  Philip,  Maurice,  and 
Adam  Purcell  were  of  the  Irish  magnates  summoned 
to  the  Scottish  war.  A  friary  for  Conventual  Francis- 
cans  was  founded  in  1240,  at  Wateiford,  by  the  Lord 
'  Hugh  Purcell,'  who  was  interred  there  in  the  same 
year.*  John  Purcell,  Abbot  of  St.  Thomas's  Monastery 
of  Dublin,  having  given  credence  to  the  pretensions  of 
Lambert  Simnel,  was  obliged  in  1488  to  sue  out  pardon 
and  to  take  the  oath  of  allegiance  before  Sir  Richard 
Edgecombe.  In  1538,  Philip  Purcell  was  Abbot  of 
Holy-Cross,  as  was  subsequently  John  Purcell  Prior 
of  St.  John's  Abbey,  Kilkenny,  where  his  tomb  of 
black  marble  is  yet  to  be  seen.f  In  the  reigns  of 
Elizabeth  and  James,  Purcells  were  seised  of  many 
castles  and  manors  in  Kilkenny.  The  only  individual 
of  this  name  attainted  in  1642,  was  William  Purcell  of 
Irishtown,  County  of  Kildare,  clerk.  Robert  Purcell, 
styled  '  of  Curry,'  was  one  of  the  Supreme  Council  in 
1646.  When  Limerick  was  taken  by  Ireton  in 
1651,  Major-Greneral  Purcell  was  one  of  the  garrison 
excluded  from  mercy  ;J  and  in  the  following  year 
Cromwell,  by  his  Act  'for  settling  Ireland,'  further 
excepted  this  Major-General  from  pardon  for  life  and 
estate.  During  the  time  of  the  Commonwealth,  an 
Inquisition  was  directed  and  a  survey  made  of  the 
parish  of  Crumlin,  County  of  Dublin,  by  Royal  Com- 
mission, and  a  map  was  drawn  (which  is  in  the 
possession  of  Ignatius  Francis  Purcell,  the  present 

•  Archdall'sMon.  Hib.,  p.  704.        t  Ware's  Bishops,  p.  459. 
{  Leland's  Ireland,  v.  8,  p.  402. 


purcell's  horse.  241 

proprietor)  by  which  it  is  shown  that  the  Purcells 
were  then,  as  they  had  been  for  a  long  time  previously, 

the  owners  of  neariy  the  whole  parish. By  the 

Act  of  Settlement  (1663),  Theobald  Purcell  was  con- 
firmed in  his  estate,  as  was  also  Philip  Purcell  of 
Ballyfoyle,  County  of  Kilkenny  ;  while  the  Declaration 
of  Royal  gratitude  therein,  *  for  services  beyond  the 
seas,'  especially  named  James  Purcell  of  Knockmoe, 
[Loughmow]  County  of  Tipperary.  He  ranked  in 
1670  as  the  titular  Baron  of  that  ancient  place,  and 
was  grand-nephew  of  the  first  Duke  of  Ormonde.  Of 
this  very  ancient  line  a  full  pedigree  is  given  in 
a  genealogical  manuscript  in  T.C.D.  (F.  iv.  18). 

On  the  present  Army  List,  besides  the  Colonel  and 
six  other  Purcells  in  this  Regiment,  a  James  Purcell 
was  Lieutenant  in  Lord  Clare's  Dragoons,  Edmund 
Purcell  in  Lord  Mountcashel's  Infantry,  Owen  in 
Colonel  Edward  Butler's,  and  Peter  in  the  King's  Own. 
In  Sir  Michael  Creagh's,  Richard  Purcell  was  a  Cap- 
tain ;  in  Colonel  Dudley  Bagnall's,  Nicholas  Purcell 
was  an  Ensign  ;  and  in  Lord  Galmoy's  Horse,  James 
Purcell  was  a  Comet  (he  was  wounded  at  Derry) ; 
while  this  latter  was  also  the  name  of  a  Colonel  of 
Infantry  in  the  service.  A  Robert  Purcell  stands  on 
the  Establishment  of  1687-8  for  a  pension  of  £253 
per  annum. 

The  above  Colonel  Nicholas  was  titular  Baron  of 
Loughmow.  In  1686,  he  was  added  to  the  King's 
Privy  Council  of  Ireland,  and  in  1689  was  one  of 
the  Representatives  of  the  County  of  Tipperary  in  the 


242  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

Parliament  of  Dublin.  That  Parliament  was  yet  sit- 
ting when  King  James  wrote  to  Lieutenant-General 
Hamilton,  then  'at  the  camp  of  Deny/  that  he  had 
ordered  'Purcell's  Dragoons'  to  Belturbet ;  and  the 
achievements  of  this  Regiment,  within  four  miles  of 
Enniskillen,  are  commended  by  another  despatch  from 
the  Duke  of  Berwick  to  the  same  Lieutenant-General. 
Late  on  the  fatal  day  of  the  battle  of  the  Boyne, 
King  James,  yet  ignorant  that  his  rival  had  passed 
the  river  at  Old  Bridge,  took  the  reserve,  which  con- 
sisted of  Colonel  Purcell's  Horse  and  Browne's  Infan- 
try, to  where  he  found  Lausun  drawn  up  in  battle 
array,  with  intent  to  charge  the  enemy's  right,  which 
stood  on  his  front  within  cannon-shot;  while  however 
he  was  considering  this  movement,  he  received  intima- 
tion of  the  state  of  the  field,  and  the  attempt,  which 
James  projected,  was  pronounced  by  Sarsfield  and 
Maxwell  to  be  impracticable.*  On  Lord  Tyrconnel's 
subsequent  departure  to  France,  Colonel  Nicholas  Pur- 
cell,  who  was  a  zealous  adherent  of  Sarsfield,  was  of  the 
Deputation  despatched  by  the  war  party  to  St.  Grer- 
mains,  to  solicit  their  King  to  remove  Tyrconnel  from 
the  government  of  this  country.f  On  the  passage, 
according  to  0'Conor,J  "he  and  Colonel  Henry  Lut- 
trel  designed  to  throw  overboard  Brigadier  Maxwell, 
who  was  the  accredited  agent  of  the  Duke  of  Berwick, 
and  who,  as  these  'conspirators'  were   aware,  had 

*  O'Callaghan's  Excidium  MacaricBj  p.  352. 
t  Clarke  8  James  II.,  v.  2,  p.  422. 
X  O'Conor's  Military  Mem.  p.  128. 


purcell's  hoese.  •  243 

secret  instructions  to  apprise  the  King  that  the 
Duke's  object  in  placing  them  on  the  mission  was,  that 
his  Majesty  might  have  the  facility  of  detaining 
them  in  France,  as  in  Ireland  they  were  'the  fire- 
brands of  the  army.'"  Colonel  Nicholas  was  afterwards 
one  of  those  who  negotiated  and  signed,  on  behalf  of 
the  Irish,  the  Treaty  of  Limerick.  He  was  then 
most  active  in  his  endeavours  to  dissuade  his  country- 
men f5pom  taking  service  with  foreign  powers,  and 
rather  to  enlist  in  the  English  army.  O'Conor 
accordingly  represents  his  Regiment  as  one  of  those 
that,  with  Clifford's,  Luttrell's,  Lord  Iveagh's,  Dillon's, 
and  *Hussey's,'  turned  over  to  the  new  government. 
"The  recreants,"  says  that  writer,  "were  mustered 
near  the  General's  quarters,  and  regaled  with  bread, 
cheese,  brandy,  tobacco,  and  a  fortnight's  subsistence, 
to  steel  them  against  the  reproaches  of  their  country- 
men, and  drown  any  scruples  of  conscience  or  honour, 

that  might  induce  them  to  return  to  their  colours. 

Colonel  Nicholas  was,  nevertheless,  attainted  in  1691, 
with  Ignatius  and  John  Purcell  of  Crumlin,  Robert 
and  James  Purcell  of  Dublin,  John  of  Connehy,  County 
of  Kilkenny,  Thomas  of  Clillenclin,  Theobald  of  Clone, 
(who  was  found  seized  of  1478  acres  in  the  Barony 

of  Galmoy,)  Purcell,  son  of  John  Purcell  of 

Lissinane,  in  the  County  of  Kilkenny,  Robert  Fitz- 
Theobald  Purcell  of  the  City  of  Kilkenny,  Edward  of 
Cork,  Nicholas  of  Loughbricyand,  County  of  Down, 
Tobias  Purcell  of  Maynard,  Queen's  County,  and 
Philip  Purcell  of  Fleskhugh,  County  of  Galway.     Of 

r2 


244  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

all  these  outlaws  only  Ignatius  Purcell  obtained  a  par- 
don from  the  Crown.  At  the  Court  of  Claims, 
Colonel  Nicholas  Purcell  and  Ellen  his  wife  claimed 
and  were  allowed  her  portion  off  Cork  and  Kerry 
lands,  forfeited  by  Lord  Kenmare  and  Nicholas  his 
son. 

It  may  be  mentioned  that  in  March,  1691,  (accord- 
ing  to  Story,*)  Lieutenant-Colonel  Toby  Purcell,  on 
several  occasions,  in  King  William's  service,  killed  one 
hundred  of  the  Rapparees  in  the  County  of  Longford. 
He  subsequently,  in  June  of  that  year,  was  appointed 
Governor  of  Ballymore,  with  five  companies  of  the 
Ee^ment  of  General  Douglas,  who  had  gone  off  to 
Flanders.f  In  July  following,  he  was  one  of  three 
hostages  exchanged  for  three  others  of  James's  army, 
pending  the  negotiations  for  the  capitulation  of 
Galway.J  After  the  war,  he  was  appointed  Go- 
vernor of  the  fort  of  Duncannon,  and  on  a  repre- 
sentation of  his  services  theretofore,  especially  at 
Newry,  memorialed  King  William  for  a  confirmation  ot 
certain  lands  in  Tipperary  to  him.§  Story  relates 
that  a  Major  Purcell  was  killed  at  Aughrim;  while, 
according  to  another  authority,||  Baron  Purcell  of 
Loughmow  and  his  son  were  kOled  there. 

The  family  above  alluded  to  as  of  Crumlin,  County  of 
Dublin,  had  removed  thither  from  Munster  at  so  early 

*  Impartial  History,  part  2,  p.  60. 
t  Idem,  p.  93.  J  Iddm,  p.  164. 

§  Thorpe's  Cat.  Southwell  MSS.,  247. 
II  Rawdon  Papers,  p.  351. 


purcell's  noRSE.  245 

a  period,  that  in  the  muniments  of  St.  Patrick  s  Cathe- 
dral is  recorded  a  petition  of  John  Purcell,  Esq.,  claim- 
ing a  right  to  be  buried  in  the  chancel  of  the  Church  of 
Crumlin,  as  a  privilege  which  his  ancestors  had  en- 
joyed time  out  of  mind,  and  this  his  claim  was  so 
proved  and  allowed.  The  privilege  of  burial  in  the 
chancel  was  only  conceded  in  early  times  to  the 
lord  of  the  fee,  which  in  Crumlin  is  still  vested  in 
Ignatius  Francis  Purcell. 

Many  Purcells  followed  the  fortunes  of  James  the 
Second  to  the  Continent,  and  were  distinguished  in 
the  armies  of  France,  Spain,  and  Portugal. 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  EVERARD. 

This  name  is  considered  of  Danish  origin ;  if  so,  it  has 
been  very  generally  planted  over  England,  especially 
in  the  southern  parts  of  that  island,  earlier  than  it 
came  into  Ireland;  where  it  is  recorded  that,  in  1131, 
Everard  died  Abbot  of  Mary's  Abbey.*  In  1356, 
John  '  Everhard '  was  one  of  those  influential  pro- 
prietors, within  what  was  distinguished  as  the  County 
of  the  Cross  of  Tipperary,  who  then  elected  its  Sherifll 
The  persons  who  exercised  this  authority  with  him 
were  John  '  Mauncell,'  Knight  ;  Robert  '  Wodlock,' 
Simon  Cantwell,  James  Warner,  Thomas  '  Walleys,' 
Thomas  Taunt,  John  '  Mauclerk,'  William  Sause, 
Robert  Burtuin,  with  fourteen  others;  and  the  person 

*  Rolls  in  Chancery. 


246  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

whom  they  elected  to  this  oflSce  was  Andrew  Haket. 
Laurence  Everard  was  one  of  those  who,  in  1415, 
fought  at  the  battle  of  Agincourt,  a  place  not  gene- 
erally  known  to  be  identified  with  the  now  peaceful 
site  of  St.  Omer's.  In  1531,  Sir  Thomas  Everard 
was  chosen  Prior  of  the  Religious  House  of  St.  John 
the  Baptist,  at  Dublin.  A  genealogical  manuscript 
in  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  (F.  iii.  27)  contains  a 
sketch  of  the  lineage  of  the  Everards  of  Fethard,  for 
six  generations,  of  the  fifteenth  and  sixteenth  cen- 
turies. 

In  Sir  John  Perrot's  Parliament  of  1585,  Redmond 
Everard  was  one  of  the  Representatives  of  the  County 
of  Tipperary.  In  1603,  John  Everard  of  Fethard 
was  appointed  a  Justice  of  the  King's  Bench  in  Ire- 
land ;  he  was  afterwards  knighted,  and  had  a  grant 
of  various  manors,  castles,  towns,  and  lands  in  the 
Counties  of  Tipperary  and  Waterford.*  In  1612,  he 
was  elected  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Commons  by  the 
recusant  party,  having  resigned  his  Judgeship  sooner 
than  take  the  oath  of  supremacy.  This  election  was 
however  over-ruled,  and  Sir  John  Davis,  the  King's 
Attorney-General,  was  substituted.  Richard  Ever- 
ard of  Everard's  Castle,  the  second  son  of  said  Sir 
John,  was  one  of  the  Confederate  Catholics  in  1646  ; 
and  was  in  1651  condemned  to  die,  when  Ireton 
took  Limerick.f  His  eldest  son.  Sir  Redmond  of 
Fethard,  Baronet,  was  by  the  Act  of  Settlement  (1662) 
restored  to  his  principal  seat  and  two  thousand  acres 

*  Rolls  in  Chancery.  f  Lelaud's  Ireland,  v.  3,  p.  402. 


purcell's  horse.  247 

of  land  ;  while  the  Declaration  of  Royal  gratitude  in 
the  same  Act  recognised  his  services  beyond  the  seas. 
He  married  Elizabeth,  eldest  daughter  of  Richard 
Butler  of  Kilcash/  County  of  Tipperary,  a  brother  of 
the  whole  blood  to  the  Duke  of  Ormonde  ;  and  by 
her  had  issue  two  sons,  Sir  John  his  eldest,  and  James 
Everard  his  second  son,  with  four  daughters.  Sir 
Redmond  died  in  Dublin  in  February  1686,  and  was 
buried  in  Trinity  Church,  Fethard  ;  as  testified  by  a 
Funeral  Entry  in  Birmingham  Tower  avouched  by 
Sir  John  Everard,  his  eldest  son.  The  will  of  Sir 
Redmond  is  of  record  in  the  Rolls  Office,  Dublin. 
Another  fiineral  entry,  in  Birmingham  Tower, 
certifies  the  burial  in  St.  Werburgh's  church  on  the 
7th  June,  1661,  of  Nicholas  Everard,  son  of  John,  son 
of  Nicholas,  son  of  Sir  John,  son  of  Redmond  ;  and 
that  the  first  named  Nicholas  died,  a  bachelor,  as  at- 
tested by  Redpiond  Everard,  his  heir. 

On  this  Army  List,  besides  Captain  John,  appear 
of  the  Everard  family  Lucas,  a  Captain  in  Lord 
Slane's  Infantry ;  as  was  James  in  Colonel  Thomas 
Butlers  ;  while  in  Sir  Michael  Creagh's,  Patrick 
Everard  was  a  Lieutenant  and  Andrew  Everard  an 
Ensign.  This  Patrick  represented  Kells  in  King 
James's  Parliament,  where  Sir  John,  the  Baronet,  was 
one  of  the  members  for  the  County  of  Tipperary. 
This  last  individual  was  killed  at  the  battle  of  Augh- 
rim,*  and  seems  identical  with  the  above  Captain 
John,  of  this  Regiment.     Another  Everard,  ranked 

♦  Story's  Impartial  Hist,  part  2,  p.  138. 


248  KING  James's  irish  army  ust. 

Lieutenant-Colonel,  and  described  as  of  Randalstown, 
County  of  Meath,  (but  not  on  this  List)  was  adjudged 
within  the  benefit  of  the  Articles  of  Limerick  ;  while 
of  those  attainted  were  Matthew  of  Randalstown, 
Patrick  of  Navan,  Lucas  of  Fyanstown,  and  Thomas 
of  Oristown,  aU  in  the  County  of  Meath  ;  with  Sir 
John  of  Fethard,  and  James  of  the  County  of  Water- 
ford. 

In  1697,  a  part  of  the  Meath  estate  of  Patrick 
Everard  was  granted  to  Arthur  Padmore  and  Joshua 
Dawson,  as  were  in  1702  the  Tipperary  estates  of  Sir 
John  of  Fethard,  partly  to  Richard  Burgh  of  Grove, 
and  partly  to  David  Lowe  of  Knockelly  in  said 
County  ;  and  a  portion  of  his  Waterford  estates  to 
James  Roche,  in  consideration  of  his  services  at 
Derry.  In  1703,  a  further  section  of  Patrick  Eve- 
rard's  Meath  property  was  purchased  by  Alderman 
John  Leigh  of  Drogheda,  from  the  Commissioners  of 
the  Forfeited  Estates,  and  another  by  the  Hollow 
Swords  'Blades'  Company.  Estates  of  his  in  the 
County  of  Roscommon  were  acquired  on  similar  title 
by  Richard  Lloyd  of  Cavetown  ;  and  others,  in  the 
County  of  Longford,  by  James  Johnston  of  Little- 
mount,   County   of  Fermanagh. At  Chichester 

House,  in  1700,  Matthias  Everard  claimed,  as  son 
and  heir  of  Thomas  Everard,  an  estate  in  fee  in  the 
Meath  forfeitures  of  the  aforesaid  Patrick  ;  whOe,  on 
the  whole  estate  of  Sir  John  Everard,  Margaret  Eve- 
rard claimed  and  was  allowed  a  portion,  as  were  John 
and  Christopher  Everard  sundry  interests.     James 


purcell's  horse.  249 

Butler  and  Anstace  his  wife  also  claimed  interests  in 
the  said  forfeitures  of  Sir  John  and  in  those  of  Pierse 
Everard. 

In  1733,   Sir  Richard  Everard,   of  the  Fethard 

lineage,  died  Governor  of  North  Carolina. In 

1750,  under  a  decree  in  the  cause  of  Dawson  v.  Eve- 
rard, a  considerable  remnant  of  the  Everard  estates 
was  sold  out  of  their  possession. 


LIEUTENANT  JOHN  KENNEDY. 

The  O'Kennedys  were,  according  to  native  chronicles, 
of  the  Dalcassian  race,  and  possessed  for  centuries  the 
district  known  in  later  years  as  the  Barony  of  Upper 
Ormond,  County  of  Tipperary.  The  Four  Masters 
very  faithfully  record  the  succession  of  the  chiefe  of 
this  Sept  to  the  days  of  Queen  Elizabeth  ;  and  the 
venerable  Annals  of  Tigemach  relate  the  death  of 
Cathal  O'Kennedy,  '  King  of  the  Kinselaghs,'  at  so 
early,  a  period  as  758.  In  1159,  say  the  former 
historians,  Gildas  Kevin  O'Kennedy,  Prince  of  Or- 
mond, died  in  pilgrimage  at  Killaloe  ;  as  did  Donal, 
son  of  Teigue  O'Kennedy,  Lord  of  Ormond,  in  1180. 
In  1252,  Donald  O'Kennedy,  Bishop  of  Killaloe,  was 
interred  in  the  Dominican  friary  of  Nenagh,  which  his 
Sept  had  founded.  In  1599,  died  O'Kennedy  Fion, 
namely,  Anthony,  son  of  Donogh  Oge,  son  of  Hugh, 
son  of  Aulaffe  ;  and  GioUa  Dhu  O'Kennedy  was 
named  The  O'Kennedy.     Sir  Oliver  Lambert,  Blnight 


250  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

and  Privy  Councillor,  had  a  large  grant  in  1605  of 
various  estates  of  this  family,  forfeited  by  their  rebel- 
lion in  the  Munster  wars.  Cromwell's  Act  of  1652 
excepted  from  pardon  for  life  and  estate  (inter  alios) 
John  O'Kennedy  of  Dunally,  County  of  Tipperary. 
In  the  counter-action  of  Royal  gratitude,  the  acknow- 
ledgment  of  1662,  for  services  beyond  the  seas, 
includes  the  names  of  Captain  Philip  and  Lieu- 
tenant Daniel  Kennedy  ;  while  in  the  same  year  Sir 
Richard  Kennedy  of  Mount  Kennedy,  Baronet,  was 
appointed  a  Baron  of  the  Irish  Exchequer. 

In  the  List  of  proposed  Sheriffs,  submitted  to  the 
Earl  of  Clarendon  in  1685,  the  name  of  Sir  Robert 
Kennedy  was  given  in  for  Wicklow,  with  the  obser- 
vation, "  If  to  be  judged  by  his  intimates,  extremely 
whiggish."  On  which  suggestion  Lord  Clarendon 
comments,  "  An  honest  gentleman,  descended  from 
loyal  parents,  who  were  in  the  Usurper's  time  sufferers 
for  their  loyalty ;  and  himself  an  active  Justice  of  the 

Peace."* Besides  Lieutenant  John  Kennedy,  this 

Army  List  presents  Kennedy  Mac  Kennedy,  a  Quarter- 
Master  in  Colonel  Francis  Carroll's  Dragoons. 

The  Outlawries  of  1691  include  the  names  of 
Michael  Kennedy  of  Tureen,  County  of  Westmeath, 
John,  Thomas  and  Darby  Kennedy  of  Dublin  ; 
William  Kennedy  of  Mount  Kennedy,  County  of 
Wicklow,  popularly  called  'Lord  William  Kennedy' ; 
Edmund  of  Tintern,  County  of  Wicklow ;  Daniel  of 
Kilbrubrickley,  County  of  Mayo  ;    William  of  Finns- 

*  Singer's  Correspondence  of  Lord  Clarendon,  &c.yol.  1,  p.  285. 


purcell's  horse.  251 

town,  County  of  Dublin,  (houses  of  his  in  the  City 
of  Dublin,  including  Kennedy's-lane,  were  purchased 
in  1703  by  John  Asgill  from  the  Trustees  of  the  for- 
feited estates,)  and  Donogh  O'Kennedy  of  the  County 
of  Galway,  on  whose  estate  Morgan  Kennedy  claimed 
a  remainder  in  tail,  but  his  petition  was  dismist. 

In  1747,  at  the  fight  of  Lauffield,  near  Maestricht, 
Captain  Bryan  Kennedy  of  Bulkeley's  Irish  Brigade, 
was  killed;  while  in  Dillon's,  Lieutenant  Charles 
Kennedy  was  killed,  and  Captains  John  and  Joseph 
were  wounded.* 


CORNET  THOMAS  TRAVER. 

This  surname  does  not  again  occur  upon  the  List ; 
nor  at  all  upon  the  Outlawries  of  1691  ;  while  those 
of  1642  have  the  names  of  Robert,  Luke,  and  William 
*  Travers'  of  Ballykea,  County  of  Dublin,  and  Patrick 
Travers,  of  the  same  place.  Clerk.  Sir  John  Travers, 
who  seems  to  have  been  of  a  family  located  at  Bally- 
kea aforesaid,  died  in  1561.  In  the  confiscations  of 
1691,  William  Travers  of  the  Ballykea  line  forfeited 
120  acres  in  the  parish  of  Lusk^  County  of  Dublin. 
It  may  be  presumed  that  Cornet  Thomas  '  Traver ' 
was  of  his  family. 

•  Gent.  Mag.,  ad  atm.,  p.  377. 


252  KING  James's  irisii  army  list. 

CORNET  THOMAS  MEAGH. 

Neither  does  this  name  again  occur  upon  this  List ; 
but  on  the  Attainders  of  1642  appears  John  Meagh 
of  Loughurke,  County  of  Cork.  On  the  Establish- 
ment of  1687-8  is  an  entry  of  £6  13s.  4d.  rent, 
charged  as  "  payable  to  Patrick  Meagh  for  the  lands 
of  Castlelinny  Park,  whereon  the  fort  near  the  har- 
bour of  Kinsale  doth  stand." In  the  Parliament 

of  1689,  Henry  Meagh  sat  as  one  of  the  Representa- 
tives of  the  Borough  of  Knocktopher.  His  name  is 
on  the  Outlawries  of  1691,  with  that  of  David 
Meagh  of  *  Moyaller,'  County  of  Cork. 

In  St.  Mary's  Church,  Youghal,  is  a  large  altar 
tomb  to  the  memory  of  Peter  '  Miagh,'  who  was 
mayor  of  that  ancient  Borough  in  1630,  and  died  in 
1633.  'The  plinth,'  says  the  Rev.  Mr.  Hayman,  in 
his  interesting  account  of  this  Church,  {History  of 
Youghal)^  'has  a  skeleton  in  a  shroud  rudely  engraven 
on  its  outer  face.  Above  it  rise  Corinthian  columns, 
between  which  are  armorial  bearings.  Two  figures 
of  angels  surmount  these  pillars,  and  on  the  summit  is 
a  third,  clad  in  loose  drapery,  the  right  pointing  up- 
ward and  the  left  bearing  a  cross.  This  mooument 
was  erected  by  his  widow  Phelisia  Nagle.' 


QUARTER-MASTER  JAMES  WALE. 
In  relation  to  this  surname,  John  de  Wale  was  in 


purcell's  horse.  253 

1348,  advanced  to  the  see  of  Ardfert,  as  was  Stephen 
de  Wale  to  that  of  Limerick  in  1360  ;  the  latter  was 
promoted  to  Meath  in  1369.  In  1475,  James  Wale 
succeeded  to  the  Bishoprick  of  Kildare,  and  in  1585, 
David  Wale  was  one  of  the  Representatives  of  the 
Borough  of  Fethard,  Tipperary,  in  Sir  John  Perrot's 
parliament.  In  1618,  Sampson  Theobalds  had  a  grant 
from  the  Crown  of  the  castle,  town  and  lands  of 
Maginstown,  County  of  Tipperary ;  parcel  of  the 
estates  of  Richard  Wale  attainted.*  An  Inquisition 
post  mortem^  taken  at  Carlow,  14th  of  June,  1620, 
supplies  the  links  of  descent  of  'Wales'  of  that  County 
for  three  past  generations  ;f  while  the  monimients 
in  the  Cathedral  of  Kilkenny  commemorate  various 

'Wales'  of  the  vicinity  in  the  seventeenth  century. 

The  Attainders  of  1642  present  the  names  of  James 
Wale  of  Clonmulk,  County  of  Carlow ;  and  those  of 
1696,  include  Philip  Wale  of  Drogheda,  merchant, 
and  Lucas  Wale  of  Crehelp,  County  of  Wicklow. 
The  name  of  Quarter-Master  James  Wale  does  not 
appear  amongst  them,  nor  does  that  of  Matthew 
Wale,  who  was  an  Ensign  in  the  Infantry  Regiment 
commanded  by  Fitz-James,  the  Grand  Prior. 

♦  Rot.  Pat.  15,  Jac.  1  in  Cane.  Hib. 
t  Inqtds.  in  Cane.  Hib. 


254  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 


AU  the  foregoing  Regiments  of  Horse  were  engaged 
at  Aughrim,  together  with  two  Troops  of  Horse- 
Guards  (the  Duke  of  Berwick's,  and  Lord  Dover's  ;) 
and  also  a  Troop  of  Horse-Grenadiers  commanded  by 
Colonel  Butler,  and  other  Regiments  of  Horse  under 
Lord  Balmallock,  the  Earl  of  Westmeath,  and  Lord 
Merrion,  respectively. 


KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST.  255 


KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Regiments  of  Dragoons. 

1.  Lord  Dongan's  (now  Earl  of  Limerick). 

2.  Sir  Neill  O'Neill's. 

3.  Lord  Clare's. 

4.  Colonel  Simon  Luttrell's. 

5.  Colonel  Robert  Cufford's. 

6.  Colonel  Francis  Carroll's. 

[7.  Brigadier  Thomas  Maxwell's]. 


236 


KIXG  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 


REGIMENTS  OF  DRAGOONS. 

LORD  DONGAN'S,  NOW  EARL  OF  LIMERICK. 


The  Colonel. 
Francis  Carroll, 
Lieat.-ColoneL 

Conlj  Geoghegan, 

Migor. 
WUliam  Arohbold. 
Cormock  O'NeilL 
Olirer  Plonkett. 
Daniel  O'Neill. 
Charles  Moore. 
Lord  Kingsland. 
Richard  Bellew. 
John  Mao  Namara. 
Piers  Archbold. 
Patrick  Nngent. 
James  Carroll. 


Lieutenants. 
Thomas  Carenagh. 
James  Carroll. 


Comets.  Qfiarttr'Masters, 

Thomas  Kellj.  Phelim  Fox. 

Cormack  *  Eggan.*   Robert  Qnin. 


Michael  Archbold.  Garrett  Fitcgerald.  Francis  Bowers. 

Arthur  0*NeilL  James  Geoghegan.  Peter  Dobbin. 

Henry  Talbot.  Walter  Fitxgerald.  Richard  Netterrille. 

Patrick  Nugent.  John  Mappas.  Richard  Archbold. 

John  Hurlj.  Nicholas  Darcy.  Simon  Brioe. 

William  Talbot.  James  Bellew.  James  Wolrerston. 

George  Talbot.  Piers  Butler.  William  Nugent 

James  Archbold.  Thomas  Dongan. 

John  Mapas.  Richard  Archbold. 

William  Carroll  John  Begg. 


dongan's  dragoons.  257 


COLONEL  LORD  DONGAN. 

This  surname  appears  to  have  been  of  native  and  Mi- 
lesian origin ;  or,  if  it  came  over  from  England,  it  was 
very  soon  naturalized.  In  1387,  Dermot  O'Dongan 
was  presented,  by  the  Marquess  of  Dublin,  to  a  bene- 
fice within  the  Diocese  of  Limerick;  and  in  1392  the 
King  granted  to  Thomas  'O'Dongyn,'  chaplain,  and  an 
admitted  *  Irishman,'  the  liberty  of  using  the  English 
tongue  and  law  ;  and  the  native  annalists  speak  of 
the  ancient  Sept  of  O'Donnegan,  who  were  extensive 
proprietors  in  the  half  Barony  of  Orrery,  County  of 
Cork.» 

In  1395,  John  Dongan,  a  Benedictine  Monk,  who 
had  been  previously  Bishop  of  Derry,  was  translated 
to  the  See  of  Down ;  Henry  the  Fourth  constituted 
him  Seneschal  of  Ulster,  and  in  1405  joined  him  in  a 
Commission  to  eflTectuate  a  peace  between  Sir  Donald 
Mac  Donald,  Lord  of  the  Isles,  and  his  brother  John 
of  the  one  part,  and  on  the  other  the  merchants  of 
Drogheda  and  Dublin,  who  had  twice  led  harassing 

forays  into  Scotland:  this  prelate  died  in  1412.f 

After  the  Dissolution,  William  Dongan  had  a  grant 
of  the  beautiful  Abbey  of  Ennis,  with  a  mill,  an  eel 
and  salmon  weir,  and  houses  and  gardens  '  in  the  vil- 
lage.' In  Queen  Mary's  Charter  of  Restitution  to  St. 
Patrick's  Cathedral  (1555),  John  Dongan  was  named 
the  Prebendary  of  Howth.     Another  John  Dongan, 

♦  Annals  of  the  Four  Masters  (Geraghty's),  p.  176,  n. 
t  Ware's  Bishops,  p.  201. 

S 


258  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

who  had  been  Second  Remembrancer  of  the  Exche- 
quer in  the  time  of  Henry  the  Eighth,  was  a  propri- 
etor in  the  City  of  Dublin,  and  in  the  Counties  of 
Carlow  and  Kildare.  He  died  about  1594,  as  shown 
by  Inquisitions  post  martem  then  taken.  This  was 
the  ancestor  of  the  above  Lord  Dongan,  and  he 
devised  his  estates  to  Walter  Dongan,  his  eldest  son 
and  heir,  with  remainders,  in  failure  of  his  issue,  to 
William,  Edward,  and  Thomas  Dongan,  his  second, 
third,  and  fourth  sons,  in  tail  male  successively ;  and, 
on  failure  of  all  these  lines,  to  Thomas  Dongan,  the 
brother  of  said  testator,  John.*  This  Walter,  styled 
of  Abbotstown,  County  of  Dublin,  brought  four 
archers  on  horseback  to  the  general  Hosting  on  the 
hill  of  Tara  in  1593,  for  the  Barony  of  Navan.  He 
was  created  a  Baronet  by  King  James.  In  1615  he 
made  a  settlement  of  all  his  estates,  and  in  the  follow- 
^  ing  year  passed  patent  for  the  manor  of  Kildrought 
(Castletown),  where  he  and  his  descendants  thence- 
forth resided ;  with  various  lands,  castles,  mills,  weirs, 
and  woods,  also  the  manor  of  Sherlockstown,  and 
other  possessions  in  the  County  of  Kildare  and 
the  County  and  City  of  Dublin.f  He  died  in  1626, 
leaving  John  Dongan,  his  son  and  heir,  then  aged 
twenty-three  and  married.  This  Sir  John  Dongan, 
on  his  father's  death,  took  up  his  residence  at  Castle- 
town, in  the  County  of  Kildare.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Irish  Parliament  of  1634.  Of  his  family  were 
Thomas  Dongan,  junior,  and  Oliver  Dongan,  attainted 

♦  Inq.  post  mortem,  18  Jac.  I.   f  Patent  Roll  in  Ganc.  Hib. 


doxgan's  dragoons.  259 

in  1642,  and  described  in  their  Outlawries  as  'of 
Castletown  ;'  while  his  son,  Walter,  was  one  of  the 
Confederate  Catholics  assembled  in  four  years  after 
at  Kilkenny.  In  1644,  Thomas  Dongan  was  ap- 
pointed a  Justice  of  the  King's  Bench,  and  subse- 
quently (in  1651,)  promoted  to  be  a  Baron  of  the 

Exchequer.- On  the  Restoration,  William  Dongan, 

who  had  been  a  Knight  and  Baronet,  was  created  a 
Viscount.  He  was  married  on  the  Continent,  which 
necessitated  the  Act  styled  in  the  Commons  Journals, 
"for  the  naturalization  of  Maria  Euphemia  '  Dungan,' 
Walter  'Dungan,'  Esq.  and  Ursula  'Dungan,'  his 
issue  bom  beyond  the  seas  ;"  while  he  was  advanced 
to  the  Earldom  of  Limerick. 

Of  him  the  Earl  of  Clarendon  wrote,  in  August, 
1686,  to  the  Earl  of  Rochester,  "  My  Lord  Limerick 
was  with  me.  I  must  needs  say  he  is  always  very 
civil  to  me,  notwithstanding  his  relations.  He  makes 
wonderful  professions  of  obligations  he  had  to  my 
father,  and  likewise  to  yourself.  He  tells  me  sad  sto- 
ries of  the  ill  condition  of  his  own  fortune,  how  he 
was  forced  to  sell  £400  per  annum  to  pay  the  debts 
which  he  contracted  in  the  King's  service,  and  that 
he  never  had  any  thing  since  the  King's  Restoration ; 
that  the  late  King  promised,  and  his  present  Majesty 
said  he  would  make  that  promise  good,  that  he  should 
have  a  pension  of  £500  per  annum,  till  £5,000  was 
paid.  This  morning  my  Lord  Dongan  was  with  me, 
and  desired  I  would  send  the  enclosed  letter  upon  the 

s2 


260  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

same  business/'*  On  the  9th  of  October  following, 
the  same  Viceroy  writes  to  Rochester  again  upon  this 
subject : — "  Pray  give  me  leave  to  put  you  in  mind 
of  a  letter,  I  some  time  since  sent  to  you  from  Lord 
Dongan  ;  I  am  called  upon  every  day  for  an  answer. 
You  cannot  imagine  (he  adds  with  much  naivete) 
how  impatient  people  here  are  who  expect  anything, 
even  those  who  think  themMlves  the  best  bredJ'^  In 
a  previous  letter  of  this  Clarendon  to  Rochester,  in 
April  of  the  same  year,  after  alluding  to  Lord  Don- 
gan as  having  gone  over  to  England,  he  says,  "  His 
going  over  makes  a  great  discourse  here,  as  in  truth 
most  things  do ;  for  some  or  other  will  comment  upon 
all  that  is  done.  Those  officers  of  the  army,  who  are 
lately  come  out  of  England,  say  he  is  gone,  upon  his 
uncle  Lord  Tyrconnell's  direction,  to  kiss  the  King's 
hand  for  a  Troop  of  Horse,  which  they  say  he  is  to 
have  upon  the  changes^  and  truly  that  seems  very 
likely  ;  but  others  will  have  it  that  he  has  become  a 
statesman,  and  is  gone  upon  some  deep  matters  rela- 
ting to  the  Catholic  cause ;  which  suggestion  comes 
from  those  of  that  religion,  and  is  grounded  upon  Dr. 
Moore,  a  physician,  being  gone  with  him,  who  is  a 
man  of  great  account  among  that  party,  and  is  looked 
upon  to  be  so  subtle  and  designing  a  man,  that  he 
would  not  go  over  purely  on  a  compliment  to  that 
young  Lord,  who  Ls  a  very  prattling  and  impertinent 
youth,  and  forward  enough,  and  is  so  looked  upon 

•  Singer's  Correspondence  of  Clarendon,  v.  1,  p.  566. 
t  Idem,  V.  2,  p.  24. 


dongan's  dragoons.  261 

here."*  This  Lord,  the  Colonel  under  consideration, 
was  named  Walter,  and  he  sat  in  King  James's  Par- 
liament as  one  of  the  Representatives  of  Naas,  while 
his  father  was  one  of  the  Peers.  On  the  tenth  day  of 
that  Session  he  was  despatched  by  his  King  to  Gene- 
ral Hamilton  before  Derry,  carrying  the  important 
announcement,  "  I  now  send  back  to  you  this  bearer. 
Lord  Dongan,  to  let  you  know  what  this  day  I  have 
been  informed,  by  one  who  came  from  Chester  on 
Wednesday  last,  that  Kirke  was  to  sail  with  the  first 
fair  wind  from  thence,  with  four  Regiments  of  Foot, 
to  endeavour  to  relieve  Derry.    I  have  ordered  a  copy 

of  the  information  to  be  sent  you I  have  sent 

some  Horse  and  Dragoons  to  reinforce  Sarsfield  at 
Sligo,  and  have  ordered  Purcell's  dragoons  to  Beltur- 
bet.  What  else  I  have  to  say  I  refer  to  this  bearer, 
Lord  Dongan."f 

Lord  Dongan's  career  was,  however,  short ;  he  fell 
at  the  Boyne  ;  and,  as  the  Duke  of  Berwick  writes, 
"  Notwithstanding  the  Foot  was  broken,  the  right 
wing  of  Horse  and  Dragoons  marched,  and  charged 
such  of  the  Enemy's  Horse  and  Foot  as  passed  the 
river ;  but  my  Lord  Dongan  being  slain  at  the  first  by 
a  great  shot,  his  Dragoons  could  not  be  got  to  do  any 
thing,  nor  did  Clare's  do  much  better.  Nevertheless, 
the  Horse  did  their  duty  with  great  bravery,  and, 
though  they  did  not  break  the  Enemy's  Foot,  it  was 
more  by  reason  of  the  ground  not  being  favourable 

•  Singer's  Correspondence  of  Clarendon,  v.  1,  p.  843. 
t  Manuscripts  T.C.D.,  (E  2,  19.) 


262  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

than  for  want  of  vigour  ;  for,  after  they  had  been 
repulsed  by  the  Foot,  they  rallied  again,  and  charged 
the  Enemy's  Horse,  and  beat  them  every  charge."* 
Lord  Dongan's  corpse  was  carried  from  the  field  to 
the  family  mansion  at  Castletown,  and  there  interred 
in  the  parish  church,  whose  unnoted  ruins  are  still 
traceable  near  Celbridge. 

The  Attainders  of  1691  include  Euphemia  'Dun- 
gan,'  alias  Countess  of  Limerick,  and  William,  Earl  of 
Limerick.  His  confiscations  comprised  the  castle, 
manor,  and  lands  of  Castletown-Kildrought,  and 
other  estates  in  the  Counties  of  Dublin,  Carlow, 
Meath,  Kilkenny,  Longford,  Tipperary  and  Queen's 
County,  as  found  by  eleven  distinct  Inquisitions. 
They  comprised  nearly  30,000  acres,  with  several 
houses  in  Dublin,  and  some  impropriate  rectories, 
glebes,  advowsons  of  vicarages  and  tithes  ;  all  which 
lands  were  given  to  De  Ginkle,  Earl  of  Athlone  and 
Baron  of  Aughrim,  a  grant  confirmed  by  Act  of  Par- 
liament  so  early  as  in  1693 ;  while  seven  impropriate 
rectories  with  the  glebes  in  the  County  of  Tipperary 
were,  in  1703,  made  over  to  the  'Trustees  for  the 
augmentation  of  small  livings  and  other  ecclesiastical 
uses ' ;  as  was  that  of  Castletown-Kildrought  in  the 
County  of  Kildare,  in  which  parish  he  had  lived.  The 
claims  put  forward  in  1700,  as  incumbrances  afiecting 
these  estates,  and  some  of  which  were  allowed,  were 
those  of  Euphemia  Countess  of  Limerick  for  her 
jointure,   charged  by   settlements   of  1684  ;    under 

•  Clarke's  James  II.,  v.  2,  p.  399. 


dongan's  dragoons.  263 

which  conveyance,  Thomas,  described  as  Eari  of  Lim- 
erick, claimed  an  estate  tail  in  the  lands  of  Castle- 
town, &c.,  &c.  Grace  Ryder,  alias  Dongan,  widow, 
also  claimed  a  portion  of  £100  with  interest  as 
charged  on  a  house  in  Patrick-street,  Dublin,  by  the 
will  of  her  father,  John  Dongan,  dated  29th  Novem- 
ber, 1665  ;  while  Owen  Dongan  sought  a  life  estate 
in  lands  at  Grange-Clare  in  said  County  of  Kildare. 
Both  these  latter  claims  were  however  dismist  on 
non-prosecution. William,  Earl  of  Limerick,  fol- 
lowed his  King  to  France,  where  he  died  in  1698  ; 
when  a  "  Colonel  Dongan  took  upon  him  the  title, 
and  was  said  to  have  been  introduced  in  that  rank 
and  quality  to  kiss  his  Majesty's  hands."* 

On  the  fall  of  Lord  Dongan,  the  command  of  this 
Regiment  was  given  to  his  relative  Walter  Nugent, 
son  of  Francis  Nugent  of  Dardistown,  by  the  Lady 
Bridget  Dongan,  sister  to  the  Earl  of  Limerick. 
Colonel  Walter  was  however  himself  slain  at  Aughrim, 
when  the  command  was  given  to  the  Honorable  Rich- 
ard Bellew,  second  son  of  Lord  Bellew,  and  a  Captain 
on  this  List. 


LIEUTENANT-COLONEL  FRANCIS  CARROLL. 

He  became  full  Colonel  of  a  distinct  Regiment  of 
Dragoons,  as  hereafter  shewn. 


♦  Thorpe's   Catal.  p.  226.     Of  this  Colonel  Thomas  and  his 
achievements  abroad,  see  fully  O'Callaghan's  Brigades^  p.  331,  &c. 


264  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

MAJOR  CONLY  GEOGHEGAN. 

This  Sept  claims  descent  from  Fiachra,  one  of  the 
sons  of  Nial  of  the  Nine  Hostages,  Monarch  of  Ire- 
land in  the  Fifth  Century.  Their  territory  was 
called  Kinel-Fiacha,  and  is  by  O'Dugan  described  as 
having  extended  over  the  whole  tract  now  known  as 
the  Barony  of  Moycashel,  with  parts  of  those  of 
Moyashell,  Rathconrath  and  FertuUagh  in  Westmeath ; 
within  which  they  erected  and  long  maintained  the 
possession  of  various  castles,  the  chief  being  at  Castle- 
to  wn-Geoghegan  near  Kilbeggan,  whose  wide  site  is 
marked  upon  the  Ordnance  Survey. 

In  1328,  William  Geoghegan,  chief  of  Kinel-Fiacha, 
defeated  Thomas  le  Botiller  with  the  English  army, 
near  Mullingar.  According  to  the  Four  Masters,  the 
latter  sustained  a  loss  of  3,500  men,  including  "  their 
leader  and  some  of  the  D'Altons."  The  victor  died  in 
1332,  and  the  same  annalists  record  with  singular 
exactness  his  successors  in  the  Captaincy  for  centuries 
after.  In  1450  they  relate,  after  detailing  various 
acts  of  what  might  be  called  treasonable  resistance  on 
the  part  of  this  Sept,  that  "the  English  of  Meath  and 
the  Duke  of  York,  with  the  Kin^s  Standard^  marched 
to  Mullingar ;  and  the  son  of  Mac  Geoghegan,  with  a 
great  force  of  cavalry  in  armour,  marched  on  the  same 
day  to  Beal-atha-glass  to  meet  the  English,  who  came 
to  the  resolution  of  making  peace  with  them  ;  and 
they  forgave  him  all  he  had  committed  on  them^  on 
conditions  of  obtaining  peace."*    Campion  preserves  a 


dongan's  dragoons.  265 

letter  attributed  to  this  Duke  of  York,  written  from 
Dublin  to  the  Earl  of  Shrewsbury,  in  which,  alluding 
to  the  power  and  hostility  of  Mac  Geoghegan,  he  en- 
treats "  to  have  men  of  war  in  defence  and  safeguard 
of  this  land,  or  my  power  cannot  stretch  to  keep  it  in 
the  King's  obeisance,  and  very  nearly  will  compel  me 
to  come  into  England,  to  live  there  upon  my  poor 
*  livelode  ;'  for  I  had  4ever'  be  dead,  than  any  incon- 
venience should  fall  thereto  in  my  default ;  for  it  shall 
never  be  chronicled  nor  remain  in  scripture  by  the 
grace  of  God,  that  Ireland  was  lost  by  my  negligence." 
An  annal  of  1488,  connected  with  this  family,  affords 
perhaps  the  earliest  notice  of  the  use  of  artillery  in 
Ireland.  "The  Earl  of  KUdare,"  say  the  Four 
Masters,  "marched  with  a  predatory  force  into  Kinel- 
Fiacha,  where  he  demolished  the  Castle  of  Belerath 
on  the  sons  of  Murtagh  Mac  Geoghegan,  after  having 
conveyed  some  'ordnance^  thither."  Remains  of  this 
castle  also  are  existing. 

In  1556,  Robert  Cowley,  a  busy  subordinate  of  his 
day,  recommended  that  the  Baron  of  Delvin  and  his 
son  should  be  "  occupied "  against  Mac  Geoghegan, 
O'Mulloy,  &c.;  and  accordingly,  in  the  following 
year,  the  Deputy,  Lord  Leonard  Grey,  undertook  an 
expedition  against  those  Septs,  "  by  the  conduct  and 
guidance  of  the  Lord  of  Delvin,"  and  compelled  them 
to  give  hostages  ;  immediately  after  which,  in  accord- 
ance with  the  heartless  policy  of  the  day,  their  co- 
operation was  engaged  for  the  subjugation  of  the 
O'CarroUs.     Early  in  1540;  a  "  peace  "  had  been  con- 


266  KING  James's  irisu  army  list. 

eluded  between  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Ross  Mac  Geogh- 
egan,tlieaChief  Captain  of  his  nation  and  of  the  country 
of '  Kinaleigh  ;'  by  which  the  latter  bound  himself  to 
serve  the  Crown  with  four  horsemen  and  twenty- 
four  footmen  for  a  day  and  night,  on  notice,  at  any 
time,  and  as  often  as  the  King's  Deputy  should  please ; 
and  also  to  serve  in  every  great  hosting  or  journey 
(especially  against  Brian  O'Connor),  with  four  horse- 
men and  twelve  footmen  during  said  journey,  and  at  his 
own  proper  costs  and  charges."  In  the  June,  how- 
ever, of  that  year,  information  was  forwarded  to  the 
Privy  Council  of  England,  "that  O'NeiU  and  O'Don- 
nell,  with  all  the  powers  of  the  north  part  of  Ireland, 
O'Connor,  O'Mulloy,  Mac  Geoghegan,  all  the  Kellys, 
with  the  most  part  of  the  powers  of  Connaught, 
O'Brien  with  all  his  company,  are  all  combined,  and 
have  appointed  to  meet  at  the  King's  manor  of  Fore, 
the  6th  of  July  next  coming  ;  they  also  bringing 
:  with  them  five  weeks'  victuals.  It  is  supposed  and 
thought  that  of  truth  their  meaning  is  for  no  purpose 
but  only  to  allure  the  Lord  Justice  and  Council  with 
the  best  of  the  English  Pale  to  the  said  place,  by  the 
Irishmen  appointed,  thinking  by  their  great  power  to 
take  their  advantage  of  the  King's  subjects,  and  so  to 
overrun  all  the  English  Pale  at  their  own  pleasure." 
On  the  appearance,  however,  of  Sir  William  Brereton, 
with  the  forces  of  the  Government,  the  Irish  Confede- 
rates  scattered  ;  "whereupon,"  writes  the  Irish  Council 
to  Henry  VIII.,  "  we  concluded  to  do  some  exploit^  and 
so  entered  into  O'Connor's  country,  and  there  en- 


dongan'8  dragoons.  267 

camped  in  sundry  places,  destroying  his  habitations, 
'coins J  and  fortHaces^  so  long  as  our  victuals  endured, 
which  hath  partly  abated  ftis  '  surguedy '  and  pride, 
alhevt  he  remaineth  on  his  cankered  malice  and  ran- 
cour, and  so  do  all  his  confederates,  continuing  their 
traitorous  conferences,  expecting  their  time  to  execute 
their  purpose."  At  length,  Mac  Geoghegan,  O'Mulloy, 
&c.,  submitted  themselves,  "whose  submission,''  say 
the  amiable  Council  to  their  generoiis  monarch,  "  we 
accepted  for  this  season,  both  for  the  causes  aforesaid, 
and  also  to  the  intent  we  might  have  opportunity  of 
the  other  confederates  of  Irishmen,  with  separation  of 
their  confederacy,  that  they  should  not  remain  upon 
war  and  peace  jointly,  as  they  pretended  to  do ; 
but  to  be  upon  your  Grace's  peace,  with  their  services, 
and  shall  make  certain  fines." 

In  1567,  was  published  a  map,  in  which  Kinel- 
Fiacha  is  described  as  Mac  Geoghegan's  country, 
and  as  containing  in  length  twelve,  and  in  breadth 
seven  miles.  "  It  lieth,"  says  the  abstract,  "  midway 
between  the  fort  of  Faley  (Philipstown)  and  Athlone, 
five  miles  from  either  of  them  and  also  firom  Mullin- 
gar,  which  lieth  northward  of  it ;  southward  is  O'Mul- 
loy's  country.  On  the  south-east  lieth  Offaley,  on 
the  east  it  joineth  Tyrrel's  country,  and  O'Melaghlin's 
on  the  west  side,  between  it  and  Athlone,  where  a 
comer  of  it  joineth  with  the  Dillon  country."  So 
were  the  dynasties  hereabout  then  demarcated.  In 
the  Parliament  of  1585,  convened  by  Perrot,  and 
for  the   first  time    admitting    Irish  chiefs    to  the 


268  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

councils  of  their  country's  legislation,  this  Sept  was 
represented  by  Conla,  son  of  Connor,  son  of  Luigne 
Mac  Geoghegan.  In  the  following  year,  when  con- 
fiscations were  instituted  as  a  resource  for  support- 
ing  the  necessities  of  Government,  Inquisitions  were 
taken  as  to  the  possessions  of  this  family,  the  death 
of  whose  tanist,  the  aforesaid  Conla,  in  the  same 
year,  is  commemorated  by  the  Four  Masters,  as  that 
"  there  was  not,  since  the  times  of  old,  a  man  of  the 
race  of  Fiacha  who  was  more  lamented  than  he."  At 
the  close  of  this  century,  the  '  crud^  poet,  Edmund 
Spenser,  in  his  "  View  of  the  State  of  Ireland,"  ear- 
nestly recommended  that,  "  for  the  safeguard  of  the 
country,  and  keeping  under  all  sudden  upstarts  that 
shall  seek  to  trouble  the  peace,  garrisons  should  be 
established  at  sundry  places  outside  the  Pale,  and 
particularly  one  "  at  the  foot  of  OflFaley,  to  curb  the 
O'Connors,  O'Mulloys,  MacCoghlans,  MacGeoghegans, 
and  all  those  Irish  natives  bordering  thereabouts." 

In  the  year  1600,  the  memorable  Irish  hero,  Hugh 
O'Neill,  in  his  progress  southward,  under  pretext  of  a 
pilgrimage  to  Holycross,  but  really  to  organize  for  the 
reception  of  the  expected  Spanish  invasion  of  Mun- 
ster,  after  passing  through  the  barony  of  Delvin, 
"  marched  thence  to  the  gates  of  Athlone,  and  along 
the  southern  side  of  Clan-Colman,  and  Kinel-Fiacha 
(MacGeoghegan's)  and  into  Fearcall  (O'Mulloy's,) 
where  he  encamped  for  nine  nights,"  confirming 
friendships  with  the  surrounding  chiefs.  When,  soon 
after,  the  war  of  Munster  broke  out.  Captain  Richard 


dongan's  dragoons.  269 

Mac  Geoghegan,  "a  chief  of  Westmeath/'  was,  for  his 
distinguished  valour,  entrusted  by  O'Sullivan  with  the 
custody  and  care  of  the  castle  of  Dunboy,  which  he 
gallantly  defended  until  mortally  wounded.  He  was 
carried  down  into  the  vaults  in  a  dying  state,  where, 
learning  that  it  was  the  intention  of  the  garrison  un- 
der their  necessity  to  surrender,  he  made  a  feeble 
effort  to  stagger  over  to  a  barrel  of  gunpowder  there 
deposited,  with  a  resolution,  by  setting  fire  to  it,  to 
blow  up  the  English  then  in  the  castle,  even  with  a 
sacrifice  of  his  own  friends  ;  but  the  former,  rushing 
down  at  the  crisis,  arrested  his  arm  and  stabbed  him 
to  death," 

In  the  confiscations  consequent  upon  the  insurrec- 
tion of  1641,  Rosse,  Laurence,  and  Dermott  Mac 
Geoghegan  were  forfeiting  proprietors  within  the 
County  of  Kildare,  as  was  Thomas  in  the  County  of 
Meath  ;  while,  in  the  old  territory  of  Kinaleigh, 
Arthur  Mac  Geoghegan  lost  all  that  then  remained  of 
his  ancestors'  immemorial  inheritance  there — little 
more,  at  that  time,  than  1,500  acres,  (including 
Castletown-Mac  Geoghegan).  His  wife,  one  of  the  no- 
ble Sept  of  Mac  Coghlan,  having  given  protection  to 
some  of  Cromwell's  soldiers,  received  from  the  usurp- 
ing powers  a  transplantation  grant  in  the  County  of 
Galway,  of  Bennowen,  part  of  the  OTlaherty's  terri- 
tory ;  and  through  her  second  son,  Edward,  a  junior 
branch  of  the  Mac  G^oghegans  has  been  continued 
to  the  present  day  in  Connaught ;  though  in  its  two 
last  generations  this  line  has  adopted  the  surname  of 


270  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

O'Neill,  as  sounding  more  of  Milesian  royalty.  Nine 
hundred  acres  of  Arthur's  forfeiture  in  Kinaleigh 
having  been  claimed  by  Edward  Mac  Geoghegan,  as 
a  remainder  under  settlements,  were  allowed  to 
him,  and  a  portion  of  the  residue  was  granted  to 
Sir  William  Petty  (ancestor  of  the  Marquis  of  Lans- 
downe),  the  great  compiler  of  the  Down  Survey.  This 
Edward  obtained  further  savings  of  his  rights  in  other 
lands  within  the  County  of  We^tmeath,  on  decrees 
of  innocence,  but  died  without  issue.  In  the  Assem- 
bly of  Confederate  Catholics  at  Kilkenny  in  1647, 
sat,  amongst  the  Spiritual  Peers,  Doctor  Anthony 
Mac  Geoghegan  ;  while  of  the  Commons  were  Conly 
and  Charles  Mac  Geoghegan  of  Donore,  Edward  Mac 
Geoghegan  of  Tyroterin,  and  Richard  Mac  Geogh- 
egan of  Moycashell,  all  within  the  old  inheritance  of 
Kinel-Fiacha.  The  first  named,  Conly  Mac  Geogh- 
egan, was  one  of  the  seven  sons  of  Hugh  Buy  Mac 
Geoghegan,  by  Ellen,  daughter  of  Walter  Tyrrell  of 
Clonmoyle,  County  of  Westmeath,  and  is  especially 
included  in  the  declaration  of  Eoyal  gratitude  of  the 
Act  of  Settlement,  which  further  restored  him  to  his 
principal  seat  of  Donore,  and  2,000  acres  of  land.  The 
adjacent  Borough  of  Eilbeggan  was,  in  King  James's 
Parliament  of  1689,  represented  by  Bryan  Geoghegan 
of  Donore,  and  Charles  Geoghegan  of  Syonan. 

On  this  Army  List,  besides  the  above  Major  Conly 
and  Comet  James  of  the  present  Regiment,  Charles 
and  Conn  Geoghegan  were  Captains  in  Colonel  Simon 
Luttrell's  Dragoons ;  another  Charles  was  a  Lieutenant 


dongan's  dragoons.  271 

in  that  of  Colonel  Francis  Carroll ;  Anthony  Geoghegan 
was  a  Captain  in  Colonel  John  Hamilton's  Infantry, 
and  Garret  Geoghegan  was  appointed  Major  of  Colo- 
nel Edward  Butler's,  after  the  forming  of  this  List. 
When  Lord  Dongan  was  killed,  and  the  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  Francis  Carroll  had  obtained  a  separate 
Regiment  of  Dragoons,  it  would  seem  that  Major 
Conly  Geoghegan  succeeded  to  the  Colonelcy  of  this, 
hence  then  styled  'Geoghegan's  Regiment,'  "and  from 
which,"  says  O'Conor,  "  many  soldiers  were  after- 
wards brought  over  to  William's  party,  "by  the  influ- 
ence of  oflScers,  who  sought  favour  from  the  govern- 
ment by  corrupting  their  soldiers."*  Previous  to  this 
dereliction,  however,  when,  in  May,  1691,  Captain 
Underhill,  at  the  head  of  a  Williamite  party,  engaged 

an  Irish  detachment,  and  killed  their  Captain, 

Geoghegan,  he  was  "the  next  day  set  upon  by  another 
party  of  the  Irish,  commanded  by  Colonel  Geoghegan, 
and  was  obliged  to  make  his  retreat."f 

The  Inquisitions  of  1691  contain  the  Outlawries  of 
Peter  Mac  Thomas  Geoghegan,  and  William  and  Mori- 
ertagh  Mac  Peter  (Jeoghegan  of  Newtown,  County  of 
Westmeath  ;  Hugh  Ban  Geoghegan  of  Carrymare, 
Do.  ;  Hugo  Mac  Eedagh  Geoghegan  of  Loughar- 
laghnought,  Edward  his  son,  Hugh  Fitz-Conly  Buy 
Geoghegan  of  Laragh ;  Bryan  Geoghegan  of  Donore ; 
Charles,  Con,  James  and  Anthony  Geoghegan  of 
Syonan,  all  in  Westmeath  ;  Bryan  Geoghegan  of 
Ballyduflfe,   and   Eugene    of  Ballyhecnock,    in    the 

*  O'Conor's  Military  Memoirs,  p.  190. 
f  Story's  Impartial  History,  part  2,  p.  79. 


272  KLVG  James's  irish  army  list. 

King's  County,  with  James  Geoghegan  of  Granard, 
County  of  Longford.  Of  these,  Bryan  of  Donore, 
styled  Colonel  Bryan,  was  adjudged  within  the  Arti- 
cles of  Limerick  ;  while  in  1700  the  warrant  issued 
for  a  pardon  to  Edward  Geoghegan  of  Castletown  for 
the  reasons,  as  stated  in  his  petition,  "that  he  had  never 
borne  any  employment  civil  or  military  under  the 
late  King  James  ;  but,  after  the  battle  of  the  Boyne, 
put  himself  under  King  William's  protection  at  his 
own  house,  until  he  was  fallen  upon  by  a  party  of 
Captain  Pointz's  soldiers,  by  whom  he  was  shot 
through  the  body,  stripped  of  all  his  substance,  and 
both  himself  and  his  family  most  inhumanly  and  bar- 
barously used  :  by  which  means  he  was  forced 
into  the  enemy's  quarters  for  security  of  his  life,  and 
that  on  this  account  only  was  he  outlawed.  That  on 
the  capitulation  of  Limerick  he  came  to  Dublin,  and 
was  put  in  possession  of  his  estate  according  to  the 
Articles  ;  and  that  he  had  always  showed  great  kind- 
ness to  his  Protestant  neighbours."  He  therefore 
prayed  a  reversal  of  his  Outlawry  and  a  pardon ;  and 
the  Privy  Council,  on  the  Attorney-General's  Report, 
having  certified  in  his  favour,  and  the  executors  of 
Colonel  Wolsely,  deceased,  (who  in  his  lifetime  had  op- 
posed said  Edward's  prayer,)  offering  no  opposition, 

his  full  pardon  was  ordered  to  be  made  out.* 

The  claims  preferred  against  the  Geoghegan  confisca- 
tions in  1700  were, — Matthew  Geoghegan  for  a  charge 
affecting  Westmeath  lands  of  said  Edward  Geoghegan 

♦  Harris's  MSS.  Dub.  Soc.  v.  10,  p.  304. 


dongan's  dragoons.  273 

in    the   Barony  of  Rathconrath,   allowed. Mary 

Geoghegan  for  her  jointure  off  same,  also  allowed. 
Edward,  Thomas  and  James  Greoghegan,  the  sons  of 
said  Edward,  claimed  estates  tail  therein  respectively 

under  marriage  articles  of  1684,  disallowed. While 

Anne,  the  widow  of  Conly  Geoghegan,  sought  a  small 
jointure  and  arrears  as  charges  on  the  King's  County 
estate  of  Charles  Geoghegan  ;  and  Mary,  his  widow, 
sought  her  jointure  to  the  like  amount :  both  which 
claims  were  allowed. 

In  1728,  Arthur  Geoghegan  married  Susanna, 
daughter  of  William  Stafford  of  Blatherwick,  and 
widow  of  Henry  O'Brien  of  the  Inchiquin  line, 
whereupon  said  Arthur  assumed  the  name  of  Staf- 
ford, and  has  transmitted  it  to  his  descendants. 

In  1745,  Sir  Thomas  Geoghegan  of  Toulouse, 
an  Officer  in  Lally's  Regiment,  was  taken  prisoner 
at  Carlisle,  but,  pleading  that  he  was  a  French 
subject,  he  was  released.*  In  two  years  after,  he  was 
killed  at  the  battle  of  Lauffield,  near  Maestricht;f 
while  Alexander  Geoghegan,  having  been  taken  at  the 
memorable  battle  of  Culloden,  executed  with  many 
others  an  article  herein  elsewhere  more  fiilly  alluded 
to,  engaging  themselves  on  parole  not  to  pass  out  of 
Inverness  without  the  licence  of  the  Duke  of  Cum- 
berland.  Subsequently,    the   Abbe    Jaques    Mac 

Geoghegan,  residing  in  France,  published  in  1758 
a  very  interesting  History  of  Ireland  in  the  French 
language. 

♦  Gent.  Mag.,  vol.  16,  p.  24.  f  Wem,  vol.  18,  p.  377 

T 


274  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 


CAPTAIN  WILLIAM  ARCHBOLD. 

This  name,  of  Danish  origin,  is  traceable  in  Ireland 
from  the  eariiest  period  of  existing  records  ;  more 
especially  in  the  annals  of  Wicklow.  Henry  the 
Fourth,  in  the  first  year  of  his  reign,  constituted 
William  Archbold  Constable  of  the  important  Castle 
of  Mackinnegan  within  that  territory,  with  a  salary 
of  100  marks  in  times  of  peace,  and  of  £80  during 
war  ;  for  the  due  performance  of  which  trust,  four  of 
his  sept  and  vicinage  became  sureties  to  the  Crown.* 
Another  William  Archbold  had  been  a  few  years 
previously  appointed  a  Baron  of  the  Irish  Exchequer, 
while,  in  ecclesiastical  rank,  Richard  Archbold  was  in 
1491  elected  Prior  of  the  noble  mitred  House  of 
Eilmainham. 

In  1610,  the  King's  letter  issued  for  receiving  a 
surrender  from  Patrick  Archbold  of  Kendlestown, 
County  of  Wicklow,  with  the  state  policy  of  re-grant- 
ing his  estates  to  him  on  payment  of  a  fine,  and  on 
holding  same  thenceforth  by  Knight's  service.f  A 
very  long  letter  of  the  31st  March,  1628,  from  King 
Charles  the  First  to  Viscount  Falkland,  then  Lord 
Lieutenant  of  Ireland,  directs  a  Commission  of  In- 
quiry to  be  held  respecting  all  the  manors,  castles, 
estates,  &c.  of  which  the  aforesaid  Patrick  Archbold 
died  seised  in  Wicklow  and  Dublin  Counties  ;  with 
authority  and  instructions  for  conveying  them  to  the 

♦  Rot.  Pat.  1  Hen.  IV.  t  Patent  Roll  in  Cane.  Hib. 


dongan's  dragoons.  275 

Earl  of  Heath  in  fee,  together  with  Letters  Patent  for 
markets,  fairs,  tarirpits,  a  Court  Baron  and  Court 
Leet,  in  Great  and  Little  Bree.  This  letter  was 
afterwards  recalled  for  a  substituted  grant  of  said  pre- 
mises  to  (Jeorge  Kirke,  Esq.,  Groom  of  the  Bedcham- 
ber ;  with  specific  directions  that  ihe  Earl  should  not 
make  use  of  the  preceding  Letter. 

The  Attainders  of  1642  exhibit  Inquisitions  on 
Christopher  and  William  Archbold  of  Timolin,  Kich- 
ard  of  Flemingstown,  and  James  of  Crookstown,  all  in 
the  County  of  Kildare. William,  Roland,  and  Ed- 
mund Archbold  of  Cloghran-Swords,  County  of  Dub- 
lin ;  Robert,  James,  and  Henry  Archbold  of  Tuck- 
myne.  County  of  Wicklow  ;  Christopher  of  Skidow, 
and  Nicholas  of  Carrowkeel,  County  of  Dublin;  Theo- 
bald of  Rathbran,  Edward  of  Stagonell,  Thomas  of 
Wicklow,  George  of  Glancormuck,  Edward  and  Owen 
Archbold  of  Kilmurry,  Gerald  of  Brea  and  James  of 
Ballykea,  all  in  the  County  of  Wicklow. 

On  this  Army  List,  besides  the  six  officers  of  the 
present  Regiment,  Christopher  Archbold  was  an  En- 
sign in  the  King's  Own  Foot,  and  Bernard  Archbold  a 
Lieutenant  in  Sir  Michael  Creagh's.  An  Ensign 
Archbold  was,  at  the  commencement  of  the  campaign, 
taken  prisoner  at  Deny. 

In  the  Parliament  of  1689,  William  Archbold,  the 
Captain  in  this  Regiment,  was  one  of  the  Represen- 
tatives of  the  Borough  of  Athy.  During  the  siege  of 
Limerick,  in  August,  1691,  the  fine  Castle  of  Carrig- 
ogunnel  near  that  City,  "  whose  garrison    was   one 

T  2 


276  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

hundred  and  thirty  men  with  two  Captains,  com* 
manded  by  one  Archbold,  surrendered  upon  mercy, 
and  the  Prisoners  were  immediately  put  into  the 
provost's  custody." The  Attainders  of  1691  in- 
clude Nicholas,  John,  and  Francis  Archbold  of 
Ballymalee,  County  of  Westmeath  ;  Simon  of  Dublin, 
Pierce  of  Carysfort,  County  of  Wicklow  ;  the  above 
Captain,  by  the  description  of  Captain  William  of 
Athy,  County  of  Kildare  ;  James  of  Brumgagt, 
County  of  Carlow  ;  William  of  Kilkenny,  merchant  ^ 
with  Walter,  Pierce,  Thomas,  and  Richard  Archbold 
of  Cullen,  County  of  Kildare.  The  latter,  styled 
Captain  Richard,  seems  identical  with  either  of  tl^ 
Kichards  in  this  Regiment,  and  was  held  to  be  within 
the  Articles  of  Limerick.  At  the  Court  of  Claims, 
Robert  Archbold  sought  an  estate  tail  in  the  County 
Kildare  lands,  forfeited  by  Captain  William  his  father, 
to  whom  they  had  been  on  a  former  occasion  assured 
by  a  Decree  of  Innocence. — A  James  Archbold  sou^t 
and  was  allowed  a  chattel  leasehold  in  Kilmacndd, 
County  of  Dublin,  the  private  estate  (i.  e.  of  the 
Duke  of  York);  while  a  John  Archbold  claimed, 
under  a  deed  of  1671,  an  estate  for  lives  in  lands  in 
the  Counties  of  Dublin  and  Kildare,  forfeited  by  the 
Earl  of  Tyrconnel,  but  his  petition  was  disallowed. 


dongan's  dragoons.  277 

CAPTAIN  LORD   KINGSLAND. 

The  family  of  Bamewall  has  been  heretofore  noticed 
under  Lord  Trimleston,  who  was  a  Captain  in  Lord 
Gahnoy's  Regiment  of  Horse. 

John  Bamewall,  ancestor  of  this  nobleman  in  the 
direct  line,  was  Sheriff  of  Meath  in  1433.  After  the 
rout  of  the  Boyne  this  Lord  went  to  Limerick,  where 
he  continued  until  its  surrender.  Pending  the  Treaty, 
he  was  one  of  the  hostages  for  the  performance 
thereof  on  the  part  of  the  Irish  army.*  Being  com- 
prised within  the  Articles,  he  obtained  a  reversal  of 
his  Outlawry,  but  was  not  suffered  to  take  his  seat  in 
the  House  of  Peers ;  and,  on  his  refusing  to  subscribe 
the  required  Declaration,  he  was  ordered  to  withdraw ; 
he  and  his  brother  thereupon  followed  the  fortunes  of 
the  banished  James.  The  former  had  a  Commission 
under  the  Duke  of  Berwick,  and  fell  in  action  against 
the  Germans  in  1692 ;  whereupon  his  brother, 
returning  from  Flanders  to  Ireland,  recovered  the 
family  estates  and  was  summoned  to  Parliament,  but 
he  too  declined  the  honor  with  the  oaths.  He  was  at- 
tainted by  three  Inquisitions,  one  taken  in  the 
County  of  Dublin,  another  in  the  City,  and  a  third  in 
the  County  of  Meath.  His  son  Joseph  was  also  at- 
tainted. 


♦  D' Alton's  History  of  the  Co.  Dublin,  p.  310. 


278  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

.  CAPTAIN  RICHAKD  BELLEW. 

The  name  of  Bellew  will  be  fully  treated  of  at  Lord 
Belle w's  Infantry  Regiment.  Of  this  officer  it  may 
he  here  said  that  he  was  the  second  son  of  that  Lord, 
and  early  distinguished  himself  in  supporting  Edng 
James's  cause.  When  Walter  Nugent,  who  succeeded 
Lord  Dougan  in  the  command  of  this  Regiment,  fell 
at  Aughrim,  as  before  related,  Richard  Bellew, 
although  then  only  twenty  years  of  age,  was  appointed 
to  succeed  him  ;  and,  on  the  termination  of  the  war, 
he  brought  his  forces  with  him  to  France,  where  they 
ranked  as  the  ^King  of  England*s  Dismounted  Dra- 
goons.' There  however  he  took  umbrage,  as  Brigadier 
Thomas  Maxwell  was  placed  over  his  head,  which  he 
thought  an  unmerited  slight.  Returning  to  Ireland  in 
1694,  on  the  decease  of  his  elder  brother  Walter,  the 
second  Lord  Bellew,  he  became  the  third  Baron ;  and, 
marrying  a  daughter  of  Lord  Brudenell  with  a  large 
fortune,  conformed  to  the  Established  Church  in  1 705, 
sat  in  the  House  of  Peers  in  1707,  and  died  in  1714, 
leaving  John,  the  fourth  Lord  Bellew,  his  successor  ; 
at  whose  death  at  Lisle,  in  1770,  this  title  became 
extinct.* 


CAPTAIN  JAMES  CARROLL. 

The  Sept  of  O'CarroU  was  early  established  in  Louth, 
*  O'Callaghairs  Brigades,  v.  1,  p.  156. 


dongan's  dragoons.  279 

being  there  popularly  styled  Princes  of  Orgiel.  Pre- 
vious to  the  English  invasion,  immediately  after  the 
great  Synod  of  Mellefont  in  1152,  the  Four  Masters 
record  the  expulsion  of  their  Chief  from  that  country, 
of  which  he  had  been  the  acknowledged  Lord,  from 
Drogheda  to  Asigh  in  the  County  of  Meath.  These 
annalists  however  notice  O'Carrols  as  Chiefs  of  Orgiel 
down  to  the  year  1193  ;  and  it  is  especially  recorded 
that  when,  in  1166,  on  the  eve  of  Strongbow's  in- 
vasion of  Ireland,  Roderic  O'Conor,  then  King  of  this 
country,  seeking  to  ascertain  the  feelings  of  allegiance 
towards  himself,  encamped  with  an  army  hereabout, 
Donogh  O'Carroll  with  the  other  chiefs  of  Louth  came 
into  his  tent,  delivered  hostages  for  their  fealty,  and 
received  in  return,  as  related  in  the  '  Annals  of  Inis- 
fallen,'  a  present  of  two  hundred  and  forty  beeves. 
O'Carrolls  were,  at  that  time  and  previously,  also 
settled  in  a  territory  of  Tipperary,  from  them  called 
Ely-O'CarroU  ;  the  Masters  record  the  death  of  Am- 
ergin  O'CarroD,  Lord  of  Ely,  in  1033.  This  inhe- 
ritance comprised  the  present  Barony  of  Lower  Or- 
mond,  with  that  of  Clonlisk  and  part  of  Ballybritt  in 
the  King's  County,  and  to  the  Slieve  Bloom  Moun- 
tains in  the  Queen's.  Their  chief  castle  was  at  Birr. 
The  name  was  also  one  of  power  and  possession  in 
the  Counties  of  Cavan  and  Leitrim. 

In  1168  died O'Carroll,  Bishop  of  Ross,  in 

the  County  of  Cork.  In  1171,  Morrough  O'CarroU, 
Lord  of  Orgiel,  joined  Roderick  O'Conor,  the  last 
native  King  of  Ireland,  in  the  ineffective  siege  of 


280  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

Dublin,  then  occupied  by  Dennott  Mac  Murrough 
and  the  English  invaders.  In  1178,  he  made  a  gal- 
lant and  successful  attack  upon  De  Courcy ;  and  dying 
in  1189,  was  interred  in  the  noble  Abbey  which  he 
had  founded  for  Cistercians  at  Mellefont.  In  1184, 
Maolisa  O'Carroll  was  Primate  of  Armagh,  and  in 
1327,  John  O'CarroU  succeeded  to  the  Archbishopric 
of  Cashel ;  as  did  Thomas  O'Carroll  to  that  of  Tuam 
in  1349.  In  1532,  the  Four  Masters  commemorate 
the  death  of  Maolruana  O'Carrol,  the  distinguished 
Chief  of  Munster,  '  the  golden  pillar  of  the  Elyans.' 
His  son,  Ferganainim  0*Carrol,  being  the  tanist  of 
Ely,  surrendered  its  possessions  to  Edward  the  Sixth, 
who  restored  it  to  him  on  English  tenure,  with  the 
addition  of  the  dignity  of  Baron  of  Ely  for  his  life. 
Perrot's  Parliament  of  1585  was  attended,  amongst 
other  Irish  Chiefs,  by  'O'Carroll  of  Ely,' whom  the  same 
Annalists  describe  as  "Calvach,  son  of  William 
Odher,  son  of  Ferganainim,  son  of  Maolruana,  son  of 
John."  In  1605,  Sir  Henry  Broncar,  Knight,  Presi- 
dent of  Munster,  had  a  grant  of  (inter  alia)  a  castle 
and  lands  in  the  County  of  Tipperary,  parcel  of  the 
estate  of  Teigue  O'Carroll  attainted. 

A  funeral  entry  of  1630,  in  the  Office  of  Arms, 
Dublin,  records  the  death,  on  15th  August  in  this 
year,  of  William  O'CaiToll  ofCouloge,  King's  County, 
(son  and  heir  of  Donough  ni  Kelly  O'CarroU,  son  and 
heir  of  Ony,  son  and  heir  of  Donogh  Ballagh  O'Carroll 
of  same  place,)  where  said  William  died  and  was 
interred.     He  had  married  Honora,  daughter  of  John 


dongan's  dragoons.  281 

Meagher  of  Clame,  County  of  Tipperary ;  by  whom  he 
had  six  sons,  1,  Donogh,  who  married  Katherine, 
daughter  of  Walter  Bourke  of  Borrisoleigh,  County  of 
Tipperary  ;  2,  Keadagh,  who  married  Amy,  daughter 
of  Roger  OTlaherty  of  Lomelonny,  King's  County  ; 

3,  John,  who  married  Joanna,  daughter  of  William 
O'Carroll     of    Moderenny,   County    of   Tipperary ; 

4,  Teigue,  married  to  Grany,  daughter  of  Ony  O'Car- 
roll  of  Ely-O'CarroU  ;  5,  Charles,  as  yet  unmarried  ; 
and  6,  Ony,  also  unmarried.  About  the  time  of  the 
above  entry,  a  Donogh  O'Carroll,  according  to  an  an- 
cient manuscript  forwarded  in  aid  of  this  work,  mar- 
ried the  daughter  of  O'Kennedy  by  Margaret 

O'Bryan  Arra,  which  Margaret  was  the  daughter  of 
O'CarroU  Ely.  By  her  he  is  said  to  have  had  thirty 
sons,  all  of  whom  he  presented,  in  one  troop  of  Horse, 
and  accoutred  in  habiliments  of  war,  to  the  Earl  of 
Ormonde,  with  proffers  of  all  his  and  their  assistance 
in  the  Royal  cause.  Most  of  these  sons,  it  is  added, 
died  in  foreign  lands,  having  followed  the  wanderings 
of  the  Stuarts.  One,  Daniel,  remaining  in  Ireland, 
was  fether  of  John,  who  at  the  tender  age  of  five 
years  was  transplanted  into  Connaught  by  Cromwell. 
He  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  O'Connor,  Sligo, 
(by  Margaret,  daughter  of  Lord  Athenry,)  and  from 
that  union  sprang  Sir  Daniel  O'CarroU,  who,  some 
short  time  previous  to  this  campaign,  was  created  by 
the  Eong  of  Spain  a  Knight  of  the  military  order  of 
St.  Jago,  'for  singular  services  done  for  that  Monarch 
in  time  of  war.'      He  left  Spain  however  in  disgust. 


282  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

and,  entering  into  Queen  Anne's  army,  was  made 
Colonel  of  a  Regiment  of  Horse,  and  knighted.  He 
married  Elizabeth,  eldest  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas 
Jervis  of  the  '  County  of  Southampton,'  by  his  first 
wife,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  Gilbert  Clark  of  Chy- 
liothe  in  Derbyshire. 

To  return  to  the  line  and  locality  of  Ely.  Amongst 
the  active  measures  concerted  by  James  the  First  for 
reducing  Ireland,  a  Commission  was  appointed  "  for 
ascertaining  the  bounds  and  limits  of  O'CarroU's 
Country,  commonly  called  Ely  O'CarroU."  In  the 
grants  that  ensued  on  its  plantation,  the  chief  portion, 
including  Birr  and  its  appanages,  was  assigned  to 
Laurence,  brother  of  Sir  William  Parsons,  the  Sur- 
veyor-General ;  and,  on  the  breaking  out  of  the  war  of 
1641,  William  Parsons  was  made  Governor  of  Ely- 

O'CarroU. Of  this  Sept  and  district  of  O'Carroll 

was  the  above  Captain  James  Carroll,  whose  commis- 
sion to  the  Captaincy  bears  date  on  the  30th  of  July, 
1689,  thereby  suggesting  that  the  present  Army  List 
was  drawn  up  subsequent  thereto  ;  for  previously 
James  Carroll  was  but  a  Cornet  in  this  Kegiment,  as 
of  the  troop  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  Francis  Carroll,  by 
Commission  of  the  10th  November,  1688,  from  Tyr- 
connel.  That  of  1689  was  signed  by  the  King  at  the 
Castle  of  Dublin,  and  countersigned  by  Lord  Melfort ; 
but,  in  the  confusion  of  the  time,  not  entered  in  the 
Office  of  the  Muster-Master-General  until  the  22nd  of 
November  following.      Accoixlingly,  on  this  List  that 


dongan's  dragoons.  283 

especial  Cometcy  is  stated  as  filled  by  Cormack 
*Eggan'[Egaii]. 

Besides  this  Captain  James  Carroll,  another  James, 
and  William  Carroll,  Lieutenants  in  this  Segiment, 
there  appear  on  the  Army  List,  in  Lord  Galmoy's  In- 
fantry, John  Carroll  a  Captain,  William  Carroll 
a  Lieutenant,  and  Daniel  and  Laurence  Carroll, 
Ensigns.  In  the  Earl  of  Westmeath's  Foot, 
Patrick  Carroll  an  Ensign,  as  was  Nicholas  Carroll 

in   Sir   Michael    Creagh's. In    Colonel   Heward 

Oxburgh's,  Anthony  Carroll  a  Captain,  a  second 
Anthony  his  Lieutenant,  and  a  James  Carroll  an  En- 
sign.  In  Lord  Galmoy's  Horse,  Charles  Carroll 

was  appointed  (after  the  date  of  this  List)  second 
Lieutenant-Colonel ;  while  Francis  Carroll,  a  Lieute- 
nant-Colonel here,  had  afterwards  the  command  of  a 
Regiment  of  Dragoons,  and  to  him,  in  conformity 
with  the  proposed  arrangement  of  these  Illustrations, 
that  of  the  O'Carrolls  should  in  strictness  be  referred  ; 
but  the  aid  of  Manuscripts  which  Mr.  Davis  Carroll 
Dempster  volunteered  for  this  work,  with  a  very  an- 
cient pedigree  which  establishes  his  maternal  descent 
from  this  Captain  James,  who  was  himself  descended 
from  the  O'Carroll  of  Ely,  well  justifies  anticipating 

the  O'Carroll  notices  here. One  of  the  Carrolls 

named  Anthony,  who  are  mentioned  above  as  in 
Colonel  Oxburgh's  Infantry,  appears  to  have  been  the 
active  popular  leader,  '  Long  Anthony  Carroll,'  who, 
according  to  Story,  {Impartial  History^  Part  II.  p. 
69)  contrived  an  ambuscade,   by  which,   in   April, 


284  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

1691,  a  Captain  Palliser,  Lieutenant  Armstrong,  and 
a  party  of  sixty  firelocks,  were  taken  prisoners  near 
Birr.  "  Lieutenant  Armstrong  paid  money  to  be 
released  ;  Captain  Palliser  made  his  escape  in  the 
beginning  of  June  from  Limerick,  but  the  poor  men 
were  kept  prisoners  till  the  surrender  of  that  City."* 

On  the  29th  October,  1691,  the  Officer  at  present 
under  consideration,  being  then  *  Major'  James 
Carroll,  had  a  pass  from  King  William's  Commander- 
in-Chief,  as  one  "entitled  to  the  benefit  of  the 
Capitulation,  and  desirous  of  returning  home  to  his 
habitation  in  the  County  of  Tipperary ; "  and  all 
Officers,  civil  and  military,  were  thereby  directed  "  to 
permit  the  said  James,  ydth  his  family  and  ser- 
vants, horses,  swords,  pistols,  and  goods  whatsoever, 
to  pass  f5peely  from  the  City  of  'Lymerick '  to  his  habi- 
tation aforesaid,  to  look  after  his  concerns,  and  into 
all  such  parts  of  the  Kingdom  where  his  lawful  occa- 
sions will  require,  without  giving  him  any  trouble  or 
hindrance." 

Of  the  early  brigaded  French  Regiment  styled 
'  the  King's  Regiment  of  Dismounted  Dragoons,' 
Turenne  O'Carroll  was  Lieutenant-Colonel,  and  was 
killed  at  the  battle  of  Marsiglia  in  1693  ;f  while  at 
the  battle  of  the  Bridge  of  the  Retorto,  in  1705, 
Colonel  O'Carroll  of  Galmoy's  Brigade  signally  distin- 
guished himself In  1743,  Comet  O'Carroll  was 

wounded  at  Dettingen,  as  was  Lieutenant  Carroll  of 

*  Story's  Impart.  Hist,  part  2,  p.  69. 

I  O'Conors  Militiiry  Memoirs,  pp.  198,  221. 


doxgan's  dragoons.  285 

Berwick's  Regiment  at  Ypres  in  1745  ;  and  in  two 
years  after,  Major  Carroll,  also  of  Berwick's  (possibly 
the  same  who  was  wounded  in  1745)  supported  the 
credit  of  his  name  in  the  engagement  at  Lauffield 
village  near  Maestricht,  as  did  not  less  in  his  station 
Lieutenant  Carroll  of  Dillon's  Brigade. 

A  commission  from  King  Louis,  dated  at  Ver- 
sailles, 5th  September,  1756,  appointing  Matthias 
Carroll  to  an  Ensigncy  in  Berwick's  Brigade,  vacant 
by  the  promotion  of  William  Cruise  to  a  Lieutenancy, 
is  amongst  the  family  papers  of  Mr.  D.  Carroll 
Dempster,  and  suggests  that  he  was  of  Mr.  Demp- 
ster's kindred.  This  family  also  claim  affinity  with 
Charles  Carroll  of  Carrolton,  who  signed  the  memo- 
rable Declaration  of  American  Independence,  and  who, 
as  far  as  present  materials  suggest,  was  the  uncle  of 
John,  the  grandfather  of  Mr.  Carroll  Dempster. 


LIEUTENANT  JOHN  HURLY. 

According  to  the  evidence  of  the  ancient  annals,  the 
Books  of  Leacan  and  Ballymote,  &c.  the  O'Hurley, 
O'Hierlehy,  or  Hurly  was  a  Dalcassian  Sept  derived 
from  the  same  stock  as  that  of  the  O'Briens  of 
Thomond ;  each  springing  ftx)m  a  lineal  descendant 
of  Cormac  Cas,  son  of  Oiliol  OUum,  who  was  King  of 
Munster  in  the  third  century.  Their  territory  ex- 
tended on  the  borders  of  Tipperary  adjoining  the 
Limerick  district  of  the  O'Briens,  and  was  latterly 


286  KLVG  James's  irish  army  list. 

known  by  the  name  of  Knocklong  in  the  Barony  of 
Coshlea,  County  of  Limerick.  Within  it  was  a 
Castle,  for  centuries  the  residence  of  the  Chief.  Its 
ruins  still  remain,  and  from  it  branched  off  others  of 
this  Sept  in  the  Counties  of  Cork  and  Kerry. 

It  is  true  that  the  surname  Hurle  or  Hurley,  with 
the  Norman  prefix  of  *  de,'  is  found  at  an  early  period 
in  English  local  records,  even  from  the  time  of 
Edward  the  First,  but  a  paramount  authority  of  the 
Irish  Annalists  shows  the  long  previous  existence  of 
the  Milesian  O'Hurly. 

In  reference  to  an  era  more  within  the  scope  of 
these  illustrations,  Thomas  Urley,  alias  Ourhilly, 
Bachelor  of  Canon  Law,  afterwards  Bishop  of  Emly, 
being  a  recognised  native  Irishman,  sued  out  in  1502 
a  licence  entitling  him  to  use  the  English  tongue  and 
law.*  In  a  venerable  pedigree,  of  forty-one  unbroken 
generations,  preserved  by  the  present  representative 
of  the  family  of  Knocklong,  occurs  the  name  of  Der- 
mod,  son  of  Teigue  O'Hurly,  described  as  the  Chief 
'  living  at  the  Oakwoods,'  about  the  middle  of  the  six- 
teenth  century.  His  daughter  Juliana,  according  to 
Lodge,f  was  married  to  Edmund  Oge  de  Courcy,  by 
whom  she  was  mother  of  John  the  eighteenth  Baron 
of  Kinsale ;  whose  only  daughter  EUen  de  Courcy 
became  the  wife  of  Randal  Hurley  of  Ballinacarrig  ; 
while  his  son,  Randal  Hurley  the  younger,  married 
the  widow  of  Gerald  the  nineteenth  Lord  of  Kinsale.l 

♦  Rot.  Pat.   in  Cane.  Hib. 

t  Peerage,  vol.  6,  p.  151.  X  Idem,  p.  154. 


doxgan's  dragoons.  287 

The  ensuing  annals  of  this  family  afford  strong  evi- 
dence of  the  loose  spirit  in  which,  after  the  secession 
from  Rome,  the  dignities  of  the  Established  Church  were 
filled  in  Ireland.  In  1543,  King  Henry  presented 
Donogh  Ryan,  chaplain,  to  the  Deanery  of  the  Cathe- 
dral of  Emly,  "vacant,  inasmuch  as  William  Mc  Bryen 
and  William  O'Hurly,  the  present  incumbents,  hold 
the  same  by  the  authority  of  the  Bishop  of  Rome."  In 
1609,  King  James  presented  Edmund  Hurly,  '  not- 
withstanding his  minority  and  defect  of  clerical 
orders,'  to  the  Chancellorship  of  that  Cathedral,  with 
a  corps  of  vicarages  united  ;  and  in  the  same  year  his 
Majesty  presented  Randal  Hurley,  under  similar  dis- 
qualifications, to  the  Chantorship  thereof.* 

In  1563,  Thomas  O'Herlihey,  being  Bishop  of  Ross, 
(it  would  seem  on  the  Pope's  appointment)  assisted  at 
the  Council  of  Trent.  He  died  in  1579,  and  was  in- 
terred in  the  Abbey  of  Kilcrea.  In  1583,  Dermott 
O'Hurley,  Archbishop  of  Cashel,  suffered  martyrdom 
in  Dublin ;  and  was  buried  in  St.  Kevin's  Church, 
where  his  tomb  became  celebrated,  says  De  Burgo,f 
for  miracles. 

In  the  ConcUiation  Parliament,  convened  two 
years  afterwards  by  Sir  John  Perrot,  Thomas  Hur- 
ley of  Knocklong  represented  the  Borough  of  Kilmal- 
lock.  He  was  father  of  Maurice  of  Knocklong,  who, 
in  1601,  "for  his  dutiful  affection  and  good  dispo- 
sition towards  her  Majesty's  service  in  Munster,  and 

*  Patent  Bolls,  Jac.  I. 

t  Hibemia  DominicaDa,  p.  601. 


288  KING  James's  irisu  army  list. 

considering  that  for  the  good  of  the  country  and 
daily  annoyance  of  the  rebels  he  hath  been  at  such 
great  charge  of  '  wardening'  the  Castle  of  '  Knock- 
longy'  during  the  rebellion  in  Munster,"  obtained  a 
patent  for  a  weekly  market  and  fair  twice  a  year  at 
that  locality.  It  was  also  ordered  in  the  patent  that 
certain  lands  of  said  Maurice,  which  he  alleged  were 
of  ancient  freedom,  should,  if  proved  on  inquiry  to  be 
so,  be  thenceforth  exempted  from  cesses  and  exac- 
tions  ;  and  Knocklong  was  proved  to  be,  with  other 
lands,  within  the  privilege.  In  1632,  this  Maurice 
erected  in  the  Cathedral  of  Emly  a  fine  marble 
monument  to  the  memory  of  his  two  wives,  whom  he 
had  survived.  His  will,  dated  in  1634,  is  registered 
in  the  Prerogative  Court.  By  his  first  wife,  Grania 
Hogan,  he  left  two  sons.  Sir  Thomas,  his  successor, 
and  John  Hurly.  The  former  married  Johanna, 
daughter  of  John  Browne  of  Camus,  by  Catherine, 
daughter  of  Dermot  O'Ryan  of  SoUoghode,  County  of 
Tipperary  ;  by  whom  he  had  Sir  Maurice,  mentioned 
hereafter,  and  another  John,  with  four  daughters : 
1st,  Catherine,  married  to  Pierce,  Lord  Dunboyne ; 
2nd,  Anne,  to  Daniel  O'Ryan  of  SoUoghode;  3rd, 
Grace,  to  Walter  Bourke ;  and  4th,  Eleanor,  to  David 
Barry  of  Kahinisky,  father  of  Edmund  Barry,  Queen 
Anne's  foster-father.  In  1638,  James  O'Hurly  was 
constituted  Bishop  of  Emly. 

The  Outlawries  in  1642  present  the  names  of  Ran- 
dle  Hurley  and  Randle  Hurley  Oge  of  Ballynacarrig, 
William  Hurly  of  Ballenlearde  and  Lisgulby,  County 


dongan's  dragoons.  289 

of  Cork  ;  Donough  McDaniel  Hurley  of  Bunnamun- 
ney,  Ellen  Hurley  of  Gellagh-Iteragh,  Donnell  Oge 
Hurly  of  Kilbrittain,  James  Hurly  of  Ballenbride, 
Thomas  O'Hurlehy,  Donogh  O'Hurlehy  of  Monita- 
ginta  and  John  O'Hurlehy  of  Ballybemy,  all  in  the 
County  of  Cork. 

Sir  Maurice  Hurly,  the  grandson  of  Maurice  the 
testator  of  1634,  was  one  of  the  Confederate  Catho- 
lics at  the  Council  of  Kilkenny  in  1647.  He  for- 
feited largely  by  his  adherence  to  Charles  the  First, 
and  his  estates  in  the  Counties  of  Limerick  and 
Tipperary  were  seized  for  Cromwell's  adventurers ; 
while  he  was  himself  transplanted  into  Connaught, 
where  he  died  in  1683,  leaving  Sir  William,  his 
eldest  son,  hereafter  alluded  to.  In  his  will  of  that 
year.  Sir  Maurice,  with  '  a  sweet  remembrance  of  his 
ancient  inheritance,'  directs,  in  regard  to  "  the  lands 
that  I  have  been  dispossessed  of,  and  to  which  I  have 
a  just  title,  and  now  is  defending  in  law,  after  the 
recovery  thereof,  I  leave  and  bequeath  the  same  unto 
my  sons  William  and  John  Hurly,  to  be  equally 
divided  between  them  for  ever ;  together  with  the 
^maine'  profits  thereof:"  and  in  a  codicil  he  further 
leaves  to  his  said  son  John,  "  if  my  ancient  estate 
(i.  e.  Knocklong)  be  recovered,  £200  per  annum  for 
himself  and  his  heirs  for  ever."  This  eldest  son,  how- 
ever, who  inherited  the  Baronetcy,  could  not  recover 
the  ancient  estate ;  it  is  not,  therefore,  to  be  won- 
dered  that  he  attended  King  James's  Parliament  of 
Dublin  in  1689,  as  a  Representative  of  the  Borough 


290  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

of  Kilmallock;  and  early  in  August  of  the  last  year  of 
the  campaign,  when  "the  English  army  marched  from 
Carrick  to  Golden-bridge,  three  miles  from  Cashel, 
Mr.  John  Grady  of  Corbray  in  the  County  of  Clare, 
arriving  there  with  some  intelligence  of  the  posture 
and  strength  of  the  Irish  forces,  stated  that  Lord 
Brittas  and  Sir  William  Hurly  were  devastating  the 
country."*  Again,  in  the  subsequent  engagement  at 
Thomond  Gate,  where  600  of  the  Irish  perished, 
besides  150  who  were  forc.ed  over  the  bridge,  Colo- 
nels  Skelton,  Hurly ^  sixteen  other  officers,  and  above 
one  hundred  privates  were  taken  prisoners.f  Dean 
Story,  in  his  '  Impartial  History ^^  says  that  Colonel 
Hurly  was  wounded  in  desperate  conflict,  of  which 
wounds  he  probably  died,  as,  when  on  his  attainder 
his  transplanted  Galway  estate  became  forfeited,  it 
appears  that  the  claim  of  his  infant  heir.  Sir  John 
Hurly,  was  put  forward  at  Chichester  House  in 
1700,  as  that  of  a  minor,  by  Bryan  O'Bryan,  his 
guardian  (who  had  married  his  widowed  mother) ; 
an  estate  tail  was  claimed  for  him,  and  a  jointure  off 
the  Galway  property  for  her;  but  both  petitions  were 
dismist,  and  the  estate  was  sold  discharged  thereof  to 
Thomas  O'Connor,  Sir  Thomas  Montgomery,  and  the 
Hollow  Swords  Blades'  Company.  The  ill-fated  young 
Baronet,  smarting  under  the  confiscations  which  had 
left  him  landless,  attempted  to  raise  men  for  the  ser- 
vice of  the  Pretender,  but  was  arrested  in  Dublin 
about  the  year  1714 ;  he,  however,  effected  his  escape. 

♦  Fitzgerald's  Limerick,  vol.  2,  p.  332.         f  Idem,  p.  370. 


dongan's  dragoons.  291 


-Others  of  this   name  attainted  in    1691  were 


Patrick  Hurley  of  Dublin,  Arthur  of  Grillagh, 
County  of  Cork,  and  John  of  Lissene,  County  of 
Sligo. 

The  Hurly  Manuscript  Pedigree  Book,  the  in- 
teresting document  before  referred  to,  suggests  that  Sir 
Maurice,  the  transplantedHurly  that  died  in  1683,  had 
a  younger  brother  John,  who  was  father  of  a  Jdin  the 
younger  (that  may  be  identical  with  the  Lieutenant 
John  at  present  under  consideration),  and  of  three 
daughters ;  1,  Grace,  married  to  Captain  Purdon  of  the 
County  of  Clare  ;  2,  Anne,  to  John  Bourke  of  Cahir- 
moyle ;  and  3,  Ellen,  to  John  Lacey  the  father  by  her 

of  John  and  Pierce  Lacey ; all  these  males  having 

been  companions  in  arms  in  this  short  but  desperate 
campaign.  Another  John  Hurly  was  Lieutenant  in 
Lord  Clare's  Dragoons,  but  he  had  passed  with  them 
to  France  ;  yet  a  third  John  was  a  Lieutenant  in  the 
Infantry  Regiment  of  Colonel  Charles  O'Bryan,  while 
a  John  '  Hurlin'  ranks  as  Comet  in  the  Earl  of  Aber- 
corn's  Horse. 

The  aforesaid  Genealogical  Manuscript  also  relates 
that  a  Dennis  Hurly  (descending  from  the  brother  of 
Sir  Thomas  of  Khocklong,  Baronet),  married  Anne, 
daughter  of  Robert  Blenerhassett  of  Ballyseedy,  Esq., 
by  Avice  Conway,  daughter  and  co-heiress  of  Edward 
Conway  of  Castle  Conway  ;  and  that  he  had  issue  by 
said  Anne  five  sons,  Thomas,  Charles,  John,  William, 
and  Dennis.  The  three  last  died  without  issue. 
Thomas,  the  eldest,  married  Alice,  daughter  of  his 

u  2 


21)2  KING  James's  irisii  army  list. 

uncle,  Thomas  Blenerlmssett  and  Jane  Darby,  and  he 
had  by  her  three  daughters.  Charles,  the  second  son, 
married  Alice,  sole  daughter  and  heiress  of  Edmund 
Fitzgerald  of  Morrineregan  and  Mary  Ferriter,  by 
whom  he  had  a  daughter  and  two  sons,  Thomas  and 
John.  Thomas  married  Letitia,  daughter  of  Arthur 
Browne  of  Ventry  and  Alice  Hurly  ;  and  had  issue 
one  son,  Charles  the  younger.  John,  the  second  son 
of  the  above-named  Charles,  married  Mary,  daughter 
of  Edmund  Conway  and  Christian  Kice,  by  whom  he 
left  issue  two  sons,  Robert  Conway  Hurly,  the  eldest, 
and  John,  and  five  daughters.  John,  the  second 
son  of  John  by  Mary  Conway,  married  Anna-Maria- 
Theresa,  only  daughter  of  Colonel  Hugh  Hill  of 
Mount-hill,  County  of  Armagh,  by  Elizabeth  Kirwan, 
daughter  of  the  distinguished  scholar,  Richard  Kir- 
wan of  Creg  Castle,  County  of  Galway ;  and  he  has 
issue  three  sons ;  Robert  Conway  married,  and  has 
issue  ;  Hugh-Richard  Kirwan,  died  s.P.  and  John 
unmarried  ;  with  four  daughtx?rs. 


LIEUTENANT  JOHN  MAPAS  [alias  Malpas]. 

Whex  Edward  Bruce,  in  the  assertion  of  a  claim  to 
the  Crown  of  Ireland,  fought  in  1317  the  battle  of 
Faughart,  near  Dundalk,  John  Malpas  a  native  of 
Drogheda,  accomplished  the  most  signal  achievement 
of  that  day  ;  he  and  Edward  Bruce,  writes  Pembridge, 
"  fought  hand  to  hand ;  the  valiant  Scot  fell  before  his 


dongan's  dragoons.  293 

opponent ;  who,  himself  pierced  with  mortal  wounds, 
sunk  a  victor  in  death  on  the  corse  of  his  prostrate 
enemy."  In  1326,  Henry  Mapase,  his  descendant,  is 
recorded  as  a  landed  proprietor  in  Louth.  John 
'  Malpas '  was  Mayor  of  Waterford  in  1363. 

Of  those  attainted  in  1642,  were  Christopher  Mapas 
of  Dublin,  Merchant ;  Nicholas  Mapas  of  the  same, 
and  Garret  and  Edward  '  Mape '  of  Maperath,  County 
of  Meath ;  the  outlawed  of  1691  were  the  above  John 
Mapas  and  Christopher  Mapas,  both  described  as  of 
Kochestown,  County  of  Dublin; — an  estate  which  does 
not  appear  to  have  been  divested,  or  it  has  otherwise 
been  restored  to  the  old  family  ;  for  in  1789,  on  the 
marriage  of  Catherine,  the  heiress  of  John  '  Malpas,' 
as  he  is  called,  with  Lord  Talbot  de  Malahide,  the 
uncle  of  the  present  Peer,  this  property  passed  to  his 
family. 


CORNET  JOHN  BEGG. 

This  surname  appears  on  Irish  records  from  the  com- 
mencement of  the  fourteenth  century.  In  1359,  John 
*  Beg '  was  one  of  the  influential  proprietors  of  the 
County  of  Dublin,  who  were  selected  to  applot  that 
district  for  a  state  assessment;  and  a  family  of  the 
name  appears  subsequently  settled  at  Saggard  in  said 
County.  In  1500,  the  Corporation  of  Galway  voted 
the  freedom  of  their  town  to  Richard  Begg,  on  condi- 


294  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

tion  of  his  keeping  an  inn  for  victualling  and  lodging 
strangers.*  In  the  Outlawries  of  1G42  appears  the 
name  of  Matthew  Begg  of  Boranstown,    County   of 

Dublin. On  tliis  Army  List,  another  John  Begg 

ranks  an  Ensign  in  Sir  Michael  Creagh's  Infiintiy ; 
and  the  Attainders  of  1691  comprise  John  Begg, 
dcscribetl  of  Kilkellan,  County  of  Meath  ;  James 
'Beggs'  of  Cartown  in  the  same  County,  Barnabas 
Begg  of  Galway,  Merchant ;    and  Thomas  Begg  of 

same. At  the  Court  of  Claims  in  1703,  Joseph 

Dowdall,  and  Ishma  Begg  his  mother,  (widow  of  Matt 
Dowdall  his  father,  who  had  married  to  her  second 
husband  Ignatius  Begg),  claimed  an  estate  tail  for 
him,  an  estate  for  life  to  Ishma,  and  a  reversion  to 
the  heirs  of  Ignatius  in  County  of  Westmeath  lands, 
forfeited  by  said  Matt  Dowdall.  Pending  the 
proceedings  at  Chichester  House,  she  became  an  idiot 
and  a  fresh  claim  was  made  for  her  as  Ishmay  Begg, 
alias  Dowdall,  by  her  son  Ignatius  Begg  the  younger, 
for  small  incumbrances  charged  on  the  confiscations  of 
Sir  Anthony  MuUedy  in  the  County  of  Meath. 


QUARTER-MASTERS  FRANCIS  BOWERS  AND 
SIMON  BRICE. 

Neither  of  these  surnames  occurs  again  on  this  Army 
List,  nor  at  all  on  the  Attainders  of  1642  or  1691. 


Ilardimair.s  Galway,  p.  199. 


dongan's  dragoons.  295 


QUARTER.MASTER  JAMES  WOLVERSTON. 

The  Wolverstons  were  long  located  in  Wicklow.  At 
the  time  that  tract  was  erected  into  a  County,  James 
Wolverston  claimed  Ballinecor  and  Ballycreery  in 
Cooleranill  as  his  right  and  inheritance,  by  a  convey- 
ance from  a  native  Sept.*  He  was  also  possessed  of 
^StaJorgan,'  County  of  Dublin,  under  a  lease  from 
Richard  Plunket  of  Rathmore.  Of  those  outlawed  in 
1642,  were  James  Wolverston,  described  as  of  Rath- 
bran  and  Frainstown,  County  of  Wicklow  ;  Paul 
Wolverston  of  the  same  locality,  with  Christopher 
Wolverston  of  Newcastle  in  said  County. 

At  the  Assembly  of  Confederates  in  Kilkenny  in 
1647,  Francis  Wolverston,  styled  of  Newtown,  was  of 

the  Commons. On  the  present  Army  List,  besides 

this  James,  Richard  Wolverston  was  an  Ensign  in 
Lord  Galway's  Regiment  of  Infantry.  Neither  of 
these  surnames  appears  in  the  Attainders  of  1691,  but 
only  that  of  a  William  ^Wolferston'  of  Knockedritt, 
County  of  Wicklow.  He,  it  appears,  held  these  lands 
under  Sir  Robert  Kennedy,  whose  heir.  Sir  Richard 
Kennedy,  claimed  and  was  allowed  the  reversion. 
William  forfeited  also  certain  interests  in  King's 
County  lands,  the  former  estate  of  Robert  Wolvers- 
ton. 

*  Inquis.  1605,  in  Cane.  Hib. 


29G  KING  James's  irisii  army  list. 


QUARTER-MASTER  RICHARD  NETTERVILLE. 

The  name  of  Netterville  is  tr.iceal»le  on  Rolls  in  the 
Irish  Chanceiy  of  such  high  antiquity,  that  the  gene- 
ral contents  have  ceased  to  be  legible.  In  1224, 
Luke  Netterville,  Archbishop  of  Armagh,  founded  the 
Dominican  Friary  in  Drogheda ;  in  three  years  after 
which  he  died,  and  was  buried  at  the  noble  religious 
house  of  Mellefont.  In  1335,  John  Netterville  was 
summoned  to  attend  John  D'Arcy  the  Justiciary  on 
an  expedition  against  Scotland.  Some  years  after 
which,  Luke  Netterville's  seisin  of  Dowth,  (long  sub- 
sequently the  residence  of  this  ennobled  family)  is  re- 
cognised on  record,*  while  the  right  of  presentation 
to  its  Rectory  was,  on  suit  institut<2d,  adjudged  to  the 
English  Priory  of  Lanthony.  In  1559,  Luke  Netter- 
ville of  Dowth,  theivtofore  Chief  Justice  of  the  Com- 
mon Pleas,  was  promoted  to  be  Chief  of  the  King's 
Bench.  In  Sir  John  Perrot's  Parliament  of  1585, 
Richard  Nettenille  was  one  of  the  Representatives  of 
the  County  of  Dublin. 

Immediately  after  the  breaking  out  of  the  Insurrec- 
tion of  1641,  Lonls  Netterville,  Gormanston,  Fingal, 
and  Trimleston  addressed  a  letter  to  the  Marquess 
of  Clanricarde,  whereby  they  souglit  earnestly  to  vin- 
dicate 'the  scope  and  purpose  of  their  taking  up 
arms  ;'  and,  while  the  letter  is  dated  23rd  February, 
1641,  from  the  camp  near  Drogheda,  it  contains  a 


♦  D' Alton  s  Hist.  Drogheda,  v.  2,  p.  432. 


dongan's  dragoons.  297 

candid  and  explicit  avowal  that  they  had  made  com- 
mon cause  with  O'Neill ;  "  and  we  now  give  your 
Lordship  to  understand,  that  by  God's  assistance  the 
work  is,  by  the  help  of  our  neighbours  of  Ulster,  and 
by  our  own  endeavours,  in  a  fair  way;  we  having, 
already  in  the  field  about  Dublin  and  Drogheda  about 
12,000  able  men,  and  more  expected  daily,  for  the 
most  part  well  armed  ;  and  besides  we  can  assure 
ourselves  of  the  good  will  and  endeavours  of  the  rest 
of  our  Catholic  countrymen."*  Nicholas  Netterville, 
Lord  Viscount  Dowth,  was  consequently  attainted  in 
1642,';  as  were  Luke  Netterville  of  Corballis,  and 
Thomas  Netterville  of  Black  Castle,  both  in  the 
County  of  Dublin.  At  the  Kilkenny  Assembly  of 
1646,  Viscount  Netterville  was  one  of  the  Temporal 
Peers  ;  while,  amongst  the  Commons,  were  Patrick 
Netterville  of  Belfast,  and  Richard  Netterville.  This 
Viscount  was  'excepted  from  pardon  for  life  and 
estate'  in  Cromwell's  Act  of  1652,  as  was  also  Sir 
John  Netterville,  Knight.  The  Act  of  Settlement, 
however,  of  1662,  restored  (after  certain  reprisals) 
Lord  Netterville  and  Luke  Netterville  of  Corballis. 
The  Act  of  Explanation,  17  and  18  Car.  2,  c.  2,  sec. 
97,  reciting  that  whereas  Nicholas  Lord  Netterville 
had  been  adjudged  by  the  Commissioners  'nocent,' 
but  his  younger  brothers  and  sisters  had  by  decrees  of 
said  Commissioners  recovered  remainders,  expectant 
upon  his  death  without  issue  male,  and  also  their  por- 
tions   chargeable  thereon  ;    it  was  thereby  ordered 

*  D*Alton*8  Hist.  Drogheda,  v.  2,  p.  243. 


298  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST 


/ 


that,  two-thirds  of  his  estates  being  reserved  to  the 
adventurers  applotted  thereon,  the  remaining  third 
should  be  given  back  to  the  Viscount,  and  that  he 
should  himself  be  restored  in  blood  to  all  intents  and 
,  purposes. 

It  is  remarkable  that  of  this  historic  name  no  other 
member  is  noted  in  this  Army  List.  Walker,  however, 
in  his  'Siege  of  Derry,'  (p.  60)  makes  mention  of  a 
Lieutenant  'Netervil'  as  having  been  taken  prisoner 

on  that  occasion. The  Viscount's  name  appears  on 

the  Pension  List  of  1687-8,  for  £100  per  annum. 
He  sat  in  the  Parliament  of  1689,  and  was  attainted 
in  1691,  with  James  and  Terence  Netterville  of 
Dowth,  Sir  John  Netterville,  and  William  and 
Nicholas  Netterville  of  Cruise-rath,  County  of  Meath. 
The  Inquisition  held  at  Trim  on  the  13th  January, 
1699,  on  Viscount  NetterviU,  finds  that  he,  "with 
divers  other  armed  traitors,  and  with  banners  dis- 
played, levied  war  against  the  King  and  Queen  ;  that 
he  did  service  at  the  siege  of  Deny,  in  July,  1689, 
where  he  was  taken  in  battle;  and  that  he  afterwards 
died."  At  the  Court  of  Claims  in  1703,  a  Nicholas 
Netterville  was  a  suitor  for  the  benefit  of  a  mortgage, 
affecting  lands  forfeited  by  John  Cheevers  within  the 
Half  Barony  of  Killian,  County  of  Galway. 


KING  James's  ibish  army  list. 


299 


REGIMENTS  OF  DRAGOONS. 


Captaina. 
The  Colonel. 

lieot-Colonel. 


SIR   NEILL    O'NEILL'S. 

ComtU. 


Lieutenants. 
Henry  O'NeiU. 


Quarter-Matters, 


Major. 
Nicholas  Eostace.     Chrutopher  Eustace.  Daniel  Egan. 

William  BnUer.         Richard  Reddy.         John  Manning.         Constant  Kelly. 
Jeffiy  Fay.  Christopher  Pien.    Thomas  Darcy. 

Mnrtogh  McGninnis. 
Ever  McGninnis. 

Charles  Fitzgerald.  Laurence  DeUhunty. 
Roland  Savage.         John  Savage.  Henry  Savage. 

Charles  Mo  Carty.  Nicholas  Williams. 


COLONEL  SIR  NEILL  O'NEILL. 

It  would  detract  from  the  glories  of  this  great 
Milesian  name  to  attempt  any  summary  of  its  annals 
and  achievements  here.  They  alike  abound  on  the 
native  chronicles  and  on  those  of  later  histories  and 
records. 

In  1394,  on  the  occasion  of  King  Richard's  first 
visit  to  Ireland,  O'Neill,  Dynast  of  Ulster,  and  his 
subordinate  Chieftains,  O'Hanlon,  Mac  Mahon,  and 
others,   did  homage  and  fealty  to  that  Monarch  at 


300  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Drogheda.*  In  1520,  when  the  Earl  of  Surrey  came 
over  as  Lord  Lieutenant  to  Ireland,  Con  (sunyimed 
Bocagh)  O'Neill,  who  had  by  popular  election  suc- 
ceeded his  brother  in  the  Principality  of  Ulster,  in- 
vaded Mcath  with  a  large  but  undisciplined  force : 
Surrey  hastened  to  encounter  him,  but  O'Neill,  awed 
by  his  character  and  the  well-known  discipline  of  his 
forces,  retired  before  him,  and  sent  letters  to  solicit 
pardon  and  peace.  In  the  October  following.  Royal 
policy  directed  that  O'Neill  and  certain  other  Irish 
potentates  should  be  knighted,  and  the  King  sent  a 
collar  of  gold  to  the  former,  ordering  Surrey  to 
prevaO  upon  him  to  visit  the  Court,  where  Henry 
hoped  to  introduce  him  to  English  habits.f  A  simi- 
lar policy  prompted  James  the  First  to  take  under  his 
especial  care  Con  O'Neill,  the  son  of  the  newly  cre- 
ated Earl  of  Tyrone ;  and  Royal  disbursements  appear 
on  the  Pell  Rolls  of  that  time,  as  for  "£51  for  so 
much  money  expended  for  the  apparel,  bedding,  and 
other  necessaries,  provided  for  the  education  and 
bringing  up  of  Con  O'Neill  ;"  another  "for  £20  5s. 
for  his  expenses  one  quarter,  at  Eton  College,"  &c4 

The  Attainders  of  1642  include  James  'O'Neale'  of 
Feltrim,  and  Thomas  Neale  of  Athy  ;  while,  in  the 
Assembly  of  Confederate  Catholics,  four  years  after- 
wards, sat  Henry  O'Neill  of  Kilboy,  Phelim  O'Neill  of 

Morly,  and  Turlough  O'Neill  of  Ardgonnell. The 

Declaration   of  Royal   gratitude  in   1662,   as   "for 

♦  Daltons  Drogheda,  vol.  1,  p.  122. 

t  Idem,  vol.  2,  p.  182.  J  Idem,  p.  210. 


O'NEILL'S   DRAGOONS.  301 

services  beyond  the  seas,"  notices  Con  O'Neill  of  Ard- 
gonnell,  County  of  Armagh ;  and  Captain  John 
O'Neill  of  Carrick,  County  of  Tipperary.  In  1687, 
Sir  Bryan  O'Neill  was  appointed  a  Justice  of  the 
King's  Bench  ;  at  which  time  Sir  Neill  O'Neill  raised 
thb  Regiment  at  his  own  expence.*  Besides  him  and 
Lieutenant  Henry  in  his  Regiment,  there  are  on  this 
Army  List  four  other  O'Neills,  Colonels  of  Infantry  ; 
viz.  Cormuck  O'Neill,  Gordon  O'Neill,  Felix  O'Neill, 
and  Henry  O'Neill.  The  name  further  appears  com- 
missioned in  other  Regiments ;  as, — in  Sarsfield's 
Horse,  Daniel  O'Neill  was  a  Captain  ; — in  Lord  Don- 
gan's  Dragoons,  Cormuck  and  Daniel  O'Neill  were 
Captains,  and  Arthur  a  Lieutenant ; — in  the  Earl  of 
Antrim's  Infantry,  Hugh  O'Neill  was  a  Captain,  John, 
Bryan,  and  a  second  John,  Lieutenants,  and  Francis 
and  Turlough  O'Neill  were  Ensigns. — In  Lord 
Bellew's,  Henry  and  Hugh  O'Neill  were  Captains  ; — 
in  Colonel  Cormuck  O'Neill's,  Felix,  James,  Bryan, 
and  Con  O'Neill  were  Captains,  Thomas  and  Henry, 
Lieutenants,  and  Art  O'Neill  an  Ensign. 

"  I  am  sending  down,"  wrote  King  James  to  Gene- 
ral Richard  Hamilton  before  Deny,  on  the  10th  of 
May,  1689,  the  day  after  the  meeting  of  his  Parlia- 
ment of  Dublin,  "  Sir  Neill  O'Neill's  Dragoons  into 
the  Counties  of  Down  and  Antrim I  think  it  ab- 
solutely necessary  you  should  not  let  any  more  men 
come  out  of  Deny,  but  for  intelligence  or  some 
extraordinary  occasion ;  for  they  may  want  provisions, 

♦  O'Conor  s  Milit.  Mem.  p   195. 


302  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

and  would  be  glad  to  rid  themselves  of  useless 
mouths."*  Accordingly,  early  in  the  campaign  this 
Regiment  signalized  itself  in  Down  and  Antrim,  and 
afterwards  at  the  siege  of  Derry,  where  a  Lieutenant 

Con  O'Neill  was  killed. In  the   Parliament  of 

1689,  Constantine  O'Neill  was  one  of  the  Representa- 
tives for  the  Borough  of  Armagh,  as  was  Cormuck 
O'Neill  for  the  County  of  Antrim,  Daniel  O'Neill  for 
Lisbum,  Toole  O'Neill  for  Killileagh,  Arthur  O'NeOl  of 
Ballygawly  for  Dungannon,  and  Colonel  Gordon  O'Neill 
for  the  County  of  Tyrone. 

When  Schomberg  was  reported  to  have  sent  detach- 
ments to  Sligo  to  command  that  country.  King  James 
despatched  Sir  Neill  O'NeOl's  Dragoons,  with  Briga- 
dier Sarsfield's  and  Henry  Luttrell's  Horse,  and 
Charles  Moore's  and  O'Gara's  Infantry,  to  prevent 
their  progress  thither  ;  and  the  gallant  conduct  ot 
Henry  Luttrell  on  this  occasion  is  before  alluded  to, 
ante  p.  191,  by  King  James's  biographer.  This  Regi- 
ment did  further  and  most  eflFective  service  at  the 
Boyne,  disputing  the  passing  of  the  River  at  Slane  by 
the  enemy's  right  wing,  "  till  their  cannon  came  up, 
and  then  retiring  in  good  order  with  the  loss  of  only 
five  or  six  common  men,  their  Colonel  shot  through 
the  thigh,  (of  which  wound  he  died),  and  one  officer 
or  two  wounded.f  According  to  the  Duke  of 
Berwick's  Memoir,  this  movement  of  Sir  Neill  O'Neill 
was  by  King  James's  especial  order  ;  who,  "  believing 

♦  Manuscripts  in  T.C.D.  (E.  ii.  19). 
t  O'Callagban's  Excid.  Mac.  p.  352. 


O'NEILL'S   DRAGOONS.  303 

the  enemy  might  march  by  their  right  up  to  Slane  to 
pass  the  river  there,  and  endeavour  to  force  the  ford 
at  Old  Bridge,  sent  for  Sir  Neill  O'Neills  Regiment  of 
Dragoons  to  Slane,  with  orders  to  defend  that  pass  as 
long  as  he  could,  without  exposing  his  men  to  be  cut 
to  pieces,  and  then  either  offer  the  King  battle,  or 
march  straight  towards  Dublin,  which  they  might 
easily  have  done,  at  least  with  a  detached  body  of 
Horse  and  Dragoons,  being  so  much  superior  to  the 
King  in  them  as  well  as  in  Foot."*  His  Regiment 
accordingly  "  resisted  for  a  whole  hour  the  passage 
of  the  English  at  Slane,  though  exposed  to  the  fire  of 
a  numerous  artillery  and  the  charges  of  cavalry  greatly 
their  superiors  in  number."! 

The  Attainders  of  1691  include  of  this  name 
Richard,  Earl  of  Tyrone ;  Bryan  O'Neill  of  Dublin, 
Baronet ;  Henry,  Gordon,  Hugh,  and  Philip  O'Neill, 
also  of  Dublin ;  Arthur  of  Ballygawley,  County  of 
Tyrone  ;  Constantine  of  Armagh,  Cormuck  of  Brook- 
shane,  County  of  Antrim ;  Daniel  of  Belfast,  Toole 
of  DrominwiUy,  County  of  Down  ;  Arthur  of  Bally- 
dufE^  King's  County  ;  Brian  of  Ballinacor,  County  of 
Wicklow  ;  Henry  ^Neal'  of  Drogheda,  clerk  ;  Daniel 
Neal  of  Ballycamond,  County  of  Carlow  ;  James 
*  Neel '  of  Clonegal,  Do.;  Cam  O'Neill  of  Loughmore, 
County  of  Antrim  ;  Gordon  O'Neill  of  Crea,  County 
of  Tyrone  ;  Cormuck  of  Kilultagh,  Felix  and  Michael 
of  Killellagh,  County  of  Antrim  ;  and  this  Sir  Neill 

♦  Clarke's  James  II.  vol.  2,  p.  395. 
t  O'Conors  Milit.  Mem.  p.  107. 


304  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

O'Neill,  described  as  also  of  said  Killellagh  ;  Shane 
O'Neill  of  Creevecamow,  and  Murtough  of  Tullylish, 
County  of  Down  ;  John  of  Fallagh,  Owen  of  Brenton, 
Turlough,  James,  and  Francis  of  Fintona,  all  in  the 
County  of  Tyrone ;  Paul  and  Phelemy  of  Ballyma- 
cuUy,  Charies  of  Derrynoose,  and  Terence  of  Aghna- 
grahan,  all  in  the  County  of  Armagh.  At  the  Court 
of  Chichester  House  in  1700,  claims  were  preferred 
against  the  confiscations  of  Sir  Neill  O'Neill,  Baronet, 
by  Dame  Frances  O'Neill  his  widow,  for  her  jointure, 

as  charged  by    settlement  of  1677,  allowed. By 

Cormuck  O'Neill,  as  administrator  of  the  Marchioness 
of  Antrim,  for  mortgages  and  judgments  affecting  his 
estates,  allowed By  Rose  O'Neill,  one  of  his  daugh- 
ters, for  her  portion, dismist.     There  were  three 

other  daughters  of  his,  Mary,  Elizabeth,  and  Anne,  who 

do  not  appear  to  have  made  any  claims. Jane,  Clare, 

and  Elizabeth  O'Neill  sought  and  were  allowed  their 
portions  off  Mayo  estates  of  Con  O'Neill ;  as  did  Alice 
and  Margaret,  other  daughters  of  Con  by  his  wife 
Honoria  O'Neill,  alias  'Mc  Daniel,'  and  all  their  claims 
were  allowed,  as  charged  by  the  will  of  said  Con, 

dated  10th  of  May,   1684. EUis  O'Neill,  alias 

Mc  Donnell,  and  Neile  O'Neile  claimed  and  were  al- 
lowed a  leasehold  affecting  Mayo  lands  of  Henry 
O'Neile  ;  while  a  second  Ellis  O'Neill  claimed,  as 
administratrix  of  John  O'Neill,  a  charge  on  other 
Mayo  estates  of  Turlough  O'Neill,  but  her  petition  was 
dismist. 


O'NEILL'S    DRAGOONS.  305 


CAPTAIN  JEFFREY  FAY. 

A  FAMILY  of  the  name  was  settled  in  the  County  of 
Westmeath,  of  which  this  JeflFry,  styled  in  the  Inqui- 
sition of  1691  Galfred  Ffay  of  Trumroe  in  that 
County,  Gentleman,  was  a  member.  Richard,  Wil- 
liam, Michael,  and  Edward  Fay  were  also  attainted, 
and  described  as  of  the  same  house.  George  and  John 
Ffay  of  Derryneganahan  and  Thomas  Ffay  of  Togher 
were  likewise  outlawed  in  that  County.  There  was 
also  in  the  North  a  Sept  to  which  the  Milesian  0  was 
prefixed,  and  of  which  Morres  O'Fay  of  Ballyloran 
and  Hugo  OTay  of  Ballylanagh,  County  of  Antrim, 
were  attainted  in  1691. 


CAPTAIN  ROLAND  SAVAGE. 

This  name  is  of  early  introduction  into  Ireland.  In 
1302,  William,  son  of  Alexander  Savage,  was  one  of 
the  Irish  Magnates  selected  to  attend  Richard  de 
Burgo  in  the  Scottish  war.  In  eight  years  after, 
Richard  le  Savage  was  one  of  those  summoned  to  a 
great  Council  convened  at  Kilkenny  ;  and,  in  1335, 
Robert  Savage  and  John  de  Sauvage  were  of  the  Ulster 
chiefs  ordered  to  attend  John  Darcy  the  Justiciary  in 
the  expedition  against  Scotland.*  Pembridge  in  his 
Annals  records  the  death  in   1360   of  Sir   Robert 

*  D' Alton's  History  of  Drogheda,  vol.  2,  p.  83. 

X 


306  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Savage  of  Ulster,  '  an  excellent  soldier ;'  he  was  buried 
in  the  Dominican  Friary  of  Deny.  In  1375,  Henry 
Savage,  Knight,  was  summoned  to  Parliament ;  as  he 
was  again  in  1377  and  1381.  In  1493,  John 
*  Savage  '  was  Mayor  of  Dublin. 

The  Settlement  of  the  family  in  the  Ardes,  County 
of  Down — or  rather  the  recognition  of  their  oc- 
cupancy there  in  the  time  of  Queen  Elizabeth — is 
fiilly  set  out  in  Harris's  too  brief  History  of  that  in- 
teresting  County.  "The  Family  is  reputed  to  be 
above  400  years  standing  in  Ireland,**  writes  William 
Montgomery  immediately  after  the  Revolution ; 
"They  called  themselves  Lords  of  the  Little  Ardes,  and 
were  men  of  great  esteem,  and  had  far  larger  estates 
in  the  County  of  Antrim,  than  they  have  now  in  the 
Ardes,  which  former  they  resigned  to  hold  under  the 
Mc  Donnell.*  Besides  the  line  long  settled  at  Porta- 
ferry,  there  was  another  not  less  ancient  branch,  the 
Savages  of  Ardkeen  Castle.  This  family  is  of  good 
account,  and  hath  a  second  Castle  called  Scatrick, 
(the  oldest  pile  of  this  family  as  is  said,)  and  thirteen 
islands  in  Lough  Coan ;  both  castles  are  tenable  if 
fortified  and  repaired.  Of  this  family  one  cadet, 
named  Roland^  an  officer  in  Queen  Elizabeth's  wars 
against  the  Irish,  hath,  since  King  James's  entry  into 
England,  built  the  two  Castles  of  Ballygalgat  and 
Kerkstone  (being  high  square  piles),  and  gave  the 
shore  with  lands  adjoining  unto  two  of  his  sons.^f 
In   1614,   Sir   Arthur   Savage,   Knight   and   Privy 

♦  Montgomery  MS.  p.  68.  t  Idem,  p.  802. 


o'neill's  dragoons.  307 

Councillor,  (who  had  been  previously  distinguished  in 
the  war  in  Munster)  obtained  a  grant  of  various 
castles,  rectories,  houses,  mills,  woods,  lands,  tithes, 
&c.  in  the  Counties  of  Cavan,  Mayo,  Galway, 
Limerick,  Tipperary,  Kerry,  Cork,  Clare,  Kildare, 
Wicklow,  Meath,  Roscommon  and  Dublin,  as  well  as 
in  the  City  of  Dublin,  The  only  individual  of  the 
name  attainted  in  1642  was  William  Savage  of  Lusk. 
In  King  James's  new  Charter  of  1688  to  Ar- 
magh, Patrick  Savage  was  one  of  the  burgesses. 

Besides  this  Captain  Roland,  there  are  in  the  Army 
List,  in  Colonel  Cormuck  O'Neill's  Infantry,  Edmund 
Savage  a  Lieutenant,  and  Henry  Savage  an  Ensign. 
Captain  Roland  represented  Newry  in  King  James's 
Parliament,  and,  in  the  Inquisition  for  his  Attainder, 
was  described  as  of  Portaferry  and  Newry,  in  Down. 
Within  which  County  were  also  outlawed  Patrick 
and  Henry  Savage  of  Ballygalgat,  Thomas  and  Hugh 
of  Dromode,  James  of  Ballyspurge,  Hugh  of  Bally- 
darves,  Lucas  of  Dunhunck,  and  John  and  James 
Savage  of  Rocks. 

In  1702,  the  Right  Honourable  Philip  Savage, 
Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer  in  Ireland,  purchased 
various  lands  in  the  County  of  Carlow,  which  had 
been  the  estates  of  John  Baggott  attainted  ;  as  did 
Patrick  Savage  of  Portaferry  part  of  the  confiscations 
of  Captain  Roland  Savage,  with  "the  fresh-wat^T 
lough  thereto  belonging."  The  Hollow  Swords  Bladc^s' 
Company  also  purchased  his  estate  of  Dromardin  in 
the  Ardes.     At  the  Court  of  Claims,  Patrick  Savage 

X  2 


308  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

a  minor,  sought  and  was  in  part  allowed  a  remainder 
in  tail  under  settlements  of  1685  in  said  Roland's 
estates  ;  while  Hugh  Savage,  as  son  and  heir  of  John 
Savage,  was  allowed  a  chiefly  out  of  certain  lands  of 
the  same  forfeiting  proprietor ;  as  was  another 
Patrick  Savage,  to  a  certain  extent,  a  mortgage 
charged  upon  same  ;  and  John  Mc  Cormick  and 
Dame  Elizabeth  Ponsonby  claimed  and  were  allowed 
charges  on  other  premises  of  Roland. 


LIEUTENANT  RICHARD  REDDY. 

The  Inquisition,  taken  on  his  Attainder  in  1691, 
describes  him  as  of  Leighlin  Bridge ;  a  William 
R<5ddy,  described  as  of  Old  Leighlin,  was  also  then 
outlawed. 


CORNET  JOHN  MANNING. 

The  O'Mannings  were  a  Sept  more  especially  located 
in  the  present  Barony  of  Tyaquin,  County  of  Galway, 
where  the  Castle  of  Clogher  was  their  chief  residence. 
This  Cornet  is  however  described,  on  the  Inquisition 
for  his  Outlawry,  as  of  Lebeltstown,  County  of  Kil- 
kenny ;  and,  as  a  family  of  the  name  of  'Maynwaring^ 
was  at  this  time  and  previously  of  influence  and  re- 
spect in  Kilkenny,  it  would  seem  that  this  officer's 


O'Neill's  dragoons.  309 

surname  may  have   been  here  corrupted  from   the 
latter  appellation. 


CORNET  CHRISTOPHER  PIERS. 

Besides  Comet  Piers,  in  this  Regiment,  Maurice 
Piers  was  a  Lieutenant,  and  Patrick  '  Peirs '  an  En- 
sign  in  Lord  Mountcashel's  Infantry.  Yet  the 
Attainders  of  1691  do  not  mark  oflf  any  of  these  per- 
sons, but  only  others,  viz.  John  and  Turlogh  Piers  of 
Calavennane,  County  of  Clare  ;  while  John  Piers  of 
Wicklow  is  the  single  outlaw  on  those  of  1641. 

The  name  is  however  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the 
time  of  Edward  the  Third.  In  1362,  Thomas  Piers 
was  Abbot  of  the  venerable  Religious  House  of  Clon- 
ard  ;  and  when,  in  two  centuries  after,  the  dissolution 
of  these  establishments  was  resolved  upon.  Sir  Henry 
Piers,  Baronet,  had  a  grant  of  the  monasteries  of 
Corock,  Gervaherin,  and  Puble  in  the  County  of 
Tyrone,  with  their  possessions ;  while  Captain  Wil- 
liam Piers  had  a  lease  of  the  once  beautiful  priory  of 
Tristernagh,  with  its  ambit  and  possessions.  His 
title  was  afterwards  converted  into  the  fee ;  the  noble 
Priory,  however,  has  long  since  been  disconsecrated  to 
domestic  uses,  and  its  extent  and  magnificence  can 
but  be  conjectured  from  the  view  in  Grose's  Antiqui- 
ties of  Ireland. 


310  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

CORNET  NICHOLAS  WILLIAMS. 

The  name  of  Williams  does  not  appear  on  the  Attain- 
ders of  1642,  or  on  those  of  1691.  In  Sir  John 
Perrot's  Parliament  of  1585,  Thomas  Williams  was 
one  of  the  Representatives  of  the  County  of  Mayo,  as 
was  Edward  Williams  of  the  Borough  of  Philipstown. 
Dr.  Griffith  Williams,  born  in  Caernarvon  in  1589, 
succeeded  to  the  see  of  Ossory  in  1641,  and  died  at 
Kilkenny  in  1672.     Ilis  Life  is  chronicled  fully  in 

Ware's  Bishops. In    1662,    William    Williams 

represented  the  borough  of  Swords  in  Parliament, 
and  in  1675  he  was  SheriflFof  the  County  of  Dublin. 


REGIMENTS  OF  DRAGOONS. 

COLONEL   DANIEL   O'BRYAN'S,    (LORD   CLARE). 

Captains.  Lieutenants.  Comets,  Quarter- Mtuters. 

The  Colonel.  Turlogh  O'Brjan.  Daniel  0*Brjan.  James  Nejlan. 

James  Phillips,  David  Bany.  Thomas  Fitzgerald.  William  Hawford. 

Lieut-Colonel. 
Francis  Browne, 

Major. 

Florence  Mac  Na-  John  Horley.  Martagh  Hogan.  James  White. 

man. 

Redmond  Magrath.  John  Ryan.  Hngh  Pcrrj.  James  Ryan. 

Morres  Fitzgerald.  Morrongh  0' Bryan.  Thomas  Donnell.  Christopher  0' Bryan 

James  Mc  DanicU.  Owen  Cahane.  Nicholas  Archdeken. Edmund  Bohilly. 

Nicholas  Bourke.  Silvester  Purdon.  John  BoniiLe.  Gerald  Fitzgerald. 

John  Fitzgerald.  William  Lysaght.  William  Neylan.  Daniel  MacNamara. 

Roger  Shaughuessy.  Joseph  Furlong.  Laurence  Dean.  Dermott  Sullivan. 

Teigue  O'Bryan.  Patrick  Hehir.  Hugh  Hogan.  James  O'Dca. 

Thady  Quin.  Richard  Bedford.  Thomas  Clanchy.  Thomas  Lee. 


CLARE'S    DRAGOONS.  311 


COLONEL   DANIEL  O'BRTAN,  LORD  CLARE. 

This  is  another  of  the  kingly  families  of  Ireland  in 
old  times,  whose  achievements  cannot  be  here  com- 
pressed. The  Sept  was  one  of  the  five  of  the  Irishry, 
who  were  by  special  grace  early  enfranchised,  and 
enabled  to  take  benefit  of  the  laws  of  England  ;  the 
other  four  being  O'Neill  of  Ulster,  O'Melaghlin  of 
Meath,  O'Conor  of  Connaught,  and  Mac  Murrough  of 
Leinster.*  In  1314,  Edward  the  Second  directed  an 
especial  letter  missive  for  aid  on  his  Scottish  expedi- 
tion to  Donogh  O'Brian,  'Duci  Hibemicoriim  de 
Thomond ;'  and  also  to  Murtagh  O'Brien.  As  the  de- 
descendants  of  Brien  Boru  of  immortal  memory,  this 
race  gave  titular  Kings  to  Thomond  down  to  the 
year  1543  ;  when  Murrough  O'Brien,  surrendering 
his  Captaincy  and  Principality  to  Henry  the  Eighth, 
was  created  the  first  Earl  of  Thomond  ;  while  at  the 
same  time  the  politic  monarch  conferred  the  title  of 
Baron  of  Ibrackan  upon  his  nephew,  Donogh  O'Brien, 
on  whom,  upon  his  uncle's  death,  Edward  the  Sixth, 
in  1552,  conferred  the  EarlHom  of  Thomond,  to  be 
enjoyed  by  him  and  his  heirs  male. 

At  the  Supreme  Council  of  Kilkenny  in  1647,  sat 
in  the  Commons  Conor  O'Brien  of  Ballinacody,  and 

Dermot  O'Brien  of  Dromore. In  1652,  Cromwell's 

*  Act  for  Settling  Ireland'  excepted  from  '  pardon  for 
life  and  estate'  Murrough  O'Brien,  Baron  of  Inchiquin, 

*  Davis's  Hist.  Rel.  p.  46. 


312  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Dermot  O'Brien  of  the  County  of  Clare,  and  Murtogh 
O'Brien  of  Arra,  County  of  Tipperary.  In  1663,  the 
Declaration  of  Royal  gratitude  for  'services  beyond 
the  seas,'  includes  Captain  Terence  Bryan  of  Palace- 
greny.  County  of  Louth;  and  Captain  Dermot 
O'Brian  of  Carrickonguis,  County  of  Cork  ;  while,  by 
the  Act  of  Explanation,  Daniel  O'Bryan  of  Duogh, 
County  of  Clare,  was  ordered  to  be  restored  to  his 
'  Seat '  and  2,000  acres  of  his  estates. 

By  an  order  of  Lord  Tyrconnel  to  Colonel  John 
Russell,  dated  18th  June,  1686,  that  officer  was 
directed  to  receive  into  his  Regiment,  and  to  rank 
there  on  his  respective  companies,  (iiiter  alios) 
Lieutenant  Cornelius  O'Bryan,  Lieutenant  Terence 
O'Bryan,  Ensign  Turlogh  O'Bryan,  and  Ensign  Mau- 
rice 'Bryan.'*  In  King  James's  Charter  of  1687,  &c. 
Pierce  Bryan  was  one  of  the  Free  Burgesses  in  that 
to  Carlow,  and  was  also  head  of  the  municipal  Roll  of 
Maryborough.  Michael  was  one  of  the  Aldermen  in 
that  to  Kilkenny.  This  Colonel,  Lord  Clare,  and 
Denis  O'Bryan  of  Dough,  Esq.,  were  Burgesses  in  the 
Charter  to  Ennis,  as  w^  Terence  O'Bryan  in  that  to 
Navan,  and  Luke  '  Bryan '  in  the  Charter  to  Ennis- 

corthy. In  the  Parliament  of  Dublin  (1689)  sat, 

amongst  the  Peers,  O'Bryan,  Earl  of  Thomond  ('a 
papist');  O'Bryan,  Earl  of  Inchiquin,  (a  Protestant); 
and  O'Brien,  this  Viscount  Clare  :  while  in  the  Com- 
mons David  O'Brien  was  one  of  the  Representatives  of 
the  County  of  Clare,  Alderman  James  *  Bryan '  one  of 

*  Singers  Correspondence  of  Clarendon,  v.  1,  p.  459. 


CLARES   DRAGOONS.  313 

those  for  the  City  of  Kilkenny,  as  was  Piers  '  Bryan' 
for  the  Borough  of  Maryborough. 

This  Army  List  has  on  Lord  Clare's  Regiment, 
besides  the  Colonel,  four  others  of  the  name  of 
O'Bryan  : — Charles  O'Bryan  was  Colonel  of  another 
Regiment,  (Infantry),  in  which  Donogh  O'Bryan  was 
Captain,  and  Teigue  and  a  second  Donogh  were  Lieu- 
tenants ;  Carberry  '  Bryan  '  was  a  Lieutenant  in  Col- 
onel  Robert  Clifford's  Dragoons ;  Kennedy  O'Bryan,  a 
Captain  in  Lord  Mount  Cashel's  Infantry,  in  which 
Walter  Bryan  was  a  Lieutenant.  James  and  Lewis 
*  Bryan '  were  Lieutenants,  and  Denis  Bryan  an 
Ensign  in  the  Earl  of  Tyrone's  ;  Michael  *  Bryan '  a 
Captain  in  Colonel  Thomas  Butler's  ;  Thomas  Bryan, 
a  Captain  in  Lord  Kilmallock's,  as  was  Donogh 
O'Bryan  in  Major-General  Boiseleau's  ;  Arthur  and 
Denis  Bryan  were  Lieutenants  in  Sir  Michael 
Creagh's  ;  James  Bryan  a  Captain  in  Lord  Galmoy's 
Horse;  Murtagh  Bryan  in  Sarsfield's.  In  that  of 
Colonel  Hugh  Sutherland,  James  Bryan  was  a 
Captain,  and  Francis  Bryan  a  Cornet ;  while,  lastly, 
John   Bryan  was  a  Quarter-Master  in  Tyrconnel's. 

One  of  these  officers,  styled   Captain   O'Bryan, 

was  killed  at  the  siege  of  Derry,  28th  June,  1689.* 
In  the  August  following,  at  the  time  of  Schomberg's 
landing,  this  Regiment  was  stationed  in  Munster.f 

The  history  of  this  family  has  very  peculiar  inte- 
rest, even  within  the  limits  prescribed  for  these  Ulus- 

*  Walker's  Siege  of  Derrj,  p.  61. 
t  Clarke's  James  II.  p.  872. 


314  KING  JAMES'S  IRISU  ARMY  LIST. 

trations.  Daniel  O'Bryan,  the  third  and  youngest  son 
of  Cornelius  O'Bryan,  third  Earl  of  Thomond,  was 
Styled  of  Moyarty  and  Carrigaholt.  He  did  great 
service  and  received  many  wounds  in  the  wars  of  Ire- 
land, for  which  he  was  knighted  and  rewarded  with 
considerable  grants  of  lands  in  the  County  of  Clare, 
which  he  had  represented  in  the  Parliament  of  1613. 
Living  to  see  the  Restoration,  he  was  created  Viscount 
of  Clare  in  1662,  in  consideration  of  his  own  and  his 
children's  services,  both  at  home  and  in  foreign  parts, 
and,  for  the  maintenance  of  that  degree  of  honor,  he 
had  restitution  of  his  whole  estate.  His  grandson 
and  namesake  was  the  individual  under  present  con- 
sideration, the  third  Viscount  Clare,  who  attended 
King  Charles  in  his  exile,  raised  two  Regiments  of 
Infantry  for  James  the  Second,  and  this  6f  Dragoons, 
which,  from  the  facing  of  the  uniform,  was  known  by 
the  popular  name  of  the  Dragoons  Buy  (yellow).  It 
was  raised  at  Carrigaholt,  and  being  considered  the 
flower  of  James's  army,  was  sent  into  Ulster  at  the 
opening  of  the  campaign,  under  the  conduct  of  Sir 
James  Cotter,  forming  part  of  the  numerous  and  well 
appointed  force  of  which  Lord  Mountcashel  had 
then  the  command ;  but,  on  the  26th  July,  1689, 
those  troops  were  encountered  near  Lisnaskea,  in  the 
County  of  Fermanagh,  by  Captain  Martin  Armstrong, 
with  two  troops  of  Horse  and  two  companies  of  Foot, 
who,  "making  a  feint  to  attack  with  his  horse,  retired 
as  if  in  disorder,  till  he  drew  Lord  Mountcashel's 
forces  into  the  ambuscade  of  his  Foot,  who,  by  an  un- 


CLARE'S   DRAGOONS.  315 

expected  volley  caused  a  great  slaughter  ;  the  Horse 
at  the  same  instant  facing  about,  fell  on  with  incredi- 
ble force,  and  cut  this  brave  Regiment  almost  to 
pieces,  very  few  escaping  by  flight.'^ 

This  Colonel  Lord  Clare  was  of  King  James's  Privy 
Council  from  1684,  and  Lord  Lieutenant  of  the 
County  of  Clare.  He  fought  at  the  Boyne,  and  died 
soon  after.  He  had  married  Philadelphia,  eldest 
daughter  of  Francis  Leonard  Lord  Dacre,  of  tlie 
South,  and  sister  to  Thomas,  Earl  of  Sussex.  She 
died  in  1662,  leaving  two  sons  by  Lord  Clare,  Daniel 
and  Charles  ;  Daniel,  the  fourth  Viscount,  went  with 
King  James  into  France,  and  was  selected  by  that 
Monarch  to  form  a  portion  of  the  Brigade  of  Mount- 
cashel.  He  died  in  1693  at  Pignerol,  of  wounds  he  had 
received  on  the  occasion  of  the  victory  gained  by  Catinat 
over  the  Allies  at  Marsiglia.  He  never  married,  and 
his  brother  Charles,  who  had  espoused  the  eldest 
daughter  of  Henry  Buckley,  Esq.  Master  of  the 
Household  to  King  James,  became  the  fifth  Viscount. 
For  him  was  embodied  a  French  Brigade  Regiment, 
styled  the  Queen's  Dismounted  Dragoons,  that  after- 
wards was  eminently  distinguished  in  the  wars  of  the 
Continent.  It  consisted  of  one  Battalion  formed  into 
six  Companies,  each  of  one  hundred  men,  officered  by 
one  Captain,  two  Lieutenants,  and  two  Comets. 
Alexander  Barnewall  was  its  Lieutenant-Colonel, 
and  Charles  Maxwell,  Major. 

This  gallant  Brigade  in  1691  mounted  the  trenches 

*  Graham's  Derriana,  p.  27. 


316  KING  James's  irisii  army  list. 

at  Mountmelian,  and  served  in  Piedmont  in  1(593. 
At  the  battle  of  Marsiglia,  being  strengthened  to  three 
Battalions,  they  presented  a  phalanx  which  remained 
impenetrable  to  tlie  attacks  of  the  German  Regiments 
commanded  by  Prince  Eugene,  and  they  mainly 
effected  his  defeat.  In  Spain,  in  1695,  this  Lord 
Clare,  at  the  head  of  his  Dragoons,  was  very  active  in 
several  encounters,  and  chiefly  contributed  to  raising 
the  siege  of  Castle  Follet.  In  the  Campaign  of  1696, 
his  Regiment  was  distinguished  at  the  siege  of  Valen- 
za  in  Lombardy,  in  one  of  the  sallies  from  which  the 
garrison  bore  everything  before  them,  until  checked 
by  Clare's  Regiment,  who  finally  repulsed  and  pur- 
sued them  to  the  palisades  of  Ortavie.  In  1703,  it 
won  much  glory  in  the  Italian  campaign,  when 
Prince  Eugene  was  compelled  to  raise  the  blockade  of 
Mantua.  Afterwards,  in  the  same  year  under  Villiers 
it  maintained  its  character.  At  Blenheim,  Lord 
Clare  led  the  Irish  by  a  forced  and  rapid  march 
against  the  Imperialists,  charged  and  broke  them,  and 
commenced  a  horrible  carnage,  which  continued  in 
the  woods  during  the  whole  of  the  following  night. 
It  is  perhaps  unnecessary  to  say,  however,  that  this 
was  not  the  brittle  which  immortalized  Marlborough. 
At  that  battle,  however,  which  occurred  in  1704, 
Clare's  was  one  of  the  Regiments  posted  at  Oberklaw; 
and,  though  assailed  by  four  of  the  Dutch  Regiments, 
Lord  Clare  maintained  his  post  with  indescribable 
bravery;  the  carnage  was  awful.  In  1705,  it  served 
in  Germany  under  Mai'shal  Villars,  and  in  1706  was 


glare's  dragoons.  317 

thrown  into  Ramillies  to  resist  the  assault  of  Marlbo- 
rough. "  So  long  as  the  Irish  were  supported  by  the 
right  wing  of  the  French,  they  never  yielded  a  single 
inch  of  ground  ;  but,  when  the  cavalry  of  that  wing 
was  broken,  and  the  infantry  taken  in  flank,  they 
were  forced  to  retreat.  Lord  Clare,  who  commanded 
the  Irish,  and  who  on  this  occasion  performed  prodi- 
gies, did  not  surrender  his  fine  corps  prisoners  of  war, 
but  cut  his  way  through  the  enemy's  Battalion,  bear- 
ing down  their  infantry  with  matchless  intrepidity. 
In  the  heroic  effort  to  save  his  corps,  he  was  mortally 
wounded,  and  many  of  his  best  officers  were  killed. 
His  Lieutenant-Colonel,  then  Murrough  O'Brien, 
evinced  on  this  occasion  heroism  worthy  of  the  name. 
Assuming  the  command,  and  leading  on  his  men  with 
fixed  bayonets,  he  bore  down  and  broke  through  the 
enemy's  ranks,  took  two  pair  of  colours,  and  joined 
the  rere  of  the  French  retreat  on  the  heights  of  St. 
Andre."*  Lord  Clare  was  himself  carried  into  Brus- 
sels, where  he  died  of  his  wounds,  and  was  interred  in 
the  Irish  monastery  there. 

He  left  several  children,  but  only  one  son,  another 
Charles,  born  at  St.  Germains-en-Laye  in  1699,  and 
styled  the  sixth  Viscount,  or  more  usually  in  France, 
my  Lord  Comte  de  Clare.  He,  after  some  years, 
having  been  invited  to  England  by  his  cousin  Henry, 
Earl   of  Thomond,  was  by  him  presented  to  King 

*  O'Conor's  Milit.  Mem.  p.  316-17,  to  which  work  the  com- 
piler is  indebted  for  much  of  this  narrative  of  Lord  Clare  s 
Brigade. 


318  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

George  the  First,  as  heir  at  law  to  his  estates  and 
honours,  whereupon  he  was  assured  of  pardon,  provi- 
ded he  would  conform  to  the  Established  Church,  but 
with  this  condition  he  would  not  comply.  On  the 
breaking  out  of  war  between  France  and  the  Empire 
in  1733,  this  Lord  was  attached  to  the  army  of  the 
Rliine,  under  the  Duke  of  Berwick,  and  on  the  follow- 
ing year  he  served  at  the  memorable  siege  of  Philips- 
burg,  where  he  received  a  contusion  on  the  shoulder 
from  the  same  cannon  shot  that  killed  the  Marshal 
Duke.  The  Earl  of  Thomond  did  not  however  forget 
his  nephew  ;  but,  dying  in  1741,  left  a  will  of  1738, 
whereby,  although  he  bequeathed  the  bulk  of  his 
estates  to  Murrough,  Lord  O'Brien,  eldest  son  of  the 
Earl  of  Inchiquin,  as  being  a  Protestant ;  he  yet  left 
a  legacy  of  £20,000  to  this  individual,  who  upon  his 
death  assumed  the  title  of  '  Thomond '  in  France,  and 
there  in  the  military  service  was  distinguished  for  his 
knowledge  of  strategics,  particularly  evinced  at  the 
battle  of  Dettingen  in  1743,  and  of  Fontenoy  in  two 
years  after;  on  the  latter  occasion,  he  was  made 
Lieutenant-General.  In  the  same  year,  at  Ypres  in 
Flanders,  this  Regiment  of  Lord  Clare  suffered  con- 
siderably. The  list  of  those  killed  and  wounded  there 
records  of  the  kUledy  Lieutenant-Colonel  O'Neill, 
Captain-Lieutenant  Shortall,  Captains  Talsey,  Mac 
EUicott  and  Maguire  ;  and  Lieutenants  Edward  Fitz- 
gerald and Macnamara  ;    while  of  the  wounded 

were  Captain  Grant,  (Lord  Clare's  Aid-de-Camp), 
Captains  Christopher  Plunket,  Brien  O'Brien,  


CLARE'S   DRAGOONS.  319 

Creagh,  Kennedy,  Djiniel  Mac  Carty  and  John 

O'Brien;     with    Lieutenants    Hugh    Talsey,    

Davoren,  Charles  O'Brien,  Cornelius  O'Neill,  and  Brien 
O'Brien.*  A  Captain  O'Brien  was  there  also  mort^dly 
wounded  in  Koth's  llegiment.  In  two  years  after,  at 
Lauffield,  was  killed  in  Clare's  Regiment  Captain 
Charles  O'Brien ;  while  Capttiins  Murtough  and  Conor 
O'Brien  were  there  iroimded.  For  his  services  in  this 
engagement,  the  French  monarch  promoted  this  Colo- 
nel to  the  rank  of  Marshal  Thomond,  appointing  him 
Governor  of  New  Brisac  in  Alsace,  and  Commander- 
in-Chief  of  the  Province  of  Languedoc  and  all  the 
coasts  on  the  Mediterranean.  In  1755,  he  married 
Lady  Marie  Genevieve  Louisa  de  Cheffraville,  Marchio- 
ness of  Cheflfraville  in  Normandy,  and,  dying  of  fever 
at  Montpelier  in  1762,  left  by  her  Charles,  his  heir, 
bom  at  Paris  in  1757,  and  a  daughter  born  in  1758, 
who  married  the  Duke  de  Choiseul  Praslin,  by  whom 
she  had  a  numerous  issue.  Cliarles  the  younger,  and 
the  last  Viscount,  died  at  Paris  unmarried  in  1774, 
when  the  title  became  extinct,f  while  the  Regiment 
that  bore  his  name  was,  on  his  decease,  drafted  into 
Berwick's. 

JAMES  O'BRYAN,  THIRD   VISCOUNT  INCIIIQUIN, 

Was  a  Captain  of  Grenadiers  in  this  army,  and  as 
such  he  was  allowed  a  pension  of  £235  4s  per  annum 
on  the  military  establishment,  with  another  of  £100 

♦  Gent.  Mag.  vol.  xv.  p.  276. 
t  Lodge's  Peerage,  vol.  2,  p.  34. 


320  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

per  annum  on  the  Civil  List ;  he  died  in  London  of 
smallpox,  26th  October,  1688.  His  third  son,  Rich- 
ard, being  an  officer,  also  in  King  James's  service, 
and  going  to  France  in  April,  1689,  during  the  war 
with  that  kingdom,  was  therefore  prohibited  from 
coming  home  by  the  Act,  9  William  III.;  but,  upon  his 
petition  and  his  avowed  willingness  to  take  the  oath 
of  allegiance.  Queen  Anne  granted  him  licence  to 
return  in  1703,  and  he  died  in  1707  unmarried.* 

This  Viscount  was  not  included  in  the  Attainders 
of  1601  ;  but  Daniel  Viscount  Clare  was  then  out- 
lawed, as  was  Charles  the  fifth  Viscoimt  in  1696,  by 
the  designation  of  Charles  O'Bryan,  commonly  called 
Lord  Viscount  Clare.  There  were  also  outlawed  in 
the  former  year  Charles  and  Daniel  O'Brien  of  Carrig- 
aholt,  and  Murrough  of  Corrofin  in  the  County  of 
Clare ;  Morgan,  Connor,  and  Daniel  *  O'Bryen '  of 
Hospital ;  William,  Kennedy,  and  Daniel  O'Bryen  of 
Castletown,  County  of  Limerick ;  and  Teigue 
'O'Brien '  of  Carrowmore,  County  of  Sligo.  While  in 
the  County  of  Westmeath  were  held  Inquisitions  of 
outlawry  against  Bartholomew  '  Bryan '  of  Coolvock, 
Francis  Bryan  of  Ballykeeran,  and  Henry  Bryan  of 

Castleback; in  the   County   of  Carlow,   against 

William  and  Michael  Bryan  of  Raheragh ; in  the 

County  of  Kilkenny,   against   Walter   and   Michael ' 
Bryan  of  Harristown,  James  Bryan  of  Jenkinstown, 
and  John  and  Edward  Fitz-james  Bryan  of  Browns- 
town  ;    in  the    County   of  Cork,   against  Dionysius 

*  Lodge's  Peerage,  vol.  2,  p.  816. 


Clare's  dragoons.  321 

Bryan  of  Kilcoleman,  Edward  Bryan,  Senior,  and 
Edward  Bryan,  Junior.  In  the  County  of  Wexford, 
against  Lucas  Bryan  of  Wexford  Town,  Hugh  Bryan 
of  Mungane,  Arthur  Bryan  of  Ironbrick,  and  William 
*  Bryant'  of  Rosse.  In  the  County  of  Waterford, 
against  Darby  Bryan  of  Craig-rush,  and  Terence 
Bryan  of  Comeragh ;  and  lastly,  against  Turrock 
Bryan  of  Ballinroan,  County  of  Galway,  and  Piers 

Bryan  of  the  Queen's  County. At  the  Court  of 

Claims,  Francis  O'Brien  claimed  an  estate  in  fee,  pur- 
suant to  the  Act  of  Settlement,  in  lands  forfeited  by 
Lord  Clare ;  while  Ellen  O'Bryen,  alias  O'Shaughnessy, 
widow  of  Connor  O'Bryen,  claimed  an  estate  for  life 
under  her  marriage  settlements  on  lands  forfeited  by 
Donogh  O'Bryan. 

For  the  gallant  achievements  of  MuiTough  O'Bryan 
(of  Carrigogunnell)  on  the  Continent,  see  OCaUagh- 
aria  Brigades^  vol.  I,  p.  82,  &c.;  and  of  various  other 
O'Bryens  distinguished  in  foreign  service  much  will 

be  found  in  the  same  work,  (p.  291). In  1769, 

died  at  Cambray  in  France  Dr.  John  O'Brien,  there- 
tofore  the  Roman  Catholic  Bishop  of  Cloyne. 


LIEUTENANT-COLONEL  JAMES  PHILLIPS. 

Colonel  Phillips  was  killed  early  in  the  campaign,  at 
the  engagement  with  Colonel   Wolseley,  near  Beltur- 


322  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

bet  *  when  John  Macnamara  of  Cratloe  was  appointed 
in  his  place. 

The  earliest  notice  of  this  name  within  the  scope 
of  these  Illustrations,  occurs  in  the  Declaration  of 
King  Charles's  gratitude  for '  services  beyond  the  seas,' 
which  includes  Captain  Walter  Phillips  of  Clonmore, 
County  of  Mayo.  Of  that  family  was  Charles  Phillips, 
a  Captain  in  Colonel  O'Gara's  Infantry,  and  Gilduff 
Phillips,  an  Ensign  in  his  troop.  Captain  Charles,  de- 
scribed as  of  Ballindoe,  a  townland  adjoining  Clon- 
more, and  his  relative  Philip  Phillips,  were  afterwards 

adjudged  within  the  Articles   of  Limerick. The 

name  appears  also  in  King  James's  Charter  to  Kal- 
kenny,  where  Samuel  Phillips  was  one  of  the  Alder- 
men, and  Thomas  Phillips  one  of  the  Burgesse§,  In 
the  Attainders  of  1691  are  included  James  and 
Edward  Phillips,  described  as  of  Dromore,  County  of 
Down  ;  and  this  James  it  would  certainly  seem  was 
the  Lieutenant-Colonel  here  under  consideration.  As 
the  surname  has,  however,  not  flourished  in  the  North, 
while  in  the  aforesaid  locality  of  Clonmore  it  existed 
to  the  present  year,  some  particidars  of  its  descent 
from  Wales  are  extracted  from  an  ancient  Pedigree 
in  the"  compiler's  possession,  drawn  up  in  the  last 
century,  and  expressedly  vouched  by  the  attestation  of 
all  the  Roman  Catholic  Bishops  of  Connaught,  and 
the  Warden  of  Galway. 

It  commences  with  Cadifer  ap  Colhoyn,  Lord  of 
Dyfed,  who  was  of  the   same   tribe   with   Vortigem 

*  O'Callaghan's  Irish  Brigades,  vol.  1,  p.  86. 


glare's  dragoons.  323 

King  of  Britain,  and  paternally  descended  from  Maxi- 
mus,  King  of  Britain  and  Emperor  of  Rome.  This  Cad- 
ifer  was  the  founder  of  the  ennobled  line  of  Picton 
Castle,  and  from  him  and  his  lady  Helen,  only  daugh- 
ter and  heiress  of  Lleoch  Llawen  Vawr,  a  Prince  of 
Wales,  the  tree  of  these  two  Houses  grows  out 
through  his  lineal  heir  male.  Sir  Adrin  Ap  Rhys,  who 
attended  Richard  the  First  into  the  Holy  Land, 
where  he  behaved  so  gallantly  that  he  received  the 
order  of  Knighthood  of  the  Holy  Sepulchre,  and  a 
grant  of  armorials,  a  lion  rampant  sable  in  a  field 
argent.  His  descendant,  Philip  ap  Evan,  left  a  son 
Meredith,  who  was  the  first  that  took  the  name  of 
Phillips,  styling  himself  Meredith  Phillips,  instead  of 
ap  Phillip,  the  usual  character  of  designation. 

This  Meredith  was  born  in  1242,  and  while  his 
eldest  son,  Pldlip  Phillips  of  Kylsant,  was  the  ancestor 
of  the  family  of  Picton  Castle,  his  youngest  son,  John 
Phillips,  in  the  time  of  Edward  the  First,  crossed 
over  in  that  monarch's  service  to  subdue  the  Irish 
*  rebels '  in  Connaught,  where,  the  enterprise  having 
succeeded,  he  acquired  the  patrimony  of  Clonmore, 
with  the  townlands  annexed  in  the  County  of  Mayo,  in 
reward  of  his  services.  This  John  was  born  in  1271, 
as  was,  in  the  eighth  generation  from  him,  Gilbert 
Phillips  of  Clonmore,  who  married  Mary  Jordan, 
daughter  of  Walter  Jordan,  a  Chief  of  the  adjacent 
Barony  of  Gallen.      Their  eldest  son  Philip  Phillips, 

bom  in  1557,  married  a  daughter  of O'Gara, 

Chief  of  the  Barony  of  Coolavin,  in  the  County  of 
Sligo;  and  their  son  Myles,  bom  in  1590,  married 

Y  2 


824  KING  JAM£S'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Mable,  daughter  of O'Donnelan  of  Rossedonelan, 

County  of  Roscommon.  Walter,  the  eldest  son  of 
Myles  and  Mable,  became  a  Major  in  the  army,  and 
he  is  the  individual  named  in  the  aforesaid  Declara- 
tion of  thanks.  He  married  Winifred,  daughter  of 
Dudley  Costello  of  the  Barony  of  Costello.  Their 
eldest  son,  Philip  Phillips,  commonly  called  Captain 
Phillips,  was  born  in  Austrian  Belgium  in  1653, 
where  his  father  then  sojourned  with  the  Royal 
Family.  On  the  Restoration  these  exiles  returned  to 
Clonmore;  and  Philip,  in  1682,  married  Bridget 
O'Mulloy,  daughter  of  Edward  O'Mulloy,  Chief  of 
Oughtertyry,  County  of  Roscommon.  Their  eldest 
son  Myles,  born  in  1684,  married  in  1712  Juliana, 
daughter  of  Edward  Browne  of  Tullimore,  County  of 
Mayo,  by  whom  he  had  issue  Edward  his  eldest  son, 
Philip  Phillips  his  second  son.  Archbishop  of  Tuam, 
('lately  deceased,'  says  the  Manuscript  cited),  and 
John  who  died  unmarried.  Edward,  in  October, 
1739,  married  Helena,  daughter  of  John  O'Kelly, 
County  of  Galway,  by  whom  he  had  one  son,  Thomas;- 
born  in  January,  1749,  who  in  1767  married  Cathe- 
rine, daughter  of  Philip  and  Anne  O'Byme  of  Kil- 
loughter.  County  of  Wicklow.  Their  issue  *  are ' 
Edward,  bom  24th  May,  1768;  PhUip,  bom  1770; 

and  Myles,  born  1774. Here  this  ancient  Pedigree 

concludes.  Edward,  the  eldest  son,  married  in  1794, 
Anne,  daughter  of  Doctor  Terence  Mac  Dermot  of 
Coolavin,  and  had  issue  Thomas,  (and  two  other  sons 
who  died  unmarried),  with  three  daughters.    Thomas, 


Clare's  dragoons.  325 

the  eldest  son  of  Edward,  married  in  1828  Alicia, 
daughter  of  Doctor  OTerrall,  of  the  old  Sept  of 
Annaly,  and  he  has  by  her  three  sons  and  four 
daughters. 

This  family,  of  such  ancient  origin  and  old  l^pect- 
ability  in  their  County,  has,  in  the  bloodless  revolution 
of  the  Incumbered  Estates'  Commission,  been  uprooted 
from  the  soil.     They  are  there  no  more. 


MAJOR  FRANCIS  BROWNE. 

He  was  descended  from  Dominick  Browne,  who  was 
Mayor  of  Galway  ;n  1575,  through  a  younger  son, 
Andrew  ;  (the  eldest  son  of  Dominick  was  Geofiiy, 
ancestor  of  Lord  Oranmore).  Andrew's  son,  John, 
was  the  father  of  this  Major  Francis,  who  having  been 
killed  at  Athlone  was  attainted  in  the  following  year, 
the  Inquisition  styling  him  'a  Merchant  of  Waterford.' 
On  his  death  and  attainder,  his  brother  Anthony 
succeeded  to  his  property,  and  he  was  the  lineal 
ancestor  of  the  present  inheritor  of  Moyne,  Michael 
Joseph  Browne. 

Extended  notices  of  this  name  are  api)ended  to 
Lord  Kenmare. 


CAPTAIN  REDMOND  MAGRATH. 

The  Sept  of  Magrath,  or  Mac  Crath,  was  located  in 


326  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

the  County  of  Tipperary,  also  at  Termon-Magrath  in 
the  County  of  Fermanagh,  and  in  later  time  in  the 
County  of  Clare,  where  they  are  spoken  of  in  the  mid- 
dle ages  as  the  chief  poets  of  Thomond  ;  while  in  the 
Parish  of  Modeligo,  County  of  Waterford,  they  had  a 
large  estate,  on  which  the  remains  of  their  Castles  are 
noted  by  Smith.*  In  1224,  Simon  Magrath  was 
Bishop  of  Ardagh;  of  Killaloe,  Matthew  '  Mac  Cragh  ' 
was  Bishop  in  1391,  Donat  '  Mac  Cragh  in  1428, 
Thady  Mac  Cragh  in  1430,  and  Dermot  'Mac  Cragh ' 
in  1480;  and  Matthew  Macraigh  was  Bishop  of  Clon- 
fert  in  1482.  In  the  ensuing  century  lived  Miler 
Magrath,  a  Franciscan  friar  of  the  Fermanagh  line  of 
this  family.  He  had  been  by  the  Pope's  provision  ad- 
vanced to  the  See  of  Down ;  but,  having  embraced  the 
Protestant  religion  in  1570,  he  was  by  Queen  Eliza- 
beth translated  to  that  of  Clogher,  and  afterwards  in 
the  same  year  to  the  Archbishopric  of  Cashel,  with 
Emly  annexed,  and  yet  more  those  of  Waterford  and 
Lismore  by  a  commendatory  grant,  with  various  other 
substantial  favours  from  her  Majesty.  He  filled  the 
Archbishopric  for  upwards  of  fifty-two  years,  during 
which  time,  says  Harris  in  his  additions  to  Ware, 
'he  made  most  scandalous  wastes  and  alienations  of  the 
revenues  and  manors  belonging  to  it.'  He  died  at 
Cashel  in  1 622,  in  the  hundredth  year  of  his  age.f  In 
1629,  a  Royal  warrant  issued,  directing  Lord  Falkland 


♦  History  of  Waterford,  p.  82. 
t  Ware's?  Bishops,  pp.  481-5. 


CLARE'S-  DRAGOONS.  327 

to  grant  a  Baronetage*  to  John  Magrath  of  Attyvo- 
lane,  in  the  County  of  Tipperary,  who  had  some  years 
previously  obtained  from  the  Crown  a  grant  of  the 
Lordship  of  Knockorden,  with  divers  townlands,  the 
castle,  town,  and  lands  of  Ballyneanty,  and  all  tithes 
and  advowsons  belonging  to  the  premises,  with  courts 
leet  and  baron.f 

The  Attainders  of  1641  present  the  names  of  Rich- 
ard and  Patrick  Magrath,  both  of  Fyanstown,  County 
of  Meath;  while  Cromwell's  Act  (1652)  so  often 
cited,  excepted  from  pardon  for  life  and  estate  Sir 
John  '  Magragh '  of  the  County  of  Tipperary,  (i.  e. 
the  Baronet  of  Attyvolane),  and  Turlogh,  son  of 
James  Magragh. Besides  Captain  Kedmond  Ma- 
grath, there  are  on  this  List  Bryan  Magrath,  a  Lieu- 
tenant in  the  Earl  of  Antrim's  Infantry ;  James,  a 
Captain  in  the  Earl  of  Tyrone's  ;  Terence  and  Jolin, 
Captains  in  Lord  Galmoy's  (the  latter  was  afterwards 
adjudged  within  the  Articles  of  Limerick) ;  another 
Terence  was  Lieutenant  in  Tyrone's,  Miles  and 
Nicholas  were  Lieutenants  in  Colonel  John  Barrett's, 
and  Thomas  was  a  Captain  in  Sir  Charles  O'Bryan's 
Infantry. 

It  appears  from  the  Inquisitions  of  1691,  and  the 
Petitions  of  1700,  that  this  Captain  Redmond  was  of 

*  Gilbert,  in  his  interesting  History  of  the  City  of  Dublin, 
states  (p.  4)  that  Charles  II.  granted  to  the  request  of  Sir 
James  Ware,  who  had  declined  the  honours  of  a  Viscounty  and 
a  Baronetage  from  his  Sovereign,  two  blank  baronetcies  which 
Sir  James  filled  up  for  two  friends. 

t   Rot.  Pat.  13,  Jac.  1,  in  Cane.  Hib. 


328  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

a  Clare  family,  and  seized  of  estates  in  that  County  ; 
an  estate  tail  in  which  was  on  his  attainder  claimed 
by  Robert  Magrath,  and  allowed.  Bedmond  Magrath, 
a  minor,  also  sought  and  was  allowed  an  estate  tail  in 
other  Clare  lands  of  said  Redmond,  under  articles 
entered  into  in  1687,  upon  the  marriage  of  James,  the 
father  of  said  minor,  and  Mary  his  mother;  under 
which  articles  that  mother  was  allowed  an  annuity 
and  jointure  off  said  lands;  while  John  Magrath 
obtained  the  benefit  of  a  mortgage  on  the  same  estate, 
and  Honora,  widow  of  Thomas  Magrath,  an  annuity 

thereof.     For  other  claims,  see  antej  p.  155. A 

large  portion  lying  in  the  Barony  of  Tullagh,  County 
of  Clare,  was  sold  by  the  Commissioners  of  the  forfei- 
tures to  Terence  Geoghegan  in  1703.  Another 
Magrath  then  attainted  was  Bryan  of  Large,  County 
of  Fermanagh. 

At  the  battle  of  Lauffield,  near  Maestricht,  in  1747, 

Captain  John  Magrath  and  Lieutenant Magrath 

were  of  those  in  Berwick's  Brigade  wounded. 


CAPTAIN  ROGER  SHAUGHNESST. 

The  O'Shaughnessys  were  Lords  of  a  mountainous  dis- 
trict dividing  Galway  from  Clare.  The  Sept  is,  how- 
ever, traced  in  the  Annals  of  other  parts  of  this 
country.  In  1060,  died  Dermot  O'Shaughnessy, 
Abbot  of  Dunshaughlin,  County  of  Meath ;  as  did  in 
1140  another  Dermot  O'Shaughnessy,  *the  most  dis- 


glare's  dragoons.  329 

tinguished  sage  of  Leath  Cuinn,'  the  northern  half  of 
Ireland  ;  and  in  1224,  Giolla-na-naomh  O'Shaugh- 
nessy,  Lord  of  the  western  half  of  Kinalea,  (Barony  of 
Kiltartan,  County  of  Galway).  In  1451,  a  licence 
for  using  the  English  law  was  granted  to  Donat 
•  O'Shasnam,'  which  seems  to  refer  to  a  member  of  this 
Sept.  In  1543,  King  Henry,  by  a  patent,  reciting 
that  Sir  Dermot  O'Shaughnessy  and  his  ancestors  had 
theretofore  possessed  themselves  of  premises  in  the 
County  of  Galway  unjustly^  but  that  Sir  Dermot  had 
now  surrendered  same,  the  King  therefore  hereby  con- 
veyed to  hhn  as  the  Chief  of  his  name,  and  to  his  heirs 
male,  all  the  manors,  lands,  &c.  of  Gort-Inchigorie, 
with  several  other  denominations.  To  Perrot's  Par- 
liament of  1585,  went  John  and  Dermot,  the  two  sons 
of  Giolla  Dhu  O'Shaughnessy,  Chief  of  Kinel-aodha 
and  Gort ;  while  in  the  Supreme  Council  of  1647, 
Dermot  O'Shaughnessy,  the  heir  male  of  Dermot  of 
1543,  was  one  of  the  Commons.  He  was  deprived  of 
his  estates  by  the  Usurping  Powers ;  but  on  the  Re- 
storation was  knighted,  and  by  the  Act  of  Explana- 
tion restored  to  his  seat  and  2,000  acres  of  his  inhe- 
ritance. 

In  1642,  the  Marquis  of  Clanricarde  wrote  to  Lord 
Inchiquin  : — "  The  bearer,  my  noble  kinsman,  Sir 
Roger  Shaughnessy,  has,  by  my  licence,  taken  his  de- 
parture out  of  this  government  into  Munster,  to  take 
care  of  his  lady,  family  [who  were  besieged  there] 
and  estate  in  these  parts,  which,  by  reason  of  his  long 
absence,  doth  and  may  suffer  by  the  general  unhappy 


330  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

distemper  in  this  kingdom.  I  could  not  let  so  much 
worth  and  merit  pass  from  me,  without  giving  your 
Lordship  notice  that  in  his  own  person,  his  son  and 
followers,  he  hath  constantly,  and  with  much  forward 
affection,  been  present  and  assisting  to  me  in  all  my 
proceedings  and  endeavours  for  his  Majesty's  ser- 
vice/** The  son  here  alluded  to  was  Dermot 
O'Shaughnessy,  hereinafter  mentioned,  who  raised 
fifty  foot  soldiers  in  the  Marquis's  service.  William, 
the  brother  of  Sir  Roger,  was  likewise  a  Captain  in 
the  Clanricarde  levy,  and  his  character  and  loyalty 
obtained  from  the  Corporation  of  Galway  in  1648  a 
vote  that  he,  then  "Lieutenant-Colonel  William 
O'Shaughnessy,  (in  consideration  of  his  alliance  in 
blood  to  the  whole  town,  and  for  the  good  nature  and 
affection  that  he  and  his  whole  family  do  bear  to  it,) 
and  his  posterity  shall  be  hereafter  free  of  their 
guild. "f  The  Captain  Roger  in  this  Regiment  was  the 
lineal  male  descendant  of  his  namesake  ;  he  married 
Helen,  daughter  of  Connor  O'Bryan,  Lord  Viscount 
Clare  ;  joined  King  James's  forces,  and  was  present 
at  the  battle  of  the  Boyne,  from  which  he  returned 
home  sick,  though  not  wounded,  and  died  in  the 
Castle  of  Gort  ten  days  after  that  fatal  field.  He  was 
attainted  in  1697,  when  his  estates  were  granted  to 
Sir  Thomas  Prendergast,  '  a  gentleman  of  family  in 
Ireland,'!  "  upon  the  most  valuable  consideration  of  his 

•  Clanricarde's  Memoirs,  fol.  p.  201. 
t  Hardiman's  Galway,  p.  216. 
{  Dalrymple's  Mem.  vol.  3,  p.  76. 


CLARE'S   DRAGOONS.  331 

discovering  a  most  barbarous  and  bloody  conspiracy 
to  assassinate  the  King's  most  Excellent  Majesty,  to 
destroy  the  liberties  and  in  consequence  the  Protest- 
ant religion  throughout  Europe.''  The  Irish  House 
of  Commons  had  previously  solemnly  thanked  him 
therefor ;  and,  on  a  representation  that  the  rental  of 
O'Shaughnessy's  estate  fell  short  of  £500  per  ann. 
other  lands  in  the  Counties  of  Tipperary,  Galway, 
Roscommon  and  Wexford  were  added  to  those  already 
appropriated  for  his  reward ;  the  latter  to  the  clear 
amount  of  £334  per  annum.  The  O'Shaughnessy 
estates  were  afterwards  the  subject  of  long  litigation, 
even  to  an  appeal  to  the  Lords  ;  but  all  attempts  to 
disturb  the  grant  of  these  confiscations  were  ineflFec- 
tive.  Sir  William,  the  heir  of  Roger  O'Shaughnessy, 
died  an  exile  in  France  in  1744.  His  cousin  and 
next  heir  was  Coleman  O'Shaughnessy,  Roman  Catho- 
lic Bishop  of  Ossory,  who  instituted  the  alleged  pro- 
ceedings ;  they  were  continued  by  his  next  relative, 
Roebuck  O'Shaughnessy,  and  on  his  death  by  Joseph, 
the  son  of  Roebuck,  until  decisively  defeated. 

The  Attainders  of  1691  include  those  of  Dermot 
'Shaghnessy'  of  Castlegar,  and  William  Shaghnessy 
of  Gort ;  while  from  the  claims  preferred  at  Chiches- 
ter House  it  appears  that  Captain  Hugh  Kelly,  on 
behalf  of  himself  and  his  wife,  sought  a  jointure 
charged  under  settlements  of  1688,  on  lands  in  the 
County  of  Galway,  forfeited  by  Roger  O'Shaughnessy; 

but  their  petition   was    dismist. In   1699,    the 

Trustees  of  the  Forfeited  Estates  complained,  in  an 


332  KING  James's  irisu  army  list. 

official  report,  that  so  hasty  had  been  several  of  the 
grantees  or  their  agents  in  the  disposal  of  the  forfeited 
woods,  that  vast  numbers  of  trees  had  been  cut  and 
sold  for  not  above  6d.  a  piece;  and  they  particularly 
named  the  wood  of  O'Shaughnessy's  estate  as  having 
been  the  subject  of  such  waste. 


CAPTAIN  THADY  QUINN. 

This  ancient  Sept  is  recognised  in  the  native  Annals 
from  the  earliest  date  of  surnames ;  those  of  Ulster 
commemorate,  amongst  the  heroes  who  fought  at  Clon- 
tarf  in  1014,  Neill  O'Quin.  Widely  spreading  over 
Ireland,  this  family  held  territory  in  Limerick,  Clare, 
Longford,  Westmeath,  and  Derry.  In  the  first 
County  the  name  has  been  in  later  years  ennobled, 
with  the  titles  of  Barons  Adare  and  Earls  of  Dun- 
raven. In   1095,   died  of  the  plague  Augustin 

O'Quinn,  Chief  Brehon  of  Leinster ;  and  in  1188, 
Edwina,  commemorated  as  'daughter  of  O'Quinn  of 
Muinter-Iffernan  in  Thomond  (Clare),  and  Queen  of 
Munster,*  died  in  her  pilgrimage  at  Derry,  'victorious 
over  the  world  and  the  devil.'  In  1252,  Thomas 
O'Quinn  was  Bishop  of  Clonmacnoise,  as  was  John 
Quin  of  Limerick  in  1505.  The  Patent  Rolls  record 
pardons  to  Thomas  0  'Cuin '  in  1318,  to  Maolmurry 
O'Coigne'  of  Castlemartin  in  1395  ;  and  in  1402, 
King  Henry  the  Fourth  granted  to  Thomas  O'Coyne, 
clerk,  'of  the  Irish  nation  and  blood,'  liberty  to  use 


CLARE'S  DRAGOONS.  333 

the  English  law  and  language.  In  1404,  David  and 
John  0'  '  Coynge/  of  the  County  of  Kildare,  sued  out 
a  licence  of  pardon  ;  and  in  1413,  Henry  the  Fifth 
granted  to  James  0  *Coygne'  similar  licence  as  that 
before  given  to  Thomas  0  'Coyne,'  clerk,  with  the 
additional  liberty  of  acquiring  lands  in  mortmain  for 

religious  uses. Walter   Quinn   'of  Dublin'   was 

preceptor  to  Prince  Henry,  on  whose  death  he  pub- 
lished an  epitaph  in  1613.* 

The  Act  that  in  1612  confiscated  Ulster  by  the 
attainder  of  the  Earl  of  Tyrone  and  his  confederates, 
included  Murtogh  O'Quinn,  'late  of  Dungannon,'  and 
Teigue  Modder  O'Quinn  of  the  same  place.  Crom- 
well's memorable  Ordinance  of  1652  excepted  from 
pardon  for  life  and  estate  Brien  Modder  O'Quynne, 
and  Turlogh  Groom  O'Quynne  of  Monagowre,  in  the 
County  of  Tyrone;  while  Mr.  John  Quinn  was  one  of 
the  twenty-four  whom  Ireton  condemned  to  die  on 
the  capitulation  of  Limerick.  The  Attainders  of 
1642  include  Richard  and  Laughlin  Quinn  of  Bally- 
hooke.  County  of  Wicklow  ;  Edmund  Quin  of  Bal- 
lenteskin,  do.  clerk ;  Christopher  Quinn  of  St. 
Audoen's  parish,  Dublin,  and  Christopher  Quin  of  St. 
Michan's,  do.  merchant.  In  a  patent  of  Clare  lands 
granted  in  1680  to  Dame  Lucy  'Fitzmorrice'  and 
her  son  Richard  Fitz-Morrice,  there  was  an  especial 
saving  of  the  rights  of  Thady  Quinn,  possibly  the 
above  Captain,  to  certain  lands  therein,  and  to  a  mort- 
gage on  others  of  the  grant. 

♦  Watt's  Biblioth.  Britt. 


334  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

On  this  Army  List,  besides  the  above  Captain 
Thady  Quinn,  Daniel  Quinn  was  a  Quarter-Master  in 
Colonel  Nicholas  Purcell's  Horse,  as  was  Robert 
Quinn  in  Lord  Dongan's  Dragoons ;  Christopher 
*Quin/  a  Cornet  in  Colonel  Symon  Luttrell's,  and 
James  'Quinn/  a  Lieutenant  in  Major  General  Boise- 
leau's  Infantry.  Captain  Thady  Quinn  was  attainted 
in  1691,  when  his  estates  in  the  County  of  Limerick 
became  vested  in  the  Crown.  The  other  Outlawries 
were  of  William  Quin  of  Dublin,  Richard  Quinn  of 
Athy,  Hugh  Mc  Turlogh  O'Quin  of  Cornetule,  and 
Brian  Ogc  Mac  Turlogh  O'Quin  of  Glunoe,  County  of 
Tyrone. 


LIEUTENANT  SYLVESTER  PURDON. 

While  this  name  is  still  extant  of  respectability  in 
the  County  of  Clare,  the  above  Lieutenant  appears 
to  have  been  of  a  Cork  family ;  to  one  of  whom.  Colo- 
nel Bartholomew  Purdon,  M.  P.  who  died  in  1737, 
a  monument  is  erected  in  the  church  of  Ballyclogh. 
The  name  does  not  appear  on  the  Outlawries,  or  else- 
where on  the  Army  List. 


LIEUTENANT  WILLIAM  LYSAGHT. 

I^    1542,  Edward   'Lysart*  was  presented  by  the 
King  to  the  perpetual  vicarage  of  Ballytobin,  which 


CLARE'S  DRAGOONS.  335 

had  come  to  the  Crown  on  the  Dissolution  of  monas- 
teries, as  parcel  of  the  possessions  of  that  of  Kenlis  in 
Ossory.  The  List  of  *  Scholars  '  of  Trinity  College, 
Dublin,  in  1612,  has  the  name  of  Daniel  Lysagh, 
otherwise  Mac  Gillisagh,  afterwards  presented  to 
the  rectory  of  Rathblynninge  in  the  Diocese  of 
KUlaloe^  with  a  proviso  that  *  unless  he  shall  reside 
thereon,  after  he  shall  have  finished  his  studies  in 
Trinity  College,  Dublin,  the  presentation  shall  be  void.'* 
In  the  war  of  1641,  James  Lysaght  was  a  Comet  in 
the  army,  and  distinguished  himself  under  the  com- 
mand of  the  Earl  of  Inchiquin.  [His  son  Nicholas 
was  a  Captain  in  King  William's  army  at  the  battle 
of  the  Boyne,  and  was  afterwards  a  claimant  at  Chi- 
chester House,  for  charges  affecting  the  Clare  estates 
of  William  Creagh,  but  his  petition  was  dismist. 
His  son  John  Lysaght  was  in  1758  raised  to  the 
Peerage,  by  the  title  of  Baron  Lisle  of  Mountrath,  a 
title  which  still  exists.]  In  1666,  Comet  John 
Lysaght  had  a  confirmatory  grant  of  500  acres  in  the 
Barony  of  Orrery,  County  of  Cork.  It  was  at  this 
time  that  a  Thomas  Lysaght,  then  a  young  man, 
being  on  his  passage  to  England,  on  his  way  to  study 
at  Oxford,  was  taken  by  a  French  privateer  and  car- 
ried into  France,  where  he  became  a  convert  to  the 
Soman  Catholic  religion.  Incurring  thereby  the 
displeasure  of  his  father,  he  was  disinherited,  and  the 
estate  of  the  family  was  bequeathed  by  that  gentleman 

♦  Rot.  Pat.  10  Car.  1,  in  Cane.  Hib. 


336  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

to  a  younger  son,  the  above  Captain  Nicholas  of  King 
William's  anny. 

In  the  old  cathedral  graveyard  of  Kilfenora  is  the 
chief  burial  place  of  the  Clare  Lysaghts,  and  on  a  slab 
there  is  an  inscription  to  Patrick  Lysaght;  in  his 
epitaph  he  is  made  to  say,  ^  Marti  et  Baccho  saspe 
tributa  dedV  The  tradition  of  the  country  points 
to  his  grave  as  that  of  'the  warrior/  and  suggests  him 
to  have  been  engaged  in  the  Stuart  wars,  more  especially 
as  it  is  stated  on  the  tombstone  that  he  died  in  1741, 
at  the  very  advanced  age  of  85 ;  he  had  four  brothers, 
whose  descendants  are  yet  established  in  and  about 
Ennis.  In  1678,  a  William  Lysaght,  possibly  the 
above  Lieutenant,  obtained  a  grant  of  800  acres  in 
the  Baronies  of  Bunratty,  Tulla,  and  Inchiquin  in 
the  County  of  Clare,  by  a  patent  in  which  he  is  ex- 
pressly described  as  the  son  of  a  Patrick  Lysaght 
The  daughters  and  co-heiresses  of  this  William  were 
married  as  before  mentioned,  ante^  p.  84.  Besides 
this  Lieutenant,  a  Thomas  '  Lycett '  held  the  same 
rank  In  Colonel  Carroll's  Dragoons. 

In  the  before  mentioned  churchyard  of  Ballyclogh, 
County  of  Cork,  is  a  handsome  monument  to  the 
memory  of  the  above  John  Lysaght,  styled  of  Mount- 
north,  Lord  Lisle,  and   to  his  wife  Catherine,  who 

died  before  him. In  the  year  1780,  another  John 

Lysaght,  styled  of  Brick-hill,  died  at  Mallow;  he  was 
the  father  of  the  facetious  Barrister  of  a  past  gene- 
ration,— Ned  Lysaght. 


CLARE'S  DRAGOONS.  337 


LIEUTENANT  JOSEPH  FURLONG. 

This  family  was  one  of  the  earliest  English  colonists 
of  the  County  of  Wexford,  where  they  settled  in  the 
neighbourhood  of  Roscarlan,  On  the  Patent  Rolls  of 
1346,  David  Furlong  is  mentioned  as  then  a  landed 
proprietor  there  ;  \t  would  seem  indeed  he  was  the 
mitred  Abbot  of  the  noble  monastery  of  Dunbrody, 
whose  remains,  after  a  lapse  of  centuries,  are  still 
strikingly  interesting.  About  his  time  a  Carmelite 
House  was  founded  and  endowed  at  Hoartown,  in  the 
same  County,  by  a  Furlong.  In  the  Parliament  of 
1585,  Patrick  Furlong  was  one  of  the  Representatives 
of  the  borough  of  Wexford ;  and  at  the  Supreme  Council 
of  Kilkenny,  Mark  Furlong,  described  as  of  Wexford, 
was  one  of  the  Commons.  This  Mark,  it  would  seem, 
was  the  same  gratefully  named  in  the  Declaration  of 
Royal  gratitude  of  1662,  for  subsequent  services 
*  beyond  the  seas.' 

Besides  this  Lieutenant  Joseph,  James  Furlong  was 
a  Quarter-Master  in  Lord  Tyrconnel's  Horse.  Yet 
neither  of  the  names  appears  in  the  Outlawries  of 
1691,  which  do  mention  David  Furlong  of  Bannow, 
Nicholas  of  Kilcavan,  Michael  of  Brown-castle,  and 
Walter  of  Coole-Hall.  The  lands  of  the  latter  were 
in.  1703  purchased  from  the  Trustees  of  the  Forfeited 
Estates  by  George  Saville. 

Ware,  in  his  'Writers  of  Ireland,'  makes  mention 
of  a  White  Furlong,  bom  in  Wexford,  a  student  in 

z 


338  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Oxford,  and  subsequently  a  priest  and  author ;  while 
in  later  years  Thomas  Furlong  of  the  same  County 
was  a  poet,  whose  talents,  out  of  Ireland,  might  have 
been  encouraged  into  high  repute.  He  was  one  of 
the  principal  translators  engaged  in  that  national  com- 
pilation of  Mr.  Hardiman,  "  the  Irish  Minstrelsy," — 
the  songs  of  Carolan  having  been  assigned  for  his  trans- 
lation. Dying  in  1827,  at  the  age  of  33  years,  he 
was  buried  at  Drumcondra,  near  the  monument  of 
Francis  Grose  the  Antiquarian.* 


LIEUTENANT  PATRICK  IIEHIR. 

The  Sept  of  O'Hehir  was  in  earliest  time  noticed  as 
territorially  located  at  Magh-Adhair,  a  district  of  Clare 
lying  between  Ennis  and  TuUa.  In  a  battle  fought 
in  1094,  at  Fenagh,  in  the  County  of  Leitrim,  between 
Eoderic  O'Conor  with  his  adherents  of  the  Siol-Murry, 
and  the  people  of  Thomond  and  West  Connaught,  in 
which  Roderic  was  victorious,  Aulaffe  O'Hehir  was 
slain  ;  while  the  Four  Masters  notice  at  1099  the 
death  of  Donogh  O'Hehir,  as  then  Lord  of  Magh- 
Adhair.  Soon  after,  however,  this  Sept  were  driven 
hence  by  the  Macnamaras,  westward  to  Hy-Cormaic, 
a  tract  lying  between  Slieve  Callan  and  the  town  of 
Ennis. 

The  name  does  not  appear  on  the  Attainders  of 
1642,  but  the  clause  of  Royal  gratitude  in  the  Act  of 

♦  D'Alton's  County  of  Dublin,  p.  247 


clake's  dragoons.  339 

Settlement  includes  Ensign  Turlogh  O'Hehir,  de- 
scribed as  of  Balame  in  that  County.  Adherents,  as 
this  family  were  of  the  O'Briens,  the  present  Army 
List,  besides  the  above  Lieutenant  Patrick,  presents 
Teigue  O'Hehir,  an  Ensign  in  Colonel  Charies 
O'Bryan's  Regiment  of  Infantry ;  while,  still  following 
the  fortunes  of  the  dethroned  Stuart  under  the 
O'Bryan  guidance,  Captain  Hehir  was  one  of  those  in 
Clare's  Regiment  of  Dragoons,  wounded  at  the  battle  of 
Lauffield  village  in  1747. 


LIEUTENANT  RICHARD  BEDFORD. 

This  Officer  was  of  Ardclogh  in  the  County  of  Wick- 
low,  as  was  also  Thomas  Bedford  an  Ensign  in  the 
Earl  of  Tyrone's  Infantry,  and  a  Dennis  Bedford 
attainted  at  the  same  time,  all  of  whom  are  described 
in   the   Inquisitions   for  their  outlawry   as  of  this 

locality. The  name  is  of  record  in  the  Irish  Rolls 

of  Chancery  from  Edward  the  First. 


CORNET  HUGH  PERRY. 

This  name  is  not  repeated  on  the  Army  List,  nor  does 
it  at  all  appear  on  the  Attainders.  It  is  traced  in  the 
later  records  of  Cork  ;  as  that  of  *  Pery '  is  from  an 
earlier  period  in  Limerick ;  where,  in  the  middle  of 
the  last  century,  flourished  the  Bight  Honourable 

z  2 


340  KING  JAMES'S  IKISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Edmund  Sexton  Pery,  by  whose  influence  that  City 
of  the  Sieges  was,  though  not  until  the  year  1760,  de- 
clared  by  government  to  be  no  longer  a  fortress ;  and 
its  walls  were  thereupon  levelled,  new  approaches 
made  to  it,  and  a  new  bridge  and  spacious  quays  were 
constructed. 


CORNET  NICHOLAS  ARCIIDEKIN. 

This  name  is  traceable  in  tlie  Local  and  Family  Hist- 
ory  of  the  Counties  of  Galway  and  Kilkenny,  from  a 
very  early  period,  and  subsequently  in  Cork.  Alured, 
Prior  of  the  House  of  Inistiogue,  County  of  Kilkenny, 
assigned  in  1218  to  the  Abbey  of  St.  Thomas  of  Dub- 
lin, a  moiety  of  the  Churches  of  Kilcormack  and  Tul- 
laghbarry,  with  which  his  house  had  been  previously 
endowed  by  Stephen  Archdekin,  Knight ;  who  on  this 
occasion  confirmed  the  transfer.  In  1309,  *  Maurice 
le  Ercedekne'  had  livery  of  his  estates  in  Ireland,  a 
short  time  previous  to  which  John  le  Ercedekne, 
Maurice  le  Ercedekne,  Sylvester  and  William  le 
Ercedekne  were  summoned,  as  *  Fideles '  of  Ireland, 
to  the  Scottish  wars.  And  in  1435,  John  Archde- 
kin, a  citizen  and  merchant  of  Dublin,  was  permitted 
to  sue  out  a  '  quietus '  from  being  thenceforth  sum- 
moned on  Juries.  In  1585,  Robert  '  Archdeacon'  was 
one  of  the  Representatives  of  Ennistiogue  in  Perrot's 

Parliament. In  King  James's  Charter  of  1687,  to 

Kilkenny,  John  Archdekin,  merchant,  was  one  of  the 


glare's  dragoons.  341 

Aldermen  ;  John  Archdekin,  junior,  merchant,  She- 
riff, and  Peter  Archdekin,  Chamberlain.  The  aforesaid 
Alderman  John  was  in  1689  elected  by  this  body 
Mayor  of  their  City. 

Besides  the  above  Nicholas,  Redmond  'Archdeacon' 
was  a  Lieutenant  in  Lord  Galway's  Infantry.  The 
former,  according  to  the  description  on  the  Inquisi- 
tion of  Outlawry  in  1691,  was  of  the  County  of  Cork, 
yet  he  is  shown  on  record  to  have  been  seized  of  lands 
in  Galway,  which  were  the  subject  of  a  marriage  set- 
tlement in  1699;  while  Redmond  is  styled  on  his 
Attainder  as  of  Tristane,  County  of  Galway.  There 
were  also  attainted  with  them  in  1691,  James  Arch- 
deacon of  Kilmosheer,  Henry  Archdeacon  of  the  City 
of  Cork,  merchant,  and  John  Archdeacon  of  Monks- 
town,  in  the  same  County,  at  which  latter  place  the 
castle  was  erected  by  one  of  said  John's  progenitors. 


CORNET  THOMAS  CLANCHY. 

The  Mac  Clanchys  were  a  Sept  of  the  Dal-Cassian 
stock,  hereditary  Brehons  or  Judges  of  Thomond, 
under  the  O'Bryans  its  Princes ;  while  another  family 
of  the  name  were  Lords  of  Dartry  and  Rosclogher,  in 
West  Brefney  (Leitrim).  The  Declaration  of  Royal 
gratitude  in  1662,  for  '  services  beyond  the  seas,'  in- 
cludes Captain  Murtough  Clanchy  of  Castlekeale, 
County  of  Clare ;  while  on  this  Army  List,  besides 


842  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Comet  Thomas,  John  *  Clancy '  was  a  Lieutenant  in 
the  Royal  Infantry. 

The  Attainders  of  1691  name  Murtough  and 
James  Clancy  of  Knocklane,  Beetum  Clancy  of  Cor- 
ringer,  and  Boetius  Clancy  of  Glancun,  all  in  the 
County  of  Clare.  At  the  Court  of  Chichester  House 
in  1700,  Connor  Clancey  claimed  a  freehold  in  a  small 
estate  of  Lord  Clare  ; — allowed. 


QUARTER-MASTER  WILLIAM  HAWFORD. 

This  surname,  probably  identical  with  Harford,  is  not 
found  again  on  the  List,  nor  at  all  on  the  Attainders. 
A  family  of  the  latter  spelling  existed  in  the  County 
of  Dublin  in  the  last  century. 


QUARTER-MASTER  EDMUND  BOHILLY. 

The  Milesian  surname  of  O'Bohilly,  O'Bohill,  O'Boyle, 
is  of  early  record,  as  well  on  the  native  annals  as  on 
the  Rolls  of  the  Irish  Chancery.  In  1099,  Canlam- 
rach  O'Boyle  was  Bishop  of  Armagh,  as  was  Cineath 
O'Boyle  of  Clogher  in  1135.  In  1301,  during  the 
vacancy  of  the  See  of  Cashel,  the  King  presented 
John  O'Boghill  to  the  Vicarage  of  Calveston,  within 
that  Diocese  ;  while  in  1318  Dionysius  O'Boghill  sued 
out  a  patent  for  pardon  and  protection,  and  in  1597 

*  Rolls  in  Cane.  Ilib. 


glabe's  dragoons.  843 

Niall  O'Boyle  was  Bishop  of  Raphoe.  Of  the  particu- 
lar individual,  however,  here  in  commission,  nothing 
has  been  ascertained,  nor  of  his  family. 


QUARTEE.MASTER  JAMES  O'DEA. 

This  Sept  possessed  the  territory  in  the  County  of 
Clare  now  known  as  the  Parish  of  Dysart,  in  the 
Barony  of  Inchiquin,  and  within  it  had  many  castles, 
of  which  some  ruins  still  remain.  Branches  of  the 
family  had  also  settled  in  Cork  and  Tipperary.  So 
e^rly  as  1151  the  Four  Masters  record  that  when  at 
Moinmore,  a  place  which  lies  between  Cork  and  the 
Blackwater,  a  battle  was  fought  to  establish  the  right 
to  the  sovereignty  of  Munster,  (claimed  as  vested 
in  the  O'Brien  succession),  no  less  than  nine  of  the 
Sept  of  O'Dea  were  slain.  Again,  in  1318  occurred 
the  battle  of  Dysart-O'Dea,  where  Sir  Robert  de  Clare 
was  slain  by  Conor  O'Dea,  the  warlike  Prince  of 
Cineal-Fermain,*  a  country  of  ancient  Thomond  in 
the  County  of  Clare.  In  1415,  Dionysius  O'Dea, 
precentor  in  the  Cathedral  of  Limerick,  sued  out  a 
licence  to  absent  himself  from  his  dignity  for  five 
years,  and  place  himself  in  the  schools  of  Oxford  or 
Cambridge,  receiving  there,  however,  during  that  in- 
terval, the  profits  of  his  precentorship  :f  he  was  subse- 

♦  Vallancey's  Collect.  Hib.  vol.  1,  p.  617. 
t  Rot.  Pat.  2  Hen.  5,  in  Cane.  Hib. 


344  KING  James's  ibish  asmt  list. 

quently  raised  to  the  See  of  Ossory.  Cornelius  O'Dea 
died  Bishop  of  Limerick  in  1426,  while  another  Cor- 
nelius  O'Dea  was  the  first  Prelate  appointed  to  the 
See  of  Killaloeby  Henry  VIII.  in  1546  ;  his  predeces- 
sor, James  O'Corren,  having  then  resigned  "  for  the 
sake  of  retirement  and  living  private.''*  At  the 
Court  of  Chichester  House,  John  O'Dea  was  a  claim- 
ant  for  a  freehold  in  Clare,  on  Lord  Clare's  confisca- 
tions ; — allowed. 


REGIMENTS  OF  DRAGOONS. 

COLONEL   SIMON   LUTTRELL's. 


CajUains, 

CorneU.              i 

Th   Colonel. 

Lieut.-Colonel. 

Edward  Moclare, 

Major. 

OliTcr  Grace. 

Charles  Geoghegan. 

Charles  Lucas. 

Adam  Kennigs. 

Christopher  Quinn, 

,  Thomas  Bourke. 

Thomas  Ducken- 

Henry  Morley. 

Christopher  Tyrrell. 

field. 

Sir  Edward  TyrreU. 

John  Perkins. 

Qua  rter-  Masters. 


COLONEL  SIMON  LUTTRELL. 

An  Inquisition  taken  in  1687  finds  that  Thomas  Lut- 
trell  of  Luttrelstown  died  about  fourteen  years  pre- 

*  Ware's  Bishops. 


luttrell's  dragoons.  345 

vious,  seized  of  upwards  of  2,500  acres  in  the  County 
of  Dublin,  with  the  Rectories  of  Clonsillagh,  Duna- 
bate,  and  Knockraddy,  and  that  this  Simon  Luttrell 
was  his  son  and  heir  ;  and  as  so  much  has  been 
written  of  the  Luttrell  family,  ante,  p.  189,  &c.,  the 
notices  here  shall  be  confined  to  him.  When  Tyrcon- 
nel  repaired  to  Cork  to  receive  King  James  on  his 
landing,  this  Simon  (who  had  previously,  as  before 
mentioned,  antej  p.  61,  been  the  Lieutenant-Colonel 
of  the  Hon.  Thomas  Newcomen's  Infantry),  was 
appointed  Governor  of  Dublin,  with  an  adequate  Gar- 
rison.* Such  he  continued  to  be  when  James 
made  his  entry  into  that  City ;  and,  in  the  Parlia- 
ment convened  there  inimediately  after,  he  repre- 
sented the  County  of  Dublin.  In  June,  1690,  when 
James  heard  that  his  rival  was  marching  to  confront 
him,  he  committed  Dublin  to  the  more  especial  charge 
of  Colonel  Simon  Luttrell,  intending  himself  to  pene- 
trate northwards  to  Dundalk,  preserving  the  harvest 
of  the  County  of  Louth  behind  him.f  After  the  de- 
feat at  the  Boyne,  when  Berwick  collected  a  body  of 
the  routed  Army  at  Brazeel,  near  Swords,  King 
James  at  his  instance  sent  out  from  Dublin  six  troops 
of  this  Colonel's  Dragoons,  to  cover  the  Duke's  retreat 
into  the  City.  He  afterwards,  when  determined  to 
fly  from  Ireland,  ordered  this  Officer  to  march  to 
Leixlip  with  all  the  forces  in  town,  except  two  troops 
of  his  own  Regiment  of  Horse,  of  which  this  Army 

♦  Clarke's  Mem.  Jac.  2,  v.  2,  p.  378. 
t  D' Alton  8  Drogbeda,  v.  2,  p.  316. 


346  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

List  affords  no  details,  but  which  he  kept  to  attend 
upon  himself  if  necessitated  to  fly.*  After  the  de- 
parture of  his  Sovereign,  however,  Colonel  Simon, 
true  to  the  interest  of  the  self-exiled  James,  returned 
to  Dublin,  and  did  not  retire  from  the  trust  which 
had  been  reposed  in  him,  until  dusk.f  (A  Narcissus 
Luttrel,  it  may  be  remarked,  was  about  this  time  in 
King  William's  service,!  while  a  Spottiswode  Luttrel 
commanded  an  independent  troop  for  James  after  the 
Boyne  §)  When  the  Irish  party  at  Limerick,  opposed 
to  Tyrconnel,  despatched  their  deputation  to  the  King 
at  St.  Germains,  Colonel  Simon  was  associated  therein, 
as  before  mentioned,  p.  54. 

He  was  attainted  in  1691,  as  were  also  his  wife, 
and  Thomas  Luttrell  described  as  of  Luttrelstown, 
and  Robert  Luttrel  of  Simonstown,  County  of  Kil- 
dare.  That  wife,  Katherine,  became  a  widow  before 
the  sitting  of  the  Court  of  Claims  in  1700,  where  she 
preferred  a  memorial  for  her  jointure  off  his  estates  in 
the  Counties  of  Dublin  and  Kildare,  which  was 
allowed  her ;  while  his  brother,  Colonel  Henry, 
claimed  an  estate  tail  therein  ;  but  his  petition  was 
postponed,  as  pending  already  before  Parliament. 
Margaret  Luttrel,  spinster,  also  sought  and  was 
allowed  a  remainder  for  years  in  Meath  lands  of  said 
Colonel  Simon.      By  the  Articles  of  Limerick  it  was 


♦  Clarke's  James  II.  vol.  2»  p.  402. 
t  O'Callaghan  8  Excid,  Mac.  p.  868. 
I  Rawdon  Papers,  p.  419. 
§  Singer  s  Correspondence,  v.  2,  p.  514. 


luttrell's  dragoons.  347 

agreed  that  this  Simon  Luttrell,  together  with  Mau- 
rice Eustace  of  Yeomanstown,  and Chevers  of 

Mayestown,  commonly  called  'Viscount  Leinster,'  (who 
are  stated  then  to  belong  to  the  Regiments  in  the 
garrisons  and  quarters  of  the  Irish  Army  beyond  the 
seas,  sent  thither  upon  the  affairs  of  their  respective 
Regiments,  or  of  the  Army  in  general),  should  have 
the  benefit  thereof,  provided  they  returned  within 
eight  months,  submitted  to  King  William's  govern- 
ment, and  took  the  oath  of  allegiance.*  Simon  did 
not,  however,  avail  himself  of  this  proffered  amnesty  ; 
but,  remaining  in  France,  became  there  Colonel  of 
the  '  Queen's  Regiment  of  Guards,'  of  which  Francis 
Wauchop  was  Lieutenant-Colonel,  and  James  O'Brien 
Major.f  He  died  in  September,  1698,  as  recorded 
on  his  monument  in  the  Chapel  of  the  Irish  College 
at  Paris,  and  left  no  issue  to  represent  him.J 
O'Conor  commemorates  him  as  an  Officer  of  great  in- 
tegrity, who  followed  faithfully  the  fortune  of  King 
James,  and  forfeited  his  estates  in  that  cause.  The 
same  historian  says  that  at  the  battle  of  Marsiglia,  in 
1693,  his  Lieutenant-Colonel,  at  the  head  of  2,600 
Irishmen,  was  posted  in  the  centre  of  Catinat's  line, 
and  that  in  assuring  this  victory,  these  Irish  had  a 
principal  share;  their  leader,  Wauchop,  however,  fell 
on  the  field.§ 

♦  Harleian  MSS.  v.  7,  p.  490. 

t  Fitzgerald's  Limerick,  v.  2,  p.  374. 

t  O'Callaghan  8  Irish  Brigades,  vol.  1,  p.  203. 

§  O'Conor  8  Military  Memoirs,  v.  1,  pp.  219,  222. 


348  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

In  1696,  Colonel  Simon  LuttrelFs  glebe  land  was 
granted  to  Walter  Delamer  in  trust,*  while  several  im- 
propriate  Rectories  and  Tithes,  of  which  he  had  been 
seized,  were  granted  by  the  Commissioners  to  the  Trus- 
tees for  augmenting  poor  livings,  &c.;  and  at  Chiches- 
ter House  in  1700,  many  claims  were  preferred  and 
some  allowed  affecting  his  lands  in  the  Counties  of 
Dublin,  Kildare,  and  Meath,  and  his  house  property 
in  Dublin  City. 


MAJOR  EDWARD  MOCLARE. 

The  Moclares  were  a  family  very  widely  spread  over 
Tipperary  in  the  time  of  Queen  Elizabeth.  It  does 
not  appear,  however,  of  what  County  this  Major  was 
a  native  ;  while  in  Colonel  Dudley  Bagnall's  Infantry 
John  Moclare  was  a  Captain,  and  James  Moclare  an 
Ensign.  The  Attainders  of  1691  present  the  names 
of  James  Moclare,  Knight,  of  Dublin  ;  and  a  Jeflfry 
*  Mockler '  was  the  forfeiting  occupant  of  lands  in  the 
Barony  of  Tulla,  County  of  Clare,  which  were  claimed 
in  1703,  and  allowed  to  be  the  estate  in  fee  of  Sir 
Arthur  Gore,  then  a  minor. 


CAPTAIN  THOMAS  DUCKENFIELD. 

This  Officer  is  described  in  the  Inquisition  of  At- 
tainder as  of  Longwood,  County  of  Meath  ;  as  is  also 

♦  Harris's  MSS.  Dub.  Soc.  v.  10,  p.  260. 


luttrell's  dragoons.  349 

a  Loftus  Duckenfield  who  was  attainted  at  the  same 
time.  The  name  no  otherwise  occurs  on  this  Army 
List,  or  in  the  Attainders.  Captain  Thomas  appears 
to  have  been  the  son  of  Colonel  William  Duckenfield, 
by  Elinor,  daughter  of  Sir  Dudley  Loftus  of  Killyan, 
who  after  his  decease  married  Sir  Edward  Tyrrell  of 
Lynn,  the  next  Captain  in  this  Regiment.  The 
early  ancestry  of  this  family  is  to  be  traced  in  Che- 
shire, where  it  enjoyed  the  honor  of  a  Baronetcy. 


CAPTAIN  SIR  EDWARD  TYRRELL. 

Hugh  De  Lacy,  the  great  Palatine  of  Meath,  in  his 
settlement  of  that  '  Kingdom,'  as  it  was  then  yet 
designated,  gave  Castleknock  and  its  lands  accounted 
therein  to  his  namesake  Hugh  Tyrrell,  whose  descend- 
ants were  hence  long  after  styled  Barons  of  Castle- 
knock. In  1302,  Gerald  Tyrrell  and  Richard  Tyrrell 
were  two  of  the  '  Fideles  '  of  Ireland,  whose  military 
services  were  sought  by  King  Edward  for  the  war  in 
Scotland.  When,  in  fifteen  years  after,  Edward 
Bruce  led  his  rash  invasion  into  Ireland,  in  his  south- 
ward march  he  encamped  before  Castleknock,  and 
took  the  Baron  and  his  Lady  prisoners,  until  soon 
aft«r  ransomed.*  The  last  Lord  of  this  ancient  line 
was  Hugh  Tyrrell,  in  1485  ;  and,  on  his  death  with- 
out issue  male,  the  inheritance  passed  to  Christopher 

•  D'Alton's  Hist.  Dub.  p.  557. 


350  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Bamewall  and  John   Bumell,  who  had.  respectively 
married  the  daughters  and  co-heiresses  of  the  Chief. 

During  Tyrone's  rebellion  in  1597,  a  Captain  Tyr- 
rell was  sent  into  Leinster  by  the  '  insurgents,'  with  a 
troop  of  five  hundred  men  to  excite  disaffection  in 
that  Province ;  "  a  son  of  Lord  Trimleston  was  de- 
tached with  1,000  men  to  attack  him  and  his  party; 
but  the  experience  and  address  of  the  rebel  leader 
supplied  the  deficiency  of  his  numbers,  he  gave  the 
royalists  a  total  defeat,  and  sent  their  young 
commander  a  prisoner  to  O'Neill.*  In  1600,  the 
same  Tyrrell  it  would  seem  was  an  active  adherent  of 
Desmond  in  the  Munster  war.  He  it  was  who 
defended  the  Castle  of  Cape  Clear,  and  consequently, 
in  the  Instruction  given  for  the  prosecution  of  the 
war  in  Munster,  '  Tyrrel '  is  mentioned  as  one  of  the 
*  capital  rebels'  whom  his  Lordship  (the  President) 
must  lose  no  exertion  to  take,  alive  or  dead.  A 
Funeral  Entry  of  1636,  in  the  Office  of  Arms,  records 
the  death  of  Edward  Tyrrell  of  Caverstown,  County 
of  Westmeath,  (second  son  of  Edward  Tyrrell  of  do., 
eldest  son  and  heir  of  Richard  Tyrrell  of  same  place); 
adding  that  he  married  Honora,  daughter  of  John 
Tyrrell  of  Clonmoyle  in  said  County,  by  whom  he 
had  three  sons  ;  Richard,  as  yet  unmarried,  and  two 
others  who  died  so ;  that  said  Edward  took  to  his  se- 
cond  wife,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  William  Eustace  of 
Clongowes  Wood,  by  whom  he  had  a  daughter — dead. 
His  third  wife  was  Amy,  daughter  of  Richard  Sutton 

*  Leland's  Ireland,  vol.  2,  p.  354. 


luttrell's  dragoons.  351 

of  Richardstown,  County  of  Kildare  ;  by  whom  he 
had  one  son  James.  Said  first-mentioned  Edward 
Tyrrell  died  11th  May,  1636,  and  was  buried  at 
Castlelost,  County  of  Westmeath.  The  Attainders  of 
1642  comprise  the  names  of  Henry  Tyrrell  of 
Killussy,  County  of  Kildare  ;  Peter  Tyrrell  of  Ath- 
boy,  merchant ;  and  Thomas  Tyrrell  of  do.,  with 
many  others  of  the  name  in  Westmeath.*  In  the 
same  year  Colonel  Monk,  afterwards  celebrated  as  the 
Duke  of  Albemarle,  took  Castleknock  and  put  many 
of  the  garrison  to  the  sword ;  but  in  November,  1647, 
Owen  Eoe  O'Neill  retook  this  old  fortress  from  the 
Republicans.  In  this  latter  year,  Thomas  Tyrrell  of 
Kilbride  was  of  the  Supreme  Council  at  Kilkenny  ; 
he  was  therefore,  in  Cromwell's  Act  of  1652,  excepted 
firom  pardon  for  life  and  estate  ;  but,  by  the  Act  of 
Explanation  in  1665,  was  restored  to  his  seat  and 
three  thousand  acres. 

In  particular  reference  to  this  Captain  Sir  Edward 
Tyrrel,  the  Earl  of  Clarendon,  writing  to  the  Earl  of 
Rochester,  says,  "  On  Saturday  last  in  the  evening, 
one  Mr.  Edward  Tyrrell  of  the  County  of  Meath 
brought  me  the  King's  letter  for  creating  him  a  Baro- 
net. He  is  a  very  old  man,  and  it  were  to  be 
wished  His  Majesty  had  good  accounts  of  men  before 
he  conferred  marks  of  honor  upon  them,  which  he 

*  On  the  Westmeath  Forfeitures  of  this  Civil  war  and  the 
several  patentees  thereof,  the  Book  of  Survey  and  Distribution 
in  that  County  has  been  recently  copied,  compared,  and 
printed^  to  the  extent  of  126  folios,  beautifully  executed  by  John 
Charles  Lyons,  Esq.  of  Ladiston,  a  Deputy  Lieutenant  there. 


352  KING  JAMES'S  IBISH  ARMY  LIST. 

may  very  easily  have  if  he  pleaseth,  and  still  do  what  he 
has  a  mind  to.  This  gentleman's  father  was  a  law- 
yer and  a  Roman  Catholic  ;  what  religion  he  was  of 
in  the  time  of  the  Usurper  nobody  can  tell,  but  he 
was  employed  by  them  to  make  a  Survey  of  the 
County  of  Meath,  which  he  did  most  exactly ;  therein 
discovering  all  the  secrets  with  which  he  was 
entrusted.  His  estate  was  very  small.  This  gentle- 
man has  much  improved  it,  as  he  says  that  he  bought 
of  new  title  from  soldiers,  adventurers,  and  *  49  '  in- 
terest, to  the  value  of  about  £700  per  annum  ;  of 
which  it  is  said  he  owes  £5,000,  and  is  incumbered 

with  variety  of  lawsuits He  is  of  any  or  no  re- 

ligion,  sometimes  a  Roman  Catholic,  sometimes  a 
Protestant."*  In  the  Pariiament  of  1689,  this  in- 
dividual  sat  as  one  of  the  Representatives  for  the 
Borough  of  Belturbet,  and  there  appear  of  his  name, 
and  possibly  kindred,  on  this  Army  List,  John 
Tyrrell,  a  Captain  in  the  King's  Own  Foot ;  Walter 
Tyrrell  in  Fitz-James's  ;  and  Simon  '  Turrill,'  a  Lieu- 
tenant in  Colonel  Robert  Clifford's  Dragoons.  On 
the  7th  of  April,  1690,  King  James,  'reposing  great 
trust  and  confidence  in  the  honesty  and  diligence, 
care  and  circumspection  of  our  trusty  and  well- 
beloved  Sir  Edward  Tyrrell,'  appointed  him  supervisor 
of  the  Counties  of  Cork,  Waterford,  and  Kerry  ;  with 
powers  to  prevent  or  punish  frauds,  neglects,  and  mis- 
demeanours there  ;  "  to  preserve  our  woods,  houses, 
and  parks,  and  to  view  our  fortifications  within  the 

*  Singer's  Corresp.  of  Lord  Clarendon,  &c.,  v.  1,  p.  883. 


luttrell's  dragoons.  353 

same,  and  execute  all  necessary  repairs."*  In  the 
King's  ecclesiastical  appointments  of  4th  June,  1690, 
Doctor  Philip  Tyrrell  was  one  of  those  whom  His 
Majesty  presented  to  the  Rectories  of  Lynn  and 
Moylesker  in  the  County  of  Westmeath  ;  while  Doc- 
tor John  Tyrrell  was  at  the  same  time  presented  to 
those  of  Kilmetsan  and  Galtoon,  and  another  John 
Tyrrel  to  the  Rectory  of  Rathconnel,  all  in  said 
County.f  It  may  be  observed  that  amongst  the 
Roman  Catholic  Prelates,  whom  King  James  immedi- 
ately after  his  accession  recommended  to  the  protec- 
tion of  the  Earl  of  Clarendon,  were  Doctor  Patrick 
Tyrrell,  R.C.  Bishop  of  Clogher  and  Kilmore,  with 
Doctor  Dominick  Maguire,  the  R.C.  Primate  of 
Armagh,  and  the  other  Irish  Roman  Catholic  Pre- 
lates. The  first  Doctor  Tyrrell  was  Secretary  to  Lord 
Tyrconnel,  and  amongst  papers  of  his  that  were  taken 
by  King  William's  party,  was  that  Lord's  *  occult  ono- 
matographie,'  to  which  was  a  key  on  a  separate  sheet, 
in  which  Ireland  was  designated  Barbadoes,  &c.| 

There  were  of  this  name  attainted  in  1691,  the 
above  Captain  Edward  of  Longwood,  Baronet,  with 
nine  of  the  name  in  the  County  of  Westmeath,  and 
three  in  other  parts  of  the  country.§     At  the  Court  of 

♦  Harris's  MSS.  Dub.  Soc.  v.  10,  p.  143. 

t  De  Burgo,  Hib.  Dom.  p.  20. 

}  Thorpe's   Catal.  Southwell  MSS.  p.  183. 

§  Hitherto  the  •  Illustrations '  in  this  Work  have  been 
extended  to  details,  which  it  is  thought  prudent  henceforth  to 
abridge  as  above.  In  cases,  where  no  particular  interest  has 
been  evinced,  they  might  be  only  irksome  to  the  public  at  large. 

AA 


354  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

Claims,  Gabriel  Tyrrell  claimed  an  estate  tail  especial 
in  County  of  Westmeath  lands  forfeited  by  Francis 
Tyrrell,  but  his  petition  was  dismist ;  as  was  also  a 
claim  of  fiichard  Tyrrel  for  a  remainder  of  41  years 
leasehold,  in  the  lands  forfeited  by  Sir  Edward  Tyrrell. 
The  witness  to  this  conveyance  was  Thomas  Ducken* 
field,  probably  the  preceding  Captain.  The  daughter 
of  ^is  Sir  Edward  was  a  Protestant,  and,  marrying 
Sir  John  Edgeworth,  another  Protestant,  Longwood 
passed  into  the  latter  family,  in  which  it  remained 
unaffected  by  the  penal  laws. 


LIEUTENANT  CHARLES  LUCAS. 

This  Officer  seems  to  have  been  akin  to  another 
Charles  Lucas,  the  nephew  of  Sir  Charles  Lucas  who 
was  shot  in  1648,  by  the  Parliament  army,  on  the  sur- 
render  of  Colchester.  This  nephew  was  ennobled  by 
the  title  of  Lord  Lucas,  had  a  pension  of  £500  per 
ann.  on  the  Establishment  of  1687-8,  and  was,  by 
warrant  of  the  Lords  assembled  at  Guildhall,  Decem- 
ber 11th,  1688,  the  day  before  James  the  Second  fled 
from  the  palace  of  Whitehall,  appointed  Constable  of 
the  Tower  of  London.  In  1661,  Edward  Lucas,  who 
seems  to  have  been  of  the  Monaghan  lineage,  was  ap- 
pointed a  Sub-Commissioner  for  putting  in  execution 
the  King's  Declaration  for  the  Settlement  of  Ireland ; 
while  in  later  years  flourished  in  Ireland  a  namesake 
of  the  lieutenant,  the  well-known  Dr.  Charles  Lucas, 


luttrell's  dragoons. 


355 


commemorated  by  a  fine  marble  statue  in  the  Royal 
Exchange,  now  the  Town-hall  of  Dublin. 


LIEUTENANT  HENRY  MORLEY, 
CORNET  ADAM  KENNINGS, 
CORNET  JOHN  PERKINS. 

None  of  these  names  is  repeated  on  the  Army  List, 
nor  noted  in  the  Outlawries  of  1691.  A  family  of 
the  *  Morieys '  had  been  settled  at  Feltrim,  in  the 
County  of  Dublin;  and  in  the  minutes  of  the  Courts- 
martial  held  by  the  Usurping  Power  in  1651,  &c., 
appears  the  name  of  Humphrey  Morley^i  tried  at  Naas 

on  the  27th  October,  1652, A  family  of  the  name 

of  Perkins  was  about  the  same  time  settled  at  Ath- 
boy. 


REGIMENTS  OF  DRAGOONS. 

COLONEL  ROBERT  CLIFFORD'S. 


CapUma, 

ComeU.            Quarter.3faster8. 

The  Gokmel. 

AkianderMcKeiuie 

Lieat.-Gol. 

DOT. 

Gonnell  FerralL 

Oarberry  Bryan. 

Christopher  Ferrall.     Daniel  Griffin. 

HflBzy  GroAon. 

Myles  M«Dennott. 

John  Crofton, 

Tflfvnoe  Gogfalan. 

Robert  Caaack. 

Mnet  D'AltoD. 

Simon  TerrilL 

William  Smith. 

Jamei  Fitigerald. 

William  Clifford. 

Henrj  Clifford. 

Simoa  Wjrw. 

John  Maciuwj. 

Thomaa  Barton. 

Chriatopher  Fitz- 
gerald. 

AA  2 


356  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 


COLONEL  ROBERT  CLIFFORD. 

The  name  of  De  CliflFord  is  traced  on  Irish  records  from 
the  time  of  Henry  the  Third.  In  1227,  Simon  Clif- 
ford  granted  an  annuity  of  forty  shillings  (no  very 
small  sum  at  the  time)  to  the  Abbey  which  he  had 
refounded  at  Durrow,  in  the  King's  County.  The 
religious  house  which  previously  existed  there  had 
been  dilapidated  by  Sir  Hugh  de  Lacy,  as  before 
mentioned,  in  1175.  In  1282,  William  de  CliflFord 
was  Bishop  of  Emly  ;  and  in  1374,  Sir  Thomas  Clif- 
ford  was  summoned  to  a  Parliament  held  in  Dublin. 
In  1597,  Sir  Conyers  CliflFord  was  governor  of  Con- 
naught;  and  ih  1600,  Sir  Alexander  CliflFord  had  the 
command  of  150  men  in  the  Munster  war.  Story,  in 
his  Impartial  History^  alluding  to  the  movements  of 
King  William's  army,  relates  that  on  the  31st  Decem- 
ber, 1690,  three  Regiments  of  the  Irish,  coming  down 
to  the  Shannon  at  the  Connaught  side  near  Lanes- 
borough,  "Colonel  CliflFord  and  the  other  Irish  officers 
drank  healths  over  to  our  men,  and  those  on  our  side 
returned  the  compliment."  In  May,  1691,  says  the 
same  historian.  Captain  Johnston,  at  the  head  of  100 
men,  surprised  near  Ballinamona  in  the  King's  County 
two  troops  of  CliflFord's  Dragoons  and  a  party  of  Lord 
Merrion's  Horse.  In  three  months  after,  at  the  time 
of  the  death  of  Tyrconnel,  as  Harris  suggests,*  the 
Irish  began  to  be  jealous  of  Brigadier  CliflFord,  (as  in 
truth  they  had  some  reason)  but,  in  consequence  of 

♦  Life  of  King  WiU.  8,  p.  887. 


CLIFFORD'S  DRAGOONS.  357 

the  disunion  among  the  principal  officers,  he  was 
continued  in  the  command  of  1,500  horse  to  guard 
the  passes  of  the  Shannon  ;  and  in  confirmation  of  the 
justice  of  that  jealousy,  the  writer  adds  that  "  when 
the  besiegers  had  finished  a  bridge  into  the  island  of 
Limerick,  and  Colonel  Matthews'  (Williamite)  Dra- 
goons  began  to  pass  over  it.  Brigadier  Clifford  was 
posted  near  the  place  of  passage  with  four  Regiments 
of  Dragoons,  who  did  not  seem  very  forward,  though 
they  marched  down  on  foot  and  pretended  to  give 

opposition He  was  of  the  moderate  party  who 

were  inclined  to  put  an  end  to  the  war."*  Colonel 
O'Kelly,  in  reference  to  this  inertness,  states  circum- 
stances  which  clearly  establish  that  Clifford,  if  innocent 
of  treachery,  was  at  least  guilty  of  unpardonable 
neglect-t  "He  (says  the  Colonel)  was  an  Irishman  by 
birth,  his  grandfather  being  of  a  noble  family  in  Eng- 
land who  came  to  Ireland  in  Queen  Elizabeth's  days  ; 
he  professed  the  Roman  Catholic  religion  ;  was  vain, 
of  shallow  parts,  of  no  great  conduct ;  and,  thoUgh  it 
cannot  be  positively  averred  he  was  a  traitor,  yet  it 
was  not  prudent  in  Sarsfield  to  entrust  him  with  such 
a  post,  as  he  knew  him  to  be  a  creature  of  Tyrconnel's, 
to  be  malcontent,  and  very  unfortunate  in  all  his 
undertakings ;  and  Sarsfield  was  earnestly  desired, 
on  the  morning  before  that  fatal  night,  by  O'Kelly 
himself  (as  the  Colonel  relies),  for  whose  opinion  he 
always  seemed  to  have  a  great  value,  either  to  come 

♦  life  of  King  WUl.  3,  p.  846. 
t  Excid.  Mac,  p.  151,  &c. 


358  KING  JAMES'S  IBISH  AEMT  LIST. 

in  person  from  Limerick  to  command  at  those  passes, 
or,  if  he  could  not  come  himself,  to  send  Wauchop 
thither ;  otherwise  that  the  enemy  would  come  over 
and  besiege  the  town  on  both  sides  ;  but  there  was 
some  fatality  in  the  matter." 

The  Earl  of  Westmeath  (whose  Regiment  of  In- 
fantry is  hereafter  alluded  to),  writing  to  Harris,  the 
compiler  of  the  Life  of  William  the  Third,  on  22nd 
August,  1749,  further  confirms  by  his  experience 
Clifford's  great  neglect: — "This  Brigadier  commanded 
where  the  bridge  was  laid  over,  and  by  a  very  great 
neglect  he  made  no  opposition  to  it.  He  was  for 
that  neglect  confined  in  the  Castle  [of  Limerick],  and 
I  believe,  if  the  Articles  were  not  made,  he  must  of 
course  be  condemned  by  a  Court  Martial.  I  had  a 
Regiment  of  Horse,  and  we  were  encamped  on  a 
mountain  within  three  miles  of  the  bridge,  and  the 
body  consisted  of  3,000  horse  commanded  by  General 
Sheldon  ;  and,  on  his  hearing  an  account  of  Ginkle's 
having  laid  a  bridge  over  the  Shannon,  and  that  a 
great  number  both  of  Horse  and  Foot  had  passed  it, 
he  marched  with  the  Horse  to  Sixmilebridge,  which 
we  passed,  and  marched  the  next  day  to  Clare,  where 

we  remained  till  we  made  Articles."* After  the 

Capitulation,  Clifford  was  particularly  active  in  en- 
deavouring to  bring  over  the  Irish  soldiers  to  the 
English  service,!  and  his  own  Regiment  is  represented 
as  having  exhibited  the  most  numerous  defections  to 

*  Excidium  Macariae,  p.  481. 
t  O'Conors  Milit.  Mem.  p.  188. 


Clifford's  dragoons.  859 

the  new  interest.  His  Attainder  bears  date  11th 
May,  1691,  and  he  is  thereon  described  as  Robert 
CUflFord  of  Dublin,  Esq. 


LIEUTENANT-COLONEL  ALEXANDER  MAC 
KENZIE. 

Nothing  has  been  ascertained  of  this  evidently  Scotch 
officer,  though  information  hss  been  sought  from  the 
Baronet  of  Coul,  in  Rossbire,  of  whose  ancestry  it  is 
conjectured  he  was. 


CAPTAIN  CONNELL  FERRALL. 

The  Principality  of  this  illustrious  Irish  Sept  was 
Annaly,  covering  a  large  portion  of  the  present  County 
of  Longford ;  and,  from  the  earliest  use  of  surnames 
in  Ireland,  the  achievements,  succession,  and  obits  of 
their  Tanists  or  Captains,  the  many  religious  houses 
they  founded,  and  the  castles  they  erected,  are 
recorded  in  the  native  annals.  They  have  been 
Bishops  and  Abbots  of  the  highest  rank,  and,  although 
located  on  the  debateable  borders  of  the  Pale,  have 
intermarried  with  the  noblest  houses  of  the  English 
Settlers.  The  Four  Masters  relate  that  Gildas  O'Fer- 
ral,  leader  of  the  Annaly  Sept,  Chief  Arbitrator  of 
Ireland,  died  in  1141  at  an  advanced  age.  In  1203, 
Amalgaid  OTerral,  then  Abbot  of  Derry,  was  elected 


360  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  AEMT  LIST. 

Abbot  of  lona.  Later  in  this  century  the  OTerrals 
founded  Abbey ^hrule  for  Cistercian  monks,  and  the 
friary  of  Ballynasaggard  for  Franciscans :  both  es- 
tablishments being  in  the  present  County  of  Longford. 
In  1299,  Florence  OTerral  died  Bishop  of  Emly, 
and  Ueft  behind  him  a  great  reputation  for  his  alms- 
deeds,  hospitality,  and  other  good  works.,*  In  1314, 
GeflFrey  OTerral  of  *  Montravy '  was  summoned  by 
King  Edward  to  the  Scottish  war.  In  1347,  Owen 
OTerral  succeeded  to  the  See  of  Ardagh,  as  did  Char- 
les OTerral  in  1373.  In  1400,  the  noble  Dominican 
Friary  of  Longford  was  founded  by  the  Chief,  in 
which  Cornelius  OTerral,  who  died  Bishop  of  Ardagh 
in  1424,  was  buried.  In  1486,  William  OTerraU, 
himself  the  Dynast  of  Annaly,  was  Bishop  of  Ardagh, 
and  continued  to  discharge  the  double  duties  of  the 
prelacy  and  the  Chiefry.f  In  1 541 ,  Richard  OTerrall, 
Abbot  of  Larha  and  Dynast  of  Annaly,  had  a  similar 
charge  of  the  Diocese  of  Ardagh.  In  1565,  Sir 
Henry  Sidney  first  erected  *  Annaly  of  the  OTerralls' 
into  the  Shire  of  Longford.  In  1583,  Lysach  OTer- 
ral, a  conformist,  obtained  the  See  of  Ardagh  from 
Queen  Elizabeth  ;  and  in  1587,  Thady  OTerral  was 
Bishop  of  Clonfert.  Two  years  previously,  in  Per- 
rons Parliament,  the  sept  was  represented  by  the 
Captains  of  two  diverging  lines  ;  viz.  William,  son  of 
Donal,  son  of  Cormac  OTerrall ;  and  Fachtna,  son  of 
Bryan,  son  of  Roderic,  son  of  Cathal  OTerrall ;  yet 

♦  Ware's  Bishops,  p.  271.  f  Wem,  p.  254. 


CLIFFORD'S  DRAGOONS,  361 

both  their  territories  were  soon  after  included  in  the 
plantation  scheme  of  James  the  First,  and  an  enquiry 
was  directed  to  ascertain  the  extent  of  their  estates. 
This  measure  almost  wholly  cast  the  Sept  out  of  their 
old  territory  ;  and  in  1610,  by  the  marriage  of  Amy, 
daughter  of  Cormac  OTerral,  with  Captain  George 
Lane,  a  portion  passed  to  that  family,  the  grandson  of 
which  marriage  was  the  first  Viscount  Lanesborough. 
The  Attainders  of  1642  comprise  the  names  of  Ge- 
raid  0' '  Farrel,'  of  Kill,  Clerk ;  Dionysius  Ferrel,  of 
Kildrought,  County  of  Kildare  ;  and  Nicholas  Farrel 
of  Kill,  merchant.  Amongst  the  Confederate  Catho- 
lies  who  were  assembled  at  Kilkenny  in  1647, 
were  Donel  OTerrall  of  Enniscorthy,  Fergus  OTer- 
rall  of  Bleamclogher,  and  Francis  OTerrall  of 
Moate. Colonel  Richard  OTerrall  was  then  a  dis- 
tinguished oflScer  in  the  service  of  Owen  Roe  O'Neill. 
The  Declaration  of  Royal  gratitude,  for  services  be- 
yond the  seas,  includes  Captain  Gerald  Ferrall,  Ensign 
John  Ferrall,  Colonel  Lewis  OTerrall,  Sir  Connell 
Ferrall  of  Tirlickin,  County  of  Longford  (who  seems 
to  be  identical  with  the  above  Captain  Connell),  with 
Charles  Ferrall,  and  Francis  Ferrall  of  Momin  in  the 
same  County.  Besides  the  above  Captain  Connell 
Ferrall,  there  are  on  this  Army  List  Fergus  Farrell  a 
Captain  in  Colonel  Richard  Nugent's  Infantry,  and 
Gerald  Farrell  a  Lieutenant,  and  Fergus  Farrell  an 
Ensign  in  Colonel  Oliver  O'Gara's  (late  Colonel  Iriell 
Farrell's).  In  the  Parliament  of  1689,  Roger  and 
Robert  Ferrall  were  the  Representatives  of  the  County 
of  Longford,  as  was  another  Roger  Ferrall  one  of 


362  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMT  LIST. 

those  for  Lanesborough.  The  above  Captain  Connell 
(or  more  correctly,  it  wotdd  seem,  Sir  Connell  Ferrall) 
was  early  advanced  to  be  a  Lientenant-Colonel ;  and 
he,  as  Mackenzie  relates,  was  in  1688  ordered  out 
firom  Boyle,  with  the  Dartry  Irish  to  the  number  of 
four  or  five  hundred,  to  oppose  the  Enniskilleners. 
He  was  afterwards  killed  at  the  siege  of  Deny,  as 
was  also  a  Captain  Ferrall.* 

The  Attainders  of  1691  present  the  names  of  eight 
of  the  Sept  in  the  County  of  Longford,  and  one  in 
each  of  the  Counties  of  Westmeath,  Roscommon, 
Tyrone,  and  the  City  of  Dublin  ;  and  at  Chiches- 
ter House  many  claims  were  made  as  attaching  on 
the  Longford  estates  of  OTerralls ;  they  are,  however, 
too  numerous  to  detail  here.  On  the  10th  of  July, 
1703,  the  Duke  of  Marlbro' wrote  to  the  Duke  of 
Ormond,  in  regard  to  an  officer  of  this  name,  "  I  give 
your  Grace  this  trouble  at  the  request  of  my  old  ac- 
quaintance Brigadier  ^  Ofiarel ;'  though  &lling  now 
under  your  Grace's  government,  I  cannot  but  recom- 
mend him  to  your  protection  ;  and  pray  that  as  he 
may  have  occasion  to  apply  himself  to  your  Grace, 
you  will  please  to  aflFord  him  your  favourable  counte- 
nance, as  well  on  account  of  his  own  merit  as  for  the 
sake  of  your  Grace's,  &.  &c.  MARLBRO'.f  Diana, 
daughter  of  this  Brigadier,  married  Francb,  after- 
wards created  Earl  of  Effingham,  from  which  union 
this  noble  house  has  sprung. 

*  Mac  Kenzie's  Siege  of  Derry,  p.  17. 

t  Murray's  Marlborough  Despatches,  v.  1,  p.  136. 


CLIFFORD'S  DRAGOONS.  363 

The  notice  of  this  Sept  cannot  be  closed  without 
expressing  a  regret,  that  the  compiler  has  in  vain 
sought  the  free  inspection  of  a  *  Diary '  of  the  above 
Brigadier,  where  it  is  known  to  exist. 


CAPTAIN  HENRY  CROFTON. 

In  1606,  Edward  Crofton  had  a  grant  from  the  Crown 
of  several  rectories,  vicarages,  priories,  tithes, 
and  lands  in  the  Counties  of  Sligo  and  Roscommon. 
He  is  described  in  the  patent  as  Edward,  "  son  of 
John  Crofton  of  Connaught"  His  grandson  and 
namesake,  Edward  Crofton  of  Moate,  was  created  a 
Baronet,  and  married  Mary,  daughter  of  the  justly 
venerated  Sir  James  Ware.  The  above  Captain 
Henry  Crofton  was  SheriflF  of  the  County  of  Sligo  in 
1687,  and  one  of  its  Representatives  in  the  Parlia- 
ment of  1689.  He  was  attainted  in  1691,  and  from 
him  is  lineally  descended  the  present  Sir  Malby 
Crofton,  Baronet,  who  represents  the  elder  branch  of 
this  family  in  Ireland.  Another  Henry  Crofton  was 
Captain  in  the  Earl  of  Clanricarde's  Infantry,  and 
seems  to  have  been  the  Captain  Henry  adjudged 
within  -the  Articles  of  Limerick.  The  Attainders  of 
1691,  besides  this  Captain  Henry,  name  John  Crof- 
ton, described  as  of  Ruppagh,  County  of  Mayo. 


364  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  UST. 

CAPTAIN  TERENCE  COGHLAN. 

The  Sept  of  Mac  Coghlan  was  one  of  those  eligible  to 
the  dignity  of  Kings  of  Leinster,  and  at  a  very 
remote  period  was  possessed  of  Dealbhna  Eathra,  the 
present  Baitony  of  Garrycastle  in  the  King's  County. 
The  ruins'of  seven  castles  in  that  County  attest  their 
former  importance  there.  In  1134,  say  the  Four 
Masters,  died  Aodh  (Hugh),  grandson  of  Loughlin 
Mac  *Cochlan,'  Lord  of  Dealbhna  Eathra,  as  did 
Randall  Mac  Coghlan  the  Chief  in  1187,  and  Mur- 
rough  Mac  Coghlan  in  1199.  In  1213,  Melaghlin 
Mac  Coghlan,  *  Prince  of  Dealbhna,'  died  on  pilgrim- 
age  at  the  Abbey  of  Eolbeggan.  In  1386,  Conor 
Mac  Coghlan  died  the  Chief.  John  Mac  Coughlan 
was  Bishop  of  Clonmacnoise  in  1427.  In  1520,  died 
Turlough,  son  of  Phelim  Mac  Coghlan,  the  Lord  of 
Delvin,  by  whom  the  Castles  of  Feadan  and  Kincora 
were  erected. .  In  the  following  year  the  Masters 
record  a  *  dividing  of  Delvin,  by  the  authority  of  Mel- 
aghlin and  O'CarroU,  between  Ferdoragh,  the  son  of 
the  last  Mac  Coghlan,  and  his  relative  Cormac  ;'  and, 
on  the  death  of  this  Ferdoragh  in  1535,  *  Phelim,  son 
of  Meyler  Mac  Coghlan,  took  his  place.'  Cormac,  the 
tanist  of  a  moiety,  died  in  the  preceding  year,  and  in 
his  line  the  Chieftaincy  appears  to  have  been  recog- 
nbed;  at  least,  on  the  convening  oif  the  Irish  Septs 
in  Perrot's  Parliament,  this  was  represented  by  John, 
son  of  Art,  son  of  Cormac  Mac  Coghlan.  In  Decem- 
ber, 1641,  the  Marquis  of  Clanricarde  accused  the 


CLIFFORD'S  DRAGOONS.  365 

O'Mulloys,  Coghlans,  Geoghegans,  &c.,  of  passing  out 
of  the  King's  County  and  prejdng  over  that  of 
Galway.  In  the  following  year,  however,  he  made 
especial  mention  of  Terence  Coghlan,  then  proprietor 
of  Kilcolgan  in  the  fonner  County,  as  *  a  person  of 
great  worth  and  ability,' — '  whom  himself  confidenti- 
ally employed  ;' *  a  gentleman  of  very  good  parts 

and  ability,  and  of  a  disposition  and  integrity  suit- 
able thereto.'  The  Outlawries  of  1642  include  John 
Coghlan  of  Wicklow,  Dennod  Mac-Teigue  Coghlan  of 
Long  Island,  County  of  Cork  ;  and  Donough  Mac- 
Teigue  O'Coghlan  of  do.  In  the  Assembly  of  Confed- 
erate Catholics  (1647),  the  Reverend  Charles  Cogh- 
lan was  an  active  member ;  he  was  Vicar-General  of 
the  Diocese  of  Leighlin  ;  while  John  and  Terence 
Coghlan  were  of  the  Commons  in  that  meeting.  The 
latter  individual  appears  identical  with  this  Captain, 
who  also  sat  in  the  Parliament  of  1689  as  Represent- 
ative for  the  Borough  of  Banagher.  The  Royal 
Declaration  of  gratitude,  embodied  in  the  Act  of  Set- 
tlement for  *  services  beyond  the  seas,'  includes  Lieu- 
tenants Simon  Coghlan  and  Francis  Coghlan  of  Bel- 
clare  ;  while  the  Act  of  Explanation,  three  years 
afterwards,  restored  the  latter,  described  as  Francis 
Coghlan  of  Kilcolgan,  King^s  County,  to  his  family 
mansion  and  2,000  acres,  with  a  saving  for  Dame 
Mary,  widow  of  the  above  Terence,  in  lieu  of  her 
jointure. 

On  this  Army  list,  besides  Captain  Terence,  John 
*  Mc  Coghlan '  was  a    Captain    in  Lord    Galway's 


366  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Infantry,  and  Cornelius  Coghlan  a  Lieutenant.  In 
Colonel   Heward   Oxburgh's,   John   Coghlan   was  a 

Captain,  and  Edmund  Coghlan  an   Ensign. In 

King  James's  Parliament,  Captain  Terence  and  ano- 
ther Terence  Coghlan,  probably  his  son,  represented 
Banagher  ;  and  Joseph  Coghlan  was  one  of  the  Mem- 
bers for  Trinity  College,  Dublin  ;  but,  according  to  Dr. 
King,  this  latter  having  been  a  Protestant,  would  not 
sit  out  the  Acts  of  Attainder  there  passed.  The 
Attainders  of  1691  include  Captain  Terence  Coghlan, 
four  others  of  the  County  of  Cork,  two  of  the  King's 
County,  one  of  the  Queen's  County,  and  one  olf 
Limerick.  Sundry  claims  were  made  at  Chichester 
House  as  affecting  their  confiscations,  and  some  were 
allowed. 

In  1704,  a  private  Act  was  passed  to  prevent  the 
disinheriting  of  Captain  Garret  Coghlan,  and  another 
in  1706  for  the  relief  of  Captain  James  Coghlan  and 
Felix  Coghlan,  the  surviving  Protestant  sons  of  John 
Coghlan,  Esq.,  they  having  petitioned  for  such  relief 
in  regard  to  some  defects  in  the  Act  of  1704.  In 
1746,  Quarter-Master  Coghlan  was  one  of  the  prison- 
ers taken  on  board  the  Bourbon  by  Commodore 
Knowles.* 

It  is  said  that  the  last  Representative  of  note  of 
this  ancient  family  was  Thomas  Mac  Coghlan,  who  was 
on§  of  the  Members  for  Banagher  in  the  Irish  Parlia- 
ment, and  died  in  1790.  In  the  year  1828,  however, 
died  in  London  Lieutenant-Colonel  Edmond  Cogh- 
lan, who  had  been  Governor  of  Chester ;  and  his 

♦  Gent.  Mag.  vol.  16,  p.  145. 


CLIFFORD'S  DRAGOONS.  367 

obituary  states  him  to  have  been  second  son  of  the 
late  Mr.  James  Coghlan  of  Cloghan  in  the  King's 
County,  by  Miss  Hearne  of  Hearnesbrook,  County  of 
Galway.  The  notice  adds  that  a  remnant  of  about 
£7,000  per  ann.  of  the  family  property  is  now  vested 
in  the  Honorable  Frederic  Ponsonby,  to  whom  it 
came  in  the  maternal  line  of  inheritance.  This  Officer, 
(Lieutenant-Colonel  Edmund)  was  buried  in  St. 
James's  Church,  his  only  son  and  his  brother  Colonel 
Andrew  Coghlan  being  the  chief  mourners,  and  a 
number  of  the  Members  of  the  United  Service  Club 
attending  the  obsequies.  In  six  years  after,  died  at 
Brighton  Lieutenant-General  Roger  jDoghlan,  who 
commenced  his  career  in  the  Connaught  Rangers  in 
1779 ;  he  accompanied  that  Regiment  to  Jamaica,  and 
was  afterwards  in  the  60th  at  Nova  Scotia ;  then  in  the 
66th,  in  the  134th,  and  the  82nd  ;  on  which  last  oc- 
casion he  obtained  the  rank  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  in 
1796,  and  in  1819  the  brevet  of  Lieutenant-Colonel. 


CAPTAIN  MILES  D'ALTON. 

The  tradition  of  the  introduction  of  this  family  from 
France  to  Ireland,  as  preserved  in  the  Office  of  Arms, 
records  Walter  D'Alton  to  have  been  its  founder ; 
that  he  secretly  married  a  daughter  of  Louis,  King  of 
France,  and,  having  thereby  incurred  this  Monarch's 
displeasure,  fled  to  England,  whence  he  passed  with 
Henry  the  Second  on  the  invasion  of  Ireland.      He 


368  RING  James's  iRisn  army  list. 

early  acquired  possessions  in  the  Western  portion  of 
Meath,  where  he  and  liis  descendants  founded  religi- 
ous houses  and  erected  castles. 

In  1328,  the  English  forces,  including  the  D'Altons 
(who  from  the  time  of  their  settling  in  Western  Meath 
were  the  chief  bidwark  of  the  Pale  in  that  direction), 
sustained  a  dreadful  defeat  near  Mullingar  ;  when, 
according  to  the  Four  Masters,  3,500  of  their  army, 
'together  with  the  D'Altons,'  were  slain.  At  the 
siege  of  Calais  in  1346,  under  the  gallant  English 
King,  Robert  D'Alton  was  one  of  his  Knights ;  while 
in  the  Parliament  of  Westminster,  in  1376,  William 
D'Alton  sat  as  one  of  the  Representatives  of  the 
County  of  Cork.*  The  district,  however,  where  the 
name  was  first  planted,  witnessed  its  extension  so 
widely,  that,  when  in  the  time  of  Henry  the  Eighth, 
(1545)  the  western  portion  of  Meath  was  separated 
and  erected  into  a  distinct  County  by  the  title  of 
Westmeath,  a  very  large  tract  especially  described  as 
*  the  D'Alton's  Country  '  was,  with  that  alias,  consti- 
tuted the  Barony  of  Rathconrath. .  The  D'Alton  had 
previously  ranked  as  a  Palatine  Baron  thereof^  under 
an  early  grant  of  that  dignity  from  Hugh  De  Lacy ; 
and  he  and  his  descendants  adopted  the  fieur^e4i8 
on  *  their '  armorials,  as  in  right  of  the  daughter  of 
Louis.  Throughout  the  centuries  of  this  their  resi- 
dence in  Ireland,  they  supported  their  rank  and  influ- 
ence by  alliances  not  only  with  the  noble  native 
families,  but  likewise  with  the  most  illustrious  of 
Anglo-Norman  descent ;  while  in  the  progress  of  time 

*  Leland's  Ireland,  y.  1,  p.  89^   2>%^* 


CLIFFORD'S  DRAGOONS.  369 

members  of  the  House  branched  into  the  Counties  of 
Kilkenny,  Waterford,  and  Tipperary. 

A  Funeral  Entry  in  the  Office  of  Arms,  Dublin, 
records  the  death  in  July,  1 636,  of  John  D'Alton  of 
Dundonell,  County  of  Westmeath,  son  and  heir  of 
Hubert  D'Alton,  eldest  son  of  Henry  D' Alton,  eldest 
son  of  Edmund,  eldest  son  of  Henry,  eldest  son  of 
John,  (all  of  Dundonell)  eldest  son  of  Pierce  D'Alton 
of  Ballymore  in  said  County,  whose  death,  as  son  of 
an  elder  Pierce,  is  attributed  to  the  plague  of  1467. 
The  first  named  John  had  married  Elinor,  daughter 
of  Gerald  Dillon  of  Portlick  in  said  County,  by-whom 
he  had  five  sons ;  1st.  Garret,  married  to  Margaret 
Plunket  of  Loughcrew,  County  of  Meath  ;  2nd.  Rich- 
ard ;  3rd.  Robert ;  4th.  James  ;*  5th.  Thomas,  un- 
married. Said  John,  the  defunct,  was  buried  in 
Churchtown.  None  of  this  name  appear  on  the  Out- 
lawries of  1642,  but  many  fell  in  the  contests  that 
immediately  preceded,  and  estates  were  then  forfeited 
in  Westmeath  by  Oliver,  Nicholas,  Richard,  Garret, 
Henry,  Edmund,  John,  GeoflSry,  Walter,  Theobald, 
and  James  Dalton,  respectively.  In  1662,  Lieute- 
nant Alexander  D'Alton  received  the  Royal  thanks  in 
the  Act  of  Settlement. 

Besides  this  Myles,  there  are  on  the  Army   List 

*  It  may  be  permitted  to  remark  that  this  James,  the  fourth 
son  of  John  D'Alton  of  DundoneU,  married  Mary  or  Margaret 
Purdon,  and  was  the  great  grandfather  of  the  compiler  of  the 
present  volume.  This  single  entry  therefore  suggests  a  retro- 
spective pedigpree  of  eleven  generations  for  one,  who  is  now  the 
on/y  D'Alton  inheriting  a  fee-simple  estate  in  the  old  barony. 

BB 


370  KL\G  JAMES'S  IRISH  AR3IY  LIST. 

Walter  D'Alton,  (who  appears  to  have  been  of  the 
family  of  Kildallon)  a  Lieutenant  in  the  Royal  Re- 
giment of  Infantry.  In  Colonel  Henry  Dillon's,  t^vo 
John  D'Altons  were  Captains,  Richard  a  Lieutenant, 
and  a  third  John  an  Ensign.  In  Colonel  John 
Grace's,  Walter  '  Daton '  and  John  D' Alton  were 
Lieutenants  ;  and  in  Sir  Michael  Creagh's,  Richard 
D'Alton  wjis  a  Captain.  One  of  these  Officers,  a 
Capttiin  D'Alton,  was  taken  prisoner  at  the  siege  of 
Athlone.*  The  Attainders  of  1691  include  the  above 
Captain  Myles  '  of  Grangebeg,  County  of  Westmeath,' 
with  seventeen  othere  of  the  name  in  Westmeath, 
three  in  Wexford,  three  in  Kilkeimy,  and  one  in 
Dublin.  Of  these  outlaws,  Christopher  D'Alton  of 
Miltown,  Major  John  D'Alton  of  Doneele,  and 
William  his  son,  with  Edward  D'Alton'  of  Cleg, 
County  of  Wexford,  were  adjudged  within  the 
Articles.  At  the  Court  of  Claims,  James  D'Alton,  then 
a  minor,  by  Walter  Delamer,  his  guardian,  claimed  an 
estate  in  fee  in  lands  forfeited  by  Garret  D'Alton. 
Elizabeth  D'Alton,  widow,  claimed  dower  off  Doneele, 
forfeited  by  Major  John  D'Alton  ;  Richard  and  Mary 
D'Alton,  minors,  by  Bryan  Kelly  their  prochain  ami^ 
claimed  a  mortgage  affecting  County  of  Roscommon 
estates,  (including  Lough-Glynn,  &c.,)  of  Richard 
D'Alton ;  John  Adams  claimed  an  estate  in  fee  in  the 

lands  of  Irishtown  and  Raheenquin  forfeited  by 

D'Alton  ;  but  his  jxitition  was  disallowed. 

In    1725,  Thomas   D'Alton  was  appointed   Chief 
Baron  of  the  Irish  Exchequer,   in  five  years  after 

*  Story's  Impartial  History,  part  2,   p.  108. 


gliffobd'8  dragoons.  371 

which  he  died.  Captain  *  Daton'  was  one  of  those  in 
Rothe's  Regiment  wounded  in  1 747,  at  the  battle  of 
LauflBield,  near  Maestricht.  Other  members  of  the 
family  were  distinguished  in  the  services  of  foreign 
states,  and  created  Counts  of  the  Holy  Roman  Em- 
pire ;  as  Count  Richard  D'Alton,  the  too  memorable 
agent  of  the  Emperor  Joseph  in  the  oppressions  of 
Brabant ;  and  Major-General  James  D'Alton,  Gover- 
nor of  Gratz,  from  which  he  removed  to  Brussels. 
Christopher  D' Alton  of  Grenanstown  was  Chamber- 
lain and  Colonel  of  the  Guards  to  His  Electoral  High- 
ness of  Saxony,  and  died  at  Richmond  near  Dublin, 
in  1793.*  Edward  D'Alton  brother  of  said  Chris- 
topher, was  Chamberlain  and  Major-General  in  the 
service  of  the  Emperor  of  Austria.  He  was  killed  in 
the  trenches  at  Dunkirk,  when  in  1793  that  town 
was  besieged  by  the  Duke  of  York. 


CAPTAIN  SIMON  WYER. 

He  was  attainted  in  1691,  as  of  Lea,  Queen's 
County ;  James  Wyer  of  Kilbeggan  was  then  also 
outlawed. 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  MACKEWY. 

Tffls  name  does  not  otherwise  occur  in  the  Army 
List,  or  at  all  on  the  Attainders. 

Hib.  V.  2,  p.  820. 

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372  KING  James's  irisu  army  list. 


LIEUTENANT  THOMAS  BURTON. 

Neither  is  this  name  re|)eated  on  the  Army  List,  nor 
is  it  at  all  on  the  Attainders.  Robert  Burton  was 
Constable  of  Castle  Mac-Kinnegan,  County  of  Wick- 
low,  in  1309  ;  soon  after  which  William  de  Burton 
was  one  of  the  Remembrancers  of  the  Irish  Exchequer. 

A  Lieutenant-Colonel  '  Burston  '  was  the  Irish 

Engineer  when  Bally  more  was  besieged  by  de  Ginckle; 
and  on  his  death,  he  having  been  slain  in  the  defence, 
the  garrison  surren<lered  at  discretion.* 


QUARTER-MASTER  DANIEL  GRIFFIN. 

A  NATIVE  Sept  of  the  O'Griffin  is  traceable  in  the  An- 
nals  of  Ireland,  while  it  would  appear  that  the  same 
name,  without  the  Milesian  prefix,  came  early  from 
Pembrokeshire  into  this  country. 

In  1199,  Daniel  O'Griffin  died  Abbot  of  the  Abbey 
of  Canons  Regular  of  Roscommon.  Matthew  Fitz- 
Griffin  was  summoned  hence  in  1220  to  the  war  in 
Britanny,  and  in  1257,  say  the  Four  Masters,  Mac 
GriflBin,  an  illustrious  Knight,  was  taken  prisoner  by 
O'Donnell's  people.  In  1375,  O'Molroney  O'Griffin, 
having  made  his  submission  to  the  English  govern- 
ment as  Captain  of  his  Sept,  he  and  his  three  brothers 
obtained  liberty  to  use  the  English  law  ;  about  which 
time  Matthew    'Mac  Griffin'  founded  a  Priory  for 

♦  O'Callaghans  Excid.  Mac.  p.  419. 


CLIFFORD'S  DRAGOONS.  373 

Canons  Regular  of  St.  Augustine  at  Tullylesk  in  the 
County  of  Cork,  which  was  afterwards  united  to  that 
of  Kells  (Kenlis)  in  the  County  of  Kilkenny.*  In 
1398,  John  GriflSn  was  appointed  Bishop  of  Ossory, 
as  was  Michael  Griffin  to  be  Chief  Baron  of  the  Irish 
Exchequer  in  1446.  In  1601,  DermodO"Griffien'  was 
one  of  the  Irish  who  fled  to  Spain  after  the  result  of 
the  Munster  war.f  In  1643,  Walter  Griffin,  de- 
cribed  as  of  Hacketstown,  County  of  Wicklow,  was 

attainted. The  name  of  this  Quarter-Master  does 

not  appear  upon  the  Attainders  of  1691,  but  only 
Murtogh  Griffin,  described  as  'of  Dublin,'  and  George 
and  Thomas  Griffin  of  Knocksymon,  County  of  West- 
meath  ;  while  in  Ulster,  Hugo  '  O'Gribbin'  of  Killeg- 
neen,  Henry  O'Gribbin  of  Glenbuck,  and  Richard 
O'Gribbin  of  Clogher,  all  in  the  County  of  Antrim, 
were  outlawed. 

A  Lord  Griffin,  it  may  be  here  observed,  followed 
the  fortunes  of  James  the  Second  through  all  his 
wanderings  ;  and  at  the  time  of  the  Revolution  main- 
tained personal  fidelity  to  the  unfortunate  Exile. 
"He  had  been  Lieutenant-General  of  that  Regiment 
of  his  Guards,  which  bore  the  name  of  the  Coldstream. 
Coming  over  from  France  in  the  Pretender's  interest, 
he  was  captured  in  the  Salisbury  by  Sir  George 
Byng  in  1708,  and  was  tried  and  condemned  to  be 
beheaded ;  but  Queen  Anne,  well  knowing  the  ad 
herence  of  the  old  Jacobite  to  her  father,  could  not 

•  ArchdaU's  Mon.  Hib.  p.  80. 
t  Pacata  Hibcrnia.  p.  426. 


374 


KING  James's  irish  army  list. 


be  prevailed  upon  to  sign  the  death-warrant,  and  he 
was  thus  regularly  respited  every  month,  until  his 
death  in  the  Tower  in  1710.'^ 


REGIMENTS   OF    DRAGOONS. 

COLONEL  FRANCIS  CARROLL'S,  FORMERLY  COLONEL  THOMAS 
TRANT'S,  formerly  sir  JAMES  COTTER'S. 


Captains. 

Comets. 

Quarter-Matlien. 

The  Colonel. 

Piers  Power. 

Arthur  Hide. 

Richard  Bany. 

Stephen  Galway. 

James  Connell. 

David  MoakelL 

Lieut.  Colonel. 

Terence  Carroll, 

Major. 

John  Taylor. 

John  Kirwan. 

Dominick  Lynch. 

Stephen  Lawless. 

Edward  Rice. 

John  Lacy. 

WiUiam  Bourke. 

Kenedy  Me  Kenedy. 

Peter  Lavallen. 

Matthew  Lavallen. 

Patrick  Stanton. 

Patrick  Stanton. 

Arthur  Galway. 

Nicholas  Barry. 

William  Collins. 

John  Fennell. 

Sir  Thomas  Croeby.  Thomaa  Lycett. 

John  Winnetta. 

Charles  Geoghegan. 

Robert  Qoold. 

Edward  ShewelL 

John  Barry. 

George  Moore. 

Teigue  O'Lyne. 

Dermot  Donworth. 

Jasper  Grant. 

James  Barry. 

Henry  Wilse. 

Wniiam  Baker. 

Henry  Coppinger. 

James  Coppinger. 

John  Fitzgerald. 

Thomas  Dynneen. 

COLONEL  FRANCIS  CARROLL. 

The  Officers  who  commanded  this  Regiment  previous 
to  Colonel  Carroll  were,  Colonel  Thomas  Trant,  of 

*  Miss  .Strickland'^  Queens  of  England,  v.  12,  p.  21-1. 


CARROLL'S  DRAGOONS.  375 

whom  hereafter  ;  and  Colonel  Sir  James  Cotter,  the 
lineal  ancestor  of  Sir  James  Laurence  Cotter  of  Rock- 
forest,  County  of  Cork,  Baronet. 

The  chief  notices  of  this  ancient  Irish  Sept  have 
been  collected  at  '  Captain  James  Carroll,'  of  Lord 
Dongan's  Dragoons.  It  but  remains  to  observe, 
that  the  Colonel  here  brought  forward  was  previous- 
ly Lieutenant-Colonel  of  that  Lord's  Dragoons.  In 
the  Lansdowne  Manuscripts  in  the  British  Museum, 
are  some  papers  which  appear  to  have  been  rough 
drafts  of  King  James's  correspondence  with  the  Irish 
Executive  before  the  Revolution,  and  which  the  Rev. 
Mr.  Rowan  of  Belmont,  County  of  Kerry,  conjectures 
to  have  been  Sunderland's  papers.  One  of  these, 
(without  date)  directed  to  the  Lords  Justices,  the 
Right  Reverend  Father,  &c.  &c.  runs  thus : — "Where- 
as we  thought  fit  by  our  instructions  to  you,  bearing 
date  the  27th  of  March  last,  to  direct  you  to  cause 
the  oaths  of  allegiance  and  supremacy  to  be  adminis- 
tered to  all  oflBicers  and  soldiers  of  our  army  there, 
and  to  all  Governors  of  Towns,  Forts,  Castles ;  and  to 
cashier  and  dismiss  our  service  such  of  them  as  shall 
reftise  the  said  oaths  or  either  of  them  ;  and  whereas 
we  have  been  pleased  to  withhold  Richard  Talbot, 
Colonel  of  a  Regiment  of  Horse  ;  Col.  Justin  Macar- 
tie,  Colonel  of  a  Regiment  of  Foot ;  Rene  Carney  and 
Dominick  Sheldon,  Captains  to  the  Duke  of  Ormonde; 
Anthony  Hamilton,  Lieutenant-Colonel  to  Sir  Thomas 
Newcomen's  Regiment  of  Foot ;  William  Dorrington, 
M^jor  to  Colonel  Fairfax  ;    Patrick  Lawless,  Major 


376  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

to  Colonel  Macartie  ;  *  and  Francis  Carroll^  Captain 
to  said  Colonel's  Company  ;  all  in  our  army,  to  dis- 
pense as  we  do  hereby  disjiense  accordingly  with  their 
taking  the  said  oaths  or  either  of  them  :  our  will  and 
pleasure  is,  and  we  do  by  these  presents  charge  and 
require  you  to  give  effectual  orders  from  time  to  time 
for  mustering  the  said  officers,  notwithstanding  their 
not  having  taken  the  said  oaths  or  either  of  them." 
"On  thellth  of  April,  1691,"  says  Story,  ",ColonelMac 
Fineen's,  Colonel  Mac  Carty's,  and  two  morejRegiments, 
making  in  all  about  1,500  men,  commanded  by  Brig- 
adier Carroll,  came  to  Iniskean  with  a  design  to  have 
that  place  and  some  other  small  garrisons  near  it,  as 
steps  to  further  advance  upon  our  frontiers  ;"f  but 
the  assailants  were  driven  off  by  Colonel  Ogleby.  In 
the  following  month.  Brigadier  Francis  Carroll  was 
stationed  at  Ross,  and  acting  as  Governor*  and  Com- 
mander-in-Chief of  His  Majesty's  army  in  the  Counties 
of  Kerry  and  Cork.  (See  post^  at  Colonel  *  Daniel 
O'Donovan.') A  Colonel  Carroll  was  taken  pri- 
soner at  Aughrim,  while,  in  the  August  following, 
after  De  Ginkle  with  his  army  had  passed  the  Shan- 
non, Anthony  Carroll,  (surnamed  Fada^  the  tall),  a 
gentleman  of  Tipperary  who  possessed  much  influence 
vrith  the  Rapparees,  and  who  could,  according  to 
Story,  bring  together  to  the  number  of  at  least  2,000 
men,  was  Governor  of  Nenagh,  a  position  which  he 
continued  to  hold  during  the  autumn  and  vrinter  of 

♦  See  his  death  in  168G,  ante^  p.  205. 
t  Story's  Impartial  History,  pt.  2,  p.  65. 


cakboll's  dragoons.  377 

1690,  and  the  spring  and  summer  of  1691,  making 
frequent  hostile  excursions  through  the  County.  On 
the  2nd  of  August  in  that  year  he  set  fire  to  the 
town,  in  opposition  to  the  movements  of  Brigadier 
Levison,  who  was  making  with  his  party  to  Limerick; 
but  the  fire  was  soon  put  out  by  some  prisoners  of  the 
Williamites  who  were  in  the  town.  The  Diary  here 
cited,*  adds  that  "  Brigadier  Levison  with  his  Horse 
and  Dragoons  pursued  Carroll  and  his  party  so  closely 
and  so  far,  that  within  four  miles  of  Limerick  he  took 
all  their  baggage  ;  amongst  which  were  two  rich 
coats  of  long  Anthony  Carroll's,  one  valued  at  eighty 
pounds,  the  other  at  forty  guineas,  and  about  forty 
pistoles  in  gold  ;  as  also  450  head  of  black  cattle  and 
some  sheep,  which  the  enemy's  sudden  flight  would 
not  suffer  them  to  carry  off." 

Amongst  those  attainted  in  1691  were  Eugene 
Carroll,  Queen's  County  ;  the  above  Francis  Carroll, 
styled  of  Dublin  ;  Keene  Carroll  of  Aughgurty,  King's 
County ;  John  Mulroney  Carroll,  of  Do.  John  Carroll 
of  Cappoquin  (he  is  buried  in  the  churchyard  of  Dun- 
kerron,  near  Roscrea);  Patrick  Carroll  of  Aherna, 
County  of  Wicklow  ;  and  John  Carroll  of  Ballindoon, 
County  of  Sligo. 

This  Colonel  Franois  was,  on  the  formation  of  the 
Irish  Brigades  in  France,  constituted  Colonel  of  the 
*  Queen's  Dismounted  Dragoons,'  at  the  head  of 
which  he  fell  in  the  battle  of  Marsaglia  in  Italy,  in 
October,  1693.t 

♦  Harleian  MSS.  vol.  7,  p.  480. 

t  O'Callaghan's  Brigades,  vol.  1,  p.  81. 


378  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 


LIEUTENANT-COLONEL 


After  this  List  was  drawn  up,  Thomas  Carroll  was 
appointed  first  Lieutenant-Colonel  and  Francis  Bois- 
meral,  second. 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  TAYLOR. 

The  escallops  in  the  armorials  of  this  family  afford 
heraldic  evidence  of  their  achievements  in  the  Holy 
Land.  Tliey  passed  at  a  very  early  period  from  France 
into  England,  where  they  are  traced  in  the  records  of 
the  Southern  and  Midland  Counties.  In  the  reign  of 
Henry  the  Third,  Edward  Taylor  of  Beverley  in 
Yorkshire  was  Chief  Falconer  to  liis  Sovereign,  and 
his  second  son,  Nicholas,  having  passed  into  Ireland 
in  1273,  became  the  founder  of  the  Taylors  of 
Swords.  The  lineal  descendant  and  heir  male,  Alex- 
ander Taylor,  by  his  marriage  with  Agnes,  daughter 
of  William  Swinnock,  acquired  the  inheritance  of 
Swords,  and  built  a  mansion  house  within  that  town. 
His  descendant  Richard  Taylor  was  in  1543  joined 
in  a  Commission,  to  try  and  decide  what  temporal 
and  spiritual  possessions  within  the  County  of  Dublin 
became  vested  in  the  Crown  by  the  dissolution  of 
monasteries.  George  Taylor  of  this  line  was  after- 
wards Recorder  of  Dublin,  its  Rcpresentiitivc  in  Sir 
John  Perrot's  Parliament  of  1585,  and  its  Sheriff  in 
1586. 


Carroll's  dragoons.  '        379 

In  the  Parliament  of  1639,  John,  heir  of  Michael 
Taylor  of  Swords,  was  Member  for  that  Borough.  He 
married  Mary,  daughter  of  John  Fagan  of  Feltrim,  by 
whom  he  had  John  Taylor  his  heir,  whose  privations 
and  sufferings  in  resisting  a  transplantation  into 
Connaught  up  to  the  time  of  the  Restoration,  when 
he  obtained  a  decree  confirmatory  of  his  old  estate  at 
Swords,  are  fiilly  detailed  in  a  Manuscript  preserved 
by  the  family.  He  died  in  1680,  and  the  above 
Captain  John  was  his  second  son,  but  became  his  heir 
on  the  death  of  his  elder  brother  Michael,  in  1684, 
without  issue.  He  was  one  of  the  Burgesses  in  the 
new  Charter  granted  by  King  James  to  his  town,  and 

married  jirst^   Alice,   daughter  of Browne  of 

Clongowes  Wood,  (by  whom  he  had  one  daughter)  ; 
and  second^  Helen,  daughter  of  Richard  Fagan  of 
Feltrim,  by  whom  he  had,  with  several  other  children, 
John  his  heir,  whose  grandson,  James  Joseph  Taylor, 
now  represents  this  ancient  family  in  the  seventeenth 
generation  from  the  falconer  of  Beverley.  His 
sister,  Jane-Elizabeth,  who  married  Josiah  Forster, 
formerly  of  St.  Croix  in  the  West  Indies,  died  a  few 
years  since,  leaving  James  Fitz-Eustace  Forster  their 
only  issue.*  This  name  of  Fitz-Eustace  was  intro- 
duced into  the  family  through  the  grandmother  of 

Mrs.  Forster,  Anne  Fitz-Eustace,  daughter  of 

Fitz-Eustace,  of  Cradockstown,  County  of  Kildare,  by 
a  daughter  of  Patrick  Sutton  of  Morristown-Lattin  in 
the  same  County.     John,  Thomas  and  Robert  Taylor, 

♦  D'Altons  ffistory  of  the  County  of  Dublin,  p.  295,  &c. 


380  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

all  of  Swords,  were  attainted  in  1642  ;  the  above 
Captain  John  was  the  only  one  of  this  name  outlawed 
in  1691. 


CAPTAIN  PETER  LEVALLIN. 

Besides  this  Captain  Peter,  Patrick  *  Lavallin '  was 
an  Ensign  in  Lord  Mountcashel's  Infantry.  In  the 
Attainders  of  1691  the  former  was  described  as  of 
Waterstown,  County  of  Cork  ;  the  latter  of  Rohara, 
in  said  County ;  where  were  then  also  outlawed 
Matthew  Levallin  of  Great  Island  ;  Thomas  Levallin 
of  Moyallow  and  of  Cork,  merchant ;  and  Janette 
Levallin  of  Dublin,  spinster.  At  the  Court  of 
Claims,  James  Levallin  claimed  a  remainder  in  special 
tail  male,  expectant  on  the  death  of  Melchior  Levallin 
his  father,  in  County  of  Cork  lands  forfeited  by  the 
above  Peter  Levallin  and  Jane  his  wife  ;  while  Mel- 
chior himself  at  the  same  time  claimed  an  estate  tail 
in  part,  and  an  estate  for  life  in  the  remainder  of 
said  lands. Digby  Foulke  claimed  and  was  al- 
lowed an  interest  in  Cork  lands  forfeited  by  Jane 
Levallin,  daughter  of  Patrick  '  Lavallin,'  as  did  the 
aforesaid  Melchior  a  mortgage  affecting  said  last 
mentioned  forfeitures,  with  similar  adjudication  in  his 
favour. 


CARROLL'S  DRAGOONS.  381 


CAPTAIN  ARTHUR  GALWAY. 

From  a  period  early  in  the  fourteenth  century  this 
name  is  found  on  the  records  of  the  Counties  of 
Waterford  and  Cork.      In  1229,  Alan  de  '  Galweye/ 

and Galwaye  had  military  summons  directed  to 

them   for  services   in   the  war  in  Britanny. In 

1605,  the  King  granted  to  Dominick  Sarsfield  the 
wardship  of  Walter  Galway,  son  and  heir  of  John 
Galway,  late  of  Cork,  deceased,  for  the  yearly  sum  of 
£5  9s.  8d.  Irish,  and  the  payment  of  all  rents  and 
other  rights  due  to  the  Crown,  the  said  Dominick  re- 
taining thereout  the  usual  allowances  for  maintenance 
and  education  of  the  minor.  A  funeral  entry  of 
1636,  in  the  Ulster  Office  of  Arms,  records  the  death 
in  March  of  this  year  at  Kinsale  of  Sir  Jefl&^y 
Galway,  a  Limerick  Baronet,  eldest  son  of  Alderman 
James  Galway  of  Limerick,  eldest  son  of  Jeffrey 
Galway  of  Kinsale  ;  where  he  was  interred  in  the 
monument  of  his  ancestors.  Of  this  first  named  Sir 
Jeffrey,  it  is  said  in  the  Pacata  Hibemia*  that  "  he 
had  spent  many  years  in  England  in  studying  the 
common  laws,  and,  returning  into  Ireland  about  the 
year  1597,  did  so  pervert  the  City  of  Limerick  of 
which  he  was  one  time  Mayor,  that  by  his  malicious 
counsel  and  'perjurious'  example  he  withdrew  the 
Mayor,  Aldermen,  and  generally  the  whole  City  from 
coming  to  the  Church,  which  before  they  had  some- 

♦  P.  196,  &c.  Christie's  edition. 


382  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

times  frequented."  The  |  same  work  alleges  instances 
of  his  contumacy  and  disobedience  to  military  power. 
The  Attainders  of  1642  present  the  names  of  a  Sir 
Jeflfrey  Galway,  Baronet,  described  as  of  Typananbeg  ; 
with  those  of  John  Fitz-Christopher  Galway  and 
William  David  Galway  of  Blarney^  County  of  Cork. 

On  the  present  Army  List,  Walter  Galway  appears, 
also  a  Captain,  in  Lord  Kilmallock's  Infantry.  In 
the  Parliament  of  1689,  John  Galway  sat  as  one  of 
the  Representatives  of  the  City  of  Cork.  Of  those  at- 
tainted in  1691  were  the  above  Captain  Arthur 
Galway,  described  as  of  Ballycoghane,  County  of 
Cork  ;  with  ten  others  of  the  name  in  that  County. 
The  estates  of  this  Arthur  Galway  in  the  City  of 
Cork  were  sold  by  the  Trustees  of  the  Forfeitures  to 
Daniel  Gibbs,  and  Edward  Bennett  of  Cork,  mer- 
chant, and  another  portion  to  George  Baghtye  of 
Cork,  cutler ;  as  were  other  his  estates  in  the 
Liberties  of  Cork  to  Edward  Webber,  William  Wake- 
ham  of  Barry's  Court,  Abraham  Dixon,  and  Humph- 
rey Sheaves  of  Cork  severally  ;  as  also  to  the  Hollow 
Swords'  Blades  Company  and  to  Thomas  Hodder  of 
Ballyea.  The  estates  of  the  other  oflScer,  Walter 
Galway,  in  West  Carbury,  County  of  Cork,  were  then 
sold  to  Hugh  Hutchinson  of  Black  Rock  in  said 
County. 


Carroll's  dragoons.        383 

* 

CAPTAIN  SIR  THOMAS  CROSBY. 

John  Crosby  succeeded  to  the  Sees  of  Ardfert  and 
Aghadoe,  by  the  Queen's  provision,  in  1600.  Of  those 
attainted  in  1642  were  Sir  John  Crosby  of  Waters- 
town,  County  of  Kildare,  and  Walter  Crosby  of  Gort- 
maskohe.  This  Sir  John  was  the  grandson  of  Patrick 
Crosby,  to  whom  Queen  Elizabeth  granted  a  noble 
estate  in  the  Queen  s  County,  in  reward  for  his  ser- 
vices towards  '  exterminating '  the  O'Mores  of  Leix. 
Part  of  the  lands  thereby  granted,  viz.  Ballyfin,  the 
demesne  of  the  Chief  of  that  Sept,  was,  on  Sir  John's 
confiscation,  granted  to  Periam  Pole,  brother  of  Sir 
John  Pole  of  Shute  in  Devonshire.  The  above 
Captain  Sir  Thomas  is  described  in  the  Inquisition  of 
his  Attainder,  as  "  of  Tralee,  Knight."  In  the  Parlia- 
ment of  1689  he  sat  as  one  of  the  Representatives  of 

the  County  of  Kerry. Those  attainted  with  him 

were  David  Crosby  of  Ardfert,  and  Maurice  Crosby 
of  Knockmar,  Queen's  County. 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  .WINNETTS. 

This  name  does  not  appear  again  in  the  Army  List, 
nor  at  all  on  the  Attainders. 


384  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  BARRY. 

This  illustrious  name  occurs  in  the  earliest  records  of 
Ireland,  and  in  especial  association  with  the  County 
of  Cork,  where  the  Barry  was  raised  with  grants  of 
large  possessions,  and  a  succession  of  titles  in  the 
Peerage,  from  Baron  Barry  to  Viscount  Buttevant 
and  Earl  of  Barrymore.  Of  the  Irish  magnates  who 
in  1302  attended  Edward  the  First  in  his  campaign 
against  the  Scots,  were  William  de  Barry,  Odo  (Hugh) 
de  Barry,  David  de  Barry  of  Rathcormack,  Philip  de 
Barry  of  Rincorran,  William  Fitz-Phillip  Barry,  and 
William  Fitz-William  Barry.*  In  1507,  say  the 
Four  Masters,  "  The  Barry  Roe  of  Cork,  i.e.  James, 
the  son  of  James,  accompanied  by  the  Chiefs  of  his 
people,  proceeded  on  a  pilgrimage  to  Spain,  and,  after 
having  performed  the  pilgrimage,  they  got  on  board 
of  a  ship  to  return,  and  no  tidings  of  their  being  liv- 
ing or  dead  was  ever  received.''  The  same  Annalists, 
at  1580,  furnish  an  interesting  genealogical  notice  of 
this  noble  family.  "  Barry  More,  i.e.  James,  the  son 
of  Richard,  son  of  Thomas,  son  of  Edward,  who  was 
imprisoned  in  Dublin,  died.  That  James  was  of  the 
real  genealogical  stock  of  Barry  Roe  ;  and  he  was  a 
man  who  suffered,  in  the  early  part  of  his  life,  much 
trouble  and  affliction,  and  he  had  no  hope  or  expecta- 
tion of  ever  obtaining  the  title  of  Barry  Roe  ;  but, 
however,  God  granted  him  the  Captainship  of  Barry 
Maol  and  also  of  Barry  Roe  ;   (Barry  Maol  or  the 

*  Rymer's  Fcedera,  ad  arm. 


CARROLL'S  DRAGOONS.  385 

hold  Bany,  and  also  Barry  Ruadh  or  red  Barry,  were 
native  designations  borne  by  two  branches  of  this 
family)  ;  and  not  these  alone,  for  he  was  nominated 
Chief  of  Banymore,  after  the  destruction  of  those 
whose  rightfal  inheritance  it  was  to  possess  that  title 
till  then.  His  son  David  Barry  was  afterwards  nomi- 
nated  the  Barry  by  the  Earl  of  Desmond,  and 
another  son  of  his  was  according  to  law  Lord  of 
Barry  Roe.'' 

In  1641  "Philip  Barry  Oge,  (styled  of  Rincorran) 
was  amongst  the  earliest  who  took  up  arms  against 
the  English  ;  and,  being  master  of  the  camp  of  Bell- 
gorley,  he,  James  Mellifont,  and  his  son  went  to  a 
neck  of  land  between  the  harbour  and  oyster-haven  of 
Kinsale,  collected  all  the  cattle,  horses,  cows,  &c.,  be- 
longing to  the  inhabitants  of  Kinsale,  took  them  to 
the  camp,  and  divided  them  amongst  their  troopers. 
His  lands  were,  by  an  ordinance  of  4th  August, 
1648,  given  in  custodiam  to  Captain  William  Parsons, 
in  satisfaction  of  £1113  due  to  him  by  the  Common- 
wealth authorities.  Captain  Parsons  dying  in  1652, 
Robert  Southwell  was  in  1655  put  into  the  custodiam 
of  these  lands,*for  the  benefit  of  the  Captain's  children. 
In  1658,  however,  he  induced  the  heir  to  relinquish 
his  original  title  to  these  lands,  and  to  accept  them 
back  on  a  lease  only,  and  subjected  to  a  rent  of  £100 
per  ann.  which  Southwell,  under  pretence  of  serving 
the  other  children,  promised  to  pay  to  them.  The 
Restoration  followed  in  May,  1660,  and,  in  the 
ensuing  August,  Southwell  obtained  a  grant  of  the 

cc 


386  KING  James's  irisii  army  list. 

lands  as  in  lieu  of  £700  worth  of  sea-beer  supplied  by 
him  in  1648  for  Prince  Rupert's  shipping,  and  by 
charging  interest  at  six  per  cent  extended  the  debt  to 
£1300.  Meantime,  in  1648,  Philip  Barry  Oge,  who 
had  been  so  expelled  from  his  inheritance,  complying 
with  the  articles  of  peace  of  that  year,  retired  to 
Flanders,  where  he  served  King  Charles  till  his  death 
in  1656.  He  had  married  Juliana,  daughter  of  Sir 
Dominick  Sarsfield,  Viscount  Kilmallock,  by  whom 
he  had  a  son,  William  Barry  Oge,  who  endeavoured 
after  the  Restoration  to  subvert  the  grant  to  South- 
well, in  which  suit  he  was  joined  by  the  heir  of  the 
Mellifonts,  whose  adjoining  estate  Southwell  had  ob- 
tained at  an  undervaluation  ;  but  Southwell  was 
secure  in  the  influence  of  the  Court  party,  and  Wil- 
liam Barry  Oge,  forsaken  and  friendless,  had  the 
mortification  to  see  "the  soil,  which  was  his  birthplace, 
confirmed  by  patent  of  1666  to  his  opponent  The 
heir  of  the  Mellifonts,  also,  who  had  fallen  irretriev- 
ably into  poverty,  was  reduced  to  petition  the  South- 
wells' further  interest  to  procure  for  him  a  tide-waiter- 
ship,  or  other  subordinate  oflice  in  the  Custom  House 
of  Dublin."* 

Besides  Philip  Barry  Oge  of  Rhyncorran,  there 
were  attainted  in  1642  Redmond  and  Gerald  Barry 
of  Lisgrifiin,  and  eleven  others  of  the  name  in  the 
County  of  Cork.  The  above  Grerald  was  one  of  the 
Confederate  Catholics  at  the  Assembly  of  1647  in 
Kilkenny.       The   Declaration   of    Royal   gratitude, 

♦  Thorpe's  Cat.  Southwell  MSS.,  p.  193. 


Carroll's  dragoons.  387 

embodied  in  'the  Act  of  Settlement/  includes  the 
names  of  Captain  Philip  Barry  of  Dunbogy,  Captain 
William  Barry  of  Rhincorran,  and  Lieutenant  Robert 
Barry  of  Robertstown,  all  in  the  County  of  Cork. 

Besides  this  John  Barry  a  Captain,  Nicholas  and 
James  Barry  Lieutenants,  and  Richard  Barry  a 
Quarter-Master  in  this  present  Regiment,  Philip 
Barry  Oge  was  a  Captain  in  Lord  Mountcashel's 
Infantry  ;  (he  appears  to  have  been  the  grandson  of 
Philip  Barry  Oge  of  Rhyncorran,  who  married  the 
Honourable  Margaret  de  Courcy,  aunt  by  the  father's 
side  of  Almeric  Lord  Kinsale,  hereafter  alluded  to)  ;* 
and  nineteen  others  of  the  name  were  commissioned 
on  this  List.  In  Bang  James's  Parliament  of  1689, 
James  Barry  was  one  of  the  Representatives  for  the 
Borough  of  Rathcormack,  while  the  Attainders  there 

attempted  to  be  passed  included Barry,  Earl  of 

Barrymore ;  Richard  Barry,  the  second  Baron  of 
Santry ;  Laurence  Barry,  Lord  Buttevant ;  and 
Richard  Barry,  Gentleman.  The  Inquisitions  of 
1691  record  the  effective  attainders  of  the  above 
Captain,  described  as  John  Barry  of  Shanagrane, 
Walshestownmore,  and  Derrylone,  with  sixteen  others 
of  the  name  in  the  County  of  Cork ;  on  whose  estates 
sundry  claims  were  made  at  Chichester  House,  and 
some  allowed. 

♦  Nichols's  Top*,  and  Gen*,  p.  647. 


CC  2 


388  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 


CAPTAIN  JASPER  GRANT. 

This  family  wiis  from  a  very  remote  period  settled  in 
the  County  of  Kilkenny,  where  so  early  as  in  1346 
WOliam  le  Graunt  is  reported  a  landed  proprietor. 
Captain  Jasper  was,  however,  of  the  County  of  Cork, 
and  had  estates  therein  at  Kilmurry,  as  likewise  at 
Grantstown  in  the  County  of  Waterford.  Gillian 
Grant,  his  widow,  claimed  in  1700  and  was  allowed 
an  estate  for  her  life  thereoff ;  and  for  her  son,  another 
Jasper  Grant  a  minor,  she  claimed  an  estate  tail  in 
said  lands.  Annabella  Grant  sought  jointure  off 
certain  Cork  Estates  under  Settlement  of  1681,  but 

her  petition  was  dismist. Walter  Grant,  described 

as  of  Curlody,  in  the  County  of  Kilkenny,  was 
attainted  at  the  same  time. 

In  1 747,  Captain  Matthew  Grant,  of  Clare's  Eegi- 
ment  of  Brigade,  was  killed  at  Lauffield  village,  near 
Maestricht.* 


CAPTAIN  HENRY  COPINGER. 

This  is  one  of  the  few  families  of  Danish  extraction 
yet  existing  in  Ireland.  Its  first  settlement  was  in 
the  County  of  Cork,  where  it  still  continues.  In 
1535,  William  Copinger,  Mayor  of  Cork,  had  a 
grant  of  the  King's  Castle  there  to  him  and  his  future 
successors  in  the  Mayoralty.     In  the  first  Parliament 

♦  Gent.  Mag.  ad  ann,  p.  377. 


lif    ^^ 


►^. 


I 


CARROLL'S  DRAGOONS.  389 

of  Queen  Elizabeth,  Stephen  Copinger  was  one  of  the 
Representatives  for  that  City.  When,  early  in  the 
reign  of  James  the  First,  the  East  India  Company  of 
England  meditated  a  settlement  in  Munster,  for 
carrying  on  iron  works  and  building  large  ships,  they 
purchased  for  this  speculation  woods  and  lands  in  the 
Barony  of  Kinalea  and  Kerry currihy,  erected  a  dock, 
and  actually  launched  two  ships.  "  Yet  were  they," 
says  Smith,*  "so  disturbed  in  their  undertaking  by 
Walter  Copinger  and  others  of  the  Irishry,  that  they 
were  forced  to  quit  the  country,  and  abandon  the  pro- 
ject. Nevertheless,  soon  afterwards,  Walter  Copinger 
had  a  grant  of  a  castle,  with  various  lands,  chiefrents, 
and  customs,  the  lands  being  erected  into  two  manors, 
that  of  Cloghanmore  with  liberty  to  impark  1,000 
acres,  and  Eilfinane  with  like  liberty  for  600  acres. 

Of  this  name  were  attainted,  in  1642,  Stephen 
Copinger  of  Grange,  Thomas  Fitz- Walter  Copinger  of 
Manances,  and  Richard  and  Walter  of  Ringroan,  all 
in  the  County  of  Cork.  A  James  Copinger  of  Clogh- 
ane  in  said  County  was  likewise  outlawed  ;  and  it 
was  in  reference  to  him  and  his  sequestered  estates 
that  the  Earl  of  Anglesey,  when  in  power,  wrote  to 
the  Sheriff  of  Cork  in  a  tone  of  tenderness  and  com- 
miseration creditable  to  his  memory  : — "  Mr.  Sheriff, 
whereas  Mr.  James  Copinger,  upon  his  claim  before 
his  Majesty's  Commissioners  for  putting  in  execution 
the  Act  of  Settlement,  hath  been  declared  innocent 
and  to  be  restored  to  his  lands,  and  hath  obtained  a 

•  Hint,  of  Cork,  vol.  1,  p.  219. 


390  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

decree  pursuant  thereunto  ;  and  whereas  part  of  the 
land  is  in  my  possession,  I  desire,  when  the  decree 
comes  to  your  hands  to  be  executed,  that  you  will^ 
notwithstanding  any  interest  I  have  in  the  said  lands, 
see  the  same  put  in  execution  for  so  much  as  I  am 

concerned  in/'* An  Ensign  John  Copinger  was 

on  the  List  of  officers  recommended  for  early  prefer- 
ment in  Lord  Tyrconnel's  orders  of  1686  to  Colonel 
Russel  ;t  he  does  not,  however,  appear  on  this. 

In  April,  1691,  a  Captain  Copinger  was  killed  in  a 
skirmish  with  a  party  of  Captain  Clayton's  Iiifantry.J 
The  Attainders  of  this  year  include  the  names  of 
Thomas  Copinger  of  Killentine,  with  ten  others  of 
that  name  in  the  County  of  Cork,  and  Henry,  Mat- 
thew, and  William  Copinger  of  the  City^  merchants. 
This  latter  individual  was  the  Catholic  Sheriff  of 
Cork  in  King  James's  time,  and  fled  .with  his  Royal 
Master  to  France,  where  on  his  death  Louis  the  Four- 
teenth assigned  a  foreigner's  pension  for  his  widow. 
The  above  Captain  Henry  of  this  Regiment  was  his 
brother,  as  was  also  Edward,  the  Captain  who  was 
killed  as  above  in  April,  1691.  From  a  family  pedi- 
gree furnished  to  the  compiler  of  these  notices,  it  ap- 
pears that  the  above  Thomas  Copinger  of  Edllentine 
was  an  elder  brother  of  the  tliree  last  mentioned,  that 
he  married  Helen  Galway  of  Lota,  and  was  the  lineal 
ancestor  of  the  present  William  Copinger  of  Bally  vo- 

♦  Thorpe's  Cat.  Southw.  MSS.,  p.  186. 

t  Smith's  Cork,  vol.  1,  p.  459. 

I  Story's  Impartial  History,  pt.  2,  p.  70. 


Carroll's  dragoons.  391 

lane  and  Banyscourt,  in  the  County  of  Cork.  At  the 
Court  of  Claims,  Stephen  Copinger,  as  son  and  heir  of 
said  Thomas,  claimed  a  remainder  in  tail  in  his 
estates  under  marriage  settlements  of  1676  ;  as  did 
John  and  Edward  Copinger  similar  remainders  under 
the  same  deed.  These  claims  were  allowed  to  the  ex- 
tent of  the  lands  comprised  in  that  settlement,  which 
were  very  considerable.  Such  property  as  said 
Thomas  Copinger  had  in  the  City  of  Cork  was  sold 
by  the  Commissioners  to  Charles  Farringdon,  as  were 
such  of  his  unsettled  estates  as  lay  in  the  County  and 
within  the  Liberties  of  the  City,  to  Helen  Gklway  and 
Abraham  Dixon,  of  Cork  ;  while  those  of  the  above 
Walter,  and  James  his  son,  were  similarly  conveyed 
to  Edmund  Boch  of  Trabolgan. 

From  the  above  Captain  Henry  Coppinger  are  de- 
scended, in  the  male  line.  General  Joseph  Coppinger, 
now  in  the  Spanish  service  ;  and  Francis  Coppinger 
of  Monkstown  Castle,  County  of  Dublin  ;  as  are,  in 
the  female  line,  Christopher  Coppinger,  Chairman  of 
the  County  of  Kildare  ;  and  the  O'Briens  of  Kilcor, 
near  Castle  Lyons,  County  of  Cork. 


LIEUTENANT  JOHN  LACY. 

This  great  name  occurs  in  the  first  Roll  of  the 
!l^atents  of  Ireland,  the  King  thereby  granting  to 
Hugh  de  Lacy  the  whole  Province  of  Meath,  thereto- 
fore the  mensal  estate  of  the  native  Monarchs  of  Ire- 


392  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

land  ;  to  hold  the  same  with  as  fiill  and  ample  powers 
as  Hugh  O'Melaghlin,  then  yet  styled  King  of  Meath 
had  held  the  same,  and  this  conveyance  is  especially 
witnessed  amongst  others  by  Earl  Strongbow,  whose 
recognition,  as  husband  of  the  heiress  of  King  Der- 
mott  Mac  Murrough,  Henry  was  perhaps  then  not 
unwilling  in  policy  to  obtain.*  De  Lacy  in  this 
grant  had  the  powers  of  a  Lord  Palatine  conferred 
upon  him,  and  early  after  he  sought  to  arrange  a 
peaceful  treaty  with  Roderic  O'Conor,  the  King  of  Ire- 
land, as  acknowledged  by  the  natives.  They  met  on 
the  banks  of  the  Shannon,  but  De  Lacy's  terms  were 
then  considered  too  severe  to  be  accepted  by  Roderic. 
The  former,  however,  received  his  daughter  in  mar- 
riage as  his  second  wife,  whereby  he  incurred  the 
Royal  jealousy,  and  was  recalled  from  the  Viceroyalty 
which  he  then  filled.  His  powers  as  a  Palatine  ex- 
tended to  the  erection  of  boroughs,  one  of  which,  on 
the  northern  border  of  the  Pale,  was  Drogheda  ;  and 
he  yet  more  practically  endeavoured  to  secure  the 
English  interest,  and  to  extend  the  circuit  of  that 
Pale,  by  fortifying  castles  in  advance  into  the  island. 
The  Four  Masters  jealously  say  of  his  government, 
that  "he  confiscated  and  transferred  many  churches  to 
the  English  Lords  in  Meath,  Brefney,  and  Oriel,  and 
to  him  the  rents  of  Connaught  were  paid."  He  was 
assassinated  in  1186,  while  inspecting  a  castle  which 
had  just  been  erected  by  his  order  at  Durrow,  in  the 
Kings  County.      His  sons  were  Hugh  and  Walter ; 

♦  D'Alton's  Drogheda,  v.  2,  p.  40. 


Carroll's  dragoons.  393 

the  former,  after  sharp  contests  with  De  Courcy, 
became  Lord  of  Ulster  ;  and  dying  in  1241,  his 
daughter  and  heiress  married  William  de  Burgo,  who 
died  in  1244.  Their  daughter  and  heiress  married 
Lionel,  Duke  of  Clarence,  third  son  of  King  Edward 
the  Third,  and  she  was  grandmother  of  Edward  the 
Fourth,  in  whose  right  the  title  and  estates  vested  in 
the  Crown.  To  the  failure  of  the  De  Lacys'  issue 
male.  Baron  Finglas  in  his  *  Breviate'  mainly  attri- 
butes the  origin  of  absenteeism  in  this  country  ;  and 
it  is  a  remarkable  concurrence  in  the  destinies  of  Ire- 
land, that  the  male  line  of  Earl  Strongbow  also  failed, 
and  similar  marriages  of  his  female  issue  into  English 
families,  scattered  his  immense  territory  amongst 
powerful  but  ever  absent  proprietors. 

In  1314,  Walter  and  another  Hugh  de  Lacy  were 
of  the  Irish  Magnates,  who  attended  King  Edward  on 
his  expedition  against  Scotland.  They  appear  to 
have  descended  from  Hugh  de  Lacy's  second  marriage 
with  the  daughter  of  Roderic  O'Conor.  In  Mount- 
joy's  engagement  against  the  Earl  of  Tyrone,  fell 
Pierce  Lacy  of  BrufF,  County  of  Limerick,  "  a  zeal- 
ous Catholic  and  one  of  the  most  alert  of  the  Munster 
Chieftains.''*  In  1604,  and  1608,  King  James 
the  First  granted  to  his  favourite  Sir  James  Fullerton 
the  castle  and.  lands  of  BruflF  (inter  alia)  as  "late 
in  the  tenure  of  Piers  Lacie  attainted,  with  all  other 
his  estate  belonging  to  him  at  his  death  in  rebellion." 
The  name  does  not  appear  on  the  Attainders  of  1642, 

♦  Stuart's  Armagh,  p.  296. 


394  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

although  there  were  at  that  time  three  branches  of  the 
family  settled  in  the  County  of  Limerick  alone,  at 
Bruree,  Bruff,  and  Ballingarry.* 

John  Lacy  of  the  House  of  Bruflf  was  the  only  in- 
dividual of  the  name  who  attended  the  Supreme 
Council  of  Kilkenny  in  1647  ;  he  was  placed  in  the 
rank  of  Colonel  on  the  Restoration ;  and,  on  the 
raising  of  the  army  for  King  James,  was  appointed 
Lieutenant-Colonel  in  Colonel  Charles  Cavanagh's 
Infantry,  as  noted  hereafter  ;  but,  as  his  name  did  not 
appear  on  the  present  Army  List,  the  notices  of  *de 
Lacy'  could  not  be  referred  to  him.  He  resided  at 
Kilmallock,  and  was  Deputy  Grovemor  of  Limerick 
under  Lord  Blessington  in  1 685-6  ;  at  which  time  the 
Viceroy,  the  Earl  of  Clarendon,  wrote  of  him  to  the 
Earl  of  Sunderland : — "Here  is  a  Colonel  Lacy,  an  old 
Cavalier,  who  hopes  the  King  will,  when  he  has  an 
opportunity,  put  him  into  employment.  I  am  sure 
he  desires  it.  He  was  an  officer  in  the  time  of  King 
Charles  the  First,  and  I  believe  His  Majesty  remem- 
bers him  with  himself  in  France  and  Flanders,  where 
he  served  very  bravely.  This  poor  gentleman  was 
settled  here  in  a  very  comfortable  way,  when  in  Gates' 
*  reign'  he  was  sent  into  England,  and  kept  prisoner 
in  the  Gatehouse  about  two  years,  besides  other 
severities  both  to  his  person  and  his  estate.  I  take 
the  liberty  to  recommend  his  enclosed  petition  to 
your  Lordship.^f     Clarendon  at  the  same  time  wrote 

•  Ferrar's  Limerick,  p.  346. 

t  Singer's  Correspondence  of  Clarendon,  v.  1,  p.  207. 


cakroll's  dragoons.  395 

a  special  letter  in  Lacy's  favour  to  the  King,  grace- 
fully adding,  "  I  beg  your  Majesty's  pardon  for  say- 
ing thus  much  in  a  particular  man's  case,  which  I 
will  never  do,  but  when  the  person's  eminent  loyalty 
and  services  will  justify  me."*  Subsequently,  al- 
luding to  growing  apprehensions  that  a  restoration  of 
their  lands  would  be  sought  by  many  from  the  new 
King,  and  that  some  who  had  been  made  officers 
encouraged  the  apprehension,  the  Viceroy  says,  "  all 
this  would  be  very  easily  remedied,  and  the  King 
have  all  done  he  has  mind  to,  if  men  would  be  dis- 
creet in  their  states  as  several  are ;  amongst  whom 
ought  to  be  remembered  Sir  John  Fitzgerald,  both 
the  Dempsys,  Colonel  Sheldon,  Lacy,  and  many  more 
who  have  moulded  their  troops  and  companies  to 
their  mind,  ydthout  the  least  dissatisfaction  to  any 
one.  They  are  beloved  in  their  quarters,  they  cherish 
and  comfort  the  people,  and  punish  those  who  talk 
impertinently.  But  there  are  likewise  several  of 
whom  I  cannot  give  so  good  characters  ;  and  those 
who  ought  to  reprove  them  for  indiscretion  will  only 
say,  'Alas!  poor  man,  he  has  lost  his  estate  ;  you 
must  give  him  leave  to  talk.'  I  have  taken  the 
liberty  to  entertain  your  Lordship  with  these  stories, 
that  you  may  see  something  of  the  temper  of  persons 
as  well  as  things  ;  and  to  show  you  that  it  is  not  so 
much  the  King's  employing  Roman  Catholics  in  his 
army  which  disquiets  men,  as  that  there  are  duch  from 
whom,  by  their  own  words  and  actions,  they  fear  to 

*  Singer  s  Correspondence  of  Lord  Clarendon,  v.  1,  p.  208. 


396  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

be  oppressed  instead  of  being  protected.  Believe  it, 
my  Lord,  when  it  is  known  what  the  King  would 
have,  and  which,  with  submission  (in  some  cases) 
ought  to  be  known  but  to  a  few,  it  may  be  easily 
done  to  general  satisfaction ;  for  I  must  needs  say, 
never  were  people  in  the  world  more  disposed  to 
obedience,  and  to  betake  themselves  to  their  industry, 
than  the  generality  of  people  here,  if  they  are  let  alone."* 
In  1689,  this  Colonel  John  Lacy  was  one  of  the  Repre- 
sentatives of  Kilmallock  in  the  Parliament  of  Dublin. 
At  the  second  siege  of  Limerick,  when  the  William- 
ites  had  succeeded  in  throwing  a  bridge  over  the 
Shannon  at  Thomond  Gate,  (as  before  mentioned,  p. 
71)  Colonel  Lacy,  with  800  picked  men,  was  ordered 
out  to  contest  their  advance,  which  he  did  with  great 
valour  and  good  success  for  a  time,  till,  overpowered 
by  a  continual  supply  of  fresh  opponents,  .he  was 
forced  to  give  way  and  retire  to  the  gate  ;  which  the 
mayor  of  the  City,  however,  apprehending  the  English 
might  enter  with  them,  imprudently  closed,  whereby 
the  greater  number  of  Lacy's  gallant  band  was  cut 
down. 

The  subsequent  Attainders  of  1691  include  the 
names  of  this  Colonel,  stiled  "of  Kilmallock;"  Simon 
Lacy  of  Ferns,  County  of  Wexford ;  and  Thomas  and 
Walter  Lacy  of  Balrath,  County  of  Westmeath.  This 
Thomas  Lacy  forfeited  also  largely  in  the  Barony  and 
County  of  Roscommon,  and  very  many  claims  were 
preferred  at  Chichester  House  as  affecting  his  confis- 

*  Singers  Correspondence  of  Lord  Clarendon,  v.  1,  p.  466. 


CARROLL'S  DRAGOONS.  397 

cations,  the  greater  portion  of  which  was  sold  in  1703 
by  the  Commissioners  to  Samuel  Massy  of  Dublin, 
M.D. 

Various  gallant  officers  of  this  name  appear  on  the 
records  of  continental  military  achievement,  the 
career  of  one  of  whom  powerfully  connects  with  pass- 

ing  events, ^the  Count   Peter  de  Lasci;  whom 

an  autobiography  preserved  by  his  descendant  Mrs. 
de  Lacy  Nash  states  to  have  been  bom  in  the  County 
of  Limerick  in  1678  ;  that  his  father  was  Peter,  son 
of  John  Lacy  of  Ballingarry  ;  that  on  the  capitula- 
tion of  Limerick  he  was  brought  oflf  by  his  uncle  John 
(who  appears  to  have  been  the  above  Colonel),  who 
had  the  rank  of  Quarter-master  General  and  Brigadier 
in  France,  and  was  Colonel  of  the  Prince  of  Wales's 
Infantry  Eegiment,  on  which  this  youth  was  at  once 
enrolled  ;  that  he  marched  with  it  to  Piedmont  in 
1692,  joined  Catinat  in  May,  1693,  and  in  the 
October  of  that  year  was  at  the  battle  of  the  '  Val  de 
Marseilles,'  in  which  his  uncle,  said  John,  received  a 
mortal  wound.  The  Regiment  having  been  disband- 
ed on  the  peace  of  Ryswick,  this  young  officer  volun- 
teered in  the  Polish  service  under  Marshal  Due  de 
Croy,  in  the  rank  of  Lieutenant.  The  Due  presented 
him  to  Peter  the  Great,  who  was  then  in  alliance  with 
Poland,  and  the  Czar  took  him  into  his  own  service, 
in  which  he  obtained  a  majority  in  1705,  and  a 
Lieutenant-Colonelcy  in  the  following  year.  In 
1708,  he  was  promoted  to  the  command  of  the  Sibe- 
rian Regiment  of  Infantry,   and  joined  the   Grand 


398  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARAIY  LIST. 

Army.  On  the  first  of  January,  1709,  he  commanded 
the  right  wing  and  acted  as  a  Brigadier  at  the  great 
Battle  of  Pultowa,  where  he  was  wounded.  In 
1710,  he  distinguished  himself  in  the  attack  on  Riga, 
and  in  the  following  year  was  made  Major-General. 
His  various  movements  are  in  the  manuscript  set 
down  by  the  year,  until  in  1737  he  was  appointed  to 
command  an  expedition  into  the  Crimea.  Crossing 
an  arm  of  the  sea  (he  writes)  near  Arabat^  we 
marched  and  took  Ferekop^  and  blew  up  the  fortifi- 
cations.  He  died  in  Livonia  in  1751,  Governor  of 
that  Province.  This  was  the  general  who,  according  to 
Ferrar,*  ^^^  taught  the  Russians  to  beat  the  army  of  the 
King  of  Sweden^  and  to  become  from  the  worst  some 
of  tlie  best  soldiers  of  Europe.  Before  the  battle  of 
Pultowa  he  advised  the  Czar  to  send  orders  that  every 
soldier  should  reserve  his  fire  until  he  came  within  a 
few  yards  of  the  enemy ;  in  consequence  of  which 
Charles  the  Twelfth  was  there  totally  defeated,  losing 
in  that  single  action  the  advantages  of  nine  campaigns 
of  glory,  and  narrowly  escaping  being  taken  prisoner.'' 
The  son  of  this  Count  Peter  was  Joseph-Francis- 
Maurice,  Count  de  Lasci,  bom  in  1725  at  St.  Peters- 
burgh,  and  educated  at  Vienna.  He  made  his  first 
campaign  in  the  Austrian  army  in  Italy  during  the 
year  1744,  where  he  had  three  horses  shot  under  him 
at  the  battle  of  Velletri.  At  the  siege  of  Maestricht 
in  1748,  he  received  the  rank  of  Colonel.  He  dis- 
tinguished himself  against  Prussia  in  the  seven  years' 

*  Hist,  of  Limerick,  p.  347. 


CARROLL'S  DRAGOONS.  399 

war,  in  1762  received  the  baton  of  Marshal  from 
the  Emperor's  own  hand,  and  in  the  same  year  served 
with  considerable  eclat  in  the  war  between  Austria 
and  Prussia.  In  1801,  he  died  at  Vienna,  where  the 
Emperor  Joseph  the  Second,  to  whom  he  left  all  his 
property,  caused  a  bust  to  be  erected  to  his  memory 
in  the  hall  of  the  Chancery  of  the  Council  of  War. 
Of  this  latter  Marshal,  Wraxall  writes,*  in  1778, 
"Marshal  Lacy  is  now  approaching  his  sixtieth  year  ; 
when  young,  he  must  have  been  very  handsome. 
Though  he  has  been  six  times  wounded  by  musket 
balls,  he  enjoys  perfect  health,  and  preserves  a  youth- 
ful appearance.  He  was  bom  in  Eussia,  son  of  the 
famous  Marshal  Lacy,  who  in  conjunction  with 
Munich  commanded  the  Muscovite  armies  against  the 
Turks,  and  obtained  so  many  victories  over  them  in 
the  last  years  of  the  Empress  Anne.  It  was  in  that 
great  school  he  learned  the  art  of  war.  I  have  heard 
him  say  that  his  father  sent  him  to  study  at  Legnitz 
in  Silesia,  and  afterwards  at  Vienna.  In  1740, 
about  the  time  of  Maria  Theresa's  accession,  he  en- 
tered the  Austrian  service  as  an  Ensign  in  the  Kegi- 
ment  of  Count  (afterwards  Marshal)  Brown,  who  was 
killed  at  the  battle  of  Prague.  Having  distinguished 
himself  by  a  thousand  acts  of  personal  courage,  ac- 
tivity, and  ability,  he  rose  so  rapidly  that  at  the 
commencement  of  the  war  of  1756  he  was  already  a 
Colonel,  and  soon  became  a  Major-General. 

Another    General    Maurice    de    Lacy,    born    in 

*  Memoirs  of  the  Court  of  Berlin,  vol.  1,  p.  173. 


400  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

Limerick  in  1740,  was  invited  to  Kussia  by  his  rela- 
tive, the  aforesaid  Marshal  Peter,  and  entered  that 
service  when  but  ten  years  old.  He  served  under 
Suwarrow  in  the  Italian  campaign  of  1799,  in  cam- 
paigns against  the  Turks,  and  also  in  the  Crimea. 

He  died  in  1820,  unmarried. Of  Lacys  in  Spain, 

Francis  Anthony  Lacy,  Count  de  Lacy,  was  a  famous 
General  and  Diplomatist ;  born  in  1731,  commenced 
his  military  career  as  an  Ensign  in  the  Irish  Brigade 
of  Ultonia  Infantry,  was  raised  to  be  a  Colonel  in 
1762,  and  a  Commander  of  Artillery  in  1780,  when 
he  was  employed  at  the  celebrated  siege  of  Gibraltar. 
After  the  peace  of  Utrecht  in  1783,  he  was  consti- 
tuted Minister  Plenipotentiary  in  Sweden  and  Eussia, 
and  died  at  Barcelona  in  1792.  He  had  married  a 
daughter  of  the  Marquis  d'Abbeville,  by  whom  he 
left  a  son,  Captain-General  of  Artillery  to  his  Most 
Catholic  Majesty ;  and  a  daughter,  who  married 
"  the  Marquis  of  Canada,  originally  Irish,  of  the  an- 
cient  family  of  Terry." 


CORNET  PATRICK  STAUNTON. 

In  England  the  name  of  de  Staunton  dates  from  the 
Conquest,  while  in  Ireland  it  is  of  record  from  the 
earliest  days  after  the  English  Invasion.  About  the 
year  1200,  Milo  and  Henry  de  Staunton  disputed  the 
patronage  of  the  parish  church  of  Monmohenock  in 
Wicklow  with  the  Bishop  of  Glendaloch  ;  Milo  was 


CABROLL'S  DRAGOONS.  401 

then  seised  of  its  manor.*  In  1220,  Adam  de  Staun- 
ton granted  lands  in  Kilbrenin,  with  the  miU,  the 
church,  and  all  tithes  there,  to  Christ  Church,  Dublin, 
for  the  founding  of  a  cell  with  resident  canons.  The 
above  Milo  at  the  same  time  endowed  the  abbey  of 
St.  Thomas  in  that  City  with  the  churches  of  Dun- 
brin  and  Demloff.  In  1244,  Adam  was  summoned, 
as  one  of  the  '  Fideles '  of  Ireland,  to  service  in  the 
Scottish  war ;  and  in  1279,  Richard  de  Burgo,  Eari 
of  Ulster,  petitioned  for  the  wardship  of  Adam  de 
Staunton,  who  held  lands  in  Connaught  under  him. 
In  1295,  the  latter  Adam  was  summoned  for  the  war 
in  Gascony,  as  was  William  de  Staunton  to  that  of 
Scotland  in  1302.  In  1308,  Gerald,  son  and  heir  of 
Maurice  de  Staunton,  made  a  marriage  appointment 
of  dower,  (according  to  the  custom  of  the  time)  at  the 
gate  of  St.  Patrick's  Cathedral ;  assigning  four  ca- 
rucates  of  land  in  the  County  of  Cork  (which  had 
been  his  father's)  with  seven  marks  for  his  wife,  Ma- 
tilda de  Ruggeleye  ;  while  Henry  de  Ruggeleye  pass- 
ed his  bond  for  fifty-seven  marks  as  the  portion  of 
said  Matilda.  About  this  time,  Philip  de  Staunton, 
clerk,  received  the  full  sum  of  £100  for  his  remune- 
ration in  the  service  of  mustering  men-at-arms,  'to  put 
down  the  Irish  felons  in  the  mountains  of  Leinster.' 
In  1312,  Fromund  le  Brun  (Brown)  acquired  a  con- 
siderable property  in  Connaught  in  right  of  his  wife, 
Nesta,  the  daughter  of  the  aforesaid  Adam  de  Staun- 
ton.    In  1359,  Philip  de  Staunton  was  deputed  to 

♦  Mason  8  St.  Patrick's,  p.  65. 

DD 


402  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

treat  with  the  Irish  '  rebels '  in  Leinster,  and  to  hold 
pariey  and  make  peace  with  them.  In  1373,  John 
Staunton  was  one  of  those  directed  to  be  summoned 
from  Meath  by  its  Sheriff,  to  attend  a  great  Council. 
In  eight  years  after,  the  Earl  of  Mortimer,  then  Lord 
Lieutenant  of  Ireland,  died  at  Cork,  whereupon  the 
Lord  Chancellor  and  a  Justice  of  the  Bench  issued 
summonses  for  such  persons  as  usually  formed  a  Par- 
liament, to  meet  at  Cork  for  the  purpose  of  appointing  a 
temporary  Viceroy.  Amongst  those  so  summoned  were 
Milo  Staunton  and  David  Fitz-Thomas  Roche,  Knights, 
returned  as  for  the  County  of  Cork.*  In  1422, 
John  Staunton  was  appointed  Constable  of  Trim  for 
life,  with  power  to  hear  and  decide  controversies  con- 
cerning customs,  his  salary  being  fixed  at  twenty 
marks  per  annum.  The  last  Prior  of  the  old  abbey 
of  BaUintobber  in  the  County  of  Mayo,  at  the  time  of 
the  dissolution,  was  Walter  Mac  Willie  de  Staunton.f 
In  1574,  Thomas  Staunton,  described  as  having  been 
'an  ancient  Captain  in  the  Irish  wars,'  purchased  the 
manor  and  advowson  of  Wolverston  in  Warwickshire ; 
while  another  Captain  Staunton  distinguLshed  himself 
in  1601  in  the  war  of  Ulster.  In  1606,  Sir  John 
Everardof  Fethard,  County  of  Tipperary,  had  a  grant 
of  (inter  alia)  Clogher,  one  quarter  and  other  lands  in 
the  County  of  Mayo,  parcel  of  the  estate  of  John 
(Ballagh)  Stanton,  'attainted;'  while  in  1634,  a 
George  Staunton  came  over  from  Buckinghamshire  to 
Ireland,  settled  in  the  County  of  Galway,  and  there, 

*  Mason's  St.  Patrick's,  p.  127.  t  King's  MSS.,  p.  197. 


CARROLL'S  DRAGOONS.  403 

intermarrying  with  a  lady  of  the  name  of  Lynch, 
became  founder  of  the  Cargins  line.  His  son,  another 
George,  had  a  grant  in  1678  of  various  lands  in  the 
Barony  of  Dunmore  within  that  County. 

On  the  present  Army  List  and  in  this  Regiment 
a  second  Patrick  Staunton  appears  as  Quarter-Master 
to  his  above  namesake.  The  Attainders  of  1691 
describe  either  of  them  as  Patrick  Stanton  of  Great 
Island,  County  of  Cork,  where  were  also  outlawed 
Michael  Stanton,  merchant,  and  James  Stanton^ 
clothier,  both  of  the  City  of  Cork.  In  1698,  Thomas 
Staunton  was  appointed  with  others  to  collect  a  state 
subsidy  of  £940  off  Clare,  and  another  of  £1260  ciff 
Gal  way  County  ;  he  became  in  1722  Recorder  of 
Galway  and  its  Representative  in  Parliament.  In 
1801,  died  Sir  George  Leonard  Staunton,  (a  descen- 
dant  of  George  of  1634);  he  had  applied  himself  to 
the  profession  of  the  Bar,  and  wiis  appointed  His 
Majesty's  Attorney  General  for  Grenada ;  after  which 
he  accompanied  Lord  Macartney  to  Madras,  and  sub- 
sequently on  his  celebrated  embassy  to  China  in 
1791.     He  was  buried  in  Westminster  Abbey. 


CORNET  WILLIAM  COLLINS. 

Nothing  has  been  discovered  of  note  concerning  him; 
and  a  Darby  Collins,  described  as  of  Buttevant,  is  the 
only  individual  of  the  surname  appearing  on  the  At- 
tainders of  1691. 

dd2 


404  KIXG  JAMES'S  IKISH  ARMY  LIST. 

CORNET  KOBEKT  GOOLD. 

The  Goold  fiimily  was  at  an  early  period  established 
in  the  County  of  Cork.  In  1356,  Nicholas  '  Gold ' 
was  one  of  these  influential  pei'sons  commissioned  to 
applot  a  state  subsidy  off  that  County,  as  was  David 
'  Gold '  in  a  few  years  after.  With  the  Municipal 
History  of  the  City  they  were,  during  the  years  previ- 
ous to  the  first  Civil  War,  intimately  connected.  Golds 
having  been  Mayors  of  Cork,  from  1442  to  1640,  no 
less  than  thirty  times  ;  but  aftenvards  they  ceased  to 
fill  any  corporate  oflSce  there.  Queen  Elizabeth's 
instructions  to  her  Lord  President  of  Munster,  Sir 
George  Carew,  in  1 600,  directed  that  William  Saxey, 
Chief  Justice,  and  James  Golde,  second  Justice  of  the 
said  Province,  being  of  special  trust  appointed  to  be 
of  his  Council,  shall  give  their  continual  attendance 
thereat,  and  shall  not  depart  at  any  time  without  the 
special  licence  of  the  said  Lord  President.  The  salary 
of  the  Chief  was  fixed  at  £100,  that  of  James  Golde 
at  one  hundred  marks,  subject  to  deductions  in  case 
of  their  absence  from  the  duties  so  imposed  upon 
them.  A  Manuscript  Book  of  Obits  in  Trinity 
College,  Dublin,  (F.  iv.  18),  supplies  some  links  of  the 
family  of  William  Goold,  Mayor  of  Cork  in  1618,  and 
who  died  in  1634. 

The  Attainders  of  1642  include  the  names  of  Gar- 
rett  '  Goold '  of  Castletown,  and  of  James  and  John 
Fitz-Richard  Goold  of  Tower-Bridge,  merchants. 
James  Goold  was  the  only  member  of  the  family  who 


Carroll's  dragoons.  405 

attended  the  Supreme  Council  in  1647. Besides 

the  above  Cornet  Kobert  Goold,  there  appear  on  this 
List,  Thomas  '  Gold '  an  Ensign  in  Colonel  Nicholas 
Browne's  Infantry  Regiment ;  and  James  Gold,  an 
Ensign  in  Colonel  John  Barrett's.  The  Attainders  of 
1691  include  the  names  of  James  and  Ignatius  Goold, 
described  as  of  Cork,  Esquires  ;  John  Goold  of  Kin- 
sale,  Esq.;  Richard  of  Cork,  merchant  ;  Patrick  of 
said  City;  James  'Goold'  of  Gal  way,  and  Ellen 
Bagot,  otherwise  Goold,  wife  of  John  Bagot  of  Cork. 
Amongst  those  who  were  taken  at  sea  in  1746, 
volunteering  to  aid  the  cause  of  Prince  Charles- 
Edward,  was  '  Captain  Gould,  Ultonia  Regiment, 
Spanish  service.'*  It  may  be  added  that  in  the 
Church  of  St.  Giles  at  Bruges  is  a  burial  place  of  Wil- 
liam Goold,  'of  ancient  and  venerable  lineage  in  Cork,' 
^  hujus  eccksicB  ceditui^'  as  inscribed  upon  a  white 
marble  slab  inserted  in  the  flag  of  the  Chapel  of  the 
Blessed  Virgin.f  In  1801,  a  branch  of  this  family 
was  raised  to  the  Baronetcy  in  Sir  Francis  Goold  of 
Oldcourt,  County  of  Cork ;  while  in  the  Imperial  Par- 
liament Wjmdham  Goold  was,  until  his  recent  decease, 
one  of  the  Representatives  for  the  County  of  Limerick. 


CORNET  TEIGUE  O'LYNE. 

The  O'Lynes  constituted   an   ancient   Sept  in   the 

♦  Gent.  Mag.  vol.  16,  p.  208. 

t  Nichols's  Top*,  and  Gen*,  for  1863,  p.  535. 


406  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

County  of  Kerry,  but  the  name  does  not  otherwise  ap- 
pear  on  this  List.  John  Lyne  was  one  of  those 
attainted  in  1691,  and  his  estate  in  Kerry  was  sold 
by  the  Commissioners  of  the  Forfeitures  to  Thomas 
Connor  of  Dublin. 


CORNET  HENRY  WILSE, 
QUARTER-MASTER  DAVID  MOSKELL, 
QUARTER-MASTER  EDWARD  SHEWELL. 

Nothing  is  known  of  these  officers  or  their  families. 


QUARTER-MASTER  JOHN  FENNELL. 

The  Attainders  of  1642  include  a  Patrick  Fennell, 
described  as  of  Kilrush,  County  of  Clare.  At  the 
Supreme  Council  of  Kilkenny,  five  years  after,  Gerard 
Fennell '  of  Ballygriffin,'  County  of  Tipperary,  was  one 
of  the  Commons  ;  his  estates  were  accordingly  confis- 
cated in  CromwelFs  time,  but  restored  by  the  Act  of 
Explanation  in  1665.  By  the  Usurper's  ordinance  of 
1652  this  Gerard,  described  as  a  Doctor  of  Physic, 
was  excepted  from  pardon  for  life  and  estate.  He 
died  in  1663,  and  was  buried  at  St.  Michan's,  Dublin. 
This  estate  of  Ballygriffin  was,  in  1668,  confirmed 
under  the  Act  of  Settlement  to  Thomas  Gower,  with 
a  saving,  however,  of  such  right  as  Ellen,  Gerald's 
widow,  might  prove  herself  entitled  to. 


CARROLL'S  DRAGOONS.  407 


QUAKTER-MASTER  DERMOT  DONWORTH. 

In  the  Inquisition  for  his  Attainder  in  1691,  he  is 
described  as  of  TempleconoUy,  County  of  Cork ;  where 
another  of  the  family,  Robert  Donworth,  was  also 
outlawed. 


QUARTER-MASTER  WILLIAM  BAKER. 

This  Officer  seems  identical  with  William  Baker  of 
Ballytobin  in  the  County  of  Kilkenny,  (the  son  of  a 
Major  William  Baker,  who  lost  all  his  estates  in 
Worcestershire  by  his  adherence  to  King  Charles  the 
First).  He  obtained  Ballytobin  from  Charles  the 
Second,  and  is  at  this  day  represented  by  his  lineal 
descendant,  Abraham  Whyte  Baker.  A  Francis 
Baker  was  Captain  in  Lord  Bophin's  Regiment  of 
Infantry ;  yet  neither  name  appears  on  the  At- 
tainders of  1691,  but  only  that  of  Peter  Baker, 
described  as  of  Dungorney,  County  of  Cork. 


QUARTER-MASTER  THOMAS  DYNNEEN. 

The  O'Dinnahans  or  O'Dinans  were  located  in  the 
County  of  Limerick,  Chiefs  of  the  tract  now  known  as 
the  Barony  of  Owneybeg. 


408  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST, 


KEGIMENTS  OF  DRAGOONS. 

[brigadier  THOMAS  MAXWELL.] 

[lieutenant-colonel  DANIEL  MAGENNIS.] 
[major CALLAGHAN.] 

The  Army  List,  more  concisely  given  in  Somers' 
State  Tracts,  (vol.  xi.,  p.  399)  makes  note  of  this 
seventh  Regiment  of  Dragoons,  commanded  by  Colo- 
nel Thomas  Maxwell,  and  his  name  appears  on  the 
List  of  Colonels  that  introduces  this  Muster  Roll ; 
while  in  Singer's  Correspondence  of  Lord  Clarendon 
(vol.  ii,  p.  512,)  his  force  is  set  down  as  twelve  com- 
panies, comprising  a  total  of  six  hundred  men.  He^ 
according  to  Colonel  O'Kelly,  was  a  Scotchman  by 
birth,  a  pretended  Roman  Catholic,  and  of  mean  ex- 
traction. O'Callaghan,  with  less  prejudice  and  on 
more  satisfactory  authority,  reports  him  to  have  been 
"  of  a  very  good  family  in  his  native  country,  prob- 
ably a  branch  of  the  Maxwells  of  Nithsdale."  Previ- 
ous to  King  James  retiring  into  France  in  1688, 
Maxwell  was  appointed  in  England  Colonel  of  a  Regi- 
ment of  Dragoons,  in  place  of  James  Berkeley, 
Viscount  Fitz-Harding,  who  succeeded  to  the  command 
on  Maxwell's  foUowing  that  King.  In  Ireland  the 
latter  was  afterwards  made  Colonel  of  a  Regiment  of 
Dragoons,  of  which  Daniel  Magennis  was  Lieutenant- 
Colonel,  and  Callaghan,  Major.*      Mr.  Hardi- 

♦  King's  State  of  the  Protestants,  p.  68. 


maxwell's  dragoons.  409 

man  adds  of  this  Colonel,*  that  he  was  married  in 
England  to  Jane,  Duchess  of  Norfolk,  widow  of  the 
sixth  Duke,  a  Lady  remarkable  for  her  beauty  and 
accomplishments.  When  Schomberg  landed  at 
Bangor  in  1689,  Maxwell,  then  stationed  in  that 
place,  not  being  able  with  his  small  force  to  give 
opposition,  left  there  Mac  Carty  More's  Regiment 
with  some  Companies  of  Cormuck  CNeiU's,  and 
retired  to  Newry.  He  was  present  at  the  battle  of 
the  Boyne.  Colonel  O'KeUy  says  he  was  one  of  those 
appointed  by  Tyrconnell  to  guide  and  advise  the 
young  Duke  of  Berwick  on  that  Viceroy's  departure 
for  France  ;  and  it  would  appear  from  his  narrative, 
that  he  interested  himself  in  predisposing  King  James 
to  give  a  cool  reception  to  the  delegates  against  Tyr- 
connel,  whom  he  accompanied  to  St.  Germains.  On 
that  delegation  were,  besides  Maxwell,  the  Bishop  of 
Cork,  the  two  Luttrells,  and  Colonel  Purcell.  "  Pur- 
cell,"  says  0'Conor,f  "and  Henry  Luttrell,  suspecting 
that  Maxwell  carried  private  instructions,  proposed  to 
throw  him  overboard  ;  but  the  Bishop  interposed  the 
sanctity,  and  Simon  Luttrell  the  mildness  and 
honesty  of  his  character,  and  their  united  expostula- 
tions rescued  him  from  a  watery  grave.  ** 

O'Kelly,  who  was  himself  a  partizan  of  St.  Ruth 
against  Tyrconnel,  ascribes  the  surprisal  of  Athlone 
by  De  Ginkle  to  the  neglect  or  treachery  of  Colonel 
Maxwell.     The  Duke  of  Berwick  in  his  Memoir  takes 

♦  History  of  Galway,  p.  429. 
t  O'Conor's  Milit.  Mem.  p.  128. 


410  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

a  very  different  view  of  the  circumstance,  as  men- 
tioned in  O'Callaghan's  valuable  notes  on  the  Excid. 
MacaricBy  (p.  427).  Dr.  Story,  the  Williamite  his- 
torian of  the  campaign,  in  reference  to  the  taking  of 
Athlone,  writes: — "1691,  28th  June,  the  garrison 
detached  a  sergeant  and  ten  men  out  of  Brigadier 
Maxwell's  Regiment,  being  all  bold  and  daring  Scots. 
These  were  all  in  armour,  and  came  over  their  own 
w^orks  with  a  design  to  ruin  ours,  but  were  all  of 
them  slain  ;  yet  this  did  not  discourage  as  many 
more  fi'om  setting  about  the  same  piece  of  service,  and 
they  effected  it  by  throwing  down  our  planks  and 
beams,  maugre  all  our  firming  and  skiU,  though  they  all 
lost  their  lives  as  testimonies  of  their  valour,  except 
two."*  The  town  was  taken  in  two  days  after,  and 
Major-General  Maxwell  made  prisoner,  and  sent  uj) 
with  others  to  Dublin  ;  "but  some,**  says  Story, 
"  made  their  escape.f "  The  Dragoons  of  Maxwell 
(who  had  himself  in  the  course  of  the  campaign 
become  a  Brigadier,  and  Major-General  in  the  Irish 
army),  with  the  others  hereinbefore  mentioned,  were 
all  engaged  at  Aughrim,  with  the  exception  ,of  Lord 
Clare's,  which  had  been  previously  brigaded  ;  while 
Mr.  O'Callaghan  in  his  Green  Book,  (p.  319) 
suggests  the  existence  of  another  Regiment  of 
Dragoons  there,  commanded  by  Colonel  John 
O'Reilly. 

The  "  Diary  of  the  Siege  and  Surrender  of  Limerick 

*  Story's  Impartial  Hist.  pt.  2,  p.  102. 
t  Idem,  pp.  108-1),  and  117. 


maxwell's  dragoons.  411 

in  1691''  says,  at  16th  September,  "About  seven 
of  the  clock  the  bridge  was  finished,  and  the  General 
immediately  ordered  the  Royal  Regiment  of  Dragoons 

to  pass In  the  meantime  the  enemy's  Dragoons 

came  down  on  foot  to  oppose  us,  but  as  soon  as  our 
men  advanced  they  took  to  their  heels,  leaving  their 
tents  and  baggage  with  their  bridles  and  saddles  (their 
horses  being  at  grass  at  a  place  about  two  miles  off) 
behind  them.  We  took  also  two  pieces  of  brass  can- 
non, and  Brigadier  Maxwell's  standard We  took 

several  prisoners,  and  among  them  a  French  Lieute- 
nant-Colonel of  Dragoons,  and  some  other  officers."* 
O'Conor  writes  in  respect  to  this  critical  scene, 
"  Maxwell,  who  guarded  the  ford  below  the  town,  had 
suffered  his  men  to  faU  asleep,  and  some  of  them  de- 
serting apprised  the  enemy  of  the  state  of  the  gar- 
rison ;  De  Ginkle,  who  had  resolved  upon  a  desjierate 
effort,  was  much  encouraged  by  this  information, 
and  his  efforts  were  successful.!"  That  this  Brigadier 
was  not  guilty  of  any  deficiency  of  allegiance  to  the 
King  he  acknowledged,  may  yet  be  presumed  from 
the  fact  of  his  having,  after  the  Capitulation  of  Lime- 
rick, passed  over  to  France  at  the  head  of  two  Irish 
Regiments  of  Dragoons,  spoken  of  by  Marshal  Catinat 
as  performing  '  des  choses  surprenentes  de  valeur  et 
de  bon  ordre  dans  le  combat'  He  was  killed  at  the 
battle  of  Marsiglia  in  Piedmont,  gained  over  the  Duke 
of  Savoy  and  the  allies  by  that  Marshal  in  1693. 

♦  Harleian  MSS.  voL  7,  p.  486. 
t  O'Conor's  Milit.  Mem.  p.  140. 


412  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

O'Conor,  however,  in  his  "  Military  Memoirs '  says* 
it  was  a  Charles  Maxwell,  Major  in  the  Brigaded 
Regiment  styled  the  Queen's  Dismounted  Dragoons, 
who  .was  killed  at  the  battle  of  Marsiglia. 

*  O'Conor  s  Milit.  Mem.,  pp.  198  and  222. 


[    413    ] 
KING    JAMES'S    IRISH    ARMY    LIST. 

Regiments  of  Infantry. 


1. 

The  Kino's, 

28. 

Butler's  (Edward), 

2. 

John  Hamilton's, 

29. 

McMahon's  (Art), 

8. 

Henry  Frrz- James's,  Lord 

30. 

Moore's  (Charles), 

Grand  Prior, 

3L 

Bagnall's  (Dudley), 

4. 

Mountcashel's, 

82. 

O'Neill's  (Gordon), 

6. 

Clancarthy's, 

83. 

Browne's  (Nicholas), 

6 

Clanricarde's, 

34. 

Sir  Michael  Creagh's, 

7. 

Earl  of  Antrim's, 

36. 

Sir  Heward  Oxburgh's, 

8. 

Earl  of  Tyrone's, 

36. 

Browne's  (Dominick), 

9. 

Nugent's  (Richard), 

37. 

MacCartie's  (Owen), 

10. 

Gormanston's, 

38. 

Barrett's,  (John), 

11. 

Dillon's  (Henry), 

39. 

O'Bryan's  (Charles), 

12. 

Lord  Galway's, 

40. 

O'Donovan's  (Daniel), 

13. 

Lord  Bellew  s, 

41. 

Lord  Iveagh's, 

14. 

Lord  Kenmare's, 

42. 

McEllicott's  (Roger), 

15. 

Lord  Slane's, 

43. 

O'Reilly's  (Edmund), 

16 

O'Neill's  (Cormuck), 

44. 

MacGuire's  (Cuconaught) 

17. 

Cavenagh's  (Charles), 

45. 

Bourke's  (Walter), 

18. 

Sutler's  (Thomas), 

46. 

O'Neill's  (Felix), 

19. 

FitzGerald's  (John), 

47. 

McMahon's  (Hugh), 

20. 

Lord  Louth's, 

48. 

McGillicuddy's  (Denis), 

21. 

Lord  Kilmallock's, 

49. 

Purcell's  (James), 

22. 

Sir  Maurice  Eustace's, 

50. 

Lord  Hunsdon's, 

23. 

Earl  of  Westmeath's, 

51. 

Moore  s  (Garreit), 

24. 

Major-General  Boise- 

52. 

Bourke's  (Patrick), 

LEAU'S, 

63. 

Bourke's  (Michael), 

26. 

Lord  Bophin's, 

54. 

Cormick's  (Michael), 

26. 

O'Gara's  (Oliver), 

55. 

O'Neill's  (IIenry), 

27. 

Grace's  (John), 

56. 

McMahon's  (Hugh). 

414 


KING  JAMES  S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 


KEGIMENTS  OF  INFANTBY. 


Captains. 

The  King's  Company,  Mi- 
chael Iloth,  Captain. 

William  Doirington,  Colonel. 

William  Maanscll  Barker, 
Lieutenant-Colonel. 


Thomas  Arthur, 


',  Major.         } 


George  Talbot 

Richard  Fagan. 

Sir  Luke  Dowdull. 

Sir  Gregory  Byrne. 
Patrick  Dowdall. 
Bartholomew  Kussel. 

Thomas  Ilackett. 

Tliomas  Warren. 

Walter  Nangle,  and  Geo.  > 
Nangle,  his  Son.  3 

Edward  Dowdall. 

George  Aylmer. 

John  Segrave. 

Sir  Anthony  Mulledy. 

Thomas  Anmdell,  Grena- 
diers. 

John  Tyrrell. 
John  Arthur. 


THE   king's. 

Lieuienanti. 
Richard  Fitzgerald. 

Robert  Russell. 
Thomas  Wafer. 

John  Connell, 
Walter  Pluuket. 
William  Fitzwilliani 

Barnwell, 
John  Edwards. 
Edmund  Fahy, 
John  Clancy. 
Christopher  Weldon 
Edmund  Brennan. 
Charles  McDonnell, 
Peter  Purcell. 
Richard  Bourke. 
James  Russell, 
James  Carney. 
David  Kihill, 
Christopiier  TaafTe. 
Robert  Dillon, 
Walter  D* Alton. 
Edward  Nangle, 
John  Grace. 
Peter  Bathe, 
Bryen  Lynch. 
Edward  Tipper, 
Thomas  Skelton. 
James  Molloy. 
Francis  White,  ) 

Edmund  Kelly.         ) 
Charles  Povey,  f 

John  Margetsun.       j^ 


Efuiffus. 
Edward  Arthur. 

Talbot  Salter. 
James  Touchott. 

John  Arthur. 

Nicholas  Tyrwhitt. 

Piers  Meade. 

Robert  Bamewall. 

Edward  Hanlon. 
Cliristopher  Archbold. 


Andrew  Doyle, 
William  Fitzwilliani 
Barnwell. 


Edward  Toole. 

Michael  Warren. 

John  Dillon. 

JohnPlunkct. 

John  Cusack. 
Matthew  Taaffe. 
Adam  Cusack. 


George  Russell. 
Henry  Driscoll. 
Thomas  Poyntz. 


TllE  king's  regiment   OF   INFANTRY.  415 


THE  KING'S. 

This  fine  Regiment  is  stated  in  the  Establishment  of 
1687-8  as  then  consisting  of  only  twelve  companies 
(1080  men);  its  charge  being  stated  as  £17,827  12s. 
When  strengthened  as  in  this  Muster  Koll,  it  comprised 
twenty-two  companies  of  ninety  soldiers  each,  or 
1980  men,  exclusive  of  officers.  The  celebrated 
Doctor  Alexius  Stafford  (a  secular  priest  of  Wexford 
County)  Dean  of  Christ  Church,  Master  in  Chancery, 
and  member  for  Bannow  in  King  James's  Pariiament, 
was  Chaplain  to  the  Regiment ;  and  he,  having  in  his 
zeal  passed  into  the  ranks  at  the  battle  of  Aughrim, 
fell  on  that  disastrous  day. 

The  Clarendon  Correspondence  (vol.  1,  p.  434,) 
gives  an  interesting  account  of  a  review  of  this 
Regiment  in  1686.  "This  morning  (8th  June, 
1686)  the  Royal  Regiment  drew  up  in  St.  Stephen's 
Green,  when  my  Lord  Tyrconnel  viewed  them  and 
saw  them  exercise ;  Lieutenant-Colonel  Dorrington 
was  in  his  post;  I  was  not  in  the  field.  His  Lordship 
told  the  officers  that  the  King  was  so  satisfied  in  the 
long  services  of  Sir  Charles  Fielding,  that  he  had 
removed  him  to  prefer  him  to  a  better  post,  and  that 
he  did  the  like  for  Master  Billingsley,  who  was  then 
in  the  field.  Major  Barker  not  being  yet  come.  His 
Lordship  likewise  said,  as  I  am  informed,  His 
Majesty  did  not  remove  any  of  the  other  officers  out 
of  any  dislike,  for  he  was  well  satisfied  with  their 
services,  but  to  make  room  for  other  men  of  great 


416  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

merit.  Then  presented  Captain  Harman  to  the  Com- 
pany he  was  to  command,  on  the  head  of  which  was 
Captain  Margetson,  who  said  he  bought  his  employ, 
ment  to  show  his  readiness  to  venture  his  life  and 
fortune  in  the  King's  service  ;  that  whilst  he  had 
been  in  it  he  behaved  himself  with  loyalty  and  honor, 
and  did  now  most  readily  submit  to  his  Majesty^s 
pleasure."  This  Kegiment  of  Infantry,  together  with 
Fitz-James's,  Lord  Galway's,  Sir  Maurice  Eustace's, 
and  Colonel  Ramsay's,  Lord  Galmoy's,  Lord  Abercorn's, 
and  Colonel  Dominick  Sheldon's  Horse,  constituted 
the  besieging  force  at  Derry  ;  and  at  the  Boyne  and 
on  the  last  fatal  field  of  Aughrim,  the  valour  and 
steadiness  of  this  truly  Royal  Regiment  were  preemi- 
nent. 


COLONEL  WILLIAM  DORRINGTON. 

DoRRiXGTON  was  a  native  of  England,*  and  belonged 
to  this  Regiment  of  Guards  from  its  first  formation- 
In  the  Establishment  of  1687-8  he  is  entered  on  the 
Pension  List  for  £200  per  annum.  A  tract,  contem- 
poraneous  with  the  arrival  of  King  James  in  Dublin, 
states  as  in  a  letter  from  Chester,  that  this  ill-judging 
monarch  had  issued  orders  which  were  construed  as 
confiding  the  care  and  guard  of  his  person  rather  to 
his  French  auxiliaries  then  lately  arrived,  than  to  his 
Irish  adherents;  that  a  deputation  of  his  own  oflScers 

*  O'Callaghan's  Macarke  Excidium,  p.  419. 


THE  king's  regiment  OF  INFANTRY.  417 

having  received  no  satisfactory  reply,  this  Colonel 
and  twelve  other  chief  officers  went  to  the  King 
and  delivered  up  their  commissions,  telling  him  withal 
that  many  more  were  resolved  to  do  the  like.  Where- 
upon an  arrangement  was  entered  into,  which,  how- 
ever, little  satisfied  either  party.  Constituted  as  the 
King's  Council  was,  and  attended  chiefly  by  com- 
manders of  the  Irish,  the  occurrence,  if  truly  alleged, 
must  have  had  an  awftd  effect  on  the  eve  of  the  cam- 
paign. Dorrington  was  himself  of  that  Board,  toge- 
ther with  the  Dukes  of  Powis  and  Berwick,  the  Earls 
of  Clanricarde,  Abercom,  Carlingford,  and  Melfort, 
the  Lords  Kilmallock,  Clare,  Merrion,  and  Kenmare  ; 
the  English  Lord  Chief  Justice,  Sir  Edward  Herbert, 
(who  followed  the  King's  fortune,  and  subsequently 
became  his  Chancellor  at  St.  Germains),  Colonel 
Patrick  Sarsfield,  afterwards  created  by  him  Earl  of 
Lucan,  and  Sir  Ignatius  White  of  Limerick,  Baro- 
net.* 

Colonel  Dorrington  was  afterwards  commissioned 
by  his  King,  immediately  before  the  meeting  of  the 
Parliament  of  Dublin,  to  serve  at  the  siege  of  Derry, 
and  there  was  he  wounded,  but  not  so  badly  as  long 
to  supersede  his  active  duty.  In  the  September  of 
that  year,  when  King  James  would  fain  advance  to 
arrest  the  progress  of  his  enemy  in  Louth,  having 
marched  within  a  short  distance  of  Dundalk,  he  di- 
rected Colonel  Dorrington  with  the  Brigade  of  Guards 
to  come  on  as  far  as  Mapletown-bridge,  and  resolved 

♦  O'Callaghan  8  Brigade,  v.  1,  p.  168. 

EE 


418  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

himself  to  encamp  near  that  of  Affane.*  Dorrington 
subsequently  distinguished  himself  at  the  Boyne,  and 
was  Governor  of  Limerick  in  the  latter  portion  of  that 
year  (1690).  When  Tyconnel  passed  over  to 
France,  leaving  the  Duke  of  Berwick  his  Deputy  in 
the  Vice-Royalty  of  Ireland,  Brigadier  Dorrington 
was  one  of  these  deputed  to  represent  to  his  Grace 
that  the  power  so  attempted  to  be  conferred  upon 
him  was  illegal,  but  that  the  Great  Council  in  Lime- 
rick, consisting  of  the  Prelates,  Nobles,  and  OflScers, 
were  willing  that  he  should  have  the  civil  and  mili- 
itary  authority,  provided  he  would  admit  a  select 
council  of  officers  to  direct  his  military  operations,  and 
allow  two  able  persons  from  each  of  the  provinces  to 
advise  him  in  relation  to  the  civil.f  On  Tyrconnel's 
return  to  France,  Dorrington  was  made  Major-Gene- 
ral  of  the  Army  J. 

Immediately  before  the  last  siege  of  Limerick,  he 
was  taken  prisoner  at  the  battle  of  Aughrim,§  and 
was  thereupon  sent  up  to  Dublin,  from  thence  to 
Chester  and  at  last  to  the  Tower  of  London ;  but  was 
80  soon  released  or  exchanged  by  the  Revolutionists 
as  to  be  able  to  resume  in  France  his  active  adherence 
to  the  Jacobite  cause.  There  he  retained  his  Colonelcy 
of  the  Royal  Irish  Foot  Guards  ;  of  which,  in  the  re- 
modelling, Oliver  O'Gara,  who  had  been  a  full  Colonel  in 
Ireland,   was    constituted    Lieutenant-Colonel,    and 

•  Clarke's  James  II.,  v.  2.  p.  379. 
t  O'Connor  s  Milit.  Mem.  p.  126. 
X  Story's  Impartial  Hist.  pt.  2,  p.  55.  §  Idem,  p.  137. 


THE  king's  regiment  OF  INFANTRY.  419 

John  Both,  Major.  The  Regiment,  then  consisting  of 
twelve  companies,  was  stationed  on  the  coast  of 
Normandy,  as  part  of  the  army  designed  for  the  inva- 
sion of  England  in  1693  :  it  subsequently  served  in 
Flanders  ;  and  in  Germany,  in  1703,  under  Villars, 
maintained  a  high  character ;  Dorrington  himself 
having  been  then  raised  to  the  rank  of  Lieutenant- 
Greneral.  In  the  same  year  he  was  engaged  in  the 
mountain  campaign  against  the  Tyrolose.  In  1704, 
he  sustained  with  the  French  that  signal  discomfiture 
of  which  O'Conor  writes  as  "  a  memorable  instance  of 
the  finest  army  in  the  world  annihilated  by  the  igno- 
rance of  the  leaders/*  He  again  distinguished  him- 
self in  Germany  under  Marshal  Villars,  and  especially 
at  Ramillies  in  1705.  In  1709,*  he  was  engatged  at 
the  battle  of  Malplaquet,  and  subsequently  under  the 
same  leadership  until  17 12.  In  1718,  he  died  at 
Paris,  when  this  Regimenf  was  transferred  to  the 
Compte  Michael  de  Roth,  and  bore  his  name.  This 
title  was  again  changed  in  1766  to  'Roscommon,'  and 
in  1770  to  'Walsh's,'  which  it  continued  to  bear,  down 
to  the  French  Revolution. 

Another  Dorrington  (Andrew)  was  Captain  in  the 
Earl  of  Clancarthy's  Regiment  of  Infantry,  but 
William  is  the  only  one  on  the  Roll  of  Attainders, 
whereon  he  is  described  as  '  of  Dublin.' 

♦  O'Conor's  Milit.  Mem.  p.  290. 


EE  2 


420  KING  James's  irisii  army  list. 

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL  WILLIAM  MAUN- 
SELL   BARKER. 

This  name  does  not  seem  to  have  been  known  in  Ire- 
land until  the  days  of  the  Tudor  Dynasty,  neither 
does  it  appear  on  the  Attainders  of  1642  or  1691. 
By  the  Act  of  Explanation  (1665)  William  Barker, 
Esq.,  was  restoi'ed  to  his  estates  in  the  County  of 
Limerick,  and  seems  to  have  been  the  father  of  the 
above  Lieutenant-Colonel,  who  commanded  the  Infan- 
try at  the  momentous  battle  of  Aughrim.  There,  ac- 
cording to  Clarke's  Memoir  of  James  the  Second,  (vol. 
2,  p.  359),  he  was  icounded^  according  to  Dean 
Story,*  killed.  A  Sir  William  Barker  being  seized  in 
fee  of  lands  in  the  County  of  Limerick,  and  also  of  a 
manor  in  Essex,  settled  same  on  his  marriage  in 
1676,  and  the  eldest  son  of  that  marriage  was  another 
Sir  William.t 


MAJOR  THOMAS  ARTHUR. 

This  name  appears  of  Irish  record  from  the  time  of 
Edward  the  Second,  and  Ortelius's  map  locates  the 
family   in   the   Barony   of  Clanwilliam,   County   of 

Limerick. In  the  year  1210,  Robert  Arthur  was 

a  benefactor  to  the  great  Abbey  of  St.  Thomas  in 
Dublin.  In  1486,  Dr.  Thomas  Arthur,  by  birth  of 
Limerick  City,  died  there  Bishop  of  the  See.      In  the 

*  Impartial  Hist.  pt.  2,  p.  130.  f  Appeal  Cases. 


THE  king's  regiment  OF  INFANTRY.  421 

first  Parliament  of  Elizabeth,  Edward  Arthur  was  one 
of  the  members  elected  to  represent  the  City.  After 
the  Kestoration,  a  patent  of  lands  in  the  County  of 
Limerick  to  Captain  John  Winckworth,  a  Cromwel- 
lian,  contained  a  saving  of  the  right  of  Dr.  Thomas 
Arthur  to  certain  lands  therein  named,  as  a  nominee 
after  reprisals.  He  had  a  similar  saving  in  a  patent 
of  premises  in  the  City  of  Limerick,  to  Wentworth, 
Earl  of  Koscommon ;  while,  under  the  Acts  of  Settle- 
ment and  Explanation,  he  was  restored  to  his  principal 
seat  and  2,000  acres  of  land  ;  as  was,  by  the  same 
legislative  arrangement  of  property,  John  Arthur  to 
the  estates  of  his  father.  Alderman  Arthur,  with  some 
exceptions  ;  and  a  Patrick  Arthur  was  likewise 
thereby  similarly  restored.  In  King  James's  Charter 
to  Limerick,  Nicholas  Arthur  was  named  one  of  the 
Aldermen,  while  James  and  Thomas  Arthur  were  of 
its  Burgesses.  This  Thomas  it  may  be  concluded  was 
the  above  Major.  At  the  Parliament  of  Dublin  in 
1689,  he  sat  as  one  of  the  Representatives  for  the  Bo- 
rough of  Newcastle,  in  the  County  of  Dublin.* 

An  early  notice  of  this  Thomas  appears  in  the 
"Correspondence  of  the  Earl  of  Clarendon,"  (6th 
May,  1686),  when,  writing  to  the  Earl  of  Sunderland 
he  recommends  "  that  Captain  Thomas  Arthur,  a 
Roman  Catholic,  who  lately  bought  the  employment, 
be  advanced  to  the  Lieutenant-Colonelcy  of  the 
Guards."!      Early  in  the  September  of  that  year  he 

♦  King's  MSS.  in  Dublin  Soc. 

t  Singer's  Correspond,  vol.  2,  p.  372. 


422  KING  James's  irish  army  ust. 

was  sent  to  Connaught  by  Tyrconnel  to  raise  recruits, 
but  not  having  the  Earl  of  Clarendon's  order,  he  was 
recalled,  and  this  the  rather  "  as  the  Captain  could 
command  no  serviceable  interest  in  Connaught."* 
Lord  Clarendon,  having  been  afterwards  acciised  of 
thus  recalling  Arthur,  defended  himself  as  that  the 
raising  of  men  is  a  matter  of  great  consequence,  and 
ought  to  be  done  by  no  authority  but  that  of  the  Chief 
Govemor.f  Besides  Major  Thomas,  there  were  of  the 
family  in  this  Regiment  Jolin  Arthur  a  Captain, 
Edward  and  John  Arthur  Ensigns ;  and  Patrick 
Arthur  was  a  Captain  in  Major-General  Boiseleau's 
Infantry.  One 'of  these  Captains  was  wounded  at 
Deny,  while  the  above  Major  fell  at  the  Boyne  ;X  ^^^ 
Dean  Story  records  the  death  of  a  Colonel  Arthur  at 
the  battle  of  Aughrim,§  who  it  would  seem  from 
Lodge,||  was  married  to  a  niece  of  Richard,  Earl  of 
Tyrconnel.  The  outlawries  of  1691  include  the 
above  Thomas^  described  as  of  Colganstown,  County 
of  Dublin,  with  three  others  in  said  County,  and  one 
in  each  of  those  of  Limerick,  Clare,  and  Kilkenny. 
Various  claims  were  made  on  their  estates  at  Chi- 
chester House. 


*  Singer  8  Correspondence  of  Lord  Clarendon,  vol.  2,  pp.  578-9. 
t  Idem.  X  Clarke's  James  II.  v.  2.  p.  399 

§  Impartial  History,  pt.  2,  p.  138.       H  Peerage,  v.  4,  p.  IGO. 


THE  king's  regiment  OF   INFANTRY.  423 


CAPTAIN  RICHARD  FAGAN. 

This  family  is  by  some  considered  of  English  descent, 
while  others  prefix  to  it  the  Milesian  '  0/  In  the 
thirteenth  century  it  was  established  in  Meuth,  and 
in  its  branches  became  early  connected  with  the  De 
Lacys,  Plunketts,  and  Barnewalls.  In  1358,  John 
Fagan  was  High  Sheriff  of  the  Liberties  of  Meath  ; 
and  in  1373,  was  appointed  Governor  of  the  important 
Castle  of  the  Pale  at  Trim. 

Christopher  Fagan,  -the  representative  of  tlie 
Meath  line,  and  inheritor  of  their  estates,  was  induced 
to  lend  his  influence  in  mainUiining  Perkin  Warbeck  s 
claim  to  the  Crown.  He  (as  it  is  said  in  an  old 
family  pedigree,  verified  by  wills  and  funeral 
entries  in  the  OflSce  of  Arms,  and  now  preserved  by 
Mr.  William  Fagan  of  Cork),  was  slain  with  four  of 
his  sons  at  the  siege  of  Carlow,  when  a  great  portion 
of  their  Meath  estates  was,  as  confiscated,  granted  to 
the  Aylmers,  Barnewalls,  and  other  gentry  of  the 
Pale.  John,  the  youngest  son  of  Christopher,  was 
also  at  Carlow,  being  then  but  18  years  of  age  ;  he, 
however,  escaped  the  slaughter,  and  fled  to  Cork,  a 
city  that  held  out  strenuously  for  Perkin.  He  there 
married  Phillis,  daughter  of  William  Skiddy  of  Skiddy's 
Castle  in  that  city,  by  whom  he  had  two  sons,  and  a 
daughter  Phillis,  who  married  Thomas  Gould.  Rich- 
ard, the  eldest  son  of  Christopher,  left  a  son  Thomas 
Fagan,  who  acquired  that  estate  of  Feltrim  in  the 
County  of  Dublin  from  which  the  head  of  the  family 


424  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

has  since  derived  a  territorial  designation.  His 
eldest  son,  another  Christopher,  was  High  SheriflF  of 
the  City  of  Dublin  in  1565  and  1573  ;  and  it  was 
during  his  possession  of  Feltrim  that  the  unfortunate 
Earl  of  Desmond,  being  a  prisoner  of  state  in  the 
Castle  of  Dublin,  and  his  health  failing  so  as  to  need 
the  air  of  the  country,  this  Christopher  Fagan  was 
select/cd  to  take  charge  of  his  person  at  his  residence. 
But  when  it  was  intimated  to  Fagan  that  it  would  be 
his  duty  to  watch  the  captive,  he  magnanimously 
replied,  that  the  Earl  woult^  be  welcome  to  diet  and 
lodging  at  his  house,  yet  would  he  never  consent  to 
be  his  keeper.  Desmond,  it  may  be  added,  in  such  li- 
beral guardianship  was  allowed  to  walk  abroad  on  his 
parol  ;  but,  abusing  the  privilege,  he  escaped  into 
Munster,  where  entering  soon  after  into  open  rebellion 
he  was  treacherously  murdered.*  The  descendant  and 
namesake  of  tliis  Christopher  was  declared  a  forfeit- 
ing proprietor  during  the  civil  wars  of  1641.  On 
proof,  however,  of  his  innocence,  he  was  in  1670 
decreed  the  possession  of  Feltrim,  qualified  into  an 
estate  in  tail-male.  His  death  in  1682  is  recorded  in 
a  funeral  entry  in  the  OflSce  of  Arms,  wherein  he  is 
described  as  'Christopher,  son  of  Kichard,  son  of  John, 
son  of  Richard  ;'  that  he  died  1 2th  February,  1682-3, 
and  was  buried  in  St.  Audoens'  Church,  Dublin  ; 
having  married  Anne,  daughter  of  Sir  Nicholas  White 
of  Leixlip,  by  whom  he  had  several  children,  of  whom 
(says  the  record)  Richard  and  Peter  are  now  living, 

♦  D' Alton's  History  of  the  Co.  Dublin,  pp.  211-12. 


THE  king's  regiment  OF  INFANTRY.      425 

and  one  daughter,  Elizabeth,  married  to  Lord  Stra- 
bane  [and  who  became  mother  by  him  of  Claud,  fourth 
Eari  of  Abercorn,  Colonel  of  a  Regiment  of  Horse  in 
this  Army,  as  before  noticed].  The  Richard  here 
mentioned  was  the  above  Captain,  and  he  married 
Ellen,  daughter  of  Thomas  Aylmer  of  Lyons,  by 
whom  he  had  one  daughter,  Anna-Maria.  Richard's 
uncle,  John  Fagan,  became  the  founder  of  that 
Munster  line  in  which  the  representation  is  now 
preserved  ;  and  his  son  Christopher  was,  as  hereafter 
noticed,  a  Captain  in  Lord  Kenmare's  Infantry  ; 
while  in  Sir  Michael  Creagh's,  Patrick  '  Ffagan '  was 
also  a  Captain.  The  Attainders  of  1691  exhibit  the 
names  of  Thomas  Fagan  of  Kinsale,  Bryan  '  OTegan' 
of  Drumgagh,  County  of  Down,  clerk  ;  Manus 
'  OTegan '  of  Clonallon,  County  of  Down  ;  with 
Richard  Fagan,  described  as  of  Drakestown,  County 
of  Meath,  and  Feltrim,  County  of  Dublin.  The  value 
of  the  latter's  estate  alone  was  so  considerable,  that 
an  inquiry  into  its  circumstances  was  directed  in 
1690-1,  with  the  object  of  presenting  it  as  a  royal 
boon  to  Sir  Robert  Southwell.*  The  sale  of  all  his 
estates  ultimately  brought  in  not  less  than  £100,000, 
out  of  which  only  his  wife's  jointure  and  his  daugh- 
ters'  portions  (for  he  died  without  male  issue)  were 
allowed  to  be  paid  ;  viz.  £1,000  for  his  eldest  daugh- 
ter Anne,  and  £400  for  each  of  his  other  daughters, 
Elizabeth  and  Helen.     They  were  all  minors  at  the 

♦  Thorpe's  Catal.  SouthweU  MSS.  p.  213. 


426  KING  JAM£S'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

time  of  the  claims  made.     Helen  afterwards  married 
John  Taylor  of  Swords,  antej  p.  379. 

A  James  Fagan  passed  after  the  Revolution  into 
the  Spanish  service,  where  he  was  promoted  to  the 
rank  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  Hamel's  Regiment.  He 
married  the  heiress  of  the  House  of  Turges  in  Lor- 
raine, and  was  living  in  1722.*  See  further  of  this 
family  at  Christopher  Fagan,  a  Captain  in  Lord  Ken- 
mare's  Infantry. 


CAPTAINS  SIR  LUKE,  PATRICK,  AND 
EDWARD  DOWDALL. 

This  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of 
King  Edward  the  Third.  In  1446,  Robert  Dowdall 
of  Newtown-Termonfeckin,  County  of  Louth,  was  ap- 
pointed Chief  Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas  in  Ire- 
land. His  son  Thomas  was  Master  of  the  Rolls  in 
1488,  and  James  Dowdall  was  appointed  in  1583 
Chief  Justice  of  the  Queen's  Bench.  An  unprinted  Act 
of  Resumption  of  1468  contains  a  saving  of  the  rights 
of  the  aforesaid  Robert  Dowdall.  Edward  Dowdall  of 
Glaspistol  was  one  of  the  Representatives  of  the 
County  of  Louth  in  Queen  Elizabeth's  first  Parlia- 
ment ;  and  Laurence  Dowdall  of  Athlumney  and 
Nicholas  Dowdall  of  Brownstown  attended  the  cele- 
brated meeting  on  the  hill  of  Crofiy.  The  Attainders 
of  1642  present  the  names  of  this  Nicholas,  Walter  of 

•  Fagan  MSS. 


THE  KINGS  REGIMENT  OF  INFANTRY.  427 

Athboy,  and  Laurence  of  Athlumney.  The  latter  was 
of  the  Confederate  Catholics  who  adhered  to  the  King 
at  the  meeting  in  Kilkenny,  and  he  was  accordingly 
excepted  from  pardon  for  life  or  estate  in  Cromwell's 
Act  of  1652.  In  a  grant  of  Athlumney  as  forfeited 
property  to  William  Ridges  in  1666,  a  saving  was 
inserted  "  of  such  right  and  no  other  as  should  be  ad- 
judged  due  to  Sir  Luke  Dowdall,  Knight,  as  a  nomi- 
nee in  the  town  and  lands  of  Athlumney."  Besides 
these  Captains,  there  appear  upon  this  List  another 
Edward  Dowdall  a  Quarter-Master,  and  Joseph 
Bowdall  an  Ensign  in  Lord  Louth's  Regiment  of 
Infantry ;  while  a  John  Dowdall,  who  does  not  appear 
upon  it,  was,  after  its  date,  appointed  Major  of  Lord 
*Bellew's'  Infantry.  The  list  of  names  for  the 
Shrievalties  in  Ireland,  sent  over  to  Lord  Clarendon 
the  Viceroy,  contained  for  the  County  of  Meath  the 
name  of  Launcelot  Dowdall,  with  the  observation,  '  a 
factious  caballing  whig  ;'  to  which  Clarendon  replied 
in  comment,  '  This  gentleman  is  of  an  ancient  Eng- 
lish family  in  that  county,  where  he  behaves  himself 
with  great  sobriety,  and  is  so  far  from  being  a  favour- 
ite of  the  whigs  or  caballing  with  them,  that  they  are 
dissatisfied  with  his  being  Sheriff,  concluding  him  a 
friend  to  the  old  natives  of  the  County.** 

John  Dowdall  was  one  of  the  Representatives  of  the 
Borough  of  Dundalk  in  the  Parliament  of  1689,  as 
was  Henry  Dowdall,  Recorder  of  Drogheda,  for  that 
ancient  town.      This  latter  it  was  who,  in  duty  of  his 

*  Singers  Correspondence  of  Lord  Clarendon,  v.  1,  p.  286. 


428  KIxXG  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

office,  delivered  that  address  of  its  Corporation  to 
King  James,  when  entering  the  town  on  the  7th  of 
April,  1689,  which  is  preserved  in  the  Anthologia 
Hihemka,  (vol.  1,  p.  42).  The  Attainders  of  1691 
comprise  the  names  of  the  above  Sir  Luke,  described 
as  Lucas  Dowdall  of  Old  Connaught,  County  of  Dub- 
lin, and  of  Dublin  City ;  Patrick  of  Navan,  mer- 
chant ;  and  Edward  of  Dublin  and  Moate  ;  besides 
James  Dowdall  of  Navan,  merchant,  George  of 
Cluncestown,  Stephen  of  Athboy,  Henry  of  Browns- 
town  and  Drogheda,  Joseph  and  Matthew  of  Cloran, 
County  of  Westmeath,  and  Sylvester,  son  of  Matthew 
of  said  last  mentioned  place.  Patrick  of  Dundalk 
and  Termonfeckin,  John  of  Dundalk,  Christopher  and 
John  of  Drogheda,  merchants,  Peter  of  Ardee,  clerk, 
and  Walter  Dowdall  of  Drumshallon,  clerk. 

Sir  Lucas  forfeited  in  Meath  extensive  estates,  off 
which  his  widow.  Dame  Katherine,  claimed  dower,  but 
was  dismist,  as  were  alike  the  claims  of  their 
children  Anne,  Thomasine,  and  Mary  Dowdall  for 
portions,  and  that  of  Daniel  Dowdall,  his   son  and 

heir,  by  his  guardian,  for  a  fee  therein. Margaret 

Dowdall  claimed  in  her  own  right  and  was  allowed 
the  benefit  of  sundry  debts  due  to  her,  but  'put  out'  in 
the  name  of  Patrick  Dowdall,  who  was  attainted  ; 
while  she  also  claimed  as  one  of  the  executors  of 
Lady  Jane  Dowdall  a  mortgage  debt  affecting  the 
County  of  Longford  estate  of  said  Patrick  Dowdall. 
Lady  Alice  Dowdall,  otherwise  Nugent,  one  of  the 
daughters  of  Kichard,  late  Earl  of  Westmeath,  claimed 


THE  king's  regiment  OF  INFANTRY.  429 

a  jointure  of  £180  off  the  Meath  estates  of  Henry 
Dowdall — dismist.  Joseph  Dowdall  sought  and  was 
allowed  an  estate  tail  in  Westmeath  lands  forfeited  by 
Matthew  Dowdall ;  and  Kedmond  Dowdall,  and  Mary 
his  wife,  claimed  an  estate  tail  in  County  of  Limerick 
lands  forfeited  by  Tobias  and  John  Dowdall,  as  did 
said  Mary  her  dower  off  these  estates  as  the  widow  of 

Tobias  and  under  his  will  of  25th  August,  1688. 

The  estates  of  Sir  Lucas  were  subsequently  sold  in 
lots  to  John  Preston  of  Ardsallagh,  Kobert  Kochfort, 
her  Majesty's  Attomey-General,  Michael  Shields  of 
Wainstown,  John  Drury  of  Dublin,  and  Kichard 
Gorges,  Esq.  the  patentee  of  Kilrue. 

In  the  engagement  at  Lauffield  village  in  1747, 
Lieutenant  Dowdall,  then  ranking  in  Berwick's 
Brigade,  was  wounded. 


CAPTAIN  SIR  GREGORY  BYRNE. 

The  O'Bymes  were  the  formidable  Chieftains  of  that 
last  subjugated  district  of  Ireland,  now  the  County  of 
Wicklow  ;  the  present  Barony  of  Ballinacor  and  the 
Rainilogh  were  possessed  exclusively  by  them,  and 
they,  with  the  O'Tooles,  the  territorial  Lords  of  the 
remainder  of  this  County,  maintained  for  nearly  four 
centuries  an  unceasing  war  against  Dublin  and  the 
English  Pale.  So  early  after  the  introduction  of  sur- 
names as  1119  the  Four  Masters  record  the  death  of 
Aodh  O'Brin  (Byrne),  Lord  of  East  Leinster,  and  when 


430  KixG  James's  ibish  army  list. 

afterwards  Dermot  McMurrough  invited  the  English 
invasion,  the  O'Byrne,  who  was,  in  the  adjustment  of 
Irish  government,  his  tributary,  although  Dermot 
confided  in  him  as  his  last  hope,  renounced  his  allegi- 
ance, and  unhesitatingly  opposed  the  invaders ;  when, 
being  brought  before  '  Strongbow,'  he  was  condemned 
to  death.  In  1176,  Malachy  O'Byrne  died  Bishop  of 
Kildare.  Murrough  '  Mac  Byrn  '  of  Rainilough  and 
Connor  *  O'Brin  '  were  of  the  Irish  Chiefs,  to  whom 
Henry  the  Third  directed  a  special  requisition  for  re- 
pairing to  his  standard,  and  assisting  him  with  their 
forces  against  the  King  of  Scotland.*  In  1398, 
Roger  Mortimer,  Earl  of  March  and  Ulster,  and  Lord 
of  Dunamase,  was  killed  when  endeavouring  to  reduce 
this  mountain  Sept ;  a  catastrophe  which  induced  the 
second  visit  of  the  unfortunate  Richard  the  Second  to 
Ireland,  when  the  O'Byrne  was  fain  to  yield  him  ho- 
mage.f  In  1535,  Lord  Leonard  Grey  received  inti- 
mation that  one  of  the  Fitzgeralds,  uniting  with  Lord 
Baltinglas  and  a  Chieftain  of  the  O'Byrnes,  had  taken 
their  station  in  the  valleys  of  Glendalough,  that  their 
numbers  were  daily  increasing,  and  *  their  excursions 
were  pestilent  and  audacious/  In  two  years  after, 
however,  the  O'Byrne  made  his  submission  to  Lord 
Grey.  In  the  time  of  Queen  EUizabeth,  the  celebrated 
Feagh  Mac  Hugh  was  the  Captain  of  the  O'Byrnes  ; 
he  it  was  whom  Spencer  commemorates,  "  so  far 
emboldened  as  to  threaten  peril  even  to  Dublin,  over 

♦  Rymer's  Foedera.  f  Davis's  Hist.  Rel.  p.  22. 


THE  king's  regiment  OF  INFANTRY.  431 

whose  neck  he  continually  hung."     His  capture  and 
escape  are  well  narrated  by  the  Four  Masters. 

Two  cruel  Inquisitions  were  held  at  Newcastle,  in 
the  County  of  Dublin  in  1604,  by  operation  of  which 
the  estates  of  upwards  of  eighty  of  the  O'Bymes  of 
Wicklow  were  declared  forfeited  to  the  Crown ;  many 
of  them,  as  appears  by  the  finding,  having  been  killed 
or  taken  prisoners  and  hanged  by  martial  law  during 
the  rebellion,  which  broke  out  2nd  of  September,  36th 
Elizabeth.  In  two  years  after,  eighty-five  others  of 
this  devoted  mountain  Sept  felt  it  necessary  in  pru- 
dence  to  pay  the  fines  and  charges  for  patents  of 
pardon.  The  Attainders  of  1642  include  one 
hundred  and  fifty-six  CBymes  in  their  old  County, 
with  four  in  Dublin,  three  in  the  County  of  Kildare, 
and  one  in  Carlow.  The  Kilkenny  Assembly  of  Con- 
federate Catholics  was  attended  by  Hugh  '  Brin '  of 
Corinnon,  Bryan  '  Bume '  of  Ballinacor,  Bryan  of 
Rodine,  James  of  Ballyaude,  and  John  of  Bally glann. 
Cromwell's  Denunciation  Act  of  1652  excepts  two  of 
these  Confederates,  there  described  as  Hugh  Mac 
Phelim  and  Bryan  Mac  Phelim  Byrne,  both  of  the 
County  of  Wicklow,  from  pardon  for  life  and  estate. 
In  the  Record  Tower  of  Dublin  Castle  is  a  petition  of 
Phelim  Byrne,  soon  after  the  Restoration,  to  recover 
his  ancient  inheritance  in  Wicklow  ;  but  it  does  not 
seem  to  have  been  effective. 

The  above  Captain  Sir  Gregory  Byrne  was  resident 
at  Tymogue  in  the  Queen's  County  ;  in  1669,  he 
married  Margaret  Copley,  sister  and  co-heiress  of  Sir 


432  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Christopher  Copley,  and  grand-daughter  of  the  first 
Viscount  Kanelagh  ;  in  two  years  after  he  was 
created  a  Baronet,  and  in  1685  his  Lady  died,  leav- 
ing issue  by  him  an  only  son  Daniel.  Sir  Gregory 
was  attainted  in  1691  ;  nevertheless,  at  the  Court  of 
Chichester  House  he  claimed  estates  in  fee  in  divers 
lands  in  the  Queen's  County,  and  in  plots  and  houses 
in  Dublin  ;  but  the  claim  was  dismist  as  cautionary  ; 
while  some  other  interests  in  the  City  and  County  of 
Dublin  were  allowed  to  him.  He  married  to  his 
second  wife  Alice  Fleming,  only  daughter  of  Kandal 
Lord  Slane,  by  the  Lady  Penelope  Moore,  daughter  of 
Henry,  Earl  of  Drogheda  ;  (the  grand-daughter  of 
this  union,  having  married  into  the  family  of  Bryan 
of  Jenkinstown,  her  son  sought  to  establish  title  to 
the  dormant  title  of  Slane  as  heir  general  of  Christo- 
pher Lord  Slane,  and  on  the  extinction  of  all  interme- 
diate issue). Besides  this  Captain,  there  are  on  the 

present '  List '  Garret  and  John  Byrne,  Captains  in 
the  Earl  of  Westmeath's  Infantry.  The  former  was 
afterwards  adjudged  within  the  Articles  of  Limerick. 
In  the  Parliament  of  Dublin,  Hugh  Byrne  sat  as  one 
of  the  Representatives  of  the  Borough  of  Carysfort, 
and  Thomas  Byrne  as  one  of  that  of  Wicklow.  Sir 
Gregory  was  outlawed  on  four  Inquisitions  in  Dublin, 
Meath,  and  the  Queen's  County  ;  while  the  scattered 
quantity  of  these  political  attainders  in  1692,  in  rela- 
tion to  the  O'Byrnes,  powerfully  evinces  the  dispersion 
from  their  native  mountain  fastnesses,  to  which  this 
devoted  race  were  within  a  few  years  after  its  reduc- 


THE  king's  regiment  OF  INFANTRY.  433 

tion  subjected.  Nineteen  of  these  Inquisitions  were 
held  in  the  County  of  Wicklow,  eight  in  Carlow, 
seven  in  Westmeath,  three  in  Meath,  Dublin,  and 
Wexford  respectively,  two  in  the  Queen's  County,  and 
one  in  Louth ;  while  even  in  such  remote  settlements 
as  Derry  and  Galway  two  occur  in  the  former  and 
one  in  the  latter.  At  the  Court  of  Claims,  besides 
those  so  made  by  Sir  Gregory  Byrne,  Garret  Byrne 
claimedthe  tithes  of  Rectories  in  Wicklow  forfeited  by 
Hugh  Byrne,— dismist  for  non-prosecution.  Oflf  the 
forfeitures  of  Walter  Byrne  in  the  City  of  Dublin, 
his  widow  claimed  and  was  allowed  an  estate  for  life 
under  settlement  of  1682 ;  and  Edmund  Byrne 
claimed  and  was  allowed  the  fee  of  some  estates  of 
Thady  Byrne  in  the  Barony  of  Arklow,  County  of 
Wicklow. 

In  1707,  Dr.  Edmund  Byrne  was  the  Roman  Ca- 
tholic Archbishop  of  Dublin.  A  proclamation  issued 
in  1712  for  his  apprehension,  as  well  as  of  others 
"  who  attempted  to  exercise  ecclesiastical  jurisdiction 
contrary  to  the  laws  of  the  kingdom.''*  In  1746, 
'  Comet  Byrne'  was  one  of  the  rebel  officers  taken 
prisoner  at  sea,  being  in  the  'Pretender's'  service  on 
board  the  Charit^.f  In  1757,  Colonel  O'Byme  was 
a  distinguished  officer  in  the  Austrian  service ;  he 
died  in  1813. 


•  Hardiman's  Galway,  pp.  275-7. 
t  Gent.  Mag.  ad  annuniy  p.  145. 


PF 


434  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

CAPTAIN  BARTHOLOMEW  RUSSELL. 

This  name  is  of  Irish  record  from  the  earliest  period 
after  the  Invasion,  while  the  Four  Masters  relate  the 
death  of  Actin  Russell  in  a  battle  between  the  Burkes 
and  O'Conors  in  1263.  In  1594,  Sir  William  Rus- 
sell  was  appointed  Lord  Justice  of  Ireland,  when  his 
earliest  movement  was  directed  against  the  O'Bymes 
at  their  stronghold  of  Ballinacor.  The  Attainders  of 
1642  comprise  the  names  of  Thomas  Russell  Ruagh 
of  Rush,  Christopher  Russell  of  Seatown,  Andrew 
Russell  of  Swords,  Patrick  of  Brownstown,  Nicholas 
of  Collinstown,  Thomas  of  Drynam,  and  Francis  of 
Kilrush,  all  in  the  County  of  Dublin  ;  with  Patrick 
Russell  of  Rodanstown,  County  of  Meath.  In  1646, 
George  Russell  of  Rathmolin  was  one  of  the  Confede- 
rate Catholics  assembled  at  Kilkenny. 

A  short  time  before  the  accession  of  King  James, 
Dr.  Patrick  Russell  (of  the  family  that,  as  shown  by 
the  above  attainders,  was  congregated  about  the 
ancient  town  of  Swords,)  was  appointed  the  Catholic 
Archbishop  of  Dublin,  in  which  dignity  he  continued 
during  that  monarch's  reign.  In  1685,  he  held  the 
first  Provincial  Council  at  Dublin  that  had  been 
known  for  many  years ;  and  Lord  Clarendon,  then 
Viceroy,  writing  at  that  time  to  the  Earl  of  Rochester 
one  of  his  state  letters,  says  of  this  prelate,  "  He  has 
been  with  me,  seems  to  be  a  good  man,  but  no  poli- 
tician ;  he  is  a  secular."*     In  the  peaceful  course  of 

*  Singer's  Corresp.  v.  1,  p.  887. 


THE  king's  EEGIMENT  OF  INFANTRY.  435 

his  life  he  continued,  by  synods  and  councils  and 
visitations,  to  inculcate  humility  and  attention  in  his 
clergy,  and  virtue  and  loyalty  in  their  flocks."* 
During  his  King's  residence  in  the  Irish  metropolis,  he 
performed  the  service  and  rites  of  his  church  con- 
stantly in  the  Koyal  presence  ;  the  last  permitted 
occasion  of  these  solemnities  having  been  for  the 
consecration  of  a  Benedictine  nunnery  in  Dublin. 
On  the  downfall  of  the  Stuart  dynasty,  he  fled  to 
Paris,  whence  however  he  returned  to  close  his  life  in 
the  land  of  his  birth  and  ministry.  At  the  termi- 
nation of  the  year  1692  he  died,  and  was  buried  in  the 
venerable  church  of  Lusk  near  Swords.  While  he 
was  Primate,  his  principal  residence  was  in  the  old 
chapel-house  at  Francis-street,  by  the  Fraternity  of 
which  establishment  an  ancient  censer  is  preserved 
exhibiting  the  inscription,  "  Orate  pro  Patricio 
Russell^  Archiepiscopo  Dublinioe^  Primati  Hibernian 
et  pro  qus  fratre  Jacobo  Russell^  Decano  Duhlinice 
et  Prothonotario  ApostoUcO^  qui  me  fieri  fecitJ"^ 
During  King  James's  reign  he  enjoyed  a  pension  of 
£200  per  annum  charged  on  the  Irish  Exchequer. 
The  above  Captain  Bartholomew  Russell  was  the  pro- 
prietor of  Seatown,  County  of  Dublin,  by  which  de- 
scription  he  was  attainted  in  1691 ;  while  there 
appear  on  this  Army  List  Garret  and  Thomas  Russell, 
Ensigns  in  the  Earl  of  Tyrone's  Infantry  (the  latter 
described  on  his  attainder  as  of  Ballymacscanlon, 
County  of  Louth),  and  Christopher  Russell  (described 

*  D' Alton's  Archbishops  of  Dublin,  p.  454.         t  Idem.  p.  45fi. 

FF    2 


436  KING  James's  irisu  army  list. 

as  of  Seatown,  County  of  Dublin)  a  Captain  in  Colonel 
Cormuck  CNeilFs  Infantry. 

The  Attainders  of  1691,  besides  the  above  officers, 
include  the  names  of  Valentine  Russell  of  Quoniams- 
town,  James  of  Russelstown,  County  of  Westmeath, 
Robert  of  Drynam  (who  had  been  one  of 'the  Repre- 
sentatives of  Swords  in  the  Parliament  of  1689),  and 
eight  other  Russells  in  the  Counties  of  Cork,  Water- 
ford,  Down,  and  Louth.  Captain  Bartholomew 
forfeited  much  about  Swords  and  in  the  Barony  of 
Nethercross.  Thomas's  confiscations  were  of  portions 
of  the  Rectorial  tithes  of  Julianstown,  Flatten,  and 
Dunany.  Valentine's  comprised  extensive  estates 
in  the  County  of  Down,  in  which  his  son  Patrick 
Russell,  then  a  minor,  claimed  an  estate  tail  as 
(lid  his  mother  Mary  Russell,  alias  Hanlon,  by 
Hugh  Hanlon  her  Trustee,  a  rent  charge  in  lieu  of 
dower  under  marriage  articles  of  February,  1683. 
Their  petitions  do  not,  however,  appear  to  have  been 
allowed,  and  a  portion  of  his  estates,  including  Quon- 
iamstown  was  sold  by  the  Commissioners  of  the  For- 
feitures in  1703  to  Robert  Echlin  of  Rush,  Esq. 
Bridget,  the  only  child  and  heiress  of  Robert  Russell 
of  Drynam,  married  Andrew  Cruise  of  the  Naul 
family.  See  post^  at  Captain  Francis  Cruise,  in  the 
Earl  of  Tyrone's  Infantry. 


THE  king's  regiment  OF  INFANTRY.  437 


CAPTAIN  THOMAS  HACKETT. 

This  name  'Hecket'  occurs  on  the  Roll  of  Battle 
Abbey  as  of  one  of  the  Knights  who  attended  the  Con- 
queror  from  Normandy.  His  race  early  extended 
over  Worcestershire  and  Yorkshire.  One  of  his 
decendants,  Paganus  Hacket,  came  over  to  Ireland 
with  the  English  Invasion.  He  witnessed  an  en- 
dowment from  Hugh  Tyrrell  to  the  priory  of  Kilmain- 
ham  about  1180,  and  acquired,  a  grant  of  lands  in  the 
district  of  Wicklow  still  known  by  the  name  of 
Hacketstown,*  which  remained  in  his  line  until  their 
adhesion  to  the  Earl  of  Desmond  caused  its  confis- 
cation in  the  time  of  Queen  Elizabeth.  In  1200, 
Eowland  Hacket  was  seised  of  lands  near  Einsale 
County  of  Dublin  ;t  and  in  1250,  William  Hacket 

founded  the   Franciscan    Friary,  in    Cashel. In 

1302,  John  and  Kobert  'Haket'  were  of  the  'Fideles' 
of  Ireland,  whose  services  were  sought  by  special 
Koyal  mandate  for  the  war  in  Scotland.  J  About  the 
same  time,  Robert  and  Walter  Haket  received  similar 
recognitions  of  the  King's  confidence,§  the  latter 
being  entrusted  with  the  custody  of  Newcastle 
Mac  Kinegan  near  Delgany.  In  1356,  Andrew 
Hakett  was  Sheriff  and  Escheator  of  the  County  of 
Cross-Tipperary.  At  the  Battle  of  Agincourt,  Rich- 
ard Hakett  was  one  of  the  Knights  in  the  Duke  of 

*  Lynch's  Feudal  Dignities,  p.  255. 

f  Archdairs  Monasticon,  p.  152. 

J  Parliamentary  Writs.  §  Roll  in  Irish  Chancery. 


438  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Gloucester's  retinue,  as  was  another  Kichard  in  Sir 
Henry  Hussey's,  and  a  Walter  Haket  in  Sir  William 
Bourchier's.*  In  1460,  David  Haket  was  Bishop  of 
Ossory  ;  and  in  1484,  Peter  Haket  was  Archbishop 
of  Cashel.  In  the  sixteenth  century,  and  it  would 
seem  anterior  to  it,  a  branch  of  this  family  was  estab- 
lished in  the  county  of  Galway,  and  erected  a  castle 
on  a  townland  of  that  district  which  still  bears  the 
name  of  Castle-Hacket.  By  Inquisition  of  1584,  it 
was  found  that  Ulick  Mac  Redmond  Mac  Meyler  died 
in  1571,  seised  of  the  castles  of  Castle-Hacket  and 
Cahir-Morris  ;  but  that  Mac  Hacket,  the  chief  of  his 
name,  and  others  of  the  Sept  of  the  Hackets,  claimed 
the  aforesaid  Castle  of  Castle-Hacket,  with  the  two 
quarters  of  land  adjoining,  f 

The  Attainders  of  1642  comprise  but  one  individual 
in  the  old  County,  described  as  George  Hackett  of 
Ballinahensy,  County  of  Wicklow ;  about  which 
time  Thomas  Hackett  was  transplanted  to  Connaught, 
and  others  of  the  name  settled  in  the  County  of  Mayo, 
where  they  seem  now  extinct.  In  1672,  Thomas 
Hacket  succeeded  to  the  Sees  of  Down  and  Connor. 
In  1678,  Thomas  Hacket,  described  as  of  Dublin, 
merchant,  an  especial  friend  of  the  Duke  of  Tyrconnel, 
had  a  grant  of  upwards  of  1,000  statutable  acres  in 
the  Barony  of  Clare,  County  of  Galway,  with  cer- 
tain savings.  In  the  Parliament  of  Dublin  (1689), 
Thomas  Hackett,  Bishop  of  Down  and  Connor,  was 
one  of  the  spiritual  Peers  ;  while  in  the  Commons,  Sir 

*  Nicholas's  Agin  court.  f  Hardiman's  Galway,  p.  21. 


THE  king's  regiment  OF  INFANTRY.      439 

Thomas  Hacket  represented  Portarlington,  as  did 
Alderman  James  the  City  of  Cashel.  Another  Hac- 
kett  (James)  appears  on  this  Army  List  a  Lieutenant 
in  Colonel  Thomas  Butler's  Infantry.  When  King 
James,  after  the  Boyne,  fled  from  Dublin  through  the 
hills  of  Wicklow,  he  stopped  for  a  few  hours  with  some 
followers  at  the  house  of  a  Mr.  Hackett  near  Arklow, 
whence  he  proceeded  to  Duncannon,  arriving  there 
about  sunrise.  According  to  Archbishop  King,  a 
Captain  Robert  Hacket  was  one  of  those  who  followed 
the  fortunes  of  James  to  France. 

In  1691,  was  attainted  Thomas  Hackett,  de- 
scribed as  of  Cloncullen,  with  five  others  of  the  name. 
It  does  not  appear  how  far  the  estates  of  this  Thomas 
Hackett  were  affected  by  attainder,  but  by  a  Private 
Act  of  the  Irish  Parliament  in  1706,  explained  by 
another  of  1708,  those  of  Sir  Thomas  Hacket  were 
vested  in  Trustees  for  the  payment  of  his  debts. 


CAPTAIN  THOMAS  WARREN. 

This  '  name  is '  of  record  in  Ireland  early  in  the  reign 
of  Edward  the  Second,  from  which  time  it  extended 
its  branches  over  all  the  Counties  of  the  Pale.  The 
Attainders  of  1642  present  the  names  of  six  Warrens. 
Of  the  Confederate  Catholics  at  Kilkenny  in  1646, 
were  Alexander  Warren,  then  styled  of  Churchtown  ; 
Edward  Warren, '  late  of  Dublin,'  and  William  War- 
ren of  Casheltown.     About  the  year  1667,  William 


440  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

and  John  Warren  of  Corduff  joined  in  conveying  a 
parcel  of  Castlekuock  to  the  Crown,  for  the  purpose 
of  enlarging  the  Phoenix  Park.  This  William  War- 
ren,  as  apj^ears  by  Inquisition  of  1687,  was  seised  of 
upwards  of  283  acres  in  Upper  Castleknock,  51  in 
Carpenterstown,  and  58  in  Lacken,  which  he  had 
settled  in  tail-mail  on  his  nephew,  the  above  Captain 
Thomas,  by  deed  of  22nd  March,  1669. 

It  is  of  legal  record  that  Lord  Dongan,  whom  James 
the  Second  afterwards  created  Earl  of  Limerick,  leased 
in  1688  lands  in  the  County  of  Kildare  to  a  Maurice 
Warren  for  his  life,  and  the  lives  of  his  nephews  Ed- 
ward  and  William  Warren,  with  covenant  for  per- 
petual  renewal.  William  died  in  the  camp  of  Dun- 
dalk,  while  the  lessor  was  in  the  Irish  Army,  and 
Maurice  himself  (the  lessee)  died  in  1691,  when  Gil- 
bert, the  eldest  son  of  Maurice,  entered  on  the  lands, 
but  was  unable  to  obtain  a  renewal,  by  reason  that 
the  Earl  of  Athlone,  the  Patentee  of  the  estates  of  the 
attainted  Earl  of  Limerick,  was  absent  from  Ireland. 
On  the  establishment  of  1687-8,  a  Mrs.  Mary  Warren 
appears  for  a  pension  of  £80.  Thomas  Warren  was 
then  Sheriff  of  Dublin,  as  he  was  again  in  the  year 
of  King  James's  sojourn  there.  He  was  attainted  in 
1691,  by  the  description  of  Thomas  Warren  of  Cor- 
duff, County  of  Dublin,  and  of  Warrenstown,  County 
of  Meath.  Besides  this  officer  there  appear  of  the 
name  on  this  Army  List,  John  Warren  a  Captain, 
and  Richard  Warren  a  Lieutenant  in  Sir  Maurice 
Eustace's   Infantry.      In   Lord   Bophin's,   Laurence 


THE  king's  regiment  OF  INFANTRY.  441 

Warren  was  a  Lieutenant.  In  Sir  Michael  Creagh's, 
Edward  was  a  Captain,  as  was  Nicholas  in  Sir  Charles 
Cavenagh's  (but  appointed  subsequent  to  the  date  of 
the  present  Army  List.)  Said  Captain  John  War- 
ren was  SheriflFof  Dublin  in  1686  ;  in  1689  he  was 
a  Deputy  Lieutenant  of  the  County,  and  in  the  Par- 
liament of  that  year  represented  the  Borough  of  Car- 
low.  He  was  attainted  as  of  *  Warrenstown,  County 
of  Meath,'  and  also  of  Carlow,  but  his  forfeitures  lay 
chiefly  in  the  Queen's  County,  and  in  the  County  and 
Town  of  Carlow.  At  the  Court  of  Claims,  Maurice 
Warren  claimed  some  judgment  debts  as  affecting 
the  Carlow  estate  of  John,  some  of  which  were  allowed; 
while  Henry  Warren  claimed  and  was  allowed  a  mort- 
gage in  fee  on  said  property;  and  subject  to  these 
charges  his  lands  were  sold  in  1703  to  Colonel  Went- 
worth  Hardman,  and  to  Walter  Weldon  of  Rahin,  as 
were  the  town  plots  to  Charles  Bouleey.  There  were 
also  attainted  in  1692  Patrick,  James,  and  Michael 
Warren,  described  as  of  Warrenstown,  County  of 
Meath  ;  and  Richard  Warren  of  Carlow. 


CAPTAINS  WALTER  AND  GEORGE  NANGLE. 

"  This,"  says  Sir  Bernard  Burke,  in  his  Landed 
Gentry^  "  is  one  of  the  most  ancient  Anglo-Norman 
families  in  Ireland.''  Amongst  the  Knights  who 
accompanied  Richard  de  Clare,  Earl  of  Pembroke, 
(Strongbow)  to  that  country  in  1169,  were  Gilbert 


442  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

de  Angulo  and  his  two  sons  Jocelyn  and  Ilostilio. 
From  the  latter  descends  the  family  of  de  Costello, 
called  Mac  Hostilio  or  Mac  Costello.  Gilbert  de  An- 
gulo  obtained  the  territory  of  Maherigallen  and  other 
lands  in  Meath ;  whilst  his  eldest  son  Jocelyn  acquired 
Navan  and  the  lands  of  Ardbraccan,  whence  his  lineal 
successors,  the  Nangles,  were  subsequently  styled 
Barons  of  Navan.  His  descendant  in  the  fourteenth 
generation,  Sir  Thomas  Nangle,  Baron  of  Navan, 
married  Elizabeth,  eldest  daughter  of  Jenico,  third 
Viscount  Gormanstown,  by  Catherine,  eldest  daughter 
of  Gerald,  ninth  Earl  of  Kildare  ;  and  had  issue  by 
her  eight  sons,  the  youngest  of  whom,  Walter  Nangle 
of  Kildalkey  in  the  County  of  Meath,  was  grandfather 
of  the  above  Captain  Walter,  who  was  himself  father 
of  Captain  George,  as  well  as  of  Edward,  a  Lieutenant 
herein,  and  of  Garret  or  Gerald,  a  Lieutenant  in  Sir 
Michael  Creagh's  Infantry,  Captain  Walter  had 
been  SheriflFof  Meath  in  1687,  and  was  one  of  the 
Representatives  of  the  Borough  of  Trim  in  the  Parlia- 
ment of  1689. 

In  1605,  Robert  Nangle  obtained  a  grant  or  con- 
firmation from  King  James  of  the  Manor  and  Castle 
of  Ballysax,  with  divers  lands  and  tithes  in  the 
Counties  of  Kildare  and  Tipperary,  *  in  due  acknow- 
ledgment,'  as  was  recited  in  the  patent,  of  his  wounds 
and  losses  sustained  in  his  several  services  of  extra- 
ordinary merit  to  the  Crown.  He  was,  however, 
attainted  in  1642,  together  with  Matthew  Nangle, 
also  styled  of  Ballysax,  Roland  of  Ardrass,  Peter  of 


THE  king's  regiment  OF  INFANTRY.      443 

Naas,  clerk  ;  Thomas  Nangle,  otherwise  Baron  of 
Navan,  and  Jocelyn  Nangle  of  Kildalkey  (the  younger 
brother  of  the  above  Captain  Walter).  In  1646, 
Roger  Nangle,  styled  of  Glynmore,  was  of  the  Con- 
federate Catholics  in  the  Supreme  Council.  On  this 
Army  List,  besides  the  Nangles  in  this  Regiment, 
Robert  Nangle  is  mentioned  by  Mr.  O'Callaghan  as 
having  been  a  Major  in  Tyrconners  Regiment.  He 
was  killed  near  Raphoe  in  the  skirmishes  that  pre- 
ceded the  siege  of  Derry.  Walker,  in  his  Diary  of 
the  siege,  writes  (p.  62)  that  "  Major  Nangle  was 
drowned  coining  over  at  Lifford."  The  Inquisition  of 
Attainder  on  said  Robert  Nangle  bears  date  in  Sep- 
tember, 1694,  and  finds  him  seised  of  various  estates 
in  the  County  of  Westmeath.  In  King  James's  New 
Charters,  John  Nangle  was  appointed  Portrieve  in  that 
to  Navan,  while  Walter  was  one  of  its  Burgesses.  In 
another  to  Trim,  Walter,  Greorge,  and  Edward  Nangle 
were  Burgesses,  as  was  Walter  in  a  third  to  Athboy. 

Sir  Richard  Nagle  before  aUuded  to  (p.  147),  where 
the  present  notices  should  have  been  introduced,  is 
mentioned  by  Lord  Clarendon  *  as  "  Richard  Nangle, 
a  lawyer,  a  Roman  Catholic,  and  a  man  of  the  best  re- 
putation for  learning  as  well  as  honesty  amongst  the 
people  f  and  when,  in  May,  1686,  he  was  ap- 
pointed one  of  King  James's  Council,  Lord  Claren- 
don, in  a  letter  to  the  Duke  of  Ormond,  thus  com- 
mented :  "  I  do  a  little  wonder  to  find  Mr.  Nan- 
gle's  name  among  them,  though  he  be  a  very  honest 

*  Singer's  Corresp.  of  Ld.  Clarendon,  v.  1,  p.  273. 


444  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

and  able  man.  Yet  it  is  very  extraordinary  to 
have  a  practising  lawyer  a  Privy  Councillor ;  and 
will  not  be  very  decent  for  him  to  follow  his  practice 
or  to  quit  his  profession  ;  I  believe  he  will  not  like  it. 
I  am  sure  he  had  no  mind  to  be  a  judge,  and  I  believe 
he  will  be  as  little  pleased  with  this  preferment.''* 
Again,  "  I  have  not  heard  it  was  yet  ever  done  but  to 
Sir  Francis  Bacon,  when  he  was  Attorney-General ; 
and  to  satisfy  his  ambition  by  the  credit  he  had  with 
the  Duke  of  Buckingham,  or  rather  by  importunity 
he  was  made  a  Privy  Councillor,  but  never  appeared 
afterwards  in  Westminster  Hall,  unless  the  King's 
business  required  him.^f  Nangle  (Nagle)  declined 
the  honor,  and  the  King  accepted  his  resignation. 

The  Attainders  of  1691  comprise  the  above  Walter 
and  Greorge,  together  with  Edward  Nangle  of  Kil- 
dalkey,  Francis  of  Harberston,  John  of  Navan,  Gerald 
of  Mayne,  Piers  of  Kilmihill,  and  Robert  Nangle,  all 
of  the  County  of  Westmeath.  At  the  Court  of 
Chichester  House,  Walter  Nangle  claimed  and  was 
allowed  an  estate  tail  in  Meath  lands  forfeited  by  the 
above  Captain  Walter,  as  did  Margaret  Nangle  her 
jointure  off  said  estate,  and  also  off  Walter's  West- 
meath estates  ;  while  Penelope  Nangle  claimed  a 
jointure  and  her  son  Robert  (a  minor)  an  estate  tail 
in  the  Westmeath  lands  of  Robert  Nangle.  A  great 
portion  of  Captain  Walter  Nangle's  estate  in  Meath 
was  aft;erwards  sold  to  John  AsgiU  of  Dublin,  as  were 

*  Singer's  Corresp.  of  Lord  Clarendon,  vol.  1,  p.  411. 
t  Idem.  p.  417. 


THE  king's  regiment  OF  INFANTRY.      445 

Robert  Nangle's  estates  in  Westmeath  to  the  Hollow 
Swords  Blades'  Company. 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  SEGRAVE. 

The  name  of  Segrave  or  Sedgrave  is  of  record  in 
Ireland  from  the  time  of  Edward  the  Second,  their 
chief  seat  being  early  recorded  as  at  Killeglan  in  the 
County  of  Meath.  See  further  of  this  name  post^  at 
Captain  Francis  Segrave,  in  Sir  Maurice  Eustace's 
Infantry.  In  a  confirmatory  grant  of  1668,  of  lands 
and  premises  in  various  counties  to  Charles  Viscount 
Fitz-Harding,  the  rights  of  John  Segrave  to  certain 
houses  and  plots  within  the  Manor  of  Rathmore  were 
especially  saved,  and  he  may  possibly  be  the  above 
Captain,  afterwards  attainted  as  of  Cabra,  County  of 
Dublin,  and  Burtonstown,  County  of  Meath.  He  was, 
however,  adjudged  within  the  Articles  of  Limerick. 
Besides  this  Captain  John,  there  appear  on  the  Army 
List  said  Francis,  a  Captain,  and  Laurence  Segrave, 
his  Lieutenant,  in  Sir  Maurice  Eustace's  Infantry. 
The  attainders  of  1691  present  the  names  of  the 
above  Captain  and  John  Segrave,  with  those  of 
Gilbert  and  Nicholas  Segrave  of  Ballyhack,  County  of 
Meath,  and  Francis  Segrave  of  Fryarstown  and  of 
Rosberry,  County  of  Kildare. 


446  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 


CAPTAIN  SIR  ANTHONY  MULLEDY. 

The  O'MuUedy's  were  an  ancient  sept  of  the  King's 
County  and  We«tmeatli,  located  near  Gany-Castle. 
In  1447,  Cornelius  O'Mulledy  succeeded  to  the  See  of 
Clonfert,  wlience  in  the  following  year  he  was  trans- 
lated to  that  of  Emly .  The  only  individual  of  the  name 
attainted  in  1642  was  styled  Patrick  0'  *  Mulhuiy, 
Baronet,  of  Ballinver,  County  of  Meath.  A  letter  is 
extant  of  the  10th  of  August,  1690,  from  the  Wil- 
liamite  Colonel  Wolseley  to  Secretary  Southwell, 
'  from  the  camp  near  Mullingar  ;'  in  which  he  says, 
''  We  had  advices  from  Colonel  Babington  that  2,000 

of  the  enemy  were  got  together  at  Tyrrelspass, 

they  advanced  with  about  1 20  Horse,  '  who'  our  men 

charged  and  broke  ; the  night  came  upon   us  or 

else  we  had  done  great  execution;  as  it  was,  we  killed 
between  80  and  100,  and  have  taken  prisoners  tliree 
of  the  greatest  rogues  amongst  them,  viz.  Andrew 
Tuite,  James  Ledwich,  and  Redmund  Mulledy,  late 
Sheriff  for  King  James.  They  are  no  soldiers  nor 
have  any  commission  for  what  they  do,  and  therefore 
I  have  a  great  mind  to  hang  them  if  His  Majesty  will 
either  give  orders  for  it  or  say  nothing  about  it,  but 
leave  me  to  myself ;  for  I  am  well  assured  that  an 
Irishman  is  to  be  taught  his  duty  only  by  the  rod. 
Tuite's  father  holds  out  a  garrison  now  in  an  island 
within  two  miles  of  this  place.  I  conceive  the  whole 
number  of  this  party  were  about  1,000 ;  one  Nugent, 


THE  king's  regiment  OF  INFANTRY.  447 

the  present  SheriflF  for  King  James,  headed  them/** 
Dean  Story  reports  the  transaction  as  that  "  one 
Mulledy,  late  High  SheriflF  of  Longford,  got  at  least 
3,000  of  rabble  or  such  like  near  Mullingar,  where 
they  hectored  and  swaggered  for  some  days,"  adding, 
that  Colonel  Wolseley  fell  in  with  the  party  and  killed 
about  thirty  of  them,  "  High  SheriflT  Mulledy  being 
wounded  and  never  since  able  to  raise  such  a  ^  posse 
comitatus.^^  Those  of  this  name  attainted  in  1691 
were  the  above  Anthony  Mulledy,  described  as  of 
Bobertstown,  Knight ;  Redmund  Mulledy  of  Grange- 
more,  and  Hugh  Mulledy  of  Rathwyre,  in  the  County 
of  Westmeath  ;  John  Mulledy  of  Dublin,  and  John 
Mulledy  of  BaDintobber,  County  of  Mayo.  The  estates 
of  Redmund  and  Hugh  Mulledy,  comprising  the 
Lordship  of  Rathwyre  and  various  other  lands,  &c., 
in  the  County  of  Westmeath,  were  sold  by  the  Com- 
missioners  of  Forfeited  Estates  to  Chichester  Phillips 
of  Drumcondra,  County  of  Dublin,  and  a  larger 
proportion  to  Robert  Pakenham  of  Bracklyn.  Those 
of  the  above  Captain  Sir  Anthony  lay  in  the  Baronies 
of  Dunboyne  and  Ratoath,  County  of  Meath. 


CAPTAIN  THOMAS  ARUNDEL. 

This  name  is  of  Irish  record  from  the  time  of  Edward 
the  Second.  Several  links  in  the  pedigree  of  Arun- 
dells  of  Main,  in  the  County  of  Limerick,  in  the  17th 

*  Clarke's  MSS.  Correspondence,  Trin.  Coll.  liby.  Lett.  Ixxxiii. 


448  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  UST. 

century,  are  given  in  a  genealogical  manuscript  in 
Trinity  College,  Dublin  (F  3,  27).  In  the  Munster 
war  of  1600,  Paul  Arundel  was  a  Captain  in  Lord 
Audley's  Regiment  of  Infantry.  The  Attainders  of 
1642  present  the  names  of  Garret  Arundel  and  Garret 
Oge  Arundel,  both  described  as  of  Aghdullane,  County 
of  Cork.  Lord  Henry,  the  third  Baron  Arundell  of 
Wardour,  who  was  one  of  the  persons  committed  to 
prison  in  1678  on  the  information  of  the  infamous 
Titus  Gates,  after  suffering  five  years'  incarceration, 
was  released,  and  on  King  James's  accession  to  the 
throne  was  sworn  of  the  Privy  Council.  In  the  fol- 
lowing year  he  was  constituted  Lord  Keeper  of  the 
Privy  Seal,  and  honored  with  the  order  of  the  Bath. 
In  the  will  which  King  James  executed  at  Whitehall, 
on  the  eve  of  his  abdication,  17th  November,  1688, 
he  appointed  this  nobleman  the  adviser  of  his  Queen, 
and  he  is  one  of  the  witnesses  to  the  instrument. 
Gn  that  King's  departure.  Lord  Arundel,  retiring 
from  public  life,  secluded  himself  at  Breamore  in 
Wilts,  where  he  died  28th  December,  1694.*  The 
above  Captain  Arundel  fell  at  the  battle  of  the  Boyne.f 


LIEUTENANT  THGMAS  WAFER. 

The  Attainders  of  1642  name  amongst  the  forfeiting 
proprietors  Francis  Wafer  of  Gyanstown,  County  of 


Burke's  Peerage,  p  36.  f  Clarke's  James  II.  v.  2,  p.  399. 


THE  KL\tfS  REGIMENT  OF  INFANTRY.  449 

Meath,  and  those  of  1691  have  the  same  name  as  of 
Castletown  in  said  County. 


LIEUTENANT  JOHN  EDWARDS. 

Though  this  name  is  of  Irish  record  since  the  time  of 
the  Tudors,  nothing  worthy  of  notice  connected  with 
this  individual  has  been  discovered- 


LIEUTENANT  EDMUND  FAHY. 

The  OTahys  were  an  ancient  sept  of  the  County  of 
Galway,  while  the  only  notice  attainable  here  is  of  an 
Adjutant  Fahy,  who,  according  to  Walker,*  was 
killed  at  Derry. 


LIEUTENANT  JOHN  CLANCY. 

This  was  the  name  of  a  clan  tributary  to  the  O'Bryan, 
yet  in  the  time  of  Elizabeth  so  influential,  that  in 
Clare,  Boetius  '  Glanchy'  was  one  of  the  Eepresenta- 
tives  of  that  County  in  Sir  John  Perrot's  Parliament 
of  1585,  and  was  afterwards  its  Sheriff.  The  name 
of  this  Lieutenant  does  not  appear  on  the  Attainders 
of  1692,  which  suggests  that  he  may  have  fallen  in 
the  campaign.     Those  outlawries  have  the  names  of 

*  Siege  of  Deny,  p.  86. 

GO 


450  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Murtough  and  James  Clancy  of  Knocklane,  and  another 
Boetius  Clancy  of '  Glancan/  both  in  said  County. 


LIEUTENANT  CHRISTOPHER  WELDON. 

This  name  is  of  record  on  Irish  Rolls  from  the  time 
of  Richard  the  Second  ;  and  James  Weldon,  described 
as  of  Newry,  was  of  the  Confederate  Catholics  at 
Kilkenny  in  1647. 


LIEUTENANT  EDMUND  BRENNAN. 

The  Mac  Brannans  were  chiefs  of  Corcaghlan,  a  dis- 
trict of  the  County  of  Roscommon,  forming  part  of 
that  in  which  is  the  well-known  mountain  Slieve- 
Ban.  So  early  as  in  the  year  1150,  the  Masters 
record  the  death  of  Maolisa  Brannan,  Archdeacon  of 
Derry  ;  and  in  1159  that  of  Branan  Mac  Branan, 
chief  of  Corcaighlann,  in  a  battle  between  the  O'Conors 
and  O'Briens.  The  Kilkenny  Supreme  Council  of  1646 
had  of  its  Commons,  John  Brennan,  styled  of  Cloyne- 
finlough. 


LIEUTENANT  DAVID  NIHILL. 

Besides  this  officer,  a  Peter  '  Nihill'  was  Lieutenant 
in  Lord  Kilmallock's  Infantry.  On  the  Attainders  of 
1691  are  the  names  of  James  Nihill  of  Limerick  and 


THE  king's  regiment  OF  INFANTRY.  451 

Dublin,  and  the  above  David  Nihill,  styled  of  the 
Barony  of  Tulla,  County  of  Clare.  In  the  lands  of 
the  latter,  Laurence  Nihill  claimed  an  estate  tail,  but 
was  dismist,  while  Elinor  Nihill,  alias  Hackett,  as  his 
widow  and  executrix,  sought  and  was  allowed  a  third 
part  of  his  Clare  estates,  as  in  pursuance  of  his  will 
of  1683  ;  and  Robert  Woulfe  made  a  claim  thereon 
for  the  portion  of  his  wife  Anstace,  a  daughter  of  said 
David.  At  the  battle  of  Lauffield  in  1 746,  Lieutenant 
Nihillj  of  Dillon's  Regiment,  was  killed. 


LIEUTENANT    CHRISTOPHER   AND    ENSIGN 
MATTHEW  TAAFFE. 

This  Cambrian  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the 
time  of  the  English  invasion.  In  1287  flourished 
Sir  Nicholas  Taaffe,  whose  son  John  Taaffe  was  by  the 
Pope's  provision  consecrated  Archbishop  of  Armagh. 
He  died  at  Rome  in  1306,  after  taking  the  mitre,  but 
never  saw  his  see.*  In  1295,  Richard  Taaffe  was 
Sheriff  of  Dublin,  and,  in  1311,  a  member  of  the  Par- 
liament of  Kilkenny.  In  1373  and  1375,  Richard 
Taaffe  of  Ballybragan  and  John  Taaffe  were  summoned 
to  Great  Councils  ;  and  in  1376,  John  Taaffe  of 
CastJe-Lumnagh  was  Sheriff  of  Louth.  In  1479,  Sir 
Laurence  Taaffe,  the  descendant  of  the  above  Sir 
Nicholas,  was  one  of  the  honorable  fraternity  of  St. 

*  Ware's  Bishops,  p.  71. 

GG  2 


452  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

George  in  Ireland  on  its  first  institution  ;  and  in 
1560,  Nicholas  TaaflFe  of  Ballybragan  was  Sheriff  of 
Louth.* 

In  1628,  Sir  John  Taaffe  of  this  family  was  ad- 
vanced  to  the  Peerage  by  the  titles  of  Baron  of 
Ballymote  and  Viscount  Corran,  in  the  County  of 
Sligo.  His  eldest  son  Theobald  was  created  Earl  of 
Carlingford  in  1661 ;  his  second  son  Lucas  Taaffe  was 
a  Major-General  in  the  Irish  Army  during  the  Com- 
monwealth, was  appointed  Governor  of  Ross  in  1649, 
and  defended  that  town  against  Cromwell,  but,  being 
subsequently  obliged  to  expatriate  himself,  served  as  a 
Colonel  in  Italy  and  Spain,  whence  on  the  Restoration 
he  returned  and  died  in  Ireland.!  On  the  Attainders 
of  1642,  the  only  Taaffe  is  Laurence  Taaffe,  described 
as  of  '  Killen,'  County  of  Meath.  Cromwell's  Ordi- 
nance of  1652  excepted  from  pardon  for  life  and 
estate  Theobald,  '  Viscount  Taaffe  of  Corran,'  and 
Luke  Taaffe,  his  brother.  In  1665,  by  the  operation 
of  the  Act  of  Settlement,  the  aforesaid  Lucas,  by  the 
style  of  Colonel  Lucas  Taaffe,  and  Elizabeth  his  wife, 
were  restored  to  the  "  jointure,  portions,  lands,  &c., 
which  she  or  any  for  her  use  had  held  and  enjoyed  f 
while  Theobald  his  brother,  the  Viscount,  was  likewise 
restored  to  his  estates,  and  directed  to  have  and  enjoy 
to  him  and  his  heirs  the  manors,  lands,  &c.,  whereof 

Christopher  Taaffe  of  Bryanstown  and Taaffe  of 

Cockston  were  seised  on  the  23rd  of  October,  1641. 

♦   See  Dalton's  Drogheda,  v.  2,  p.  162. 
t    Burke's  Extinct  Peerage. 


THE  king's  regiment  OF  INFANTRY.  453 

He  had  likewise  a  i)ension  of  £800  per  annum  on 
the  establishment,  with  other  substantial  marks  of 
Royal  favour,  and  died  in  December,  1677.  His  son 
Nicholas  was  a  Colonel  in  this  campaign,  but  not  on 
the  present  Army  List.  In  King  James's  Charters 
of  1697,  John  Taaffe  was  one  of  the  Burgesses  in  that 
to  Sligo  ;  as  were  John  '  Taafe,'  merchant,  George, 
Peter,  Nicholas,  and  another  John  in  one  to  the 
Borough  of  Ardee. 

Besides  those  of  the  name  in  this  Regiment,  Nicho- 
las Taaffe  was  a  Cornet  in  Tyrconnel's  Horse,  and 
Thomas  Taaffe  a  Quarter-Master  in  Sarsfield's.  At 
the  siege  of  Derry,  a  Major  John  Taaffe,  who  was 
brother  to  the  Peer  of  Carlingford,was  killed  at  Penny- 
burn  Mill.  In  King  James's  Parliament  of  Dublin 
sat  in  the  House  of  Peers  Nicholas,  Earl  of  Carling- 
ford,  who  was  soon  after  despatched  as  a  confidential 
envoy  to  the  Emperor  Leopold  ;  from  which  embassy 
returning,  he  in  the  following  year  commanded  a  Regi- 
ment of  Infantry  at  the  Boyne,  where  he  fell  heading 
a  charge.  He  had  married,  but  left  no  issue  ;* 
whereupon  his  honors  devolved  upon  his  brother 
Francis  Taaffe,  the  celebrated  Count  Taaffe  of  the  Ger- 
manic Empire ;  he  ranked  there  a  Marshal,  and  when 
he  succeeded  to  his  honors  in  his  native  land,  was,  by 
a  special  clause  in  the  acts  of  William  and  Mary, 
saved  from  the  consequences  of  outlawry  and  attain- 
der. He  was  Colonel  of  the  Royal  Cuirassiers  under 
the  Emperor,  and  Lieutenant-General  of  the  Horse 

*  Archdall's  Lodge,  v.  5,  p.  296. 


454  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

(see  of  him  fully  in  O'CallagharCs  Irish  Brigades, 
vol.  1,  p.  370,  &c.)  After  the  disastrous  day  at  the 
Boyne,  Mr.  TaaflFe,  'the  Duke  of  Tyrconnel's  chaplain/ 
"a  very  honest  and  discreet  clergyman,"*  was  one  of 
those  who  strongly  laboured  to  persuade  his  discomfited 
Sovereign  to  fly  from  Dublin.  The  Attainders  of 
1691  contain  the  names  of  the  above  Christopher 
Taaffe,  styled  of  Steplienstown  ;  five  others  in  the 
County  of  Louth  ;  and  one,  Francis  Taaffe  of  Bally- 
mote,  County  of  Sligo.  At  Chichester  House,  a 
Theobald  Taaffie  claimed  and  was  allowed  the  benefit 
of  sundry  mortgages  affiecting  the  Louth  and  Sligo 
estates  of  Lord  Carlingford.  Of  the  services  of  Taaffe's 
Brigaded  Regiment,  see  'OConar's  Military  Memoirs, 
pp.  251-2  and  262. 


LIEUTENANT  PETER  BATHE. 

This  family  is  of  record  here  from  the  time  of  Edward 
the  Second,  having  come,  from  Devonshire,  where 
Bathe  House  was  long  the  designation  of  the  locality 
of  its  settlement. In  Ireland  the  name  first  ap- 
pears in  the  person  of  Simon  Bathe,  a  proprietor  of 
lands  in  the  County  of  Limerick  at  the  commence- 
ment of  the  fourteenth  century.  In  1327,  Richard 
de  Burgo,  Earl  of  Ulster,  having  recently  died  in- 
debted to  the  King,  Matthew  de  Bathe  was  commanded 
on  his  allegiance  and  under  heavy  penalties,  to  take 

*  Clarke's  James  II.  v.  2.  p.  402. 


THE  king's  regiment  OF  INFANTRY.  455 

into  his  custody  and  care  all  money  and  jewels,  silver 
vessels,  and  all  other  the  goods  and  chattels  of  the  said 
Earl,  and  them  safely  to  keep  until  he  received  the 
Royal  commands.  This  Matthew  continued  a  confi- 
dential subject  of  King  Edward,  and  of  his  successor 
Edward  the  Third,  the  latter  having  in  1333  granted 
to  him  the  manor  of  Rathfay  in  the  County  of  Meath, 
with  the  advowson.  In  1381,  Thomas  Bathe,  clerk, 
was  appointed  Chief  Baron  of  the  Irish  Exchequer, 
in  which  year  he  had  an  allowance  of  £6  for  his 
expences  as  a  Commissioner,  in  levying  the  forfeited 
two-thirds  oflF  lands  of  absentees.  In  four  years  after, 
he  had  a  Treasury  order  for  his  expences  on  passing 
over  to  England,  to  acquaint  the  King  with  the  state 
of  Ireland ;  and  in  1393  was  one  of  the  Lords  Justices. 
By  an  unprinted  stSLtntQ  of  the  Parliament  of  Drogheda 
in  1640,  (c.  9),  it  was  enacted  that  Thomas  Bathe, 
Knight,  'who  pretends  to  be  Lord  of  Louth,'  shall  ap- 
pear in  court  on  a  certain  day  or  be  out  of  the  King's 
protection ;  and  it  was  further  thereby  ordered  that 
said  Thomas  Bathe  shall  never  have  place  in  the  Par- 
liament of  this  land,  nor  shall  enjoy  any  office  therein 
under  the  King's  grant.  His  lands  in  Louth  appear 
to  have  been  thereupon  seized  as  forfeited ;  but  a  sub- 
sequent act  of  the  same  session  (c.  21)  restored  John 
Bathe  of  Ardee,  who  seems  to  have  been  his  son  or 
relative,  to  certain  messuages,  lands,  and  tenements  in 
Dromisken,  Dundalk,  and  other  places  in  the  County  of 
Louth,  which  were  kept  from  him  under  order  of  forfei- 
tures. In  1533,  William  Bathe  of  Dollardstown  was 
Yice-Treasmer  "^  '"  '  soon  afterwards  at- 


4d6  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

tainted.  In  1535,  James  Bathe  of  Drumconrath  was 
appointed  Chief  Baron  of  the  Irish  Exchequer;  when 
he  fixed  his  residence  in  the  fine  old  Castle  of  Drym- 
nagh  near  Dublin,  whose  ruins  are  still  interesting.* 
In  1554,  John  Bathe  of  Drumconrath  and  Athcarne 
was  appointed  Chief  Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas  in 
Ireland.  In  1564,  his  son  and  namesake  was  Attor- 
ney-general for  Ireland,  and  afterwards  Chancellor  of 
the  Exchequer,  and  his  daughter  Eleanor  was  married 
to  Nicholas  NetterviUe,  who  in  1622  was  created  the 
first  Viscount  Netterville  of  Dowth.  In  1581,  Wil- 
liam  Bathe  was  constituted  a  Justice  of  the  Common 
Pleas  ;  and,  in  the  Parliament  convened  by  Sir  John 
Perrot  in  four  years  after,  Thomas  Bathe  was  one  of 
the  Representatives  for  Dundalk.  *  A  note  (of  about 
this  period)  of  persons  born  in  Ireland  but  residing 
beyond  seas  'f  has  the  names  of  Luke  Bath,  a  Capuchin 
friar  in  Cologne  ;  William  Batlie,  a  Jesuit  in  Sala- 
manca ;  and  John  Bath,  a  Knight  of  Malta  (^  as  is 
reputed')  at  the  Court  of  Madrid.  In  1611,  King 
James  granted  to  John  Bathe  of  Balgriffen,  County  of 
Dublin,  the  manor,  &c.  of  Balgrifien,  to  hold  by  the 
service  of  a  rose  on  St.  John's  day,  with  various  other 
lands  and  premises  in  the  Counties  of  Kildare,  Meath, 
Westmeath,  and  the  City  of  Dublin.  The  Act  of 
1612,  for  the  attainder  of  the  Earl  of  Tyrone  and  his 
adherents,  included  John  Bathe  of  Dunalong,  County 
of  Tyrone,  and  John  Bath,  late  of  Drogheda,  merchant. 

•  See  D' Alton's  County  of  Dublin,  p.  700,  &c. 
t  MSS.  in  Triu.  Coll.  Dub.  (E.  3,  8,   f.  46.) 


THE  king's  regiment  OF  INFANTRY.  457 

In  1641,  James  Bathe  of  Athcame  was  one  of  the 
gentry  of  the  County  of  Meath,  who  assembled  at  the 
Hill  of  Crofty  to  parley  with  Roger  Moore  and  his 
adherents  of  Ulster.  He  was  consequently  attainted 
in  the  following  year,  with  Robert  Bath  of  Killussy^ 
County  of  Kildare  ;  William  and  Robert  Bathe  of 
Clonturk,  County  of  Dublin,  and  Patrick  Bathe  of  the 
ancient  inheritance  of  Rathfay,  County  of  Meath.  In 
the  Commons  of  the  Supreme  Council  at  Kilkenny 
sat  Peter  Bathe  Fitz-Robert,  late  of  Dublin,  Peter 
Bathe  of  Kilkenny,  Robert  Bath  of  Clonturk,  and 
Robert  Bath,  late  of  Dublin.  This  Peter  Fitz-Robert 
forfeited  Athcame  Castle,  which  was  thereupon  granted 
to  Colonel  Grace  in  1673.  Before  the  Act  of  Ex- 
planation in  1665,  Sir  Luke  Bathe  was  ordered  to  be 
restored  to  his  estate,  and  to  those  which  his  deceasedf 
father  James  Bathe  had  held  on  the  22nd  of  October, 
1641,  with  certain  exceptions.  The  Attainders  of 
1691  included  Christopher  Bathe  of  Knightstown, 
Michael  and  James  Bathe  of  Lady-Rath,  Peter  Bathe 
of  Ashbourne  (where  he  seems  to  have  lived  after  the 
previous  loss  of  Athcarne)  Andrew  Bathe  of  Drogheda, 
merchant,  and  Edward  Bathe  of  Painstown,  County 
of  Louth.  At  Chichester  House,  James  Bathe,  a 
minor,  by  Stephen  Bath  his  guardian,  claimed  under 
settlement  of  November,  1694,  an  estate  for  life  to 
himself  with  remainders  in  tail  to  his  sons,  (aft;er  the 
death  of  Peter  Bathe  and  Mary  his  wife,)  in  the 
County  of  Meath  lands  theretofore  forfeited  by  Chris- 
topher  Bathe  ;  while  Elizabeth  Bathe,  the  wife  of  said 


458  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Christopher,  claimed  also  an  estate  for  her  life  therein, 
after  the  death  of  said  Peter.  On  the  subsequent  sale 
of  Athcarne  Castle  and  its  lands  by  the  Trustees  of 
the  forfeited  estates,  it  appeared  that,  having  been  for- 
feited as  before  mentioned  by  Peter  Bathe,  it  vested 
on  mesne  assignment  in  King  James,  when  Duke  of 
York,  and  was  then  sold  by  the  Trustees,  as  his  private 
estate,  to  Thomas  Somerville  of  Dublin,  subject  to  a 
lease  (allowed  by  the  Commissioners)  to  Greorge  Ayl- 
mer,  Launcelot  Dowdall,  Esqs.  and  Dame  Cicely 
Bath,  for  99  years,  from  January,  1668,  at  a  pepjier- 
corn  rent. 


LIEUTENANT  EDWARD  TIPPER. 

This  officer  is  described  in  his  attainder  as  of  a  local- 
ity in  the  County  of  Kildare,  that  took  its  name  of 
Tippcrstown  from  the  family.  Francis  Tipper  was 
also  a  Lieutenant  in  Sir  Maurice  Eustace's  Infantry, 
and  a  William  Tipper  appeal's  to  have  been  at  the 
same  time  attainted  in  this  County,  on  whose  estates 
there,  another  William  claimed  an  estate  for  life  with 
remainders  in  tail  to  his  sons. 


LIEUTENANT  THOMAS  SKELTON. 

A  Charles  Skelton  also  appears  on  this  List  a  Lieu- 
tenant  in  Colonel  John  Parker's  Horse,  yet  neither  of 


THE  king's  regiment  OF  INFANTRY.  459 

these  names  appears  on  the  Attainders  of  1691,  which 
comprise  only  John  of  Dublin,  Bevil  Skelton  of  Dub- 
lin, and  Maria  Skelton,  alias  O'Brien  his  wife.  In 
1689,  July  the  1st,  a  Lieutenant-Colonel  Skelton  is 
recorded  as  having  been  joined  in  commission  with 
Colonel  Dominick  Sheldon,  to  conclude  a  treaty  with 
the  garrison  of  Derry  on  that  day.  In  a  genealogical 
manuscript  in  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  are  links  of  a 
pedigree  of  the  Skeltons  of  the  County  of  Limerick 
for  five  generations. 


LIEUTENANT  CHARLES  POVEY. 

None  of  this  name  appear  on  the  Attainders,  and  it 
would  seem  rather  of  the  opposite  politics.  In 
1673,  John  Povey,  Knight,  and  theretofore  Baron  of 
the  Exchequer  in  Ireland,  was  appointed  Chief  Jus- 
tice of  the  Kings  Bench  ;  and  in  1702,  Richard 
Povey  was  appointed  principal  Serjeant-at-arms. 
The  connections  of  this  Lieutenant  are,  however, 
wholly  unknown. 


LIEUTENANT  JOHN  MORGAN. 

One  of  this  name  was  an  Ensign  in  Fitz-James's  In- 
fantry. Three  Morgans  were  attainted  in  1642.  At 
the  battle  of  Newberry,  fought  in  1643,  a  Colonel 
Morgan  was  killed  on  the  Royalist  side  ;  while  at 


460  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Aughrim  fell  a  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  the  name.* 
The  Morgans  attainted  in  1692  were  Joseph  of  Cooks- 
town,  and  Edward  of  Drogheda,  merchant. 


ENSIGN  TALBOT  SALTER. 
Nothing  has  been  ascertained  of  him  or  his  family. 


ENSIGN  JAMES  TOUCHETT. 

The  family  of  Touchett  came  into  England  with  the 
Conqueror,  as  recorded  on  the  Roll  of  Battle  Abbey, 
and  in  the  Chronicles  of  Normandy.  In  1405,  John 
Touchett  was  summoned  to  Parliament  in  England  as 
Lord  Audley  ;  his  great  grandson  James  Audley  was 
attainted  in  the  time  of  Henry  the  Seventh,  but  his 
son  was  restored  to  his  rank  in  1513,  and  his  great 
grandson,  George  Lord  Audley,  took  up  his  residence 
in  Ireland,  where  in  the  year  1610,  in  consideration 
of  an  annuity  or  rentcharge  of  £500  English  secured 
to  him  for  his  life,  he  assigned  "  to  Sir  Mervyn 
'Tuchett,'  Knight,  his  son  and  heir  apparent,  his 
whole  estate  in  Ireland,  to  hold  to  him  thenceforth  in 
fee,  together  with  aU  his  stock  of  cattle  and  com,  and 
all  other  goods  and  chattels  in  Ireland,  reserving  to 
his  Lordship  some  chattels  and  household  stufi^,  and 
he,  said  Sir  Mervyn,  paying  to  Sir  Ferdinando  Tuchett, 

*  Story's  Impartial  Histoiy,  pt.  2,  p.  138. 


THE  king's  regiment  OF  INFANTRY.  461 

Knight,  second  son  of  said  Lord  Audley,  an  annuity 
of  one  hundred  marks  in  the  Middle  Temple  Hall, 
London  ;  and  being  bound  after  his  Lordship's  death, 
to  convey  over  to  the  said  Ferdinando  the  fee  of  lands 
in  England  or  L:«land,  to  the  clear  yearly  value  of 
£100  sterling.*  Lord  George  was  in  seven  years 
after  advanced  in  the  Irish  Peerage  to  the  dignities 
of  Baron  Oriel  and  Earl  of  Castlehaven.  His  grand- 
son, James  Touchet,  Earl  of  Castlehaven,  during  the 
civil  wars  of  Ireland  commanded  under  the  Duke  of 
Ormonde,  and  in  1649  was  chosen  General  of  the 
Irish  forces.  He  and  his  brother  were  therefore,  in 
Cromwell's  Ordinance  of  1652,  excepted  from  pardon 
for  life  and  estate.  His  son  Mervyn,  Earl  of  Castle- 
haven, was  of  the  Peers  in  King  James's  Parliament 
of  1689,  and  had  a  pension  of  £500  per  annum^ 
charged  on  the  establishment  of  1687-8.  Mervyn's 
son  James,  afterwards  the  Earl,  is  possibly  identical 
with  the  above  Ensign  James. 


ENSIGN  NICHOLAS  TYRWHITT. 
Nothing  known  of  him  or  his  family. 

*  Rot.  Pat.  Jac.  1,  Cam.  Hib.  This  Lord  and  his  Lady  had  a 
grant  in  1612,  of  various  lands  in  the  County  of  Armagh,  as 
had  the  said  Sir  Mervyn  of  yet  more  in  the  Coimty  of  Tyrone, 
to  hold  subject  to  the  conditions  of  the  Plantation  of  Ulster. 


462  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 


ENSIGN  EDWARD  TOOLE. 

Some,  who  write  of  the  battle  of  the  Boyne,  allege  that 
the  death  of  the  Duke  of  Schomberg,  while  passing 
that  river,  was  caused  by  a  shot  from  OToole,  '  an 
exempt  of  the  King's  Guard,'  and  affect  to  call  this 
guardsman  Sir  Charles  Toole;  but  the  name  of  this  only 
Toole  in  tlie  Infantry  Guards  would  lead  to  an  infer- 
ence of  his  identity  with  the  transaction.  The  very 
ancient  sept  of  the  O'Tooles  were  independent  Princes 
of  Imaile  and  Cuolan,  in  the  wild  mountain  district 
forming  a  moiety  of  what  had  been  in  the  time  of 
James  the  First  reduced  to  English  government,  and 
erected  into  tlie  County  of  Wicklow.  They  constituted 
one  of  the  septs  that  were  eligible  to  the  dignity  of 
Kings  of  Leinster,  and  their  territory  formed  the 
Diocese  of  Glen-da-lough,  whose  bishops  and  abbots 
they  exercised  the  prerogative  of  appointing,  down  to 
1497,  when  it  was  united  to  the  Archiepiscopal  See 
of  Dublin.  A  few  years  before  the  English  Invasion, 
Laurence  O'Toole,  afterwards  canonized,  was  advanced 
from  the  Abbacy  of  Glendalough  to  the  Archbisliopric 
of  Dublin.*     The  death  of  his  father  is  recorded  by 

the  Masters  at   1164. In    1308,   the   infamous 

Piers  Gaveston  diverted  the  interval  of  his  official 
exile  to  Ireland,  in  penetrating  the  country  of  the 
OTooles,   wliose   stronghold   at    Castle-Kevin  he    is 


•  See  of  this  illustrious  Prelate,  fully,  D'Altoii's  Archbishops 
of  Dublin,  p.  51,  &c. 


THE  king's  regiment  OF  INFANTRY.  463 

reported  to  have  stormed,  afterwards  laying  his  offer- 
ings, as  of  atonement,  at  the  shrine  of  St.  Kevin  in 
Glendalough.  In  1327,  David  OToole,  then  Captain 
of  the  Sept,  was  taken  prisoner  by  Sir  John  de 
Wellesley,  ancestor  of 'the  Duke/  In  1366,  the  Lord 
Deputy  made  a  treaty  with  Hugh  OToole,  then  the 
Captain,  whereby  he  agreed  to  allow-that  chieftain  a 
stipend  in  the  nature  of  black  mail,  to  secure  the  Pale 
from  the  predatory  incursions  of  his  followers.*  This 
policy  of  bounty  was  in  the  history  of  the  Pale  so 
frequently  necessitated  for  its  security,  that  an  Act 
of  the  Irish  legislature  (28  Hen.  8,  c.  11)  was  passed 
"  for  restraining  tributes  given  to  Irishmen."  In 
1396,  say  the  Four  Masters,  "  the  English  of  Leinster 
were  defeated  by  O'Toole  with  great  slaughter."  It 
was  on  the  occasion  of  this  continued  foray,  that 
Roger  Mortimer,  then  Earl  of  March,  King  Richard's 
Vicegerent  in  Ireland,  and  the  heir  presumptive  to  the 
English  Crown,  was  surprised,  defeated,  and  slain. 
Therefore  it  was,  and  with  the  object  of  chastising 
*  the  insolence  of  the  Irish,'  and  avenging  the  death 
of  Mortimer,  that  the  English  Monarch  undertook  his 

second  journey  to  Ireland; ^but  to  raise  another 

patriot  hero  in  ArtMacMurrough,  for  the  veneration  of 
that  country,  and  to  consummate  his  own  dethronement. 
In  1497,  Sir  William  Wellesley  of  Dangan,  the  lineal 
descendant  of  the  aforesaid  John,  who  had  done  such 
active  service  against  the  OTooles,  was  fain  to  espouse 
one  of  this  denounced  Sept,  Matilda  OToole,  having 

*  Mason  8  Irish  Parliaments,  p.  22. 


464  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

first,  as  was  necessary,  obtained  a  Royal  letter  of 
licence,  dated  the  30th  of  May  in  this  year,  whereby 
she  and  their  heirs  were  admitted  to  the  benefit 
of  English  laws  and  English  liberties,  and  thus 
exempted  from  the  many  penal  statutes  then  in  force 
against  alliances  with  the  native  Irish.  It  is  singular 
that  pedigree  compilations  omit  to  mention  this  mar- 
riage ;  but,  while  the  licence  is  of  record  in  Chancery, 
the  fact  is  yet  more  assured  by  a  patent  of  1506, 
whereby  King  Henry  the  Seventh  pardoned  Patrick 
Hussey  and  'Maw'  O'Toole,  his  wife  (lately  the  wife 
of  Sir  William  WeUesley  of  Dangan)^  for  their  inter- 
marrying  without  having  first  obtained  the  Royal 
licence. 

Spencer  in  his  '  View  of  Ireland '  characterizes  the 
OTooles  and  O'Bymes  as  '  the  two  mischievous  clans 
that  inhabited  the  glyns  of  Wicklow.'  The  Four 
Masters  are  very  full  in  the  particulars  of  the 
OToole's  resistance  to  subjugation,  especially  in  1580. 
In  the  time  of  James  the  First,  however,  O'Toole,  '  the 
Lord  of  Imaile,'  furnished  to  military  muster  24 
horsemen  and  80  Kerns;  yet  were  many  of  the  Sept 
then  attainted,  as  were  in  1642  no  less  than  twenty- 
four  CTooles,  great  proprietors  in  Wicklow.  In  the 
Irish  Parliament  of  1689,  Francis  Toole  sat  as  Repre- 
sentative of  the  Borough  of  Wicklow,  while  on  the 
List  of  Colonels  prefixed  to  the  present  Army  List 
the  name  of  Francis  Toole  appears,  Colonel  of  an  In- 
dependent Company  of  Fusiliers ;  but,  as  he  is 
omitted  in  the  subsequent  details,  the  memoir  of  the 


THE  king's  regiment  OF  INFANTRY.      465 

name  should  be  attached  to  Ensign  Edward.  The 
forfeitures  of  1691  exhibit  but  six  OTooles  as  of 
Wicklow,  and  one  in  each  of  three  other  Counties, 
Carlow,  Kildare,  and  Wexford.  Several  of  this  name 
were  afterwards  distinguished  officers  in  the  Irish 
Brigades  serving  in  France  and  Spain ;  and  in  1719, 
Captain  OToole,  with  Colonel  Wogan  of  the  Rathco% 
line,  and  two  others  of  the  Irish  Brigade  in  the 
service  of  the  latter  power,  succeeded  in  carrying  oflf 
Maria-Clementina  Sobieski,  (grand-daughter  of  the 
celebrated  John  Sobieski,  King  of  Poland,  who 
defeated  the  Turks  before  Vienna),  then  betrothed  to 
James  the  Third,  as  the  Pretender  was  styled  by 
them.  They  effected  her  liberation  from  the  Castle  of 
Inspruck  in  the  Tyrol,  where  she  had  been  detained 
for  some  previous  months  by  command  of  the  Emperor 
Charles  VI.  at  the  instance  of  George  the  First. 
From  hence  they  brought  her  in  disguise  to  Monte 
Fiascone  within  the  Pope's  dominions,  where  James 
himself  met  her,  and  their  marriage  was  celebrated. 
The  Pope,  on  their  repairing  to  Rome,  received  the 
gallant  officers  most  cordially,  and  created  them 
Knights  of  the  Holy  Roman  order.* 


ENSIGN  THOMAS  POYNTZ. 

NOTHINO  has  been  ascertained  of  him  or  his  connec- 
tions. 


466  KI5G  iA3r£S  S  lUSH  AUfT  LIST. 

REGIMENTS   OF    IXFAXTRT. 

COLOXEL   JOHN    HAMILTON'S- 


TlMCo;abel  Anthocj  Coicoan. 

JaiBM  XajKt,  

LMat.«CoL 

Jolm  Talbot.  

Major. 
[Jainea  Gibbet,  Snd  3UJ9r.] 

Dtaiel  O'Han.  Kcue  O'Ein.  Connick  O'HflB. 

JohnSUmky.  Andrew  Dnfie.  

KicfaolM  HsTokL  BMtbolomev  HarroM.         Fnncis  Wairen. 

Ednnmd  Marpbj.  LAwrcnoe  DnSe.  Cbaiiea  Saoden. 

Maorioe  Fitzgerald.  

Jaam  Gibbom.  > 

Anthanj  Gcoghegan.  

Sienr  da  Ptmtt,  Walter  Planketi. 
Gmud. 


COLONEL  JOHN  HAMILTON. 

This  Officer,  says  Colonel  O'Kelly^s  narrative,*  was 
one  of  these  deputed  by  Tyrconnel,  during  his  absence 
from  the  government  on  attendance  at  St  Germains, 
t()  guide  and  advise  the  young  Duke  of  Berwick.  He 
was  the  brother  as  well  of  General  Richard  Hamil- 
ton who  was  taken  prisoner  at  the  Boyne,  as  of  the 
accomplished  Colonel  Anthony  Hamilton  who  fought 
against  the  Enniskilleners,  and  wrote  the  well-known 
*  Memoirs  of  Grammont.'      The  above  Colonel  John 

*  O'Callaghan^s  Macaria  Exddium^  p.  88. 


JOHN  HAMILTON'S   INFANTRY.  467 

ranked  as  a  Major-General  and  a  Brigadier  at  Augh- 
rim,  where  he  was  taken  prisoner  *  O'Conor,  in  his 
Military  Memoirs^  (p.  143),  says  that  this  General 
was  with  a  force  detached  to  the  aid  of  besieged 
Limerick,  too  late  for  its  last  struggle ;  the  enemy 
were  in  possession  of  the  ramparts,  and  drove  back 
the  designed  relief  to  their  camp. 


CAPTAIN  DANIEL  O'HARA. 

Of  the  noble  Sept  of  O'Hara  the  Chief  was  Lord  of 
Luigne,  in  the  County  of  Sligo,  a  territory  which 
comprised  the  present  Barony  of  Leney  with  parts  of 
those  of  CosteUo  and  Gallan.  At  so  early  a  period  as 
1023,  the  death  of  Donagh  O'Hara,  Lord  of  Luigne, 
is  noted  by  the  Four  Masters  ;  as  is  the  death  of 
Duncan  O'Hara,  Lord  of  the  Three  Tribes  of  Luigne, 
in  1059.  From  which  period  the  succession  of  their 
Tanists  or  Captains  is  set  down  with  singular  exact- 
ness to  a  comparatively  recent  date,  in  a  venerable 
Irish  manuscript  entitled  the  *  Book  of  the  O'Haras.' 
By  one  of  these  Chiefs,  Keane  O'Hara,  Templehouse 
was  erected  early  in  the  fourteenth  century,  within 
their  principality,  and  on  the  site  of  an  ancient 
foundation  of  the  Knights  Templars.  The  Abbey  of 
Court,  whose  ruins  are  still  discernible,  was  soon 
after  founded  by  another  of  the  O'Haras.  The  above 
Officer,  €aptain  Daniel  was,  it  will  be  seen,  of  an  An- 

♦  Story's  Impartial  Hist.,  pt.  2,  p  187. 

nn  2 


468  KING  JAMES'S  IRISU  ARMY  LIST. 

trim  branch  of  the  family,  of  whom  in  1608,  in  awe 
of  the  Plantation  system,  Cahill  O'Hara,  John  Oge 
O'Hara,  John  Grome  O'Hara,  and  Donnel  O'Hara 
sought  and  obtained  patents  of  pardon  and  protection. 
Of  these,  Cahill  in  1612  obtained  a  patent  for  holding 
a  weekly  market  at  Crebilly,  with  right  of  pie  powder 
and  the  usual  tolls.*  In  1627,  Cormac  O'Hara  was 
Sheriff  of  the  County  of  Antrim.  A  Manuscript 
Book  of  Obits  in  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  supplies 
links  in  the  pedigree  of  this  northern  family  for  five 
generations.  Besides  the  above  Captain  Daniel, 
Keane  his  Lieutenant,  and  Cormick  O'Hara  his 
Ensign,  who  in  their  attainders  are  described  as  of 
Loghdale,  County  of  Antrim,  there  are  upon  this 
Army  List,  another  Cormack  O'Hara,  Captain  in 
Colonel  Cormuck  O'Neill's  Infantry,  in  which  Arthur 
O'Hara  of  Farris  in  said  County  was  a  Lieutenant, 
and  Manus  O'Hara  an  Ensign  ;  while  in  Colonel 
Dominick  Browne's,  John  O'Hara,  son  of  Thadeus 
O'Hara  of  Crebilly,  was  a  Lieutenant.  All  these 
were  consequently  attainted  in  1691,  with  tihe  ad- 
dition of  Roger  O'Hara  of  Montagh,  in  the  County 
of  Sligo. 

In  1692,  Sir  Charles  '  Hara '  and  others  obtained  a 
patent  grant  from  King  William  and  Queen  Mary  for 
lighting  Dublin  with  convex  lamps.f  A  Charles  Hara 
was  afterwards  wounded  at  the  battle  of  Landon.J 
The  name  of  O'Hara  was  subsequently  ennobled  in 

•  Rot.  Pat.  9,  Jac.  1,  in  Cane.  Hib. 

t  Harris's  MSS.  Dub.  Soc.  v.  10,  pp.  9,  &c. 

\  Rawdon  Papers,  p.  379. 


JOHN  HAMILTON'S   INFANTRY.  469 

the  person  of  James  O'Hara,  created  in  1721  Baron 

of  Kilmaine.* In  1744,  Captain  O'Hara,  of  an  Irish 

Brigade  in  Prince  Charies-Edward's  service,  was,  with 
Captain  O'Brien,  taken  prisoner  at  Harwich  by  an 
order  from  Lord  Carteret.  They  had  arrived  there 
with  the  intention  of  crossing  to  Holland,  but  were 
carried  back  in  custody  to  London.  Brigadier-Gene- 
ral O'Hara  was  distinguished  in  the  American  war  of 
1781,  and  was  wounded  in  an  engagement  near 
Deep  River,  where  the  Americans  were  commanded 
by  General  Greene.  He  was,  however,  ultimately 
obliged  with  Earl  Comwallis  to  surrender  at  York- 
town.  In  1793,  a  General  O'Hara  was  taken 
prisoner  in  the  attack  on  Toulon.f 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  STANLEY. 

This  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  earliest 
introduction  of  the  English  Government.  In  1385, 
Sir  John  Stanley  was  Lord  Lieutenant  of  Ireland,  as 
he  was  four  several  times  after.  He  it  was  who,  on  the 
forfeiture  of  Henry  Percy,  Earl  of  Northumberland, 
obtained  a  grant  in  fee  from  the  Crown,  of  the  Isle  of 
Man  with  all  its  regalities  and  franchises,  to  hold  by 
homage  and  the  service  of  two  falcons,  to  be  rendered 
to  the  filing,  his  heirs  and  successors,  on  the  days  of 
their  coronation.      He   was  .  afterwards   constituted 

*  Crossl/s  Peerage,  p.  260.  t  Gent.  Mag.  ad  ann. 


470  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Constable  of  Windsor  Castle,  made  a  Knight  of  the 
Garter  by  Henry  V.  and  died  in  1413,  Lord  Lieuten- 
ant of  Ireland  for  the  last  time.  Sir  William  Stanley, 
Sir  John's  brother,  was  Lord  Deputy  in  1401  ;  and 
in  1432,  Sir  Thomas,  grandson  of  Sir  John  Stanley, 
was  appointed  Lord  Lieutenant  of  Ireland  for  six 
years.  About  the  year  1530,  Sir  James  Stanley,  of 
the  same  Derby  stock  as  the  before  mentioned 
Stanleys,  was  Marshal  of  Ireland.  A  Funeral  Entry 
in  the  Office  of  Arms  records  the  death  in  1636  of 
Thomas  Stanley  of  Finnor,  County  of  Meath,  son  and 
heir  of  Walter  Stanley  of  same,  and  that  he  had  mar- 
ried Mary,  daughter  of  Patrick  Gernon  of  Gernons- 
town.  County  of  Louth,  by  whom  he  had  daughters. 
The  above!  Captain,  though  not  of  Walter's  issue,  ap- 
pears to  have  been  of  the  Finnor  family,  the  son  of 

Edward,  the  third  son  of Stanley  of  Finnor,  by 

Anne,  daughter  of Stem  of  Great  Eccleston  in 

Kent.*  He  had  been  SheriiF  of  the  County  of  Dublin 
in  1688,  and  a  resident  of  Swords,  of  whose  ancient 
Borough  he  was  constituted  one  of  the  Burgesses  in 
King  James's  Charter  of  1689.  In  his  attainder  of 
1691,  he  is  described  as  of  that  place  ;  while  another 
Stanley  (Thomas)  is  located  on  the  Outlawries  as  of 
Martinstown,  County  of  Louth. 

*  Genealogical  MSS.  Collection  in  Trin.  CoU.  Dub.  (F.  8,  27.) 


JOHN  HAMILTON'S  INFANTRY.  471 


CAPTAIN  NICHOLAS  HARROLD. 

This  family  name,  introduced  into  Ireland  on  the 
Danish  invasion,  appears  subsequently  of  frequent  oc- 
cuirence  in  the  records  of  this  country.  In  1302, 
John  'Harald'  and  Geofl&^y  'Harold'  were  of  the 
Magnates  of  Ireland  whom  King  Edward  invited  to 
assist  him  in  the  invasion  of  Scotland.  In  the  seven- 
teenth century  the  Harolds  were  established  in  the 
Counties  of  Kildare,  Wicklow,  Dublin,  and  Limerick; 
accordingly  the  Attainders  of  1642  present  the  names 
of  Gerald  Harold  of  Kildrought  (Celbridge),  County 
of  Kildare;  Richard  Harold  of  Kilhele,  Do. ;  Thomas 
Harold  of  Coolnehamon,  County  of  Wicklow  ;  and 
William  of  Kilmaceogue,  County  of  Dublin.  John 
Harold  was  one  of  five  tried  by  court  martial  in  St. 
Patrick's  Cathedral,  Dublin,  on  the  18th  May,  1652.* 
In  1676,  Thomas  Harold,  '  a  native  of  Ireland,'  soli- 
cited the  interference  of  King  Charles  in  his  behalf ; 
he  having  been  confined  in  Brussels  ten  years  *for  re- 
sisting the  Pope's  claim  as  to  his  allegiance,  and  for 
his  having  been  one  of  the  subscribers  to  the  Remon- 
strance of  1661. f 

Besides  the  above  Captain,  there  stands  on  this 
Army  List  William  Harold,  a  Lieutenant  in  Major- 
General  Boiseleau's  Infantry.  In  the  Parliament  of 
Dublin,  Alderman  Thomas  Harold  was  one  of  the 
the  Representatives  of  the  City  of  Limerick  ;    he  was 

*  Minutes  of  Courts  Martial  during  the  Commonwealth,  MS. 
t  Catal.Soiithiralllfi|      •^  ^. 


472  KING  James's  irish  akmy  list. 

consequently  attainted  with  Walter  Harold  of  Lime- 
rick, merchant,  and  the  above  Nicholas  Harrold, 
styled  of  Kilmaceogue,  County  of  Dublin,  a  lineal  de- 
scendant of  William  Harrold,  who  was  attainted  in 
1642.  A  John  Harrold,  described  as  of  the  same 
locality,  Irish  papist,  then  also  forfeited  estates  there. 
In  1787,  Colonel  Harrold,  of  the  Limerick  family, 
was  Chamberlain  to  the  Elector  of  Bavaria.* 


CAPTAIN  EDMUND  MURPHY. 

The  Murphys,  or  O'Murphys,  were  a  Sept  very 
widely  extended  over  Ireland,  as  even  the  few  records 
here  noted  will  evince.  This  Officer  was  of  Kilkenny, 
in  whose  Cathedral  are  monuments  to  his  family  from 
1640  to  1741.  So  early  after  the  introduction  of 
surnames  in  Ireland  as  1031,  the  death  of  Flaherty 
O'Murroghoe  (Murphy),  Chief  of  Cinel-Breaghain,  in 
the  County  of  Donegal,  is  recorded  by  the  Masters, 
as  is  that  of  O'Murroghoe,  Chief  Sage  of  Leinster,  in 
1127.  The  Attainders  of  1642  name  Michael 
Murphy  of  Balruddery,  and  Laughlin  Murphy  of 
Dunganstown  ;  George  of  St.  Michan's  Parish,  Dub- 
lin, with  Donogh  and  Connor  Murphy  of  Blarney, 
County  of  Cork.  In  1654,  a  Colonel  of  this  name,  at 
the  head  of  800  Irishmen,  distinguished  himself  in  the 
campaign  in  Spain.  Besides  the  above  Captain  there 
appear  on  this  Army  List,  in  the  Earl  of  Tyrone's 

*  Ferraris  Limerick,  p.  850. 


JOHN  HAMILTON'S  INFANTRY.  473 

Infantry,  Nicholas  and  Michael  Murphy,  Lieutenants ; 
— ^in  Lord  Bellew's,  Owen  and  Bryan  Captains,  Phe- 
lim  and  Denis  Lieutenants,  and  John  Murphy  an 
Ensign ; — ^in  Colonel  Nicholas  Browne's,  William 
Murphy  was  a  Captain,  Maurice  Murphy  his  Lieute- 
nant, and  John  Murphy  Ensign.  Those  attainted  in 
1692  were  the  above  Captain  Edmund,  styled  of  Kil- 
kenny, with  two  others  of  the  name  there,  seven  in 
Wexford,  six  in  Louth,  four  in  Cork,  three  in  Down, 
two  in  Armagh,  and  one  in  Waterford  and  Clare  re- 
spectively. 

In  the  Brigades  commissioned  in  the  French 
service,  of  that  styled  the  *  Regimept  of  Charlemont,' 
commanded  by  Gordon  O'Neill  on  its  first  formation, 
the  above  Captain  Edmund  Murphy  was  constituted 
Major,  while  a  Cornelius  Murphy  was  Major  of  the 
Regiment  of  Clancarty.*  At  the  Court  of  Claims  in 
1700,  Maria  de  Margarita  *  de  Murphjr '  claimed  the 
benefit  of  a  judgment  debt  affecting  the  estates  of 
Donogh,  Earl  of  Clancarty,  but  her  petition  was 
dismist.  The  Archives  of  Bruges  record  a  Darby 
*  Morphy,'  Captain-Lieutenant  in  Lord  Hunsdon's 
Infantry  as  hereafter  noticed ;  while  in  St.  Donat's 
Cathedral  of  that  City  is  a  monument  to  the  Reverend 
and  Venerable  John  Albert  *  de  Morphy,'  '  of  the 
Royal  Sept  of  O'Morrough,  which  had  given  Kings  to 
Leinster,'  who  "had  been  imprisoned  in  London, 
driven  into  exile,  found  an  asylum  at  Bruges,  where 

*  0*Conor'8  Milit.  Mem.  p.  199.    For  acbieyements  of  this 
name  in  the  Brigades,  see  idem,  p.  78. 


474  KING  JAMES'S  IBISH  ARMY  LIST. 

he  was  constituted  '  Penitentiary  '  of  the  Diocese,  and 
died  12th  November,  1745."* 


CAPTAIN  JAMES  GIBBONS. 

No  information  of  him  has  been  ascertained,  nor  does 
he  appear  on  the  Roll  of  Attainders  ;  those  of  1642 
have  two  of  the  name,  and  those  of  1691  three. 


LIEUTENANT  ANTHONY  COLEMAN. 

TuE  native  Annalists  of  Ireland  notice  at  a  very 
early  age  the  Sept  of  O'Coleman,  and  sometimes  of 
Mac  Colman,  the  latter  as  in  the  County  of  Louth, 
where  the  name  is  still  of  respectability.  In  1206, 
say  the  Four  Masters,  died  *  Maolpeddar  O'Coleman, 
successor  of  Canice  (Abbot  of  Kilkenny),  the  pillar  of 
piety  and  wisdom  of  the  North  of  Ireland.'  The  Rolls 
of  the  Irish  rpcords  present  the  name  from  the  time  of 
Edward  the  Second.  In  1642,  were  attainted  John 
Coleman  of  Artaine  and  Patrick  Coleman  of  Kill, 
County  of  Dublin,  with  Anne  his  wife.  On  the 
minutes  of  courts  martial  held  in  St.  Patrick's  Cathe- 
dral, Dublin,  it  is  stated  that  an  Ensign  Coleman  was 
one  of  those  tried  there  on  the  9th  of  March,  1651. 
The  name  does  not  appear  at  all  on  the  Attainders  of 
1691,  &c. 

•  Nichols's  Top*,  and  Gen*.  1868,  p.  484. 


JOHN  HAMILTON'S  INFANTRY.  475 

LIEUTENANTS  ANDREW  AND  LAURENCE 
DUFFE. 

The  O'Duffs  were  Chiefs  of  Hy  Cruinthain,  a  district 
extending  round  Diinamase  in  the  Queen's  County  ; 
and  the  name  is  of  record  on  the  Irish  Rolls  of 
Chancery  from  the  days  of  Edward  the  Third.  On 
the  Attainders  of  1642  appear  Patrick  Duffe  of 
Westpalstown,  County  of  Dublin,  with  five  other 
Duffes  in  the  same  County,  three  in  Kildare,  and  one 
in  Meath.  At  the  Supreme  Council  of  Kilkenny  in 
1647,  Patrick  Duff,  there  described  as  of  Rospatrick, 
but  probably  identical  with  the  attainted  Patrick  of 
Westpalstown,  was  of  the  Commons.*     Besides  these 

Lieutenants, Duffe  was  a  Lieutenant  in  Colonel 

Roger  Mac  Elligott's  Infantry.  The  Attainders  of 
1691  name  only  Thady  '  Duff'  of  Piltown,  County  of 
Meath ;  Thadeus  Duff  of  Athlone,  merchant ; 
Thadeus  Duff,  junior,  of  Dublin  ;  and  Thomas  Duff 
of  Kilkenny,  merchant. 


ENSIGN  CHARLES  SANDERS. 
His  connections  are  unknown. 

•  The  compiler  of  these  lUustrations  sincerely  regrets  the 
occurrence  of  assertions  on  prohability ;  but  the  difficulty  he  has 
experienced  in  obtaining  authentic  family  information  precludes 
that  certainty,  which  could  be  otherwise  obtained,  only  from  his 
own  manuscripts,  at  a  labour  impracticable  gratuitously  for  so 
many  families. 


476 


KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 


REGIMENTS   OF    INFANTRY. 

FITZ-JAMES'S   (the   LORD  GRAND   PRIOR.) 


CaptaUu. 
The  Colonel. 
Edward  Nugent, 

Lieut. -Col. 
Porter. 

Major. 

Walter  •  TyrrelL* 

Hugh  M*Mahon. 
John  Satton. 

Christopher  Sherlock. 
John  Wogan. 

Alexander  KnighUej. 

John  Panter. 
William  Moore. 

Le  Sienr  Corridore. 

Thorn.  JuBtie. 

Patrick  Kendelan. 

Geoige  Corridons, 
Granad. 

Oliver  Nngent. 
Lieutenant  Colonel  Clon- 

shinge. 
Ignatina  Usher. 


Lieutenants. 
James  *  Barnwell.' 


.  Catalier. 


Garrett  Plnnkett 
>  Christopher  Bellew. 

f  Charles  Degnent 


Bartholomew  White. 


! 


iJohn  Heme. 
Claudius  Beauregard. 

John  Stephens. 

Walter  Grace. 

Walter  Usher. 


Entignt. 
Phill  Mownson. 


Daniel  0*DanieI. 


•  Moigan. 


Matthew  Wale. 
Francis  Borre. 


Beaghan  Kcndolan. 

Bartholomew  Read. 
Edward  Rignej. 

Oliver  Grace. 


COLONEL  HENRY  FITZ-JAMES,  THE  LORD 
GRAND  PRIOR. 

This  gallant  young  officer  was  another  son  of  King 
James  by  his  mistress  Arabella  Churchill,  sister  of  the 
great  Duke  of  Marlborough  ;  he  was  the  youngest  of 
five  children  of  that  connection  ;  was  bom  in  August, 


FITZ-JAMES'S  INFANTRY.  477 

1673;  accompanied  his  father  in  his  flight  from  Eng- 
land, and  after,  in  his  expedition  to  Ireland  ;  where, 
at  the  age  of  sixteen,  he  was  appointed  Colonel  of  this 
Regiment,  thenceforward  known  by  his  name.  He 
headed  it  at  the  battle  of  the  Boyne,  but  retired  with 
his  father  immediately  after  to  France.  This  his 
Regiment,  which  was  consigned  to  the  command  of 
Nicholas  Fitzgerald,*  distinguished  itself  throughout 
the  first  siege  of  Limerick,  and  especially  along  with 
that  of  Major-General  Boiseleau,  the  French  General, 
at  the  successful  resistance  of  the  assault  of  the  6th 
of  September,  1690,  which  led  to  the  raising  of  the 
siege  by  King  William.  The  Grand  Prior  was  in 
i696  in  France  placed  over  the  Toulon  fleet  designed 
to  invade  England,  at  which  time  O'Callaghan  conjec- 
tures he  was  created  Duke  of  Albemarle.  In  Decem- 
ber, 1702,  he  was  appointed  Lieutenant-General  of 
the  Marine,  and  in  the  same  month  died  at  Bagnols 
in  Languedoc,  aged  only  between  29  and  30,  married, 
but  without  issue.  Louis  the  Fourteenth  placed  the 
Court  of  France  in  mourning  on  his  decease.f  On 
the  formation  of  the  French  Brigades,  Fitz-James's 
Regiment  was  equipped  as  Cavalry  and  styled  *Le 
Regiment  de  la  Marine,'  from  the  circumstance  of  the 
Lord  Grand  Prior  having  been  originally  designed  for 
the  British  Navy,  and  his  having  entered  the  French 
on  his  father's  dethronement,  and  actually  distin- 
guished himself  at  sea  under  Tourville  in  the  engage- 

*  O'Callagban's  Irish  Brigades,  vol.  1,  p.  209. 
t  Idem,  p.  876. 


478  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

ment  at  St.  Vincent  against  the  English  Admiral  Sir 
Greorge  Rooke  in  1693.*  Of  this  Brigaded  force  the 
Lord  Prior  was  Colonel,  Nicholas  Fitzgerald  Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel, and  Edward  O'Madden  Major,f  (the  lat- 
ter had  been  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  Lord  Clanricarde's 
Infantry  in  Ireland,  as  noted  hereafter).  It  fought 
with  signal  bravery  at  Fontenoy  in  1745,  where  it 
consisted  of  four  squadrons,  one  of  which,  styled  the 
Scotch  Royals  or  Squadron,  and  the  picquets  of  those 
of  Dillon,  Rothe,  and  Lally,  were  despatched  from 
France  to  Scotland  and  England,  to  sustain  the  claim 
of  Prince  Charles-Edward.  They  only  reached  their 
destination,  however,  to  be  made  prisoners  of  war, 
after  the  battle  of  Culloden,  fought  2nd  April,  1746. 
The  three  first  squadrons  of  Fitz-James's  Regiment,  as 
it  continued  to  be  styled,  and  the  picquets  of  Bulke- 
ley's,  Clare's  and  Berwick's,  had  been  previously  cap- 
tured on  the  voyage  in  the  month  of  October,  1745, 
and  March,  1746. J  A  meagre  list  of  those  of  the 
respective  Irish  Brigades  killed  and  wounded  at  Fon- 
tenoy may  be  seen  in  the  Gmtleniaris  Magazine 
(vol.  15).  In  1746,  the  'Count  de  Fitz-James,' de- 
scribed  as  Major-General-Commandant,  was  one  of  the 
volunteers  bound  for  Scotland  in  Prince  Charles- 
Edward's  service,  but  taken  at  sea  ;  as  was  also  M. 
D'Arcy,  his  aide-de-camp,  Major-General  Ruth,  *  Briga- 
dier-General de  Tyrconnel,'  and  eighteen  other  officers, 

♦  O'Callagban's  Irish  Brigades,  vol.  1,  p.  210. 
t  O'Conor  s  Military  Memoirs,  v.  1,  p.  198. 
J  Idem,  p.  400. 


FITZ-JAMES'S  INFANTRY.  479 

six  gunners,  one  corporal,  one  labourer,  and  five  com- 
panies of  Fitz- James's  Regiment,  in  all  199  men. 
These  were  taken  on  board  the  French  transport  ship 
the  '  Bourbon,'  by  Commodore  Knowles  ;  while  at  the 
same  time  there  were  captured  by  him  on  board  the 
'  Charity '  thirteen  other  oflScers  and  four  companies  of 
Fitz-James's  Regiment  of  Horse,  in  aU  about  160  men. 


MAJOR PORTER. 

The  name  of  Porter  is  of  record  on  the  Irish  Rolls  from 
the  time  of  Edward  the  Third.  The  Attainders  of 
1642  present  of  this  name  only  Richard  Porter  of 
Oldbridge,  County  of  Meath.  In  1686,  Sir  Charles 
Porter  was  appointed  Lord  Chancellor  of  Ireland;  he 
was  afterwards  removed  for  Sir  Alexander  Fitton, 
but  was  restored  at  the  close  of  1690,  on  the  Revo- 
lution.  In  the  Parliament  of  1689,  Robert  Porter  was 
one  of  the  Representatives  of  the  County  of  Kildare, 
as  was  John  Porter  of  the  City  of  Waterford,  and 
Colonel  James  Porter  of  the  Borough  of  Fethard, 
County  of  Wexford. 

The  above  Major,  whose  Christian  name  does  not 
appear  on  this  roll,  was,  it  may  be  presumed,  the 
Colonel  James,  Member  for  Fethard  in  1689,  as  he 
was  early  promoted  to  the  rank  of  second  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  in  this  Regiment,  Dodsley  having  been  sub- 
stituted in  the  Majority.  He  was  in  France  at  the 
time  of  the  battle  of  the  Boyne,  on  the  day  previous  to 


480  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

which  he  wrote  from  St.  Germains  to  Father  Warner, 
*  confessor  to  the  King  in  Dublin/  a  letter*  in  which 
he  says,  "  the  dreadful  fleet  of  France  has  got  into 
the  Channel.  We  may  daily  expect  strange  changes, 
and  with  reason  ;  we  may  expect  to  see  our  Royal 
Master  in  Whitehall  before  Michaelmas.  We  are 
sending  a  fleet  of  thirty  frigates  for  Ireland :  after 

such  preparations,  what  may  we  not  expect  ?** 

When  that  Royal  Master  had  fled  to  France,  this 
Colonel  Porter  was  made  Vice-Camberlain  in  his 
titular  Court. f  The  Attainders  of  1691  include  his 
name  as  of  Feathard,  with  Patrick  Porter  of  Kings- 
town and  William  of  Jongiunstown,  County  of  Meath; 
Robert  Porter  of  Kildare,  and  Nicholas  Porter 
of  Waterford,  merchant,  who  was  Mayor  of  that 
city  in  1689.  His  forfeitures  consisted  of  premises 
in  that  city,  all  which  were  purchased  from  the  Trus- 
tees by  Alderman  Lapp  in  1703. Some  links  of 

the  descent  of  the  Porters  of  Waterford  are  preserved 
in  a  manuscript  book  of  Obits  in  Trinity  College, 
(F.  3.  27),  deriving  them  from  Gloucestershire. 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  SUTTON. 

This  family  was  established  in  Ireland  at  a  very  re- 
mote period.  In  1302,  Gilbert  de  Sutton  was  one  of 
the  Magnates  of  this  country  whom  Edward  the  First 

♦  Southwell  MSS.  Catal.  p.  179.  "^ 

t  Clarke  s  James  IL  vol.  2,  p.  411. 


FITZ-JAMES'S  INFANTRY.  481 

invited  to  aid  him  in  the  Scottish  war.     They  early- 
settled  in  the  County  of  Kildare,  where  a  genealogi- 
cal manuscript  in  Trinity  College,  Dublin  (F.  iii.  27), 
traces  links  of  their  pedigree  for  five  generations,  in 
the  16th  and  17th  centuries.     In  1605,  John  Lye, 
gentleman,  servant  to  Queen  Elizabeth,  had  a  grant 
from  her  Royal  successor  of  the  towns,  lands,  &c.  of 
Bathbride,  Morristown-Biller,  Relickstown,  &c.,  par- 
cel of  the  estate  of  David  Sutton  in  the  County  of 
Kildare,  the  patentee  being  bound  to  keep  upon  Rath- 
bride  one  able  horseman,  archer,  or  '  hargabusher,'  of 
the  English  nation,  sufficiently  furnished  for  the  de- 
fence of  Ireland.     Oliver  Sutton  was  previous  to  this 
time  seised  of  Richardstown  in  the   same   County. 
His  heiress,  Elinor,  married  Gerald  Sutton,  who  sur- 
vived her,  but  died  in  1616,  leaving  Gilbert  Sutton 
their  heir,  who  died  in  1631.    Gerald  Sutton  was  his 
son  and  heir,  then  aged  but  eight  years  ;  he  was  in 
1642  attainted,  with  Laurence  and  Nicholas  Sutton 
of  Tipper  in  the  same  County,  who  were  a  branch 
of  the  stock.     William  Sutton  died  seised  of   Tip- 
per,  Barbyeston,   &c.   County  of  Kildare  in  1592, 
leaving  John  his  son  and  heir,  who  succeeded  to  said 
estates,  which  were  forfeited  in  1642  by  the  attainder 
of  his  son  William  Sutton,  junior.     This  William  was 
one  of  the  Confederate  Catholics  at  the  Supreme  Coun- 
cil of  Kilkenny  in  1646,  and  he  would  seem  to  have 
been  father  to  the  above  Captain  John,  in  whose 
favour  a  saving  was  reserved  in  a  patent  of  lands  in 
the  County  of  Galway  to  William  Clynch.     He  was, 

II 


4:82  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

in  1691,  attainted  by  the  description  of  John  Sutton 
of  Haverston,  County  of  Kildare,  together  with  five 
other  Suttons  in  the  County  of  Wexford,  and  one  in 
the  City  of  Dublin.  At  the  Court  of  Chichester 
House,  Bridget  Sutton,  in  1700,  claimed  and  was 
allowed  her  jointure  off  the  Kildare  estate  of  this 
Captain  Sutton,  which  was  sold  by  the  Commissioners 
of  the  Forfeitures  in  1703  to  the  Hollow  Swords 
Blades'  Company. 


CAPTAIN  CHRISTOPHER  SHERLOCK. 

This  family  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of 
the  Tudors.  They  were  located  in  the  Barony  of 
Coshmore,  County  of  Waterford,  as  also  in  the  Coun- 
ties of  Tipperary,  Limerick,  Dublin,  and  Kildare. 
In  1422,  the  King  appointed  Walter  '  Sherloke'  to  be 
Chief  Sergeant  of  the  County  of  Kildare,  an  office 
which  he  held  for  several  years  after.  In  1431,  he 
had  an  order  on  the  Irish  Exchequer  for  remune- 
rating his  great  labours  in  the  County  of  Kilkenny 
and  its  marches.  In  1499,  James  'Sherloke'  was 
commissioned  to  hold  an  assize.  In  1586,  an  Inqui- 
sition post  mortem  was  held  of  the  estates  of  John 
Sherlock  of  Ballyclerihan,  in  the  County  of  Cross- 
Tipperary,  when  it  was  found  that,  at  the  time  of  his 
death,  he  was  seised  of  a  castle  and  sundry  lands  and 
premises  there.  In  1616,  Thomas  Sherlock  of 'the 
Naas'  was  one  of  the  County  of  Kildare  gentry  impa- 


FITZ-JAMES'S  INFANTRY.  483 

nelled  to  hold  a  siimlar  post  mortem  inquiry  as  to  the 
estates  of  Walter  Wellesley  of  the  Norragh,  then 
lately  deceased.  This  Thomas  was  attainted  in  1642, 
as  were  Edward  Sherlock  of  Blackhall  in  the  same 
County,  clerk,  and  George  Sherlock  of  Wicklow,  mer- 
chant. In  the  confirmatory  patents  of  King  Charles 
the  Second  to  the  adventurers  in  Waterford  were 
savings  of  the  rights  of  Paul,  heir  of  Sir  Thomas 
Sherlock. 

In  1684,  18th  May,  died  Philip  Sherlock  of  Little- 
rath,  son  of  Christopher  of  that  place  ;  he  was  buried 
on  the  20th  at  Bowdingstown  in  the  same  County, 
leaving  issue  by  his  wife  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam Eustace,*  the  above  Christopher  his  eldest  son, 
Eustace,  Robert,  John,  William,  and  Edward,  his 
younger  sons,  and  Hester  and  Mary  his  two 
daughters.  The  estate,  having  descended  to  Christo- 
pher, was  forfeited  on  his  attainder,  subject  to  the 
charges  which  the  will  of  his  &ther  created  for  the 
younger  children.  The  testator^s  widow  intermarried 
with  Nicholas  Adams,  while  of  her  children  by  Sher- 
lock, Robert  and  Mary  died  under  age,  and  Edward 
the  youngest  was  long  resident  in  Corfti.f  He  was  a 
claimant  for  his  portion  on  the  family  estate,  as  were 
his  brothers  John  and  William,  and  their  rights  were 
allowed.  Besides  Captain  Christopher,  there  are  on 
this  List  Thomas  Sherlock  of  Blackhall,  a  Captain,  and 
Robert  Sherlock  an  Ensign,  in  Sir  Maurice  Eustace's 

*  Funeral  Entry,  Berm.  Tower, 
t  M8S.  in  lianh's  library,  Dublin. 

*  1x2 


484  KING  JAM£S'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Infantry,  evidently  near  relatives  of  Captain  Christo- 
pher. Edward  Sherlock  of  Blackhall,  possibly  the  same 
individual  who  was  attainted  in  1642,  was  one  of  the 
Representatives  of  the  Borough  of  Cloughmine  in  King 
James's  Parliament  of  1689.  He  was  consequently  at- 
tainted with  said  Thomas,  John  Sherlock  of  Lady's  Castle, 
Laurence  and  Eustace  Sherlock  of  Littlerath,  all  in  said 
County  of  Kildare ;  Robert  Sherlock  of  Carlow  (the  En- 
sign  in  Sir  Maurice  Eustace's),  and  James,  Pierce,  and 
Balthazzar  Sherlock  of  Ballykenny  and  Ballyleigh, 
County  of  Waterford.  In  1 6  94,  Thomas  Sherlock,  a  mer- 
chant of  Irfsh  birth,  theretofore  trading  in  Dublin,  but 
then  a  merchant  at  Rouen  in  France,  obtained,  under 
circumstances  detailed  in  his  petition,  full  pardon  and 
liberty  to  return  to  his  native  country. 


CAPTAIN  ALEXANDER  KNIGHTLEY. 
CAPTAIN  JOHN  PANTON. 

Nothing  worthy  of  note  has  been  ascertained  of 
either  of  these  officers  or  their  families,  in  connexion 
with  this  period. 


CAPTAIN  PATRICK  KENDELAN. 

The  O'Caendelain  were  Tanists  of  Leogaire  in  Meath, 
of  which  Donell  O'Caendelain  died  lord  in  1017,  as 
did  Angu9  O'Caendelain  in  1085.     This  officer  was 


FITZ-JAMES'S  INFANTRY.  485 

of  Ballynakill,  County  of  Meath,  by  which  description 
he  was  attainted  with  three  others  of  his  kindred 
there,  Edward,  Vaughan,  and  John  Kendelan. 


CAPTAIN  IGNATIUS  USHER. 

In  Lord  Slane's  Regiment  of  Infantry,  Walter  Usher 
was  an  Ensign,  but  nothing  of  note  touching  this 
period  has  been  discovered  of  either  of  these  officers. 


LIEUTENANT  JOHN  HERNE. 
He  appears  to  have  been  of  the  Galway  Hemes. 


LIEUTENANT  JOHN  STEPHENS. 

Of  this  name  at  the  period  it  can  only  be  said  that, 
in  1690,  Sir  Richard  Stephens  was  appointed  a 
Justice  of  the  King's  Bench  in  Ireland,  while  a 
Thomas  Stephens,  described  as  of  Ballyvaughan, 
County  of  Limerick,  was  the  only  one  of  the  name 
then  attainted. 


486 


KING  JAMES  S  IKISH  AKMT  UST. 


ENSIGN  PHILL  MOWNSON, 
ENSIGN  BARTHOLOMEW  READ, 
ENSIGN  EDWARD  RIGNEY. 

No  notice  of  any  of  these  officers,  worthy  of  insertion, 
h&s  been  obtained. 


REGIMENTS   OF   INFANTRY. 

COLONEL  JUSTIN   MACARTY'S,    KOW    LORD   MOUNTCASHEL. 


The  Colonel 
[Count  Anthony  Hamil- 
ton, Lieut..Col.] 

Major. 

Garret  Fitzgerald. 
Philip  Barry  Oge. 

LieMtenatUs. 
Dominick  Terry. 
Francis  Fitzgerald. 

James  Fitzgerald. 
George 

Edmund  Sweeny. 

John  Sullivan. 

Miles  CarroU 

Lewis  Moore. 

Thomas  Hogan. 

Robert  Fitzgerald. 

5  Walter  Bryan. 
I  Donogh  M*Carty. 

Maurice  Piers. 

John  Ryan. 

John  Mally. 

Edward  Fitzgerald. 
Patrick  LeTallin. 

Thomas  Power. 
Ulick  Browne. 
Charles  Fitzgerald. 

Gianad. 
Richard  Condon. 
Kennedy  O'Bryan. 
Thady  O'Connor. 

Redmond  Condon. 
Teigue  M*Carty. 
Arilliam  White. 

Patrick  •  Peiia.' 
John  Ryan. 
Philip  Connor. 

COLONEL  JUSTIN  MACARTY. 

The  native  Annals,    especially  those  of  Innisfallen, 
abound  in  records  of  the  patriotism  and  perseverance 


LORD  MOUNTCASHEL'S  INFANTRY.  487 

with  which  the  noble  Sept  of  the  Macartys  laboured 
to  resist  the  early  invasion  of  the  Danes,  until  they 
were  at  length  induced  to  tolerate  their  settling  for 
commercial  purposes  in  that  province,  Desmond,  of 
which  they  were  Kings.  When  Henry  the  Second 
landed  at  Waterford,  Mac  Carty,  King  of  Desmond, 
delivered  to  him  the  keys  of  Cork  and  did  homage. 
This  great  family  was  popularly  distinguished  into 
two  branches,  the  Mac  Carty  More,  of  which  was 
Donald  Mac  Carty,  created  Earl  of  Glancare  by  Queen 
Elizabeth  ;  and  Mac  Carty  Reagh,  ranked  Princes  of 
Carbery.  Besides  being  Earls  of  Glancare,  the 
Mac  Cartys  were  subsequently  at  various  times  en- 
nobled  as  Barons  of  Valentia,  Barons  and  Viscounts 
Muskerry,  Earls  of  Clancarty,  and  in  this  reign  Lords 
Mountcashel.  In  1314,  Edward  the  Second  directed 
his  especial  letter  missive  to  Dermot  Mac  Arthy, 
'  Ditci  Hibemicorum  de  Dessemond^  for  his  aid  in 
the  Scottish  war.  In  Sir  John  Perrot's  Parliament, 
the  Earl  of  Glancare  sat  as  chief  representative  of 
this  Sept.  In  a  few  years  after,  the  Desmond  war 
having  wasted  Munster,  Florence  Mac  Carty  and  Der- 
mot  Mac-Donagh  Mac  Carty  passed  out  of  that  Pro- 
vince to  Spain.  Florence  had  been  previously  imprison- 
ed, and  during  his  confinement,  in  the  enthusiasm  of 
national  feeling,  he  wrote  an  '  Epistle  on  the  Antiqui- 
ties  of  the  Irish  Nation,'  which  is  preserved  in  the 
MSB.  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  (D.  3.  16).  In 
1605,  David  Lord  Barrie,  Viscount  Buttevant,  had  a 
grant  from  King  James  of  various  castles,  manors. 


488  KixG  James's  irish  army  list. 

customs,  &c.  ill  the  County  of  Cork,  '  the  estate  of 
Fineen  Mac  Oweu  Mac  Cartie,  late  of  Iniskeen,  slain 
in  rebellion.'  The  Attainders  of  1642  present  the 
names  of  Dermot  Mc  Carthy,  and  Donell  Mac  Teigue 
Mc  Carthy,  both  of  Ballyea,  County  of  Cork ;  with 
the  large  proportion  of  one  hundred  and  ten  several 
Inquisitions  confiscating  the  estates  of  other  proprie- 
tors of  the  name  in  that  County. 

At  the  Supreme  Council  held  in  Kilkenny  in  1646, 
Donogh  Mc  Carty,  Viscount  Muskerry,  was  of  its 
Temporal  Peers  ;  while  Charles  Mc  Carty  Reagh, 
Dermot  Mc  Carty  of  Kanturk,  and  Thady  Mc  Carty 
of  Killfallaway  were  of  the  Commons.  The  Viscount 
was  consequently  especially  excepted  from  pardon  for 
life  and  estate  in  Cromwell's  Ordinance  of  1652.  On 
the  Irish  Establishment  of  1687-8,  this  Colonel  Justin 
Macarty  was  placed  as  a  Major-General  of  the  Army 
for  the  annual  pay  of  £680,  with  an  addition  of 
£500  on  the  Pension  List  ;  while,  on  the  latter  fund, 
Daniel  Mc  Carty  Reagh  was  placed  for  £100  'per  an- 
num.  This  name  appears  in  commission  in  eight 
other  Regiments  of  the  present  muster.  In  1689,  a 
Captain  Mac  Cartie  was  killed,  according  to  Walker, 
or  taken  prisoner,  as  Mac  Eenzie  has  it,  in  attempting 
to  scale  the  walls  of  Derry ;  while  in  September  of  the 
following  year  another  Captain  Mac  Carty  was  taken 
prisoner  at  the  siege  of  Cork  by  Colonel  Churchill, 
afterwards  Duke  of  Marlborough.* 

This  Colonel   Justin  Macarty,  whom  O'Kelly,  in 

*  Story's  Impartial  History,  pt.  1,  p.  131. 


LORD  MOUNTCASHEL's  INFANTRY.  489 

his  ^  Excidium  MacaricB^  styles  First  Lieutenant- 
General  of  the  Irish  Army,  was,  he  says,  "  a  man  of 
parts  and  courage,  wanting  no  quality  fit  for  a  com- 
plete captain,  if  he  were  not  somewhat  short-sighted."* 
As  the  best  qualified  officer  for  inspecting  arms,  ord- 
nance, and  engineering  tools,  he  was  appointed  Mus- 
ter-Master General  of  Artillery  in  Ireland,  and  con- 
stituted Lord  Lieutenant  of  the  County  of  Cork  ; 
where,  previously  to  King  James's  coming  over,  he 
took  Castle-Martyr  and  Bandon  from  the  possession  of 
the  Protestant  party,  and  was  considered  to  have 
suppressed  their  movements  in  two  of  the  other  pro- 
vinces.! ^^  King  James's  landing  at  Kinsale,  he 
sought  his  information  as  to  the  state  of  the  country 
more  especially  "  from  Justin  Macarty  and  from  Sir 
Thomas  Nugent,  (afterwards  created  Lord  Riverston) 
the  Lord  Chief  Justice.  He  then  applied  himself  to 
the  affairs  of  the  Army,  and  gave  orders  to  this  Jus- 
tin Macarty  to  form  seven  Regiments  of  Foot  of 
the  forces  raised  in  those  quarters,  as  also  to  arm  the 
Regiment  of  Dragoons  of  Sir  James  Cotter  (Sir  Fran- 
cis  Carroll's  on  this  List).J  Early  in  May,  1689,  he 
was  created  Lord  Viscount  Mountcashel  and  Baron 
of  Castleinchy,  and  was  introduced  with  that  title  on 
the  second  day  of  the  meeting  of  the  Parliament  of 
Dublin,  to  the  House  of  Peers;  immediately  after  which 
he  was  constituted  Commander  of  the  forces  designed 

*  O'Callaghan's  Excidium  Macaris,  p.  36. 

t  Clarke's  James  11.  vol.  2,  p.  327.  t  Idem. 


490  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

to  reduce  Eiiniskillen.*  Amongst  tlie  Peers  on  tliat 
occasion  sat  also  Donogh  Mac  Carty  (although  a 
minor)  by  Royal  dispensation;  while  in  the  Commons 
another  Justin  Macarty  was  one  of  the  Repi'esenta- 
tives  of  the  County  of  Cork  ;  Charles  and  Daniel 
Mac  Carty  Reagh  sat  for  the  Borough  of  Bandon, 
Lieutenant-Colonel  Owen  Mac  Carty  and  Daniel 
Fynneen  Mac  Carty  for  that  of  Cloughnakilty,  and 
Florence  Mac  Carty  was  one  of  the  Representatives  of 

the  Borough  of  Ennis. Lord  Mountcashel  proceeded 

under  his  aforesaid  commission  into  Ulster,  attended 
by  three  whole  Regiments  of  Infantry,  two  of  Dragoons, 
and  some  Horse  ;  being  all  the  troops  the  King  could 
draw  together  at  that  time.  His  Loixiship's  efforts 
in  that  Province  were,  however,  from  the  want  of  am- 
munition and  the  rawness  of  his  soldiers,  ineffective. 
In  an  engagement  near  Enniskillen,  he  was  severely 
wounded,  and,  being  carried  into  that  town  a  prisoner, 
'*  he  there  lay  long  under  cure  ;  but,  before  he  was  ful- 
ly recovered  of  his  wounds,  he  made  his  escape  after  a 
strange  and  wonderfid  manner,  to  the  universal  joy  of 
all  the  Irish.^t  "  The  town  of  Enniskillen,"  writes 
Story  (Impaiiial  History,  part  1,  p.  51)  "stands  upon 
a  lough,  and  the  water  came  to  the  door  of  the  house 
where  he  was  confined,  or  very  near  it.  He  found 
means  to  cornipt  a  servant,  and  to  get  two  small  boats 
called  '  cots '  to  carry  him  and  his  best  moveables  off 
by  night."  This  act  having  been  represented  as  a 
breach  of  parol.  Lord  Mountcashel,  previous  to  re- 

♦  O'Callagban  8  Brigades,  vol.  1,  p.  26.  t  Idem,  p.  36. 


LORD  MOUNTCASHEL'S  INFANTRY.  491 

suming  military  duties  in  France,  the  new  scene  of 
his  achievements,  thought  it  necessary  to  submit  him- 
self to  be  tried  before  a  Court  of  Honour  in  that 
country,  when  he  was  fully  aquitted  by  this  tribunal. 
When  the  Duke  of  Schomberg  landed  at  Bangor  in 
the  County  of  Down,  in  August,  1689,  his  first  move- 
ment was  against  Carrickfergus  ;  to  invest  which  he 
sent  five  Kegiments  of  Foot  and  some  Horse,  follow- 
ing on  the  next  day  himself  with  the  remainder  of 
the  Army.  The  town  was  governed  by  Colonel  Charles 
Macarty  More,  whose  garrison  consisted  of  his  own 
Kegiment  and  nine  companies  of  Colonel  Cormuck 
O'Neill's.  He  defended  the  place  for  ten  days  against 
Scomberg's  operations  by  land  and  sea  ;  nor  was  it 
until  reduced  to  the  last  extremity,  having  but  one 
barrel  of  powder  left,  and  without  any  hope  of  relief, 
that  he  quitted  the  town,  upon  very  honourable  terms. 
"  The  garrison,"  says  Story,  in  the  first  part  of  his 
Impartial  History  (p.  10),  "  were  lusty  strong  fellows, 
but  ill-clad,  and,  to  give  them  their  due,  they  did  not 
behave  ill  in  that  siege." 

Lord  Mountcashel  was  attainted  in  1691,  and 
again  in  1696,  on  which  occasion  seventy-eight  other 
Inquisitions  of  Outlawries  were  held  on  the  McCartys, 
on  whose  confiscations  various  claims  were  preferred 
at  Chichester  House. 

The  reader  must  be  here  reminded  that,  when 
James  the  Second  was  induced  to  attempt  a  landing 
in  Ireland,  Louis  the  Fourteenth  agreed  to  send  over 
thither  for  his  service  six  thousand  of  his  veterans, 
under  the  command  of  De  Lausun,  in  exchange  for  as 


492  KIXG  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

many  young  soldiers   from   Ireland.     Lord   Mount- 
cashel  was  appointed  to  head  the  latter,  a  movement 
which,  Colonel  O'Kelly  writes,  "  was  desired  hy  Tyrcon- 
nel,  while  Mountoashel  himself,  who  could  not  endure 
Tyrconnel's  haughty  movement,  was  not  displeased  to 
serve  France  under  the  great  Louis.*^    On  the  arrival 
of  the  Irish  forces  in  that  country,  they  were  received 
with  the  most  flattering  and  generous  treatment  by 
the  King.     MountcasheFs  Regiment,  having  suffered 
almost  annihilation  in  the  engagement  near  Ennis- 
killen,  was  strengthened  with  fresh  recmits  before  it 
could  be  brought  out.     The  second  Regiment  sent 
out,   Clare's,   was   commanded   by   the    Honoumble 
Daniel  O'Brian,  son  of  Lord  Clare  ;  the  thiixi,  Dillon's, 
was  under  the  Honourable  Arthur  Dillon,  second  son 
of  the  Lord  Viscount  of  that  name.     There  were  two 
other  Begiments  sentovorwith  these,  viz.  Colonel  Rich- 
ard Butler  s  and  Colonel  Robert  Fielding's,  but  they  do 
not  appear  upon  this  'List ;'  and  were  at  once  incorpo- 
rated in  the  three  first.     Soon  after  Mountcashel's 
arrival  in  Fmnce  (1690-91),  he  received  a  commission 
from  Louis,  entitling  him  to  command  all  the  Irish 
troops  taken  into  the  French  service,  viz.,  his  own, 
O'Brien's,  and  Dillon's  ;  and  in  a  few  days  after  was 
empowered  to  act  as  a  Lieutenant-General  of  France, 
as  he  already  was  of  England  and  Ircland.f     In  order 
at  once  to  engage  his  military  services,  he  was  ordered 
to  Savoy,  where  the  French  corps  (Tarmee  was  then 
too  feeble  for  active  operations.     After  a  mareh  of 

•  Excid.  Mac.  p.  46.       t  O'Callaghan  s  Brigades,  vol.  1,  p.  69. 


LORD  MOUNTCASHEL'S  INFANTRY.  493 

five  hundred  miles  under  a  burning  sun,  to  which  the 
men  were  unaccustomed,  it  joined  the  French  army 
near  the  capital  of  Savoy,  towards  the  latter  end  of 
July.  Lieutenant-General  the  Marquis  of  St.  Ruth, 
(destined  afterwards  to  fall  at  Aughrim)  on  the  ar- 
rival of  the  Irish,  recognised  their  value,  and  fearlessly 
approached  Chantilly.  Calculating  on  their  courage 
and  agility  as  mountaineers,  he  promptly  ordered 
their  forces  to  join  him,  with  the  object  of  driving  the 
Piedmontese  beyond  the  high  Alps  that  separate 
Savoy  from  Piedmont.  Nor  did  Mountcashel  disap- 
point his  expectations  ;  at  the  head  of  his  Regiment 
he  gained  the  defiles,  burst  through  the  abattis,  carried 
the  entrenchments,  and  forced  the  Piedmontese  to  fly 
to  the  summits  of  the  mountains.  M.  de  Salles,  their 
commander,  was  taken  prisoner,  the  next  in  command 
was  killed,  and  several  others  were,  in  the  pursuit, 
killed  or  taken.  Mountcashel  received  wounds  on 
this  occasion,  which,  though  he  was  unwilling  they 
should  withdraw  him  from  service,  yet  ultimately 
preyed  upon  him  to  death.  During  the  campaign  of 
1691,  St.  Ruth's  corps  was  embodied  in  the  French 
armies  of  Piedmont  and  Catalonia,  and  shared  with 
them  the  honor  of  the  capture  of  Montmelian,  the 
strongest  fortress  in  the  south  of  Europe ;  and  of  Urgel 
in  Catalonia,  defended  by  a  large  garrison,  the  elite 
of  the  Spanish  army.  Clare  s  mounted  the  trenches 
at  Montmelian,  and  Mountcashers  and  Dillon's  at 
Urgel.*     In    1692,  Mountcashel's  Brigade   was  en- 

♦  O'Conor'8  Milit.  Mem.  p.  100,  &c. 


494  KIXG  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

gaged  in  hrilliant  services  with  Catiiiat  on  the  Pied- 
montese  frontier,  at  Guillestre,  and  Embrun.  Nine 
battalions  of  his  Brigarle  were  engaged  in  this  service, 
with  three  of  Clare's,  two  of  the  King's  and  Queen's 
Dismounted  Dragoons,  and  two  of  the  Queen's  In- 

fantry.* In   1694,   when   the   French   army   in 

Germany  was  commanded  by  Marshal  Boufflers, 
Mountcashel  served  as  a  Lieut<?nant-General  in  the 
corps  of  tlie  Grand  Army,  having  under  him  his  own 
Kegiment,  consisting  of  thi-ee  Battalions,  the  Dublin, 
the  Charlcmont,  and  the  Marines.  Their  nine  Bat- 
talions, in  all  about  6,000  men,  effected  the  reduction 
of  Beringheim  on  the  Necker,  the  only  achievement 
of  the  French  in  Germany  duiing  this  year.f  In 
the  campaign  on  the  Rhine,  Mountcashel  acted  as 
Lieutenant-General  under  Marshal  Lorges,  but  the 
effects  of  his  wounds  obliged  him  to  seek  benefit  from 
the  waters  of  Barege,  where  he  died  on  the  21st  of 
July,  1694.  He  had  married  the  Lady  Arabella 
Wentworth,  second  daughter  of  Thomas,  the  ill-fated 
Earl  of  Strafford,  by  whom  he  left  no  issue.  "  His 
death  made  room  for  the  advancement  of  Colonel 
Andrew  Lee,  an  officer  of  distinguished  reputation, 
who  afterwards  obtained  the  rank  of  Lieutenant- 
General,  and  by  whose  name  MountcasheFs  Regiment 
was  thenceforward  known.J 

In  1747,  Captain  Charles  Mac  Cartie  of  Buckley's 
Regiment  was  killed  at  Lauffield,  as  was  Flory  Mac 

♦  O'Conors  MiUt.  Mem.  p.  215-16.      t  Idem,  p.  224. 
}  Idem,  p.  228-9. 


LORD  MOUNTCASHEL'S  INFANTRY.  495 

Carty  of  Clare's  ;  and  Lieutenant  Florence  Mac 
Carty  of  Berwick's  was  wounded  on  the  same  occasion. 
In  1770,  died  in  England  Charles  Mac  Carty  More, 
a  Captain  in  the  First  Foot  Guards,  who  claimed  de- 
scent from  Dermot  Mac  Carthy,  King  of  Cork  in  the 
time  Henry  the  Second.* 


[LIEUTENANT-COLONEL    COUNT    ANTHONY 
HAMILTON.] 

This  son  of  Sir  George  Hamilton  and  brother  of 
Count  George  Hamilton,  both  before  alluded  to,  was 
a  native  of  Ireland,  but  passed  out  of  it  to  France 
during  the  visitation  of  Cromwell.  On  the  Restora- 
tion he  also  returned ;  and,  after  the  accession  of 
James  the  Second  was  created  a  Privy  Councillor  in 
Ireland,  and  made  Governor  of  Limerick,  with  a  pen- 
sion  of  £200  per  annum.  When  the  Revolution 
broke  out  in  England  he  retired  to  France  with 
James  the  Second,  whom  he  afterwards  accompanied 
to  Ireland,  and  was  by  him  appointed  Colonel  of  a 
Regiment  of  Infantry,  and  finally  Major-General  of 
the  forces  under  Lord  Mountcashel  designed  to  re- 
duce EnniskiUen ;  in  the  progress  of  which  expedi- 
tion he  was  wounded  at  Belturbetf  He  had  greatly 
incensed  King  William  by  undertaking,  as  it  was 
alleged,  to  persuade  Tyrconnel  to  yield  up  Ireland  to 

^  Exshaw's  Mag.  ad  ann, 

t  O'Callaghan's  Brigades,  p.  32,  &c. 


490  KING  James's  misn  army  list. 

him  ;  adding  thiit,  when  ho  liad  obtained  all  the  con- 
fidence with  which  the  Whigs  would  entrust  him,  he 
posted  over  to  Ireland,  and  did  all  in  his  i)ower,  by 
pen,  intei-est,  or  sword,  in  the  cause  of  King  James. 
He  was  taken  prisoner  at  the  Boyne,  when  a  sarcasm 
little  worthy  of  majesty  is  said  to  have  been  applied 
to  him  by  King  William.  Leland,  following  Dr. 
Story,  says  this  rebuke  was  uttered  against  General 
Bichard  Hamilton,  who  was  also  taken  prisoner  here ; 
but  the  ivproach  (if  it  ever  were  s{x)ken)  could  not 
apply  to  the  latter.  By  the  intei-est  of  the  Queen,  on 
the  representations  of  the  Duke  of  Devonshire  and 
"  the  fair  Grammont,"  his  own  sister.  Count  Anthony 
was  released  from  captivity,  and  died  at  St.  Gkrmains 
in  1720,  aged  74.*  He  was  the  well-known  author 
of  the  '  Memoirs  of  Grammont,'  an  attractive  record 
of  scandalous  reminiscences.  It  is  only  to  be 
observed  that  on  the  present  Army  List  the  Lieute- 
nant-Colonelcy  is  not  filled;  but  it  was  afterwards 
filled  by  this  officer. 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  HOGAN. 

Ortelk'SS  map  locates  the  'O'Hogains'  as  an  ancient 
Sept  in  Tipjxirary,  in  the  vicinity  of  Nenagh.  Of 
this  family  the  Annals  of  the  Diocese  of  Killaloe 
record    Matthew    O'llogain    its    Bishop    in     1267, 

♦  O'Callaghan  s  Brigades,  p.  284. 


LORD  MOUNTCASHEL'S  INFANTRY.  497 

Maurice  O'Hogain  in  1281,  Thomas  O'Hogain  in 
1343,  and  Kichard  Hogan  in  1525  ;  this  last  was 
afterwards  translated  to  the  See  of  Clonmacnoise,  a 
short  time  previous  to  its  union  with  Meath.  The 
above  officer  was  of  Terraleague,  County  of  Cork  ; 
while  there  are  also  on  this  Army  List,  besides  him 
and  Thomas  Hogan  a  Lieutenant  in  this  Regiment, 
Murtough  and  Hugh  Hogan,  Comets  in  Lord  Clare's 
Dragoons  ;  the  latter  was  of  Carnan,  County  of 
Clare ;  and  in  Colonel  Dudley  Bagnall's  Infantry, 
Daniel  Hogan  was  a  Captain,  and  William  Hogan  an 
Ensign.  Of  these,  John  and  Hugh  only  appear  on 
the  Roll  of  Attainders  in  1691.  Story  relates  *  that 
"Grace  and  Hogan,  two  Rapparee  Captains,  with 
eighty  men  surprised  a  castle  called  Camgart,  within 
six  miles  of  Birr." 


CAPTAIN  RICHARD  CONDON. 

The  Condons  were  anciently  settled  in  the  County  of 
Cork;  but  their  chief  territory  was,  on  the  plantation 
of  Munster,  granted  to  Arthur  Hyde,  as  forfeited  by 
Patrick  Condon,  an  adherent  of  the  Earl  of  Des- 
mond. In  the  subsequent  Attainders  of  1642  no 
less  than  twenty-one  Inquisitions  were  held  on  this 
name.  Besides  the  above  Captain  Richard,  and  Red- 
mond Condon  an  Ensign  in  this  Regiment,  Edmund 
Condon  was  a  Lieutenant  in  Colonel  John  Barrett's 

*  Stoiy's  Impartial  Hist.  pt.  2,  p.  8. 

KK 


498  KIXG  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Infantry.  The  Attainders  of  1691  have  the  names 
of  John  Condon  of  Carricknavoura,  David  of  Bally- 
macpatrick  and  John  his  son,  Garrett  of  Killecar  and 
Redmond  of  Ballywilliam,  all  in  the  County  of  Cork. 
Captain  Richaixl  appears  to  have  fallen  in  battle. 
His  widow  Julianne  was  an  unsuccessful  claimant  at 
Chichester  Ifouse  for  a  life  estat<3  in  his  Cork  lands. 


LIEUTENANT   DOMINICK  TERRY. 

This  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of 
the  Tudors.  In  1536,  Dominick  Terry  consented  to 
be  appointed  Bishop  of  Cork  and  Ross,  by  mandate  of 
Henry  VIII.  and  held  the  See  in  opi)osition  to  the 
Pope's  nominee;  while  in  1616,  William  'Thyrry/ 
on  the  latter  authority,  became  titular  Bishop  thereof. 
The  Attainders  of  1642  have  only  the  names  of  Ed- 
mund Tyrry  of  Clonturk,  and  William  Tyrry  Fitz- 
Dominick  of  Ballymaci)eriy,  County  of  Cork.  Those 
of  1691  include  William  and  Robert  Terry  of 
Ballingcurry,  George  and  John  of  Rathnagarde, 
Francis  of  Galway,  and  James,  Patrick  and  Stephen 
Thyrry  of  Limerick. 


LIEUTENANT  MAURICE  PIERS. 

Tms  family  has  been  noticed  ante^  p.  309  and  its  settle- 
ment at  Tristernagh  in  the  County  of  Westmeath, 


LORD  MOUNTCASHEL'S  INFANTRY.  499 

Captain  William  Piers  of  that  place  was  an  Officer 
under  Queen  Elizabeth  in  her  wars  of  Ireland,  and 
Holinshed  mentions  that  he  was  the  person  who 
"contrived  of  destroying  the  great  rebel  O'Neill."* 
His  great  grandson,  Sir  Henry  Piers  of  Tristernagh, 
drew  a  brief  memoir  of  his  native  County,  which  has 
been  published  in  VaUancejfs  Collectanea  Hibernica. 
In  the  Attainders  of  1642,  John  Piers,  described  as  of 
Wicklow,  is  the  only  person  of  this  name,  while  those 
outlawed  in  1691  were  John  and  Turlogh  Piers  of 
Calwonmaine,  County  of  Clare.  In  this  Regiment 
Patrick  Piers  was  Maurice's  Ensign,  and  in  Sir  Neill 
O'Neiirs  Dragoons,  Christopher  Piers  was  a  Cornet. 


LIEUTENANT  JOHN  MALLT. 

The  most  influential  branch  of  this  family,  O'Mally  or 
O'Maley,  has  been  long  established  in  the  County  of 
Mayo,  where,  in  the  reign  of  Elizabeth,  Grace, 
daughter  of  Owen  O'Maley,  called  by  the  natives 
Grana  Uile,  made  her  name  so  widely  known,  that  in 
1576  the  Lord  Deputy  Sidney  wrote  of  her  to  the 
Council  in  England,  as  one  '  powerful  in  gallies  and 
seamen.'  The  renown  of  her  Sept  in  maritime 
affiiirs  and  naval  exploits  is  indicated  in  their  heral- 
dic motto,  '  Terra  marique  potens.^  Her  visit  to  the 
Court  of  Elizabeth  and  her  carrying  off  the  infant  son 
of  the  Lord  of  Howth  from  his  father's  residence  have 

♦  Ware's  Writers,  p.  102. 

kk2 


500  KIXG  JAM£S*S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

been  commemorated  in  prose  and  poetry.  Her 
nephew,  Edmund  O'Malley,  born  in  1579,  adhered  to 
the  cause  of  Charles  the  First,  and  died  at  Breda  in 
exile,  leaving  a  son  who  was  present  when  very  young 
at  the  battle  of  Worc<3ster,  and  accompanied  his  father 
to  Breda ;  on  the  Restoration  he  recovered  a  portion 
of  his  ancient  inherifcince.  He  (continues  Sir  Ber- 
nard Burke)  attended  James  the  Second  through  all 
his  Irish  campaigns,  and  died  with  him  in  exile  at  St. 
Germains  in  1692.  He  married  at  the  Court  of 
Spain  the  daughter  of  Sir  Christopher  Garvey,  a  maid 
of  honor  to  the  Queen,  by  whom  he  had  a  son  Teigue 
or  Thady  O'Malley,  who  held  a  commission  as  Captain 
of  Irish  Dragoons  during  this  campaign.* 

This  family  was  so  formidable  in  the  estimation  of 
the  Lord  President  of  Munster  during  the  war  in 
that  Province,  that  in  1601  when  "intelligence 
having   reached   him,  and  letters  being  intercepted, 

whereby  it  probably  appeared  that the  O'Mayleys 

and  OTlahertys  had  a  purpose  with  six  hundred  men 
to  invade  Kerry,. •..principally  to  disturb  his  Govern- 
ment, he  despatched  a  strong  body  of  men  to  do  good 
service  on  the  rebels  at  their  passage  over  the  Shan- 
non, which,  of  necessity,  they  must  hazard  before  they 
could  come  into  Munster  ;''f  a  service  which  was 
effectively  rendered.  After  the  defeat  of  the 
Spaniards  at  Kinsale,  when  Sir  Charles  Wilmot  was 
despatched  to  watch  over  the  inhabitants  of  Kerry, 

*  Burke's  Landed  Gentry,  p.  964. 
f  Pacata  Hibernia,  pp.  222-3. 


LORD  MOUNTCASHEL's  INFANTRY  501 

Owen  O'Mayley  was  one  of  the  native  chiefs  who,  at 
the  head  of  "  500  foot  and  a  few  horse,  vainly  sought 
at  Lixnaw  to  stay  his  passage."*  In  Lord  Galway's 
Regiment  of  Infantry,  a  Daniel  Mally,  described  in 
his  Attainder  as  of  Tynehugh,  County  of  Donegal, 
was  an  Ensign.  With  him  were  attainted  in  1690 
Nicholas  Mally  of  Dublin,  Thady  of  Drogheda,  mer- 
chant ;  Neil  O'Malley  also  of  Tynehugh,  and  Patrick, 
Owen,  and  Darby  O'Malley  of  Owles,  County  of 
Mayo.  In  the  latter  part  of  the  eighteenth  century, 
Patrick  O^Malley,  of  the  Mayo  Sept,  was  killed  in  the 
Austrian  service. 


REGIMENTS   OF   INFANTRY. 

DONOGH,  EARL  OF  CLANCARTY. 

CaptaMW.  LimUenanU,  Ensigns, 

The  Colonel.  

John  SheltoD,  

Lient.-Go]. 
PhOip  Bicautt,  

Major. 

Alezinder  Magoire.  

Walter  Bntler.  Gerald  Fitzgerald. 

Lord  Upper  Oflsorj. 

Garret  '  TirrelL'  Edmund  Porcell.  Garret  Dease. 

Edmimd  Fitsgerald.  ............  

Donogh  M*Gartj. 
Andrew  Dorrington.         > 
Comeline  Mnrphj.  { 


*  PacaU  Hibemia,  p.  533. 


O02  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

COLONEL  THE  EARL  OF  CLANCARTT. 

DoNOGH  Mac  Carty,  the  grandfather  of  this  noble- 
man, was  Viscount  Miiskerry  and  first  Earl  of  Clon- 
carty.  He  was  General  of  the  Irish  forces  of  Mun* 
ster  for  Charles  the  First  and  Charles  the  Second 
against  the  Parliamentarian  Revolutionists.  When 
resistance  was  no  longer  available  at  home,  he  brought 
oif  a  large  body  of  his  countrymen  to  the  Continent ; 
and,  surviving  the  Restoration,  died  in  London  in 
August,  1665.  He  had  by  his  wife,  the  Lady  Butler, 
eldest  sister  of  James  the  first  Duke  of  Ormond, 
Charles,  Callaghan,  and  Justin  Mac  Carty ;  the  eldest 
fell  in  battle  about  two  months  previous  to  his  Other's 
decease,  in  the  memorable  sea-fight  at  South-hold  Bay, 
where  James,  then  Duke  of  York,  at  the  head  of  ninety, 
eight  ships  of  the  line  and  four  fire-ships,  gained  the 
most  glorious  victory  that  had  ever  been  obtained  by 
the  English  marine,  over  the  naval  power  of  Holland. 
This  son  of  Earl  Donogh  was  intended  in  Westminster 
Abbey,  and,  as  he  left  no  issue,  the  titles  and  estates 
devolved  upon  his  next  brother  Callaghan,  who  had 
entered  upon  an  ecclesiastical  life  in  France  with  the 
intention  of  becoming  a  Priest ;  but,  on  the  extinc- 
tion of  his  elder  brother's  line,  he  became  a  Protestant, 
married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  the  sixteenth  Earl  of 
Kildare,  and  dying  in  November,  1676,  left  issue  by  her 
one  son,  the  above  Colonel,  born  about  the  year  1670, 
He  was  educated  a  Protestant  by  the  Archbishop  of 
Canterbury,  and  bred  up  at  Oxford,  "  where  young 


EARL  OF  CLANCARTY^S  INFANTRY.  503 

gentlemen  in  those  days  did  not  a  leam  a  compla- 
cency for  popery,  as  they  have  since  Sacheverel  and 
his  fellows  have  been  encouraged  there.''*     His  uncle 
Justin    McCarty,   without   the    knowledge    of   his 
mother,  married  him  at  sixteen  years  old  to  Mary, 
daughter  of  the  Eari  of  Sunderland,  who  was  then  a 
Court  favourite,  and  immediately  sent  him  to  Ireland. 
Smith,  in  his  History  of  Cork,  (vol.  1,  p.  175,  n.) 
details  some  curious  particulars  respecting  this  noble- 
man's  marriage.     He  and  his  uncle  warmly  espoused 
the  cause  of  King  James.     Early  in  March,  1689,  the 
townspeople  of  Bandon  fell  upon  its  small  Jacobite 
garrison  under  Captain  Donell  O'Neill,  seized  their 
arms,  clothes,  &c.,  and  shut  the  gates  against  this 
Earl  Donogh,  who  was  advancing  with  a  reinforce- 
ment of  six  companies  to  relieve  the  place.f      His 
uncle,    however,    Lieutenant-General    Justin,    after 
taking  precautions  against  any  hostile  rising  in  the 
City  of  Cork  and  its  vicinity,  compelled  the  William- 
ites  of  Bandon  to  seek  pardon,  open  their  gates,  pay 
£1000  fine,  and  level  their  waUs,  which  have  never 
since  been  rebuilt ;  this  achievement  put  an  end  to  any 
opposition  to  James  in  Munster.     On  that  monarch's 
subsequently  landing  at  Kinsale,  the  Earl  of  Clancarty 
with  Tyrconnel  received  him  ;    the  former  entertain- 
ing His  Majesty,  who  "  made  him  a  Lord  of  the  Bed- 
chamber,  appointed  him  Clerk  of  the  Crown  and 
Peace  for  the    Province   by    Letters    Patent,   and 

*  Memoirs  of  Ireland  (printed  1716),  p.  56.     f  Idem,  p.  23. 


504  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

created  his  Infantry  Regiment  a  Royal  Regiment  of 
Guards.''* 

In  the  Parliament  of  Dublin,  May,  1689,  this  Earl, 
though  under  age,  sat  as  a  Peer  by  royal  dispensation. 
In  1690,  being  in  the  City  of  Cork  when  it  was  be- 
sieged by  the  Earl,  afterwards  Duke,  of  Marlborough, 
he  was  taken  prisoner  and  sent  off  to  the  Tower  of 
London,  where  he  was  held  until  the  autumn  of  1694, 
when  he  succeeded  in  making  his  escape  to  France, 
and  there  he  commanded  a  troop  of  King  James's 
Guards  until  the  peace  of  Ryswick  in  1697.  In  the 
following  year  he  ventured  to  visit  England  and  his 
wife,  but  was  instantly  arrested,  and  was  only  par- 
doned  on  condition  of  abjuring  the  kingdom  ;  where- 
upon he  retired  to  Hamburgh,  and,  purchasing  an 
island  on  the  Elbe  near  Altona,  made  it  his  residence 
till  his  deatLf  He  was  attainted  in  1691  and  1696, 
and  his  forfeitures  gave  an  immense  tract  of  country 
to  the  Crown.  A  letter  of  Bartholomew  Van  Homrigh, 
dated  11th  December,  1697,  in  the  Southwell  MSS. 
Collections,  says,  "  the  grant  of  the  late  Earl  of  Glan- 
carty's  estates  to  Lord  Woodstock  is  this  night  past 
the  Great  Seal  of  Ireland,  so  that  all  the  said  estate 
is  now  by  law  in  my  Lord  Woodstock  and  his  heirs 
for  ever.  "J  The  extent  of  the  old  Irish  assessments 
which  his  ancestors  levied  may  be  judged  firom  a 
previous  patent  of  King  James  (1608),  granting  to 

♦  Memoirs  of  Ireland,  p.  24. 

t  O'Callaghans  Brigades,  v.  1,  p.  140. 

J  Thorpe's  Catul.  Southwell  MSS.  p.  26. 


EARL  OF  CLANCARTY'S  INFANTRY.  505 

Sir  Henry  Power,  Knight,  Privy  Councillor,  all  and 
singular  the  seigniories,  chief  rents,  silver  rents, 
customs  of  beeves,  swine,  butter,  oats,  beer,  bran, 
honey,  and  all  other  services  which  belonged  to  Donald, 
late  Earl  of  Clancartie,  and  were  forfeited  to  the 
Crown  in  Kerry  and  Desmond  counties. 

At  the  Court  of  Chichester  House,  the  Countess  of 
Clancarty  claimed  off  all  the  estate  of  this  nobleman 
*  a  competent  maintenance,'  and  preferred  other 
charges  attaching  to  the  same,  but  with  no  success. 
Various  other  claims  were  advanced  as  attaching  to  this 
immense  territory,  and  some  few  were  allowed.  The 
chief  purchasers  of  these  estates  from  the  Commission- 
ers of  the  Forfeitures  were  Alderman  James  French, 
Sir  Richard  Pyne,  Knight,  Lord  Chief  Justice  of  the 
Common  Pleas  ;  seventeen  other  private  individuals, 
and,  yet  more,  the  Hollow  Swords'  Blades  Company. 

In  June,  1704,  this  Earl's  Countess  died  at  the 
place  of  his  exile,  leaving  issue  by  him  two  sons, 
Robert  and  Justin.  His  attainder  was  reversed  and 
his  honors  restored  in  1721,  but  he  never  returned, 
and  died  at  his  island  retreat  in  October,  1734,. aged 
64.  His  son  and  heir  Robert  resided  many  years  at 
Boulogne-sur-mer,  where  he  lived  an  Irish  hospitable 
life  (see  Walker's  Hibernian  Magazine  for  1796, 
p.  12,  &c.),  and  died  in  1770,  aged  84,  he  also  leaving 
two  sons.  The  Brigade  Regiment  known  as  Clan- 
carty's  was  commanded  by  Roger  Mc  Ellicott  (who 
had  been  Governor  of  Cork  when  it  was  taken  by  the 
Earl  of  Marlborough)  ;  Edward  Scott  was  its  Lieu- 


506  KING  James's  irisu  army  list. 

tenant-Colonel  and  John  Murphy  its  Major. The 

late  Compte  de  Mac  Carthy  Keagh  collected  a  library, 
second  in  its  extent  only  to  that  of  the  King  of 
Fnmce  ;  no  other  possesse<l  so  large  a  number  of 
printed  and  manuscript  books  on  vellum.  On  his 
death,  liowever,  this  magnificent  collection,  like  the 
estates  of  the  family  a  century  previous,  was  scattered 
amongst  strangers.* 


LIEUTENANT-COLONEL  SH ELTON. 
Nothing  known  of  him  or  his  connexions. 


CAPTAIN  LORD  UPPER  OSSORY. 

The  Mac  Gilla  Phadniig  (Fitz-Patrick)  was  in  the 
early  period  of  Irish  history  Ruler  of  Ossory,  a  territory 
extending  over  the  whole  country  between  the  rivers 
Nore  and  Suir  ;  and  the  native  annals  are  full  of  their 
lineage,  charitable  foundations,  and  achievements,  the 
castles  they  enacted,  and  the  abbeys  they  founded  and 
endowed.  In  1314,  Edward  the  Second  directed  his 
official  letter  missive  to  Donogh  Mac  GiDe-Patrick, 
as  Chief  of  his  Sept,  for  service  and  aid  in  the  war  to 
Scotland.  In  1541,  Brian  Mac  Gilla  Phadrig  was 
created  Baron  of  Upper  Ossory.  His  son,  the  second 
Baron,  was  the  companion  and  favourite  of  Edward  the 

♦  O'Callaghau's  Green  Book,  p.  281. 


EARL  OF  CLANCARTY's   INFANTRY.  507 

Sixth.  Four  letters  of  his  to  that  young  king,  re- 
lating interesting  circumstances  connected  with  the 
war  in  France  and  Flanders,  are  preserved  in  the 
British  Museum,  as  are  two  others  from  him  to  the 
Earl  of  Leicester,  dated  in  1578  and  1579  from 
Dublin  Castle,  where,  having  incurred  Queen  Eliza- 
beth's displeasure,  he  was  confined  a  state  prisoner. 
In  the  last  letter  he  sought  to  obtain  the  EarFs  inter- 
position with  the  Queen,  accompanying  his  petition 
with  a  present  of  *  a  very  fair  hawk  of  a  tried  agree.' 
When  Sir  John  Perrot  convened  the  Conciliation 
Parliament  of  1585,  "  thither  went  Mc  Gill  Phadruig 
of  Ossory,  namely  Fingin,  the  son  of  Bryan,  son  of 
Fingin."*  At  the  Supreme  Council  of  Kilkenny 
Bryan  Fitz-Patrick,  Baron  of  Upper  Ossory,  was  of 
the  Temporal  Peers ;  while  Florence  Fitz-Patrick  of 
Lisdunveamey  was  of  the  Commons.  Cromwell's 
Ordinance  of  1652  excepted  the  above  Florence  Fitz- 
Patrick  and  Colonel  John  his  son  fr*om  pardon  for  life 

and  estate. As  the  honors  of  this  family  are  in 

abeyance,  and  the  descent  of  its  lines  obscure,  it  may 
be  here  mentioned  that  in  1674,  28th  January,  was 
buried  in  the  old  graveyard  of  the  Catholic  aristocracy 
at  St.  James's,  Dublin,  Dr.  Thady  Fitz-Patrick,  son 
to  Teigue  Oge  Fitzpatrick  of  Akipe,  son  to  Dermot  of 
Ballyrellin,  son  to  Teigue  Oge  Mac  Teigue  of  Munni- 
drohid.  This  Dr.  Thady  married  Julian,  daughter  of 
Pierce  Martin  of  Galway,  merchant,  son  of  Walter 
Martin  ;    and  had  issue  by  her  divers  children,  of 

*  Anoals  of  the  Four  Masters,  ad  ann. 


508  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

whom  *  survive*  three  sons,  Patrick,  John,  and  James, 
and  two  daughters.  Christian  and  Anne,  as  is  testified 
in  a  Funeral  Entry  in  Bermingham  Tower  by  Julian 

Martin,  the  widow  of  Dr.Thady. The  aboveCaptain 

was  Bryan  Fitzpatrick,  the  seventh  Baron  of  Upper 
Ossory,  whose  exploits  at  Mons  are  ftdly  detailed  in 
Harris's  Life  of  William  the  Third.*  He  had  a  pension 
of  £100  per  annum  from  Charles  the  Second,  which 
was  on  the  1st  of  January,  1687,  continued  to  him  by 
King  James.  He  sat  in  the  Parliament  of  Dublin, 
was  attainted  in  1691,  and  died  in  1696.  He  had 
been  married  three  times,  but  left  no  issue  by  any  of 
of  his  wives.  In  the  Act  "  to  hinder  the  reversal  of 
several  Outlawries  and  Attainders,"  passed  in  the  sixth 
year  of  William  the  Third,  it  was  provided  that  the 
same  should  not  extend  to  confirm  the  outlawries  of 
the  late  Earl  of  Upper  Ossory,  but  the  same  might  be 
capable  of  being  reversed  in  such  manner  as  if  that 
Act  had  never  been  made.  On  his  decease  his  nephew 
assumed  the  title,  but  it  was  denied  to  him  at  law, 
and  this  ancient  Barony  has  been  considered  thence 
extinct.  At  Chichester  House,  the  Lady  Dorothy 
his  third  wife,  claimed,  as  Baroness  Dowager  of  Upper 
Ossory,  a  long  term  for  years  in  the  Queen's  County 
estates  forfeited  by  her  lord's  attainder.  Of  the  name 
there  appear  also  on  this  *Army  List,'  John  Fitzpatrick 
a  Captain  and  Darby  Fitzpatrick  a  Lieutenant  in 
Colonel  Edward  Butler's  Regiment  of  Infantry  ;  the 
former  afterwards  became  a  Major,  and  was  taken 

*  See  its  ludex  Titles  *  Ossory'  and  '  Mons/ 


EARL  OF  CLANCARTY's   INFANTRY.  509 

prisoner  in  the  service.  He  was  described  in  his 
attainder  as  *  of  Kilkenny/  the  latter  of  Clooneen, 
Queen's  County.  A  Thady  Fitzpatrick,  most  pro- 
bably a  relative  of  the  above  Dr.  Thady,  was  in  1689 
Deputy  Lieutenant  of  the  Queen's  County,  and  one  of 
the  Representatives  for  Maryborough  in  the  Parlia- 
ment  of  Dublin.  He  too  was  attainted  in  1691,  but 
afterwards  obtained  a  pardon  under  the  Great  Seal. 

Besides  those  before  mentioned,  there  were  also  at- 
tainted in  1691  Terence  Fitzpatrick  of  Kilbredelegg, 
Bryan  of  Moneydriluch  and  Killdeley,  Redmond  of 
Kilmanbought,  Charles  of  Bamyballeragh,  and  Flo- 
rence of  Clonaghill,  all  in  their  native  County,  (the 
Queen's);  while  Dermott  Fitzpatrick  was  a  forfeiting 
proprietor  in  the  County  of  Clare.  At  the  siege  of 
Derry,  a  Lieutenant  Fitzpatrick  was  killed  "  in  the 
orchard  on  the  other  side  of  the  walls."*  On  the  first 
of  May,  1691,  "Major  Wood,  having  notice  that  the 
rapparees  were  in  great  force  about  Brittas  in  the 
Queen's  County,  went  out  with  300  of  my  Lord 
George  Hamilton's  and  Colonel  Lloyd's  Foot  and  fifty 
of  Colonel  Byerly's  Horse,  with  which  he  first  killed 
nigh  seventy  Rapparees,  and,  leaving  part  of  his  men 
to  secure  passes,  he  went  three  miles  further  beyond  a 
place  called  the  Togher  of  Malahone,  having  with  him 
110  Foot,  and  30  Horse  ;  but,  instead  of  the  rappa- 
rees whom  only  he  expected,  he  espied  two  bodies  of 
the  Irish  army  said  to  be  near  eight  hundred  in  num- 
ber.    These  he  encountered,  and  afl;er  several  charges 

♦  Walker's  Siege  of  Deny,  p.  61. 


510  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

at  different  places  put  them  to  the  rout,  killing  one 
hundred  and  fifty  on  the  place,  amongst  whom  was 
one  Captain  Sheales  ;  and  he  took  Major  John  Fitz- 
patrick  (before  alluded  to)  prisoner,  who  commanded 
the  party,  and  seventeen  officers  more,  with  six  ser- 
geants, sixteen  corporals,  two  drummers,  and  also 
eighty  privates.*^  In  1693,  at  the  battle  of  Landon, 
a  Colonel  Fitzpatrick  was  woundedf ;  and  in  1696, 
Brigadier-General  Edward  Fitzpatrick  was  drowned  in 
the  Holyhead  packet  with  several  other  officers.  The 
vessel  was  cast  away  by  a  violent  storm  near  Sutton, 
on  the  Dublin  coast.  He  was  the  elder  brother  of 
Richard  first  Lord  Gowran,  the  son  of  which  latter 
nobleman  was  afterwards  created  Earl  of  Upper 
Ossory.J 

In  1732,  James  Fitzpatrick  was  killed  at  the 
battle  of  Oran,  in  the  Spanish  service.  He  had 
preferred  a  claim  to  the  Barony  of  Upper  Ossory 
before  the  House  of  Lords  in  the  previous  year,  but 
he  was  considered  to  have  failed  in  his  evidence,  and 
the  issue,  which  he  left,  did  not  prosecute  the  claim. 


ENSIGN  GARRET  DEASE. 

He   was  of  the  House  of  Turbotstown,  County  of 
Westmeath,  as  was  also  Richard  Dease,  and  there  the 

*  Story's  Impartial  History,  pt.  2,  p.  73. 

t  Rawdon  Papers,  p.  379. 

X  Lodge's  Peerage,  edited  by  Archdall,  vol.  2,  p.  846. 


EARL  OF  CLANCARTY  8  INFANTRY. 


511 


family  still  exists.  They  were  both  attainted  in 
1691,  as  were  Thomas  Fitz-Laurence  Dease  of 
Morterstown,  and  Richard  amd  Edward  Dease  of 
Glanidan,  in  the  same  County. 


REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY. 


RICHARD,   EARL   OF   CLANRICARDE. 


Ccgttamt. 
The  Colonel. 

LtaOmanit, 
Paul  Daly. 

Eiuifftu. 

Edward  Maddeo.) 
Lord  DiUon.         )- 
Lieut  Cols.        } 

Richard  de  Bni^. 

David  Dowd. 

Edmund  Darcy. 

(  Andrew  Ljnch. 
{  Michael  Madden. 

""iiiilr'" 

Charles  Dalj. 
John  Bonrke. 

Teigue  0*Kelly. 
•  Luk*  Talbot. 

Bryan  Kelly. 
WiUiam  Kelly. 

Sir  UUck  Bourke. 

Gerald  Farrell. 

Patrick  Bermingham. 

James  Talhot 

Marcus  French. 

John  French. 

Edward  Boarke. 
Hemy  Crofton. 

Hugh  Daly. 
Thadj  Daly. 
Michael  Madden. 

William  Kelly. 
John  Bourke. 
UHck « Bourk.' 

John  Bermingham. 
William  Benningham. 
John  Talhot. 

John  Bonrk. 

Augustin  Bodkin. 

Bryan  'Bfaghan.* 

Lord  Athenree. 

Ulick  Bourke. 

COLONEL  THE  EARL  OF  CLANRICARDE. 

This  great  family  of  De  Burgh  deduces  its  origin 
from  Charlemagne.      His  descendant,   Baldwin  the 


dl2  KING  JAMES'S  I&ISU  ARMT  LIST. 

Second,  was  father  of  Ilarlowen,  who  married  Arlotta, 
the  mother  of  William  the  Conqueror.  His  eldest 
son  by  her  was  Robert,  Earl  of  Cornwall,  who  accom- 
panied his  half-brother  William  in  the  invasion  of 
England.  The  grandson  of  Robert  was  Adelm,  who 
is  said  to  have  married  Agnes,  daughter  of  Louis  the 
Seventh,  King  of  France,  and  he  was  father  to 
William,  who  married  Isabella,  daughter  of  Richard 
the  Second,  King  of  England,  and  widow  of  the  cele- 
brated Llewellyn,  Prince  of  Wales.  lie  founded  with 
pious  policy  the  Monastery  of  St.  Thomas  a-Becket 
in  Dublin,  and  was  father  of  Richard  De  Burgh,  the 
great  Lord  of  Connaught,  Viceroy  of  Ireland  in  1227, 
and  who  died  in  1243,  when  on  his  passage  to 
France,  attended  by  his  Barons  and  Knights,  to  meet 
the  King  of  England  at  Bourdeaux.  He  had  two 
sons,  Walter,  I^ord  of  Connaught,  who,  marrying 
Maud,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Hugh  De  Lacie  the 
Younger,  became  in  her  right  Earl  of  Ulster  on  the 
death  of  his  father-in-law,  and  who  left  by  his  said 
wife,  Richard,  the  second  Earl  of  Ulster,  commonly 
known  as  the  Red  Earl.  His  great  grand-daughter, 
the  Ltidy  Elizabeth  De  Burgh,  only  child  and  heiress 
of  William,  third  Earl  of  Ulster,  married  Lionel, 
Duke  of  Clarence,  son  of  Edward  the  Third ;  from 
which  marriage  most  of  the  Crowned  Heads  of  Eurojxj 
are  descended  ;  those  of  England,  Scotland,  Denmark, 
France,  Bohemia,  Sardinia,  Spain,  Prussia,  Saxony, 
Bavaria,  Hungary,  &c.,  as  all  laid  down  on  author- 
ities and  in  tables  by  Doctor  Burke  Ryan  of  London, 


EARL  OF  CLANRICARDE'S  INFANTRY.  513 

with  a  kind  hope  that  it  might  suit  the  present  work; 
but,  as  the  record  was  not  found  to  interest  the  pre- 
cent  generation,  the  expense  of  such  an  addition  was 
reluctantly  declined.  William,  the  second  son  of 
Richard  the  Lord  of  Connaught,  derived  large  estates 
(beyond  the  two  Provinces  of  Connaught  and  Ulster), 
in  Tipperary,  where,  according  to  his  namesake  lie 
Burgo,  the  historian  of  the  Irish  Dominican  order, 
the  name  was  then  still  widely  extended;  although,  a 
few  years  previous  to  the  time  of  that  laborious  wri- 
ter, a  large  portion  of  the  estates  of  the  Tipperary 
Bourkes  was  granted  to  Sir  Oliver  Lambert,  Knight 
and  Privy  Councillor.  The  Attainders  of  1642  give 
but  one  of  this  name,  John  Bourke,  described  as  '  of 
Dublin.'  At  the  Supreme  Council  of  1646,  John 
'Burke,'  Bishop  of  Clonfert,  was  of  the  Spiritual 
Peers;  William  Burke,  Baron  of  Castleconnell,  of  the 
Temporal;  and  of  the  Commons  were  John  Burke  of 
Castlecaroe,  Richard  of  Drumrusk,  William  of  Pol- 
lardstown,  Richard  of  Shellewly,  Theobald  of  Buoly- 
burk,  and  Ulick  Burke  of  Glinsk.  Cromwell's  Act 
'  for  settling  Ireland'  excepted  from  pardon  for  life 
and  estate  Miles  '  Bourk,'  Viscount  Mayo,  Sir  Theo- 
bald Bourk  his  son  ;  Edmund  of  Cloghan,  County  of 
Mayo;  Thomas  of  Anbally,  and  Redmond  of  Kilcornin, 
both  in  the  County  of  Galway.  The  Royal  declara- 
tion of  thanks,  as  for  services  beyond  the  seas, 
includes  the  names  of  the  Earl  of  Clanricarde ;  David 
Bourk  of  Bamanlahie,  County  of  Tipperary;  Sir  Ulick 
Bourk,  Knight  and  Baronet,  of  Glinsk;  Lieutenant 

LL 


514  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

William  Bourke  of  Turlogh,  County  of  Mayo  ;  and 
Captain  William  Mac  Redmond  Bourke.  Lords  Brit- 
tas  and  Castleconnell  were  on  the  Establishment  of 
1617-18  for  pensions  of  £100  per  annum  each. 

In  King  James's  Charters  to  the  Boroughs  of  Gal- 
way,  Limerick,  Mayo,  Cavan,  and  Koscommon,  this 
family  was  numerously  represented.  In  the  Parlia- 
ment of  1689  sat  amongst  the  Peers  this  Earl  of 
Clanricarde,  the  Viscount  Mayo,  the  Lord  Castlecon- 
nel.  Lord  Bophin,  and  Lord  Brittas.  The  father  of 
this  latter  nobleman,  the  Honorable  William  Bourke, 
served  in  the  lloyalist  cause  during  the  Civil  war  of 
1641,  and  by  Cromwell's  order  was  executed  at  Cork 
in  1653.  His  son,  the  Lord  here  six)ken  of,  served 
as  above,  a  Colonel  in  King  James's  army.  He 
married  the  Lady  Ilonora,  daughter  of  Morrough, 
the  first  Earl  of  Inchequin,  by  whom  he  left  a  son,  dis- 
inherited by  his  attainder.  This  son  resided  at  St. 
Germains,  assumed  the  title  of  Lord  Brittas,  and  died 
in  France,  leaving  issue  by  his  wife  Catherine, 
daughter  of  Colonel  Gordon  O'Neill,  two  sons;  John, 
styled  Lord  Brittas,  a  Captain  in  the  French  service; 
and  Thomas,  a  Lieutenant-General  in  the  Sardini.an.* 

In  the  Commons  sat  Sir  Ulick  Bourke,  one  of 

the  Representatives  for  Galway  ;  John  of  Carrickni- 
hill,  one  for  Askeaton  ;  Walter,  one  for  the  County  of 
Mayo  ;  Thomas  for  Castlebar ;  William  Bourke  of 
Carrowford  for  the  Borough  of  Tuam  ;  and  John 
Bourke  for  the  County  of  Roscommon.     Besides  this, 

•  Burke's  Extinct  Peerage. 


EARL  OF  CLANRICARDE'S  INFANTRY.  515 

the  Earl  of  Clanricarde's  Regiment,  Walter  Bourke 
was  Colonel  of  a  second  Regiment  of  Infantry,  Patrick 
of  a  third,  and  Michael  of  a  fourth;  while  the  name 
appears  commissioned  in  twenty-two  other  Regiments 
on  this  list. 

At  the  siege  of  Derry  in  1689,  a  Lieutenant  Burke 
was  killed  on  the  occasion  of  the  attack  by  the  wind- 
mill.* In  the  following  year,  William  Burke  of  the 
Mayo  line,  who  had  been  appointed  Governor  of  the 
Castle  of  Grange  in  the  County  of  Sligo,  was  ordered 
by  King  James  to  defend  it ;  when,  being  vigorously 
besieged  and  disappointed  of  promised  succours,  at  the 
moment  that  the  besiegers  were  about  to  enter  the 
breach  he  blew  up  the  Castle,  and,  with  many  of  his 
enemies,  was  buried  in  the  ruins.  On  the  7th  of 
June,  1691,  Baron  De  Ginkle  appeared  before  Bally- 
more  on  the  line  to  Athlone,  and  summoned  the  Irish 
Governor,  Sir  Ulick  Burke,  to  surrender.  "The  gar- 
rison consisted  of  800  men,  the  elite  of  the  Irish,  be- 
ing picked  men  from  all  the  Regiments.  In  the  space 
of  twenty-four  hours,  six  batteries  crumbled  all  the 
works  to  the  south,  and  the  appearance  of  a  flotilla 
on  the  lake  induced  a  surrender.  Burke,  the 
Governor,"  adds  O'Conor,  "  is  charged  with  treachery 
and  cowardice  in  King  James's  Memoir;  it  would 
appear  rather  that  vanity  induced  the  defence,  and 
incapacity  the  surrender  ;''f  and  it  does  appear  from 
Story  that  the  Governor  had  no  greater  artillery  in 

•  Walkers  Siege  of  Deny,  p.  61. 
t  O'Connor's  Milit.  Mem.  p.  135 

LL  2 


.516  RING  James's  irisu  army  list. 

the  place  than  'two  small  Turkish  pieces  mounted 
upon  old  cart  wheels/*     The  Irish  Engineer,  Lieuten- 

ant^Colonel    Burton,   was    slain. Colonel    David 

Burke  was  killed  at  Aughrim  with  another  Ulick 
Burke,  who  had  been  for  a  time  Governor  of  Galway;f 
while  a  Colonel  Neill  Burke,  his  Lieutenant,  with 
Colonel  Walter  Burke  and  Lonl  Bophin,  w^re  taken 
prisoners.  On  the  2nd  of  September,  1691,  writes 
Story,  "  Brigadier  Levison,  learning  where  Lord  Mer- 
rion's  and  Lord  Brittas's  Regiments  lay,  marched  as 
privately  as  he  could  that  way  ;  and  about  one 
o'clock  in  the  morning  he  fell  in  with  them,  killing 
several  and  disj^rsing  tlie  rest,  Lord  Merrion  himself 
(Thomas  Fitz- William)  escaping  narrowly.  Then  he 
divided  his  party  to  pui'sue  their  broken  troops,  but 
they  knowing  that  country,  made  most  of  them  a 
shift  to  escape."J 

The  Colonel  of  this  Regiment  was  a  Privy  Council- 
lor,  and  was  appointed  Governor  of  Galway  by  King 
James  ;  which,  having  been  l)esieged  by  De  Ginkle 
fourteen  days  after  the  battle  of  Aughrim,  he  was 
compelled  to  surrender.§  O'Conor,  in  his  Military 
Memoirs^  (vol.  1,  p.  161)  denounces  this  surrender 
jis  a  treacherous  compromise.  "  Lord  Clanricarde," 
writes  that  historian, "  inherited  neither  the  courage 
nor  the  loyalty  of  his  ancestor,  the  great  Earl  of  St. 


*  Impartial  Hist.  pt.  2,  p.  87. 
t  Clarke's  James  II.,  v.  2.  p.  459. 
J  Impartial  Histor}',  pt,  2,  p.  204. 
§  Clarke*s  James  II.  vol  2,  p.  469. 


EARL  OF  CLANRICARDE's  INFANTRY.  517 

Albans ;  he  compounded  his  honor  for  personal 
security,  and,  quitting  the  service  of  James,  remained 
at  GaJway,  though  by  the  capitulation  he  was  at 
liberty  to  march  to  Limerick."  The  Outlawries  of 
1691  include  this  Earl  by  two  Inquisitions,  William, 
Baron  of  Castleconnell,  and  Ulick,  Lord  Viscount 
Galway,  Lord  Brittas,  and  John  his  son  ;  eighteen 
Burkes  or  Bourkes  in  Mayo  ;  John  Burke  of  Ower, 
and  fifteen  others  in  Galway  ;  six  in  Limerick,  five  in 
Roscommon,  two  in  Dublin  and  Wexford  respectively, 
and  one  in  each  of  the  Counties  of  Sligo,  Cavan,  and 
the  Queen's.  In  1696,  the  name  of  the  Lady  Honora 
Burke,  alias  Sarsfield,  and  then  Duchess  of  Berwick 
before  alluded  to,  was  entered  in  the  Outlawries.  Sir 
Ulick  the  Baronet  was  also  attainted,  but  adjudged 
within  the  benefit  of  the  Articles  of  Limerick.  The 
achievements  of  the  Brigade  of  Colonel  Walter  Burke, 
styled  *  the  Regiment  of  Athlone,'  are  referred  to  that 
Colonel's  own  Regiment  in  this  service,  hereafter 
noticed,  but  it  may  be  here  added  that  a  Regiment 
commanded  by  a  son  of  the  attainted  Lord  of  Castle- 
connell was  distinguished  at  the  battle  of  Cremona  ; 
while,  at  that  of  LauflBeld  in  1747,  Walter  Burke 
was  taken  prisoner  in  Bulkeley's  Regiment ;  and 
in  Dillon's,  Captain  Pierce  *  Bourke '  was  killed,  and 
Captain  Anthony  Bourk  wounded. 


518  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL   EDWARD  MADDEN. 

The  Sept  of  the  O'Maddens  were  chiefs  of  what  is  now 
styled  the  Barony  of  Longford  in  the  County  of 
Galway,  with  a  portion  of  the  parish  of  Lusmagh  in 
the  King's  County,  on  the  opposite  side  of  the  Shan- 
non ;  this  whole  territory  being  in  the  Chronicles  of 
the  country  called  '  Silanchia.'  The  Annals  of  Ulster 
record  the  death  of  Matodhan,  Lord  of  Silanchia,  in 
the  year  1008,  who  seems  to  have  given  their  distinc- 
tive name  to  his  descendants.  In  1059,  Melaghlin 
O'Madden  was  the  leader  of  a  military  expedition  re- 
corded by  the  Four  Masters.  The  same  Chronicle 
mentions  the  death  of  Matodhan  O'Madden,  chief  of 
Silanchia,  in  1096  ;  and  subsequently  gives  various 
other  annals  of  this  family.  In  1540,  the  Lord 
Deputy  was  instructed  to  confirm  treaties  between  tlie 
King  and  Melaghlin  O'Madden  and  Hugh  O'Madden, 
Chiefs  of  their  country.*  In  1567,  on  the  submission 
of  Donald  O'Madden,  who  prayed  "  to  be  recognised  in 
the  Captaincy  of  his  Sept,  (with  the  country  of  Long- 
fort  and  Silankey,  commonly  called  O'Madden's 
country,  whereof  Hugh  Mac  Melaghlin  Ballagh 
O'Madden,  deceased,  was  the  late  Captain)  his  petition 
was  granted,  on  the  condition  of  said  Donald  paying 
to  the  Lord  Deputy  at  MuUingar,  for  a  fine,  eighty  fat 
heifers."f  When,  in  eighteen  years  after.  Sir  John 
Perrot  assembled  the  Conciliation  Parliament  in  Dub- 


*  State  Papers,  temp.  Henry  VIII. ,  pt.  3  continued,  p.  171. 
t  Roll  0  Eliz.  in  Chancery. 


EARL  OF  CLANRICARDE'S  INFANTRY.  519 

lin,  "thither  went  O'Madden,  Lord  of  Siol-Amcha, 
namely  Donald,  the  son  of  John,  son  of  Breasal,"  i.  e. 
the  same  Donald  of  1567.     The   O'Maddens   were, 
however,  soon  after  implicated  in  such  resistance  to 
the  government,  as  led  to  deaths  and  confiscations  of 
many  of  the  name;  and  in  1606,  John  King,  of  Dub- 
lin, had  a  grant  of  the  estates  of  various  O'Maddens 
in  the  County  of  Galway  and  the  King's  County, 
'  slain  in  rebellion  ;'    as  had  also  Sir  John  Davis,  the 
Attorney-General  of  the  day,  of  others  described  as 
the   estate   of  Bresail   O'Madden    of  the  County  of 
Clare,  'slain  in  rebellion.'     In  1612,  however,  Donald 
O'Madden,  then  still  the  Captain,  settled  on  trustees 
his  Manor  and  Castle  of  Longfort,  and  all  his  other 
estates  in  that  part  of  the  County  of  Galway,  to  hold 
to  the  use  of  Ambrose  O'Madden  his  son  and  heir  in 
tail  male  ;  with  remainder  to  his  other  sons  Malachy 
and  Donell,  and  their  respective  heirs  male  ;  remainder 
to  Brasil  O'Madden,  son  of  Hugh,  one  of  the  sons  of 
Donell,   in  tail   male  ;   remainder  to   the   heirs    of 
Ambrose  O'Madden  in  fee.*     A  Manuscript  Book  of 
Obits  in  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  (F.  IV.  18.)  con- 
tains links  of  the  pedigree  of  the  O'Maddens  of  Bag- 
gotrath,  near  Dublin,  through  six  generations  of  the 
16th  and  17th  centuries,  also  some  links  of  those  of 
Donore,  County  of  Dublin. 

Besides  the  above  Lieutenant-Colonel,  Michael 
Madden  was  an  Ensign  in  this  Regiment,  John  Mad- 
den a  Lieutenant  in  the  Earl  of  Tyrone's  ;  another 

*  Patent  Roll  James  I. 


520  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

John  an  Ensign  in  Lord  Bophin's,  and  in  Colonel 
Heward  Oxburgh's  Hugh  Madden  was  a  Captain,  and 
John  a  Lieutenant.  This  Lieutenant-Colonel  Edward 
was  taken  prisoner  at  the  battle  of  Aughrim  ;*  but| 
having  afterwards  obtained  his  liberty,  he  repaired  to 
France,  where,  as  before  mentioned,  ante,  p.  4 7  8,  he  was 
commissioned  as  Major  in  the  Brigade  of  Fitz-James, 
the  Grand  Prior.  Five  of  this  name  were  attainted 
in  1691. 


CAPTAIN  CHARLES  DALY. 

This  family  claims  descent  from  Nial  of  the  Nine 
Hostages,  one  of  the  most  illustrious  of  Irish  Kings, 
and  whose  reign  synchronises  with  the  time  of  the 
Saviour.  The  Sept  extended  itself  at  a  very  remote 
period  over  Munster  and  Connaught,  as  well  as  in 
the  Barony  of  Clonlonan,  County  of  Westmeath ; 
and,  through  the  long  lapse  of  years,  have  they  been 
eminently  distinguished  as  poets  and  annalists,  and 
are  so  commemorated  by  the  Four  Masters.  In 
1337,  died  Lewis  O'Daly,  Bishop  of  Clonmacnoise, 
while  that  interesting  locality  was  yet  a  Bishop's  See. 

About  the  same  time O'Daly  of  Munster  had  a 

grant  of  Moynter-barry,  on  a  customary  tenure  of 
that  time,  of  being  Rythmour  or  Chronicler  of  the 
Chief  Lord  and  of  his  achievements,  f      In   1410, 

*  Story's  Impartial  History,  pt.  2,  p.  188. 
t  Pacata  Hibernia,  p.  529. 


EABL  OF  CLANRICARDE'S  INFANTRY.  521 

John  O'Daly  had  licence  from  the  crown  for  making 
a  pilgrimage  to  Rome,  the  penalties  against  absentee- 
ism  making  such  a  sanction  necessary.  In  1436, 
Nicholas  O'Daly  was  by  the  Pope's  Bull  appointed 
Bishop  of  Athenry.  It  is  alleged  that  in  the  middle 
of  the  succeeding  century,  in  consequence  of  a  wish 
expressed  by  the  King  of  Denmark  to  Queen  Eliza- 
beth, to  have  Irish  manuscripts  then  in  his  possession 
translated,  one  Donald  Daly  was  selected  for  the 
work ;  but  that  the  project  was  abandoned,  being 
opposed  in  Council,  '  lest  it  might  be  prejudicial  to 
the  English  interest.'  In  1582,  Robert  Daly  died 
Bishop  of  Kildare.  In  1606,  John  King,  of  Dublin, 
had  a  grant  of  parcel  of  the  estate  of  Morrogh  O'Daly 
of  Ballinakill  in  the  King's  County,  '  slain  in  rebel- 
lion.' By  a  remarkable  deed  of  1612,  Donough,  son 
of  Laughlin  Roe  O'Daly  of  Finvara  in  the  County 
of  Clare,  "  in  consideration  of  six  pounds  of  pure 
crowned  stamped  money  of  England,  (as  pure,  as 
refined,  and  as  valuable  as  that  coin  now  is  in  Eng- 
land,  and  as  it  was  when  first  it  was  made  current, 
consisting  of  four  ounces  to  every  pound,)"  then  stated 
to  have  been  received  by  said  Donough  from  An- 
thony, son  of  James,  son  of  Ambrose  Lynch  ofGalway, 
merchant,  conveyed  to  him  certain  premises  in  Finvara, 
with  royalties  '  over  and  under  ground,'  as  his  pro- 
portion of  the  estate  of  Finvara  held  by  the  Daly 
family  from  the  Earl  of  Thomond.*  Early  in  the 
Civil   war  of  1641,   the    Marquis    of   Clanricarde 

*  Hardiman's  Ancient  Deeds,  pp.  91-2. 


522  KING  James's  irisu  a&my  list. 

committed  the  custody  and  safe-keeping  of  the  Castle 
of  Clare-Galway  to  Lieutenant  Dermot  O'Daly,  '  who 
did  very  good  service  there/  He  was  the  grandson  of 
Dermot  O'Daly,  who  in  1478  obtained  a  grant  of  the 
Manor  of  Lerha  with  all  its  appurtenances.  The  At- 
tainders of  1641  comprise  the  names  of  Loughlin 
Daly  of  Little  Clonshaugh,  County  of  Dublin  ;  Donogh 
Hugh  Buy  Daly  of  Neeston,  County  of  Kildare  ;  and 
Eneas  O'Daly  of  Ballyrowne,  County  of  Cork.  In 
1662,  died  Daniel  O'Daly  a  native  of  Kerry,  who  had 
founded  the  Dominican  convent  at  Lisbon  ;  he  after- 
wards  became  an  especial  favourite  and  confidential 
ambassador  of  the  Duke  of  Braganza,  when  that  noble- 
man succeeded  to  the  throne  of  Portugal.  O'Daly 
wrote  a  work  giving  fiill  historical  particulars  of  the 
family  of  Desmond,  long  rare,  but  now  reprinted. 
He  was  himself  buried  in  the  convent  he  had  so  estab- 
lished. 

In  this  Regiment,  besides  Captain  Charles,  Paul, 
Hugh  and  Thady  Daly  were  Lieutenants,  and  the 
name  was  in  commission  in  four  others.  This  Captain 
Charles  was  of  the  Dunsandle  family,  and  in  King 
James's  Parliament  of  1689  was  one  of  the  Represent- 
atives for  the  Borough  of  Athenry  ;  as  was  Richard 
Daly  of  Kilcorky  for  that  of  Newborough,  County  of 
Wexford.  Charles  was  brother  of  the  Right  Honora- 
ble Denis  Daly,  who  was  appointed  one  of  the  Justices 
of  the  Common  Pleas  in  Ireland  at  the  commencement 
of  the  reign  of  James  the  Second.  Colonel  O'Kelly,  in 
tlie  ''Eoccidium  Macarice^'  while  he  admits  his  '  great 


EARL  OF  CLANRICAKDE'S  INFANTRY.  523 

knowledge  of  the  law/  says  he  was  one  of  Tyrconners 
confidants,  and  therefore  imprisoned  in  Galway  by  the 
young  Duke  of  Berwick,  as  on  suspicion  of  keeping 
private  correspondence  with  the  common  enemy ;  but, 
adds  O'Kelly,  "his  deliverer  was  near  at  hand,  for, 
within  a  few  days  after  his  confinement,  he  had  the 
good  fortune  to  hear  of  Tyrconners  landing  at  Lime- 
rick  ;  and  no  sooner  was  he  arrived  there,  than  he 
made  use  of  his  prerogative  to  enlarge  the  Judge,  and 
restore  him,  without  further  trial,  to  his  former 
station  and  dignity.*  He  was  included  in  the 
Attainders  of  1691,  but  in  1698  obtained  a  pardon 
from  the  Crown  as  in  pursuance  of  the  Capitulation  of 
Galway,  and  the  special  promise  of  the  Earl  of  Ath- 
lone.  The  Dalys  attainted  in  1691  were  Peter  and 
Terence  of  Killileigli,  County  of  Westmeath,  (Thomas 
Daly  was  then  the  head  of  the  Killileigh  line,  but  was 
a  minor)  ;  Eugene  of  Cork,  merchant ;  John,  also 
of  Cork  ;  John  of  Cloghrevanny,  County  of  Galway  ; 
Edward  of  Kilmeny,  do.  ;  with  the  above  Judge 
Denis  and  Captain  Charles.  At  the  sale  of  1703  by 
the  Commissioners  of  the  Forfeited  Estates,  Colonel 
John  Eyre  of  Eyrecourt  purchased  the  lands  of  Bally- 
house  and  Killevany  in  the  Barony  of  Longford  and 
County  of  Galway,  the  estate  of  Teigue  or  Hugh  Daly, 
attainted.  This  Hugh  was  the  father  of  Teigue,  which 
latter  had  died  in  1691,  leaving  four  sons,  the  three 
elder  of  whom  were  in  King  James's  army,  and  after 
the  surrender  of  Limerick  went  into  France.     Lough- 

*  O'Callagban's  Excid.  Mac.  p.  106. 


524  KING  James's  iRisn  army  list. 

I'm  Daly,  the  fourth  son.  subsequently  in  1711  s«Mi}rht 
to  recover  these  estates  from  the  Eyres  by  proceedings 
in  Chancery,  alleging  that  the  conveyance  fn?m  the 
Trustees  was  for  his  benefit:  but  his  claim  was  de^ 
featerl. 

In  1746,  Ensign  Daly  in  Monroes  Regiment  was 
one  of  those  wounde^l  at  the  battle  of  Culloden.  The 
Mayor  of  Gal  way  from  1761  to  some  few  years  since 
was  in  almost  unbroken  succession  a  Daly,  while  the 
Parliamentary  representation  of  the  town  was  like- 
wise long  held  by  the  family. 


CAPTAIN  JAMES  TALBOT. 

This  individual  was  the  proprietor  of  Templeogue  in 
the  County  of  Dublin,  and  represented  the  borough  of 
Ath(;nry  in  King  James's  Parliament.  At  the  battle 
of  Aughrim  he  had  the  command  of  a  Regiment,  and 
was  there  killed.*  He  forfeited  largely  in  the  County 
of  Galway,  and  in  the  County  and  City  of  Dublin. 
II is  estates  in  the  latter  county  were  sold  by  the  com- 
missioners of  the  forfeitures  to  Sir  Compton  Domville, 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  STEPHENSON. 

This  officer  is  d(?scribed  in  the  Inquisition  on  his  out- 
lawry Jis  of  Bally  vaughan,  County  of  Limerick  ;  but 

♦  Story's  Impartial  History,  pt.  2,  p.  188. 


EARL  OF  CLANRICARDE'S  INFANTRY.  525 

his  confiscations  were  of  estates  in  that  of  Clare. 
John  Stephenson  was  an  attesting  witness  to  the  ar- 
tides  of  Galway.  In  the  reign  of  James  the  First, 
William  and  Richard  'Stevenson*  had  patents  of  na- 
turalization, and  the  name  was  yet  earlier  introduced 
in  Munster  in  the  time  of  Elizabeth.  In  1600,  the 
custody  of  the  castle  of  Corkroge  on  the  Shannon  was 
entrusted  to  Oliver  Stephenson*  who  became  a  Col- 
onel in  the  Austrian  service,  but  in  1648  petitioned 
Ferdinand  the  Third  to  permit  him  to  resign  his  com- 
mission and  fight  against  Cromwell  when  invading 
Ireland.f  His  prayer  was  granted,  and  he  afterwards 
fell  at  the  battle  of  Liscarrol.  It  may  be  observed 
that  an  Oliver  Stephenson  was  Captain  on  this  List  in 
Colonel  Koger  Mc  Ellicott's  Infantry,  where  Nicholas 
Stephenson  was  his  Lieutenant. 


CAPTAINS  LORD  ATHENRY  AND  JOHN  AND 
WILLIAM  BERMINGHAM. 

This  historic  name  has  been  early  projected  on  the 
Irish  chronicles.  In  1302,  Henry  de  Bermingham, 
afterwards  Sheriflf  of  Connaught,J  was  one  of  the 
*  Magnates'  of  Ireland  who  attended  the  Earl  of  Uls- 
ter on  the  Royal  summons  to  the  Scottish  war ;  soon 
afl«r  which  Sir  John  Bermingham  was  created  Earl 

*  Pacata  Hibemia,  p.  123. 

t  O'Conor's  Hist.  Address,  pt.  2,  p.  466. 

X  Harris's  Hibemica,  pt.  2,  p.  85. 


526  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

of  Louth,  by  reason  of  his  gallant  and  successfiil  resis- 
tance to  Bruce's  invasion.  It  is  recorded  that  on  the 
death  of  Lord  Walter  de  Benningham  in  1354,  in- 
debted to  the  King,  his  estates  with  his  armour  were 
taken  by  the  Escheator  ;  but  King  Edward  at  once 
restored  the  armour  piece  by  piece,  as  in  a  schedule, 
to  Sir  Robert  de  Preston,  who  was  guardian  of  Lord 
Walter's  infant  son,  in  trust  to  deliver  same  to  him  on 
his  coming  of  age.*  In  1402,  John  Bermingham  was 
appointed  a  Justice  of  the  King  s  Bench  in  Ireland. 
In  1464,  Philip  Bermingham  was  constituted  Chief 
Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas  there;  he,  in  1488,  did 
homage  to  Sir  Richard  Edgecombe.  In  1489,  Wil- 
liam Bermingham  died  Chief  Justice  of  the  King's 
Bench,  to  which  high  judicial  oflSce  Patrick  Berming- 
ham was  appointed  in  1521.  At  the  meeting  of  the 
Irish  Parliament  in  1541,  considerable  surprise  is 
said  to  have  been  caused  by  the  unexpected  attendance 
of  Lord  Bermingham  of  Athenry,  Lord  Barry,  Lord 
Roche,  and  Lord  Fitz-Morris  ;  'which  Lords  had  not 
been  here  for  many  years  before.'f  These  noblemen, 
together  with  the  Earls  of  Ormond  and  Desmond,  and 
the  Baron  of  Upper  Ossory,  previous  to  opening  Par- 
liament,  as  Saint  Leger  the  Lord  Deputy  in  his  zeal 
announced  to  Henry  the  Eighth,  "attended  the  solemn 
mass  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  the  most  part  of  them  in  their 
robes,  and  rode  on  in  procession,  in  such  sort  as  the  like 
thereof  has   not  been   seen  here   of  many   years.''J 

*  Lynch  on  Feudal  Dignities,  p.  12.  f  Idem,  p.  88. 

I  State  Papers,  temp,  Henry  VIII.  pt.  8  continued,  p.  804- 


EABL  OF  CLANRICAKDE's  INFANTRY.  527 

Lord  Athenry  sat  in  the  Parliament  of  1560  ;  and, 
in  seven  years  after,  having  avowed  himself  to  the 
Queen  under  recognizance,  a  faithful  subject  of  the 
Crown,  and  offered  to  surrender  his  estates  for  himself 
and  his  Sept,  and  to  receive  back  from  her  Majesty  the 
same  according  to  her  pleasure,  she  in  consideration 
thereof  directed  a  patent  to  pass  to  him  accordingly 
in  tail  male.*  He  sat  as  a  Peer  in  the  Parliament  of 
1585.  The  Attainders  of  1642  present  the  names  of 
the  above  William  Bermingham,  described  as  of  Bally- 
namallough.  County  of  Kildare  ;  John  Bermingham 
of  Raheen  and  Muckland,  with  six  others  of  the  name 
in  the  County  of  Cavan,  and  three  in  that  of  Dublin, 
one  in  Wicklow,  and  one  in  Meath.  At  the  Supreme 
Council  of  Kilkenny,  Francis  Bermingham,  then  Lord 
Athenry,  sat  as  a  Temporal  Peer  :  with  four  Ber- 
minghams  in  the  Commons.  This  Lord  Athenry  was, 
in  1652,  excepted  by  Cromwell's  Ordinance  from  par- 
don for  life  and  estate. 

Besides  the  above  Captains,  the  name  appears  on 
this  List  commissioned  in  three  other  Regiments.  In 
King  James's  Parliament  of  1689  sat  this  Lord 
Athenry  as  one  of  the  Peers,  while  the  above  John 
Bermingham,  who  was  Portrieve  of  Castlebar  in  its 
new  Charter,  sat  as  one  of  its  Representatives.  Near 
the  close  of  this  campaign,  on  the  19th  of  August, 
1691,  by  the  Articles  for  the  surrender  of  the  island 
and  garrison  of  Bophin,  "Lord  Athenry  and  Colonel 
John  Kelly,  with  all  the  inhabitants  of  said  island, 

*  Lynch  on  Feudal  Dignities,  p.  216. 


528  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

were  permitted  to  possess  and  enjoy  their  estates 
therein,  as  they  held  them  under  the  Acts  of  Settle- 
ment and  Explanation."*  The  Attainders  of  1691 
include  the  names  of  the  above  Lord  Athenry ;  of  said 
Captain,  described  as  John  Bermingham  of  Gastlebar, 
County  of  Mayo;  with  two  of  the  name  in  Meath,  two 
in  the  Queen's  County,  three  in  Kildare,  and  two  in 
Galway. 


LIEUTENANT  EDMUND  D'ARCY. 

The  family  of  D'Arcy,  writes  Burke,f  "ranks  with 
the  most  eminent  established  in  England  by  the  Nor- 
man  conquest,  and  amongst  the  peerages  of  past  times. 
There  are  two  Baronies  in  abeyance^  one  forfeited 
Barony,  and  three  extinct  Baronies,  all  of  which  had 
been  conferred  upon  the  House  of  D'Arcy,  besides  the 
extinct  Earldom  of  Holderness."  The  D'Arcys  of 
Hyde  Park  are  the  chief  and  eldest  existing  line  of 
this  ancient  race  in  Ireland,  and  to  Sir  Bernard  Burke's 
memoir  of  that  House  the  genealogical  inquirer  is 
best  referred.  Of  this  family.  Sir  John  D'Arcy, 
Knight,  had  been  Chief  Justiciary  and  Governor  of 
Ireland  in  1324,  1327,  and  1341  ;  on  the  latter 
occasion,  the  appointment  was  made  to  him  for  life. 
He  had  large  grants  to  him  and  his  heirs  male  of 
manors  and  lands  in  the  County  of  Westmeath,  with 

*  Story's  Impartial  History,  pt.  2,  p.  201. 
t  Landed  Gentry,  p.  306. 


EARL  OF  CLANRICARDE'S  INFANTRY.  529 

Knight's  fees  and  advowsons  of  churches;  and,  marry- 
ing twice,  had  by  his  first  wife  a  son,  who  was  ances- 
tor of  the  D'Arcys,  Barons  D'Arcy  and  Moynell,  and 
of  the  Earls  of  Holdemess.  His  second  wife  was 
Jane,  daughter  of  Richard  de  Burgh,  Earl  of  Ulster, 
and  widow  of  Thomas  Fitz-John,  Earl  of  Kildare;  upon 
which  marriage  he  settled  in  Ireland,  and  became  the 
founder  of  the  family  of  Flatten,  from  which  the  other 
D'Arcys  of  this  country  have  branched.  When  Lam- 
bert Simnel  shook  the  allegiance  of  Ireland,  and  was 
crowned  King  at  Christ  Church  Cathedral  in  1487, 
it  is  related  that  Sir  William  D'Arcy  of  Flatten  bore 
him  out  on  his  shoulders,  after  the  ceremony,  to  the 
deluded  multitude.  Sir  William  was  however  par- 
doned in  the  following  year,  on  doing  homage  to  Sir 
Richard  Edgecombe. 

The  Attainders  of  1642  present  the  names  of  Ni- 
cholas D'Arcy  of  Flatten,  County  of  Meath  (who  had 
attended  the  great  meeting  at  the  hill  of  Crofty), 
Francis  D'Arcy  of  Ballymdunt,  County  of  Kildare  ; 
and  Christopher  of  Athlumney,  County  of  Meath. 
Nicholas  of  Flatten  had,  however,  a  Decree  of  Inno- 
cence in  1666,  and  was  further  restored  to  his  estates 
by  patent  of  1670.  Fatrick  D'Arcy  of  the  Galway  line 
was  one  of  the  Confederate  Catholics  who  sat  at  Kil- 
kenny in  1646,  and  he  was  accordingly  excepted  from 
pardon  for  life  and  estate  in  Cromwell's  Act  of  1652. 
In  the  Establishment  of  1685,  Sir  William  D'Arcy  was 
placed  for  a  pension  of  £400  per  annum  ;  while,  in 
the  new  Charter  of  1687  to  Galway,  six  D'Arcys  were 

MM 


530  RL\G  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

appointed  Burgesses.  Besides  the  above  Lieutenant, 
there  appear  on  this  Army  List,  Nicholas  D'Arcy,  a 
Cornet  in  Lord  Dongan's  Dragoons  (afterwards 
wounded  at  Deny),  and  Thomas  D'Arcy,  a  Quarter- 
Master  in  Sir  Neill  CNeill's.  A  short  time  previous 
to  the  battle  of  the  Boyne,  Killeshandra,  which  was 
garrisoned  by  one  hundred  and  sixty  Irish  under  the 
command  of  a  Captain  D'Arcy,  was  obliged  to  surrender 
to  Colonel  Wolseley.*  Those  attainted  in  1691  were 
Nicholas  D'Arcy,  described  as  of  Flatten  (who  had 
been  nominated  an  Alderman  in  King  James's  Charter 
to  Drogheda),  George  D'Arcy  his  son,  and  Thomas 
D'Arcy  of  Corbetstown  and  Porterstown,  County  of 
Westmeath.  Various  claims  were  preferred  at  Chi- 
chester House  in  1700,  as  affecting  the  confiscations 
of  Nicholas  D'Arcy  in  Westmeath. 


LIEUTENANT  BRYAN  MAHON. 

This  officer  was  of  a  family  that,  as  appears  from  the 
Patent  Rolls  of  James,  settled  about  this  time  in  the 
County  of  Galway,  and,  as  well  fh)m  the  date  of  its 
migration  being  contemporaneous  with  the  planting 
of  Ulster,  as  from  the  adoption  of  the  same  christian 
names,  appears  to  have  branched  from  the  illustrious 
House  of  Mac  Mahon,  dynast  of  Monaghan.  His 
father,  Bryan  Mahon  the  Elder,  of  Loughrea,  was  in 
1665  possessed  of  considerable  property  in  that  neigh- 

*  Rawdon  Papers,  p.  822. 


EARL  OF  CLANKICARDE'S  INFANTRY. 


531 


bourhood,  the  leasehold  portion  of  which,  having  been 
held  under  Lord  Bophin,  was,  on  the  attainder  of  that 
nobleman,  the  subject  of  claim  before  the  Commis- 
sioners at  Chichester  House,  on  the  part  of  his  widow 
Maggin  Mahon,  alias  Power,  who  was  afterwards 
interred  with  her  husband  in  the  family  vault  at  the 
old  Abbey  of  Loughrea.  They  left  two  sons  ;  the 
elder,  James,  became  the  ancestor  of  the  Mahons  of 
Beech-hill,  County  of  Galway ;  the  second,  this  Bryan, 
who  was  advanced  to  a  Captaincy  before  his  death, 
(which  occurred  in  1719),  became  a  conformist,  and 
was  ancestor  of  the  Baronets  of  Castlegar. 


REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY. 


ALEXANDER,  EARL  OF  ANTRIM. 


Captamt, 

Ensigns, 

The  Colonel 

Archibald  M-Donnel. 

Randall  M'Donnell. 

BfArk  Talbot, 

Denis  CallsghAn. 

Lieat..Col. 

Junes  Wogan, 

Francis  Moore. 

Con.  O'Ronike. 

Major. 

Lord  of  Enniskillen. 

;  Eneas  M*Donnel. 
^ohnO'NeiU. 

>  Francis  O'Neill. 

Hogh  O'NeOL 

Bryan  O'Neill. 

Angostine  McDonnell, 

Edmund  0*Beil]j. 

Bryan  Magrath. 

Fran.  BeUly. 

Manna  O'Donnell. 

Bryan  O'Neill. 

John  O'Cahan. 

UUckBonrke. 

Terence  M'Sweeny. 

Eneas  M'DonneU. 

Dmiel  M'Donald. 

John  O'Neill 

Turlogh  O'Neill. 

Biyan  M'Ginnia. 

John  M'Donald. 

JohnM<Manns. 

Arthor  MagiU. 

MM  2 


532  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 


COLONEL    ALEXANDER    McDONNEL,    EARL 
OF  ANTRIM. 

About  the  middle  of  the  fifteenth  century,  the 
McDonnels  or  McConnells,  Lords  of  the  Western 
Isles  of  Scotland,  established  a  branch  of  their  family 
in  Antrim,  by  the  marriage  of  John  McConnell  with 
Sarah,  daughter  of  Phelim  O'Neill  of  Clandeboy.  He 
thereupon  principally  resided  in  Ireland,  and  the 
alliance  seems  to  have  given  rise  to  a  claim  set  up 
by  the  McConnells  to  Clandeboy.  John  Mc  Connell, 
junior,  his  heir,  was  knighted  by  King  James  the 
Fourth  of  Scotland  ;  but  afterwards,  about  1494,  re- 
belled against  him,  for  which  he  and  three  of  his  sons 
were  taken  and  executed  at  Edinburgh.  The  two 
eldest,  Alexander  and  Angus,  on  the  deaths  of  their 
kindred,  fled  to  Ireland,  where  Mac  Cahane  gave  his 
daughter  Catherine  in  marriage  to  Alexander.  James, 
the  heir  of  that  marriage,  passed  over  to  Scotland, 
leaving  his  brother  'Sorleboy'  to  hold  possession  of  the 
Glyns  in  Antrim.  He,  however,  having  been  after- 
wards, about  1565,  hardly  pressed  by  the  O'Neill,  soli- 
cited and  obtained  his  brother's  assistance.  O'Neill  at 
once  gave  them  battle  with  signal  success,  James  was 
killed,  and  Sorleboy  taken  prisoner;  they  had  a  brother, 
Angus  the  younger,  also  killed  on  this  occasion.  Sor- 
leboy afterwards  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Con 
( Boccagh)  O'Neill,  by  whom  he  had  issue  James,  who 
was  knighted  by  James  the  Sixth  on  visiting  Edin- 


EARL  OF  ANTRIM'S  INFANTRY.  533 

burgh*  Sorleboy  remained  in  Ireland,  having  been 
established  on  his  estates  by  Queen  Elizabeth,  but  his 
brothers  returned  to  Scotland ;  and  one  of  their  de- 
scendants, Coll  Kittach,  the  son  of  Archibald,  was 
father  to  AlisterMac  Coll,  who,  as  hereafter  mentioned, 
was  sent  by  the  first  Marquis  of  Antrim  to  join 
Montrose  at  Tippermuir.  Coll  Kittach  himself  be- 
came the  prisoner  of  the  Marquis  of  Argyle,  and  was 
executed  at  Dunstaffnage,  near  Oban. 

An  old  family  Manuscript  of  the  Mac  Quillanes, 
purporting  to  give  a  catalogue  of  the  Orgillian  Princes, 
descended  from  Colla  Uais,  the  grandson  of  King 
Carbry,  mentions  Mugdome  as  the  38th  on  this  suc- 
cession, in  whose  time  it  says, "  in  1580,  Coll  Mac  Don- 
nell  came  to  Ireland,  being  the  fifth  lineal  descendant 
from  Donald,  King  or  Lord  of  the  Hebrides  and  of 
'  Cantyre.  His  clandestine  marriage  with  a  daughter 
of  Mac  Quillan,  Lord  of  Rathmor-Mac-Quillan,  now 
Dunluce,  was  the  cause  of  a  war  between  these  two 
families  ;  which  was  not  terminated  till  1610,  when 
James  the  First  of  England  unjustly  deprived 
Mac  Quillan  of  his  lands,  and  divided  them  amongst 
his  patentees,  which  lands  are  now  some  of  the  best 
improved  in  Ireland.  To  Mc  Donnell,  the  son-in-law 
or  brother-in-law  of  Mac  Quillan,  he  gave  the  four 
great  Baronies  of  Dunluce,  Carie,  Ballycastle,  and 
Glenarm,  with  the  island  of  Raghery ;  to  Sir  John 
Chichester  he  gave  the  Barony  of  Belfast  and  town  of 
Carrickfergus  ;  to  the  Seymours  and  Conways  part  of 

•  Gregory  MSS. 


534  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Massareene ;  to  the  Skeffingtons  another  portion  of 
Massareene  ;  and  several  other  persons  he  ennobled 
at  that  time  or  soon  after,  some  of  whom  were  not  the 
most  loyal  subjects  to  his  son  Charles  the  First." 
Previous  to  this  period,  Hugh  O'Donnell,  chief  of  his 
nation,  married  a  daughter  of  James  McDonnel,  Lord 
of  the  Isles,  by  whom  he  had  the  celebrated  hero,  Red 
'Hugh  O'Donnel,'  in  whose  ensuing  wars  with  the 
Queen,  the  McDonnels  afforded  him  great  assistance. 
James  Mac  Sorleboy,  before  alluded  to,  was  one  of 
those  who  supported  O'Neill  at  the  battle  of  the  Black- 
water.  The  Four  Masters  contain  many  annals  of 
this  family,  that  cannot  be  brought  forward  here. 

In  1613,  King  James  directed  his  mandatory  let- 
ter for  an  Act  of  Parliament  to  secure  Sir  Randal 
Mac  Sorley  McDonnell  in  all  his  lands,  &c.  in  Ulster, 
to  hold  to  him  and  his  heirs  male  by  his  wife  Elly  ny 
Neale,  remainder  to  the  heirs  male  of  his  body  and  to 
those  of  Alexander  McDonnel,  his  cousin,  and  of  Con 
McDonnel  his  late  cousin  successively,  remainder  to 
the  right  heirs  of  Sir  Randal  for  ever.  In  1618,  the 
same  Monarch  created  this  Sir  Randal,  who  was  a  de- 
scendant of  the  Lords  of  the  Isles  and  grand-father  of 
the  nobleman  at  present  under  consideration,  Viscount 
Dunluce  in  the  Peerage  of  Ireland,  and  in  two  years 
after  advanced  him  to  the  Earldom  of  Antrim.  On 
the  Attainders  of  1642  appear  of  this  name  six  in  the 
County  of  Wicklow,  three  in  Cork,  two  in  Dublin, 
and  one  in  Eildare.  Randal,  then  Earl,  and  his  bro- 
ther, this  Alexander,  were  also  affected  by  attainder, 


EARL  OF  ANTRIM'S  INFANTRY.  535 

but  were  by  a  clause  in  the  Act  of  Settlement  restored 
to  their  estates  (excepting  tithes). 

In  1644,  the  gallant  Montrose,  desirous  to  raise 
forces  in  Ireland  to  uphold  the  Royal  cause  in  Scot- 
land,  commissioned  Earl  Randal,  as  an  Irishman  by 
birth  and  a  Scot  by  descent,  to  effectuate  the  import- 
ant object ;  and,  for  facilitating  these  levies,  he  directed 
the  Marquess  of  Ormonde,  then  Lord  Lieutenant  of 
Ireland,  to  procure  a  cessation  of  arms  there  between 
the  Catholics  and  the  Protestants,  both  parties  being 
then  considered  alike  favourable  to  the  enlistment. 
Accordingly,  when  Montrose  himself  entered  Scotland 
with  but  two  companies,  he  was  joined  by  1,200  Irish 
recruits,  commanded  by  Alexander  McDonnell,  whom 
Earl  Randal  (then  advanced  to  a  Marquisate)  sent 
over  to  the  cause.  This  Alexander  or  Alister  Mac 
Coll,  son  of  Coll  Kittach  as  before  mentioned,  had 
Coll  his  eldest  son,  from  whom  was  lineally  descended 
the  late  Doctor  McDonnell,  long  the  national  and 
literary  attraction  of  Belfast.  Another  son  of  Alister 
was  Archibald,  the  Lieutenant  in  this  Regiment,  who 
died  in  1720,  aged  73,  and  was  buried  in  the  secluded 
churchyard  of  Layde  on  the  coast  of  Antrim  ;  as  was 
his  son  Coll,  who  died  in  1737,  and  Coil's  son 
Alexander,  who  died  in  1793. 

To  return  to  Earl  Randal :  he  died  in  1682,  when 
the  Marquisate  became  extinct ;  but  the  other  honors 
continued  to  his  son,  the  above  Colonel,  who  also  had 
taken  an  active  part  in  the  Civil  war  of  1641,  and 
was  attainted  therefor,  but  restored  by  the  Act  of 
Settlement.  In  1646,  being  then  Earl  of  Antrim  in 
ihs  fathers  life-time,  he  sat  as  one  of  the  Temporal 


536  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

Peers  at  the  Supreme  Council  in  Kilkenny  ;  while 
JamesMcDonnelof  Muff  (who  was  also  buried  at  Lame) 
and  Allen  McDonnell  of  Muntaghwereof  theCommons. 
The  Declaration  of  Royal  Thanks  in  the  Act  of  1662, 
"  for  services  beyond  the  seas,**  includes  Lieutenant 
Charles  and  Ensign  Alexander  Mc  Donnell.  In 
1686,  this  Earl  was  appointed  of  King  James's  Privy 
Council,  in  which  year  another  Alexander  Mc  Donnell 
was  Sheriff  of  Leitrim.  In  1688,  a  Colonel  Mc 
Donnell  garrisoned  Boyle,  and  "  prevented  the  transit 
of  Protestants  with  goods  and  provisions  towards  the 
garrison  of  Sligo  ;  which,  on  being  requested  to  per- 
mit, he  affected  so  to  do,  but  afterwards  declined  to 
perform,  though  we  looked  upon  him  as  one  of  the 
fairest  reputation  among  the  Irish  in  these  parts. 
On  the  approach,  however,  of  our  party,  he  drew  all 
his  Horse,  Foot,  and  Dragoons  within  the  walls  of 
Lord  Kingston's  house  and  garden."* 

Besides  the  Colonel,  there  were  six  other  Mc  Don- 
nells  holding  commissions  in  this  Regiment.  In 
Lord  Clare's  Dragoons  Thomas  'Donell'  was  a  Comet ; 
Charles  Mc  Donnell  was  a  Lieutenant  in  the  King's 
own  Infantry ;  and  in  the  Earl  of  Westmeath's,  Bryan 
was  a  Lieutenant,  as  was  Francis  in  Colonel  John 
Grace's.  The  Parliament  of  Dublin  in  1689  was 
attended  by  this  Earl  amongst  the  Peers ;  while, 
amongst  the  Commons,  a  Randal  Mc  Donnell  sat  as 
one  of  the  Representatives  of  the  County  of  Antrim, 
as  did  Alexander  Mc  Donnell  for  the  Borough  of 

*  Mackenzie's  Deny,  p.  16. 


EARL  OF  ANTRIM'S  INFANTRY.  537 

Jamestown,  County  of  Leitrim.  A  short  time  pre- 
vious to  this  assembly,  Tyrconnel  "commanded  this 
Earl  to  quarter  at  Derry  with  his  Regiment,  consis- 
ting of  a  numerous  swarm  of  Irish  and  Highlanders,''* 
but  the  gates  were  closed  against  them.  The  town 
then,  however,  agreed,  on  capitulation,  to  admit  two 
companies,  being  Protestants ;  and  Lieutenant-Colonel 
Lundy  was  appointed  by  Lord  Mountjoy,  Governor. 
During  the  subsequent  siege,  a  Captain  Mc  Donnell 
was  taken  prisoner.f  A  letter  of  the  Duke  of  Berwick, 
dated  5th  July,  1689,  mentioning  his  having  had  a 
skirmish  with  the  enemy  near  Trellick,  adds  that 
Captain  Bellew  and  Major  Mc  Donnell  commanded 
his  vanguard  on  the  occasion.  About  this  time  an 
Alexander  Mc  Donnell  was  appointed  by  Lord  Tyr- 
connel Governor  of  Galway ;  and  he,  in  the  progress  of 
the  campaign,  became  a  Brigadier-General.  Colonel 
O'Kelly,  in  his  Exddium  Macarioe^  says  he  was  a 
"soldier  of  fortune,  raised  by  merit  from  the  ranks  ;" 
and  Croker,  in  his  notes  on  that  little  work,  adds 
that  he  was  otherwise  called  *Mc  Gregor,'  and  was  of 
Drumsna,  County  of  Leitrim.  He  married  in  1685 
the  Lady  Jane  Nugent,  a  sister  of  Thomas  Nugent, 
afterwards  created  Lord  Riverston.  In  December, 
1690,  he  was  removed  from  the  Government  of  Gal- 
way .J  It  is  remarkable  that  in  the  Outlawries  of 
1691  he  is  styled  Alexander  Mc  Donnell,  alias  Gregor, 
alias  Boyd,  of  Clonin,  County  of  Westmeath.     At  the 

•  Walker's  Derry,  p.  11.  f  Wem,  p.  61. 

X  Clarke's  James  11.  v.  2.  p.  428. 


538  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

same  time  were  attainted  six  Mc  Donnels  of  Antrim, 
four  of  Mayo,  two  of  Leitrim,  and  one  of  Roscommon 
and  Clare  respectively.  This  Earl  of  Antrim  was 
outlawed  on  three  Inquisitions  taken  in  Dublin, 
Derry,  and  Antrim  ;  but,  being  included  in  the  sa- 
vings of  tlie  Articles  of  Limerick,  he  was  restored  to 
his  estates,  and  died  in  1699.  At  the  petty  Court  of 
St.  Germains,  Captain  *Mc  Donald'  was  one  of  the 
grooms  of  the  bedchamber  ;*  while,  from  the  Des- 
patches  of  Sir  Paul  Rycaut,  it  appears  that  in  1693 
a  large  body  of  Irish  exiles  was  sent  from  France, 
under  the  command  of  a  Colonel  Mc  Donnel,  for  the 
service  of  the  Emperor  in  Hungary .f 

At  Chichester  House,  in  1700,  sundry  claims  were 
preferred  as  charges  on  Mc  Donnell  estates,  some  of 
which  were  allowed.  In  1710,  Mc  Donnell's  Irish 
Brigade  did  signal  service  in  Spain,J  and,  in  the  pre- 
sent century,  the  name  has  been  chronicled  there  on 
great  achievements.  In  1746,  Colonel  John  Mc 
Donell  of  Fitz-James's  Brigade  was  a  state  prisoner  at 
Inverness.  In  1814,  a  Colonel  Alexander  Mc  Don- 
nel distinguished  himself  at  the  siege  of  Dantzic. 


LIEUTENANT-COLONEL  MARK  TALBOT. 

See  of  him,  ante^  p.  49. 


♦  Clarke's  James  II.,  v.  2,  p.  411. 

t  See  Thorpe's  Catal.  Southwell  MSS,  p.  69. 

X  O'Conor's  Military  Memoirs,  v.  1,  p.  363. 


BABL  OF  ANTRIM'S  INFANTRY.  539 

MAJOR  JAMES  WOGAN. 

This  name  is  also  projected  on  the  records  of  Ireland 
f5rom  the  earliest  years  afiber  the  Invasion.  In  1295, 
Sir  John  Wogan  was  Lord  Justice  there;  again  in 
1298,  1302,  1307,  and  1309.  In  1446,  Richard 
Wogan,  clerk,  was  the  Irish  Lord  Chancellor.  In 
1636,  died  Nicholas  Wogan  of  Blackhall,  County  of 
Kildare,  fourth  son  of  David  Wogan  of  New-Hall  in 
said  County.  He  had  married  Margaret,  daughter  of 
William  Hollywood  of  Harbertstown  in  the  County 
of  Meath,  by  whom  he  had  four  sons  ;  1.  William, 
who  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Edward  Wogan 
of  Grangerosnolvan,  County  of  Kildare  ;  2.  Charles  ; 
3.  Edward ;  and  4.  Thomas,  all  yet  unmarried,  says 
the  Funeral  Entry  of  Nicholas  in  the  Heralds'  OflBce ; 
said  Nicholas,  it  adds,  died  in  July,  1636,  and  was 
buried  at  Kilmaoge  in  said  County.  The  above  Wil- 
liam and  Thomas  were  attainted  in  1642,  as  were 
Oliver  Wogan  of  Downings  and  Nicholas  Wogan  of 
Rathcoffy.  The  latter  was  one  of  the  Supreme  Coun- 
cil of  Kilkenny  in  1646.  Besides  this  officer,  who 
was  killed  at  the  Siege  of  Derry,  a  John  Wogan  ap- 
pears on  this  List  as  Captain  in  Fitz-James's  Foot. 
He  was  of  Rathcoffy,  Sheriff  of  the  County  of  Kildare 
in  1687,  and  one  of  its  Representatives  in  the  Parlia- 
ment of  Dublin.  He  was  attainted  in  1691,  with 
Patrick  Wogan  of  Maynham  in  the  same  County  ; 
and,  according  to  other  Muster  Rolls,  a  John  Wogan 
was   appointed    Lieutenant-Colonel    of  Sir  Maurice 


540  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Eustace's  Infantry,  subsequent  to  the  forming  of  this 
List. 

The  chivalry  and  devotion  of  Irishmen  to  the  de- 
throned Stuart,  as  evinced  by  the  gallant  daring  of 
Colonel  Charies  Wogan  in  the  time  of  George  the 
First,  are  alluded  to  hereafter ;  meanwhile  it  may  here 
be  remarked  that  a  manuscript  compilation  of  this 
Colonel  Charles,  of  a  very  miscellaneous  character,  is 
in  the  possession  of  Mr.  Aylmer  of  Painstown.  In  it 
are  an  address  in  poetry  from  Lord  Wharton  to 
himself,  as  to  '  My  friend  Sir  Charles  Wogan, 
Baronet,'  and  a  Comment  from  Dean  Swift  to  him  on 
particulars  of  the  exile's  life  which  had  been  furnished 
to  the  Dean.  "  We  guessed  you,"  writes  Swift,  "  to 
have  been  bom  in  this  country  from  some  passages, 
but  not  from  the  style,  which  we  wondered  to  find  so 
correct  in  an  exile,  a  soldier,  and  a  native  of  Ireland. 

Although  I  have  no  great  regard  for  your  trade, 

from  the  judgment  I  make  of  those  who  profess  it  in 
these  kingdoms,  yet  I  cannot  but  esteem  those  gentle- 
men of  Ireland  who,  with  all  the  disadvantages  of 
being  exiles  and  strangers,  have  been  able  to  distin- 
guish themselves  by  their  valour  and  conduct  in  so 
many  parts  of  Europe,  I  think  above  all  other  nations. 
Which  ought  to  make  the  English  ashamed  at  the  re- 
proaches they  cast  on  the  ignorance,  the  dulness,  and 
the  want  of  courage  of  the  Irish  natives;  these 
defects,  wherever  they  happen,  arising  only  from  the 
poverty  and  slavery  they  suffer  from  their  inhuman 
neighbours,  and  the  base  corrupt  spirits  of  too  many 


EARL  OF  ANTRIM'S  INFANTRY.  541 

of  the  chief  gentry.  By  such  events  as  these  the  very- 
Grecians  are  grown  slavish,  ignorant,  and  supersti- 
tious. I  do  assert,  from  several  experiments  I  have 
made  in  travelling  over  both  kingdoms,  I  have  found 
the  poor  cottagers  here,  who  could  speak  our  language, 
to  have  a  much  better  taste  for  good  sense,  humour, 
and  raillery,  than  ever  t  observed  among  people  of  the 
like  sort  in  England.'' 


CAPTAIN  LORD  ENNISKILLEN, 

(cONNOR  MAC  GUIRE). 

The  Irish  county  now  known  as  Fermanagh,  of  which 
Enniskillen  is  the  chief  town,  was  anciently  the  prin- 
cipality of  the  Sept  of  Mac  Guire,  who  held  it  for 
centuries  after  the  Invasion,  independent  of  English 
government ;  and  were,  according  to  the  Irish  form, 
solemnly  inaugurated  on  the  summit  of  Cuilcaigh 
(the  Quilka  of  Dean  Swift),  and  sometimes  near  Lis- 
naskea.  In  the  time  of  James  the  First,  however, 
Ulster,  including  their  territory,  fell  into  the  power  of 
the  Crown  by  the  Attainders  of  O'Neill,  O'Donnel, 
Mac  Guire,  &c,  and  was  subjected  to  the  allocations 
and  disposition  of  the  Plantation.  Nevertheless,  Con- 
nor Roe  Mac  Guire,  the  acknowledged  Captain  of  his 
name,  obtained  from  King  James  a  re-grant  of  12,000 
acres  of  the  confiscations  of  his  ancestors,  and  was 
created  Baron  of  Enniskillen,  a  title  which  passed  in 
his  descendants  to  the  nobleman  here  introduced. 


542  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

Of  the  earlier  notices  of  this  Sept  it  may  be  men- 
tioned that  when,  in  1314,  King  Edward  was  about 
to  prosecute  the  war  in  Scotland,  he  directed  an 
especial  letter  missive  to  '  Laveragh  Mac  Wyr,  duel 
Hibemorum,'  seeking  his  aid  on  the  expedition.  In 
1379,  when  Edmund  Mortimer,  who  had  married  the 
grand-daughter  of  Edward  the  Third,  came  over  to 
Ireland  as  Lord  Lieutenant,  various  native  chiefe 
waited  upon  him,  and  amongst  these  the  Mac  Guire. 
In  1428,  "  Hugh,  the  hospitable  son  of  Philip  Mac 
Guire,  died  at  Einsale,  on  his  landing  from  Spain, 
where  he  had  been  performing  the  pilgrimage  of  St. 
James  of  Compostella.  Thomas  Oge  Mac  Guire,  who 
had  accompanied  him,  conveyed  his  body  to  Cork, 
where  it  was  buried.''  The  death  of  this  Thomas  Oge 
is  thus  commemorated  by  the  Masters  : — "  In  1480 
died  Thomas  Oge,  son  of  Thomas  More,  son  of  Philip, 
son  of  Hugh  Roe  Mac  GuLre,  the  most  distinguished 
of  his  time  for  alms-doing,  piety,  and  hospitality  ;  a 
man  who  defended  his  territory  against  invading  foes, 
a  founder  of  monasteries  and  churches,  a  donor  of 
chalices,  a  man  who  was  at  Rome,  and  twice  visited 
the  City  of  St.  James  (of  Compostella).  He  was  in- 
terred in  the  monastery  of  Cavan,  having  selected  that 
as  his  burial  place." 

The  influence  of  the  Mac  Guire  in  a  later  century 
is  thus  spoken  of  by  Sir  John  Davis,  in  a  report  to 
the  King's  Council : — "  Concerning  Fermanagh,  other- 
wise Mac  Guire's  country,  that  territory  was  never 
reduced  to  the  Crown  from  the  conquest  of  Ireland, 
either  by  surrender,  attainder,  or  other  resumption 


EABL  OF  ANTRIM'S  INFANTRY.  543 

whatever,  until  Sir  John  Perrofs  government ;  who 
caused  Lord  Conogher,  father  of  Hugh  Mac  Guire, 
who  was  a  principal  actor  in  the  late  rebellion,  and 
slain  in  Munster,  to  surrender  all  the  County  of 
Fermanagh  in  general  words  unto  the  late  Queen, 
and  to  take  new  patents  back  again  of  all  the  County 
in  like  general  words  to  him  and  his  heirs,  whereupon 
was  reserved  a  rent,  &c."  On  the  Plantation  of 
Ulster,  which  was  much  influenced  by  this  representa- 
tion of  the  then  Attorney-General,  Bryan  Mac  Guire 
had  a  grant  of  various  lands  in  the  old  district,  with 
licence  for  fairs  and  markets,  to  hold  same  forever,  as 
of  the  Castle  of  Dublin  in  common  soccage,  subject  to 
the  conditions  of  the  Plantation.  The  Act  for  the 
attainders  of  the  Ulster  Lords  (1612)  makes  express 
mention  of  Sir  Hugh  Mac  Guire,  as  having  then 
lately  fallen  in  the  field  in  rebellion.  The  Sept,  it 
may  be  concluded,  suffered  yet  more  severely  in  the 
confiscations  of  1642,  by  reason  of  the  part  they  had 
taken  with  Lord  Mac  Guire  ;  while,  beyond  their 
ancient  district,  were  attainted  Murrough  and  Thomas 
Mac  Guire  of  Angestown,  County  of  Meath,  and  Donogh 
Mac  Guire  of  Castlemartin,  County  of  KOdare.  Crom- 
well's Act  of  1652  excepted  from  pardon  for  life  and 
estate  '  Connor  Mac  Guire,  Baron  of  Enniskillen  ;' 
while,  on  the  other  hand,  the  declaration  of  Royal 
gratitude,  for  services  beyond  the  seas,  recognises 
those  of  Ensign  Connor  Mac  Guire,  and  of  Patrick 
Mac  Guire  of  Ballykilcunny,  '  County  of  Enniskillen.' 
In   1685-6,   the   Earl  of  Sunderland  wrote  by  the 


544  KING  JAMES'S  IBISH  ARMY  LIST. 

King's  order  from  Whitehall  to  the  Earl  of  Clarendon, 
then  the  Irish  Viceroy,  recommending  to  his  Excel- 
lency Dr.  Dominick  Maguire,  then  Roman  Catholic 
Archbishop  of  Armagh,  and  the  other  prelates  of  that 
communion  in  Ireland,  "  for  patronage  and  protection 
upon  all  occasions  ;  "    and  desiring  his  Excellency  to 
recommend  to  the  Prelates  of  the  established  church, 
and  to  the  Sheriffs  and  Justices  of  the  Peace  there, 
not  to  molest  the  Roman  Catholic  clergy,  in  the  exer- 
cise of  their  ecclesiastical  functions  amongst  those  of 
their  own  communion.     The  King  further  directed 
the  payment  of  certain  sums  out  of  the  Irish  Exche- 
quer to  the  said  Catholic  Primate  to  be  partly  for 
himself,  and  other  parts  in  trust  annuities  for  certain 
other  proscribed  Roman   Catholic    Bishops'*      The 
total  sum  so  allocated  for  this  hierarchy  was  £2,190 
per  annum,  to  be  paid  to  the  Primate,  '  without  any 
account  impressed  or  other  charges  to  be  set  upon  him.' 
Lord  Enniskillen,  though  here  ranked  as  but  a  Cap- 
tain, was  Lord  Lieutenant  of  the  County  of  Fermanagh, 
afterwards  sat  as  a  Peer  in  the  Parliament  of  1689, 
and  ultimately  commanded  in  this  campaign  a  Regi- 
ment which  he  had  himself  raised.     He  fought  at 
Aughrim,  where  fell  Colonel  Art  Mac  Guire,  *one  of 
the  chief  noblemen  of  Ulster,  and  a  stout  warrior.' 
Another  Infantry  Regiment,  alluded  to  hereafter,  was 
led  by  Colonel  Cuconnaght  Mac  Guire,  the  Deputy 
Lieutenant  of  Fermanagh ;  while  in  the  Earl  of  Clan- 
carty's  Infantry  Alexander  Mac  Guire  was  a  Captain. 

*  O^Callaghan^s  Maoariae  Excidium,  p.  308. 


EAHL  OF  Antrim's  infantky.  545 

The  Attainders  of  1691  present  the  names  of  Lord 
Enniskillen,  Cuconnaght  of  Lisnaskea,  County  of 
Fermanagh  (of  whom  hereafter)  ;  Alexander,  also  of 
Lisnaskea;  Thomas  of  Mullintoosse,  County  of  Antrim; 
James  of  Ballinecurvin,  County  of  Cork  ;  and  Domi- 
nick  Mac  Gwire, '  commonly  called  Primate  of  Ire- 
land.' After  the  Capitulation  of  Limerick,  Lord 
Enniskillen  accompanied  the  Irish  army  to  France, 
but,  having  no  Regiment  assigned  to  him  there,  he 
retired  to  St.  Germains,  where  he  died  in  October, 
1708,  aged  67.  He  was  succeeded  by  his  brother 
Philip,  the  sixth  Ix)rd  Enniskillen,  as  he  was  styled  ; 
who  by  his  wife,  the  daughter  of  Sir  Phelim  O'Neill 
of  Kinard,  and  sister  to  Brigadier  Gordon  O'Neill, 
had  a  son  Theophilus,  seventh  titular  Lord  Ennis- 
killen ;  the  son  of  which  latter  nobleman,  by  his  Lady 
Margaret  O'Donnell  of  the  Tyrconnel  line,  was  named 
Alexander,  and  accounted  eighth  Lord  Enniskillen. 
He  was  an  oflBcer  of  the  Irish  Brigades,  and,  about  the 
middle  of  the  last  century,  a  Captain  in  Bulkeley's 
Regiment* 


CAPTAIN  MANUS  O'DONNELL. 

The  researches  of  O'Callaghan,  in  his  recent  History 
of  the  Irish  Brigade,  p.  312,  &c.  are  so  full  and  satis- 
factory, as  to  leave  little  necessity  for  further  illustra- 
ting the  name  of  O'Donnell  here.  Only  let  it  be 
added  that,  in  1494,  Hugh  Oge  O'Donnell,  '  Prince  of 

*  O'Callaghan's  Irish  Brigades,  vol.  1,  p.  278,  where  see  of 
other  Mac  Guires  distinguished  in  foreign  service. 


546  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Tyrconnel,'  was  received  with  great  honour  by  James 
the  Fourth  of  Scotland  at  Glasgow  ;*  and  Pinkerton, 
in  his  '  Scotland^  (vol.  11,  p.  59)  mentions  a  corre- 
spondence between  these  individuals  as  extant.  This 
O'Donnel  went  in  1505  on  a  pilgrimage  to  Rome, 
going  and  returning  through  London,  where  he  was 
on  both  occasions  entertained  with  great  honour  by 
King  Henry  the  Seventh  ;  and  in  1511  he  received 
knighthood  at  the  Justs  which  Henry  the  Eighth  held 
at  Westminster,  in  honour  of  the  birth  of  a  Princcf 
Yet  this  monarch  is  shown  to  have  taken  much  umbrage 
at  the  friendly  intercourse  so  existing  between  the 
O'Donnells  and  the  Scottish  Kings.J 

In  1529,  Roderic  O'Donnel  was  Bishop  of  Derry. 
In  three  years  after,  O'Donnel  did  covenant  with  Sir 
William  SkeflBngton  that,  if  the  King  wished  to  reform 
Ireland,  of  which  it  would  seem  the  Irish  chief  enter- 
tained some  doubt,  he  and  his  people  would  gladly  be 
governed  by  the  laws  of  England.§  In  1567,  Hugh 
O'Donnel  was  knighted  by  Sir  Henry  Sydney  ;  in 
the  following  year  he  became  chief  of  his  Sept,  and 
was  father  of  Hugh  Roe  O'Donnel,  who  was  treache- 
rously carried  off  from  Donegal  in  the  time  of  Sir 
John  Perrot's  government,  and,  to  the  discn^dit  and 
injury  of  the  English  interest,  was  confined  in  the 
Castle  of  Dublin,  whence  he  twice  made  his  escape. 
On  the  last  occasion,  he  kindled  a  war  in  his  native 


*  Comp'.  Thes.  Scotiae. 

t  Ellis's  Letters,  2nd  series^  vol.  1,  p.  224.  {  Idem. 

§  Davis's  Hist.  Rel.  p.  52. 


EARL  OF  ANTRIM'S  INFANTRY.  547 

territory,  which  expelled  the  English  from  the  Castle 
of  Donegal,  and  regained  his  whole  country  from 
them,  with  such  acts  of  implacable  hostility  as  the  re- 
collection of  his  own  suffering  stimulated.  He  was  in 
truth  an  extraordinary  man,  of  talents,  courage,  liter- 
ary  acquirements,  and  personal  attractions  that  pro- 
jected him  to  the  admiration  of  his  age.  Betham,  in 
the  first  part  of  his  Andqtmrian  Researches^  furnishes 
very  fully,  from  an  Irish  manuscript,  his  history  and 
achievements.  In  1601,  with  the  flower  and  strength 
of  Ulster,  he  flew  to  co-operate  with  the  Spaniards  in 
ttie  siege  of  Kinsale,  but  was  obliged  to  give  up  the 
cause  by  the  precipitancy  of  the  Spanish  commander. 
He  thereupon  retired  with  him  to  Spain,  where,  says 
Leland,*  "he  was  every  where  received  by  that 
proud  nation  with  all  that  pomp  and  magnificence 
which  is  paid  to  blood  Royal  only."  He  died  in 
1602,  and  was  buried  with  great  magnificence  at 
Yalladolid.  The  O'Donnel,  who  thereupon  assumed 
the  chiefry,  joined  with  O'Neill  in  the  desperate  resist- 
ance  to  English  rule,  that  was  only  terminated  by  the 
flight  of  both  these  chiefe  to  the  continent,  when  the 
extinction  of  their  sway  left  the  most  valuable  part 
of  Ulster,  upwards  of  800,000  English  acres,  at  the 
disposal  of  the  Crown,  which  exercised  its  power  in 
the  memorable  Plantation  of  that  Province. 

King  James,  early  in  his  reign,  granted  to  Roderic 
ODonnell,  *  brother  to  the  arch-traitor  Hugh  O'Don- 
nell,  lately  deceased  in  Spain,'  the  title  and  dignity 

*  Hist.  Ireland,  vol.  1,  In  trod.  p.  9. 

NN    2 


548  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

of  Earl  of  Tyrconnel,  with  remainder  to  his  heirs 
male  ;  and,  in  defect  thereof  to  his  brother  Galfred  or 
CaflFry  O'Donnell  and  his  heirs  male,  with  the  title  of 
Baron  of  Donegal  to  his  heir  apparent  ;  making,  at 
the  same  time,  a  more  substantial  grant  to  him,  on 
like  entails  of  the  territories  or  countries  in  the  pre- 
cinct of  Tyrconnel,  in  as  large  and  ample  manner  as  his 
brother  Hugh  Ruath  O'Donnell,  attainted,  and  dead 
in  Spain,  or  his  father  Hugh  Ale  Manus  O'Donnell,  or 
his  grandfather  Manus  Mc  Donnell,  or  any  other  of 
his  ancestors  had  enjoyed  or  i>ossessed  the  same  ; 
reserving  to  the  Crown  all  churches,  abbeys,  tithes, 
and  certain  castles  ;  also  excepting  all  manoi-s,  lands, 
and  estates  which  the  Earl  or  any  of  his  ancestors  at 
any  time  possessed  within  O'Doghertie's  country,  and 
reserving  also  to  the  Crown  the  i)Ower  of  erecting 
forts  on  the  premises  so  granted.*  The  Act  of  1612, 
for  the  attainder  of  the  Earl  of  Tyrone  and  his 
'  accomplices,'  inclu<led  in  its  desolating  ]x?nalties  the 
above  Caffry  O'Donel,  brother  to  the  then  late  Earl 
of  Tyrconnel,  of  CafFersconse,  County  of  Donegal ; 
Caffry  Oge  O'Donel  of  Starfollis,  and  Donell  Oge 
O'Donel,  late  of  Donegal  in  said  County.  The  Kil- 
kenny Assembly  of  the  Confederate  Catholics  in  1646 
was  attended  by  Hugh  O'Donell  of  Ramelton.  Of 
this  S(?pt  was  Daniel  O'Donnell,  who,  in  December, 
1688,  was  apiK)inted  Captain  of  a  Company  in  the 
Royal  service,  and  in  1689  was  authorised  to  rank 
and   act   as  a  Colonel.      After  the   capitulation  of 

•  Rot.  Pat.  1,  Jac.  1,  in  Cane.  Hib. 


EARL  OF  ANTRIM'S  INFANTRY.  549 

Limerick,  he  passed  over  to  France,  where  he  suc- 
ceeded Colonel  Nicholas  Fitz-Gerald  in  the  command 
of  Fitz-James's  Regiment.  He  also  served  on  the 
coast  of  Normandy  with  the  Irish  and  French  forces, 
then  designed  for  the  invasion  of  England ;  after- 
wards in  Germany  and  Piedmont ;  and  ultimately  he 
retired  to  St.  Germains-en-Laye,  where  he  died  in 
1735,  in  the  seventieth  year  of  his  age.* 

The  achievements  of  Brigadier  Baldearg  Ruadh 
O'Donnell  in  this  campaign  are  of  peculiar  interest. 
The  Irish,  placing  faith  in  some  ancient  prophecy, 
wilfully  believed  that  he  would  be  raised  to  deliver 
Ireland  from  the  English  yoke.  "  He  was,"  (writes 
Colonel  O'Kelly  in  the  Excidium  Macarios^  pp.  125-6, 
&c. )  "  heir  presumptive  to  the  second  Prince  of  Uls- 
ter, that  O'Donnell  who,  at  the  close  of  Queen  Eliza- 
beth's reign,  retired  into  Spain,  where  he  died  without 
issue.  His  brother  also  died  there,  but  leaving  one 
son,  who  was  carried  oflF  by  sickness  in  the  flower  of 
his  age  ;  whereupon  Baldearg,  being  next  of  kin, 
went  into  Spain,  where  he  was  received  with  honour 
by  the  King,  and  established  in  the  dignity  and 
employment  theretofore  filled  by  his  kinsman.  After 
serving  several  years  in  the  Spanish  wars  against 
France,  when  he  heard  of  the  Prince  of  Orange 
invasion  of  England,  and  James's  return  to  Ireland, 
he  solicited  from  the  Spanish  court  permission  to 
quit  service  there,  in  order  to  serve  his  own  King 
and  country ;  but,  being  unable  to  obtain  his  dis- 

♦  O'Callaghan's  Irish  Brigades,  vol.  1,  p.  221. 


550  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

charge,  by  reason  that  the  Irish  and  their  King  urere 
then  strictly  leagued  with  Louis  the  Fourteenth,  he 
left  Spain  without  any  license,  and  arrived  at  Einsale 
much  about  the  time  that  James  the  Second  came 
thither  after  the  engagement  on  the  Boyne.  [King 
James  did  not,  however,  come  so  far  south.]  The 
King  recommending  him  to  Tyrconnel,  he  gave  him 
the  command  of  the  new  levies  raised  by  the  inhabi- 
tants of  Ulster,  who  were  then  retired  into  Con- 
naught  ;  but  afforded  him  neither  arms  nor  mainte- 
nance ;  and,  observing  soon  after  that  O'Donnel  grew 
popular  among  the  old  Irish,  and  especially  with  the 
natives  of  Ulster,  who  superstitiously  believed  him  to 
be  the  prophesied  deliverer  of  Ireland,  he  took  firom 
him  some  of  the  new  legions,  whom  he  incorporated 
in  the  standing  army,  leaving  him  and  the  rest  with- 
out any  manner  of  subsistence,  but  what  they  were 
forced  to  extort  from  the  country.  He  also  encou- 
raged the  nobles  of  Ulster,  and  even  the  officers  of 
his  own  Brigade  to  oppose  him,  in  order  to  suppress 
his  aspiring  mind,  and  render  him  contemptible  to 
the  people  ;  but  his  chiefest  aim  was  to  breed  jealou- 
sies between  him  and  Brigadier  Gordon  O'Neill,  who 
was  descended  from  the  first  Prince  of  Ulster  ;  for  he 
apprehended  (and  perhaps  he  had  reason)  that  if  the 
forces  of  Ulster,  all  composed  of  old  Irish,  were  united 
together,  they  might  easily  obstruct  his  design  to 
reduce  Ireland  under  the  jurisdiction  of  William  the 
Third,  in  order  to  preserve  there  the  English  interest, 
which  is  held  so  sacred  by  those  of  England,  and 


EARL  OF  ANTRIM'S  INFANTRY.  551 

even  by  some  natives  of  Ireland  deriving  their  ex- 
traction thence  (whereof  Tyrconnel  was  himself  one). 
O'Donnel  was  at  that  time  posted  at  Jamestown,  to 
defend  the  Shannon  on  that  side ;  and,  when  De 
Ginkle  forced  over  a  passage  at  Athlone,  he  had 
orders  sent  to  him  in  all  haste  to  march  straight  to 
Galway ;  but,  to  satisfy  Tyrconnel  and  those  of  his 
party,  who  loudly  declared  that  to  entrust  a  person, 
of  his  credit  among  the  ancient  Irish,  with  a  place  of 
that  consequence,  was  in  effect  to  abrogate  the  Royal 
authority  in  Ireland ;  the  first  orders  were  counter- 
manded, and  he  was  bid  to  dispose  of  his  men  into 
several  posts  for  the  defence  of  the  western  parts  of 
Connaught." 

After  the  fatal  day  of  Aughrim,  Baldearg  was 
ordered  to  gather  yi  his  scattered  force  with  the 
object  of  strengthening  Galway.  The  enemy,  how- 
ever, had  taken  measures  to  prevent  his  throwing 
succour  into  that  tovm.  Its  surrender  decided  Bal- 
dearg's  course,  and  in  August,  1691,  he  arranged 
with  De  Ginkle's  agent  to  go  over  to  the  cause  of 
King  William,  "provided  he  might  have  the  men 
he  brought  over  with  him  admitted  to  pay,  in 
order  to  serve  his  Majesty  in  Flanders  or  elsewhere, 
and  that  himself  should  be  created  Earl  of  Tyrconnel, 
a  title  to  which  he  claimed  an  ancestral  right ;  he 
likewise  required  that  £2,000  should  be  given  to 
him.**  "The  General,"  adds  Story,  "thought  it 
politic  to  consent  to  some  of  ODonnel's  propositions, 

•  Story's  Impart.  Hist.  pt.  2,  p.  182. 


552  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

and  from  the  following  Christmas  he  and  Colonel 
Henry  Luttrel  received  each  a  yearly  pension  of 
£500.  Of  his  doings  in  September,  1691,  in  the 
country  l>etween  Sligo  and  Boyle,  see  the  Annals  of 
Boyle,  vol.  1.  Ultimately,  "with  about  1200  of  his 
own  men,  he  joined  800  of  the  Williamite  Ulster 
forces,  and  then  joined  Lieutenant-General  Arthur 
Forbes,  Earl  of  Granard,  with  5,000  more  Williamite 
militia  and  a  train  of  artillery  from  Leinster,  that 
were  commissioned  to  reduce  Sir  Teague  O'Regan  in 
Sligo."*  The  Memoir  of  James  the  Second  speaks 
very  disparagingly  of  Baldearg,  as  that  "  he  had  set 
up  for  a  sort  of  independent  commander ;  and,  having 
got  together  no  less  than  eight  Regiments  newly 
i-aised,  with  a  crowd  of  loose  men  over  and  above,  he 
lived  in  a  manner  at  discretion,  so  that  those  troops 
were  in  effect  but  a  rabble,  that  destroyed  the  country, 
ruined  the  inhabitants,  and  prevented  the  regular 
forces  from  drawing  that  subsistence,  they  might 
otherwise  have  had  from  the  i^eojilcf 

At  the  battle  of  Aughrim,  a  Major  O'Donnell  was 
killed,  possibly  the  above  Manus,  here  a  Captain. 
The  Attainders  of  1691  present  the  names  of  three 
O'Donnells  in  Armagh,  and  of  seven  in  Donegal, 
including  this  Captain  Manus,  described  as  of 
Boylagh,  County  of  Donegal.  O'Conor  in  his  MilU 
tary  Memoirs,  mentions  another  O'Donnel,  Conal, 
who   he  says  mised  a  Regiment  of  Foot  for  King 

•  O'Gallaghan's  Excidium  Macarise,  p.  14,  &c. 
t  Clarke's  James  II.  vol.  2,  p.  434. 


EARL  OF  ANTRIM'S  INFANTRY.  553 

James,  which  was  afterwards  brigaded,  and  was  about 
1709  incorporated  in  Lee's  and  O'Brien's  Brigades;  in 
which  year  Conal  distinguished  himself  at  Mons,  as 
he  did  in  1712  at  Cambray.  Another  Conal  O'Don- 
nell,  the  grand-nephew  of  the  illustrious  Hugh 
*  Ruadh,'  was  a  Field-Marshal  and  Generalissimo  in 
the  Austrian  Army,  and  Governor  of  Transylvania  in 
the  reign  of  Maria  Theresa.  He  died  in  1771.*  In 
1805,  Charles  Count  O'Donel,  a  Major-General  in  the 
Austrian  service,  was  killed  at  Neresheim.f  Colonel 
d'Abisbal,  who  distinguished  himself  in  Spain  during 
the  late  Peninsular  war,  was  of  this  family.  J 


CAPTAIN  ARTHUR  MAGILL. 

This  seems  to  have  been  one  of  the  families  intro- 
duced into  Ulster  by  the  Plantation.  In  1642,  was 
attainted  John  Magill,  described  in  his  outlawry  as  of 
Naptown,  County  of  Dublin;  he  was,  however,  a  con- 
siderable landed  proprietor  in  Down,  and  on  the  hold- 
ing of  the  Commission  respecting  the  confiscations  of 
that  period,  he  was  adjudged  an  'innocent  Protestant.' 
In  1660,  he  was  Sheriff  of  that  County,  and  his  de- 
scendants continued  inheritors  of  Gill-Hall  therein 
until  the  time  of  Queen  Anne;  and  the  name  is  still  on 
the  Roll  of  Magistrates  in  three  or  four  Ulster 
Counties.  It  appears  from  the  Proceedings  in  the 
Court  at  Chichester  House  in  1700,  that  the  above 

•  Betham's  Ant.  Res.  p.  191.  t  Wem.  J  Idem,  p.  192. 


554  KiXG  James's  irish  army  list. 

Captain  was  a  Leaseholder  of  the  lands  of  Erginagh, 
County  of  Antrim ;  the  fee  of  which,  on  his  attainder, 
was  claimed  hj  Hugh  ColvilL  A  Bryan  Magill  also 
then  forfeited  lands  in  the  same  County. 


ENSIGN  CON  O'ROURKE. 

The  eariiest  Irish  Annalists  record  the  high  antiquity 
of  this  Sept,  giving  them  the  title  of  Kings  of  West 
Brefny,  a  territory  which,  in  modern  parlance,  com- 
prised the  whole  County  of  Leitrim,  with  the  Barony 
of  Tullaghagh,  County  of  Cavan,  and  a  portion  of  that 
of  Carbury,  County  of  Sligo  ;  the  same  authority  sets 
down  some  of  the  race  as  Kings  of  Connaught  on  the 
first  use  of  the  surname.  Tiernan  O'Rourke  was 
King  of  Brefny  and  Conmacne  at  the  time  of  the 
English  invasion,  an  event  which  is  popularly  attribu- 
ted to  the  seduction  of  his  wife  by  Dermot  Mac  Mur- 
rough.  In  1376,  say  the  Four  Masters,  "died 
Teigue  O'Rourke,  Lord  of  Brefny,  when  Tiernan  his 
son  assumed  the  Lordship  of  Brefiiy.  On  the  occasion 
of  Sir  John  Perrot's  Conciliation  Parliament,  "thither 
went  the  chiefs  of  Gairbhthrian  (i.  e.  the  rough 
districts)  of  Connaught,  namely  O'Rourke,  Captain  of 
West  Brefny,  i.  e.  Bryan  the  son  of  Bryan,  son  of 
Owen  O'Rourke  ;  &c."*  This  unfortunate  chief, 
having  hospitably  received  the  crew  of  some  of  the 
Armada  vessels,  which  were  cast  on  his  shores,  incur- 

*  Annals  of  the  Four  Masters. 


EARL  OF  ANTRIM'S  INFANTRY.  555 

red  the  jealousy  of  Queen  Elizabeth's  government,  and 
was  by  the  Lord  President  driven  into  Scotland, 
where  he  was  seized  by  the  government  there,  de- 
livered to  Elizabeth,  and  afterwards  executed  in  Lon- 
don as  a  traitor.* 

In  1604,  King  James  granted  to  Thadeus  or  Teigue 
O'Rourke,  "only  legitimate  son  of  Sir  Bryan 
O'Rourke,"  various  Lordships  and  Manors  in 
"  O'Rourke's  territory.  County  of  Leitrim,"  which  had 
previously  belonged  to  Sir  Bryan  O'Rourke,  and  which 
had  been  by  him  according  to  the  policy  of  the  day  sur- 
rendered to  Sir  John  Perrot,  with  the  object  of  obtain- 
ing a  re-grant  thereof  in  tail  male.  King  James's 
grant  is  stated  to  comprise  166  quarters  of  land,  with 
castles,  manors,  advowsons,  &c.,  the  patentee  to  hold 
same  thenceforth  at  knight's  service  when  required, 
and  presenting  to  the  Lord  Deputy  yearly  at  Easter, 
"  a  fair  chief  horse,  and  a  piece  of  gold  with  the 
words  'serviendo  Gvherruf  engraved  thereon-^f  At  the 
supreme  Council  of  Kilkenny  in  1646,  Hugh 
O'Rourke  of  Cooncrena  was  one  of  the  Commons. 
The  Act  of  Explanation  (1665)  saved  the  rights  of 
this  Ensign  Con  O'Rourke  to  his  estates  in  the 
County  of  Leitrim.  Besides  him,  Michael  Rourke 
was  an  Ensign  in  Colonel  Henry  Dillon's  Regiment  of 
Infantry.  The  Attainders  of  1696  comprise  the 
names  of  Brian  Fitz-Francis  O'Rourke  of  Galovrea, 
Brian  Oge  O'Rourke  of  Camegreve,   Terence   Mac 

*  Leland's  Ireland,  vol.  2,  p.  822. 
t  Pat.  Boll  in  Chancery,  temp.  Jas.  1. 


556  KING  JAMESES  IRISH  ARMT  LIST. 

Brian  O'Rourke  of  Lallagh,  Rourke  Fitz-Con 
O'Rourke,  and  Tliady  and  John  O'Rourke  of  Dungebb, 

all  in   the  County   of    Leitrim. Several   of   the 

O'Rourkes  have  been  distinguished  in  the  service  of 
foreign  Potentates  of  Europe;  as  Count  Owen 
O'Rourke  of  the  Austrian  army  in  the  time  of  Maria 
Theresa  ;  Count  John  O'Rourke,*  who  served  as  a 
Commander  in  the  armies  of  Russia,  Poland  and 
France,  between  the  years  1760  and  1780;  and 
another  Count  Owen,  who  was  married  to  a  niece  of 
Field-Marshal  de  Lacy. 


*  See  of  him,  Walkers  Hibernian  Mag.  for  1782,  p.  147. 


EARL  OF  TYRONE'S  INFANTRY. 


557 


REGIMENTS    OF    INFANTRY. 

RICHARD,   EARL  OF   TYRONE, 


Caqfttams, 

Lieutenants. 

Ensigns, 

The  Colonel 

'  1  John  Power. 

(  Bic^ard  Fitzgerald. 

I  David  Power. 

Thomas  Nugent. 

John  Power. 

Garrett  Russell. 

Lieat.-Ck>l. 

Richard  Kagle, 

Major. 

James  Magrath. 
Edward  BaUer. 

>  James  Bryan. 

Denis  Bryan. 

Joseph  CJomerford. 

Lewis  Bryan. 

Peter  Aylwsrd. 

Valentine  Wal«h. 

Thomas  Nugent. 

S  Thomas  Russell 
i  Thady  Connor. 

James  Power. 

13?h':'^rjr'^°"^»-' rower. 

Francis  Cruice. 

Jenico  Preston. 

1  Thomas  Bedford. 
{John  Waliih. 

Lord  CastleconneL 

John  Bjme. 

Andrew  Rice. 

Lord  Cahir. 

John  Madden. 

Thomas  Power. 

Piers  Walsh. 

Nichohis  Murphy. 

Piers  Dobbins. 

Dominick  Forriter. 

Edmund  Fitzgerald. 

William  Carroll 

Andrew  Bice. 

John  Ronan. 

Hogh  M'Namara. 

Michael  Murphy. 

Edmund  Fitzgerald. 
Nicholas  Stafford. 

Francis  Garvan. 

Joseph  'Neagle.' 

Robert  Walsh. 

Robert  Barry. 

COLONEL  THE  EARL  OF  TYRONE. 


An  illustration  of  this  native  Royal  family  would  de- 
mand more  space,  than  in  the  prescribed  limits  of  this 
work  can  be  aflForded.     Here  it  must  suffice  to  remark 


558  KIXG  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

that  the  territory  of  Tyrone  gave  to  them  a  title  of 
tenure,  recognized  by  even  the  English  invaders  from 
the  earliest  period.  When  Edward  the  First  and 
Edward  the  Second  invited  the  aid  of  the  Magnates  of 
Ireland  against  Scotland,  a  Letter  Missive  was 
directed  to  Donald  O'Neill,  as  '  Dux  Hibernicorum  de 
Tyrowyn.'  In  the  last  year  of  the  reign  of  Queen 
Elizabeth,  Con  O'Neill,  the  Ulster  chief,  having  an 
affray  with  some  of  the  Queen's  soldiers  in  Belfast,  an 
Inquest  was  ordered  to  be  held,  in  which  Con,  with 
some  of  his  adherents,  was  found  guilty  of  waging 
war  against  the  Queen  ;  but,  before  any  grant  could 
be  made  of  his  thereby  confiscated  lands,  her 
Majesty  died ;  and,  on  the  accession  of  James  of  Scot- 
land, Montgomery,  Laird  of  Braidstane,  applied  to  the 
King  for  a  grant  of  half  of  Con's  lands,  recommending 
that  the  other  half  should  be  given  with  a  free  pardon 
to  Con  himself ;  in  which  appropriation  Mr.  James 
Hamilton  was  subsequently  made  a  participator. 
Con  was  the  more  induced  to  accede  to  this  arrange- 
ment, and  even  with  thanks,  as  it  was  insinuated  that, 
from  the  date  of  the  Act  attainting  the  O'Neills  and 
confiscating  their  territories  (11th  of  Elizabeth),  he 
(Con)  was  but  a  usurper  on  the  rights  of  the  Crown. 
Thus  in  1606  commenced  the  celebrated  Plantation  of 
the  O'NeilFs  Province  of  Ulster,  and  such  is  the 
suggestion  of  its  origin  as  given  in  the  '  Montgomery 
Manuscripts,'  which  are,  as  might  be  expected,  most 
eloquent  on  the  results. 

The  Act  of  1612,  for  the  Attainder  of  the  Earl  of 


EARL  OF  TYRONE'S  INFANTRY.  559 

Tyrone,  included  with  him  Hugh  his  eldest  and  Henry 
his  second  sons,  and  Art  Oge  Mac  Cormock  O'Neill, 
late  of  Clogher,  County  of  Tyrone.  In  a  Report 
made  about  this  time  to  the  Council,  as  '  of  the  Irish 
then  in  the  King  of  Spain's  service  or  dominions,'  Don 
John  O'Neill  Earl  of  Tyrone,  Colonel  of  the  Irish  in 
Flanders,  is  the  first  name  recorded  ;  and  is  followed 
by  Don  Hugh  O'Donnell,  Earl  of  Tyrconnel,  page  to 
the  Infanta  in  Flanders ;  Don  Dermot  O'Sullivan, 
Earl  of  Beerhaveh ;  Don  Eugene  O'Neill,  serving  as 
Major ;  Don  Arthur  O'Neill,  Captain  Cormock 
O'Neill,  Don  Thady  O'SuUivan,  Captain  Cormock 
O'Donnell,  Samuel  Mac  Donnell,  Owen  O'Hanlon, 
Robert  Davis,  Owen  Carthy,  Don  Redmond  Bourke, 
Baron  of  Leitrim ;  Don  Balthazar  Bourke,  page  of 
the  chamber  ;  William  Bourke ;  Maurish,  Thomas 
and  Edward  Fitz-Gerald,  Gerald  Mac  Maurish,  and 
many  others.*  The  Attainders  of  1642  comprise  but 
four  minor  names  of  this  great  family.  Of  the  Con- 
federate Catholics  at  the  Supreme  Council  of  Kilkenny 
were  Henry  O'Neill  of  Kilbeg,  Phelim  O'Neill  of  Mor- 
ley,  and^  Turlough  of  Ardgonnel.  The  latter  was  bro- 
ther to  the  celebrated  Sir  Phelim  O'Neill,  and  was  in 
Cromwell's  Act  of  1652,  together  with  Hugh  Buy 
O'Neill  and  Shane  Mac  Brian  O'Neill,  excepted  from 
pardon  for  life  and  estate.  In  1687,  Sir  Bryan 
O'Neill,  Baronet,  was  appointed  a  Justice  of  the 
King's  Bench  of  Ireland  ;  while,  on  the  Establishment 
at  the  close  of  this  year,  Richard,  Earl  of  Tyrone,  was 
placed  for  a  pension  of  £300  per  arm, 

•  MSS.  in  Trill.  CoU.  Dub.  (E.  3,  8.) 


560  Kixr,  James's  irisu  army  list. 

Besides  the  ubove  Colonel,  the  name  api^ars  upon 
this  Army  List  commanding  or  commissioned  in  seven 
other  Regiments.  In  the  Parliament  of  Dublin 
(1689)  sat  Constantine  O'Neill,  one  of  the  Represent- 
atives for  the  Borough  of  Ai-magh  ;  Colonel  Connuck 
O'NeUl  for  the  County  of  Antrim  ;  Tool  O'Neill,  of 
Dromnavilly,  County  of  Down,  for  the  borough  of 
Killileagh  ;  Colonel  Goixlon  O'Neill  for  the  County  of 
Tyrone  ;  Colonel  Arthur  of  Ballygawley,  for  the 
borougli  of  Dungannon,  and  Daniel  for  that  of 
Lisburn.  This  latter  individual  aftenvards  accompa- 
nied  King  James  to  France.  He  was  subsequently 
pardoned  by  King  William,  and  invited  by  that 
Monarch  to  return  and  ivsume  the  possession  of  his 
Irish  estates  ;  in  resiwct  to  which  Royal  indulgcince, 
he  procecMled  as  far  as  Calais  on  his  liomewanl  route, 
but  there,  under  seven*  visitations  of  sickness  from 
wounds  he  had  received  at  tlie  Battle  of  the  Boyne, 
lie  died.  King  William,  when  informed  of  his  death, 
bestowed  £20,000  on  his  daughter  and  only  child, 
as  a  provision  on  her  marriage  with  Hugh  O'Reilly  of 
Ballinlough.  In  1690,  SeptemlK^r  28th,  the  above 
Karl  of  Tyrone  was  one  of  the  Irish  parties,  who  nego- 
tiated the  terms  for  surrendering  Cork  to  Colonel 
Churehhill,*  afterwards  Duke  of  Marlborough.  In 
July,  1691,  one  Captain  Bryan  O'Neill,  with  most  of 
his  Company,  deserted  to  King  William,  and  took  the 
oath  of  fidelity  to  him  -/f  in  reference  to  which  notice 
it   may   be   remarked,  that  there   are   two  Bryans 

•  Story's  Iiiipnr.  Hist.,  pt.  1,  p.  1-12.  f  Wem,  pt.2,  p.  173. 


EARL  OF  TYRONE'S  INFANTRY.  561 

Captains  in  this  Army  List,  in  Colonel  Connuck 
O'Neill's  Infantry,  and  two  Lieutenants  in  the  Earl  of 
Antrim's.  The  Inquisitions  of  1691  on  attainders  of 
O'Neills  exceed  one  hundred,  on  foot  of  which  various 
claims  were  made  and  some  allowed  at  Chichester 
House  in  1700.  The  Earl,  who  commanded  this 
Regiment,  it  is  to  be  remarked,  did  not  sit  in  King 
James's  Parliament,  and  in  1697  (22nd  April)  he  ob- 
tained a  pardon  under  the  Great  Seal,  grounded  on 
his  allegations  with  proof,  that  after  the  surrender  of 
Waterford  he  had  come  over  to  King  William,  that  he 
was  a  Protestant,  never  outlawed  nor  indicted,  and  in 
point  of  fact  then  Governor  of  the  County  and  City  of 
Waterford.  O'Conor,  in  his  Military  Memoirs  of  the 
Irish,  gives  sundry  notices  of  the  O'Neill  Sept  and 
their  achievements  in  the  Brigades,  and  particularly 
mentions  (p.  399)  that  at  the  battle  of  Fontenoy  in 
1745,  *  Monsieur  O'Neill,'  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  Clare's 
Begiment,  was  killed. 


CAPTAIN  JOSEPH  COMERFORD. 

Ortelius's  map  locates  this  family  in  the  Barony  of 
Shelbume,  County  of  Wexford.  It  extended  also  into 
the  adjoining  Counties  of  Kilkenny  and  Waterford; 
in  the  Corporate  History  of  Waterford,  indeed,  its 
members  appear  frequently  on  the  Roll  of  Mayors 
from  1432  to  the  Revolution.  In  the  Reign  of  Queen 
Elizabeth,    Garret  or  Gerald  Comerford  was  one  of 

00 


562  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

the  Councellors  appointed  by  the  Lord  Deputy,  Sir 
Cliarles  Blount,  to  be  assistant  to  the  Lord  President 
of  Munster  in  the  discharge  of  his  arduous  duties  ;  his 
actings  in  whicli  trust  are  repeatedly  noticed  in  the 
Pacata  Hibernia.  He  ranked  as  second  Justice  of 
Munster,  and  was  in  1 G03  advanced  to  be  the  third 
Baron  of  the  Irish  Exchequer.  Pierce  Comerford, 
described  as  of  Mangin,  County  of  Wicklow,  is  the 
only  individual  of  the  name  who  appears  on  the  Roll 
of  the  1642  Attainders.  At  the  Supreme  Council  of 
the  Confederate  Catholics  (1646,  &c.),  Dr.  Patrick 
Comerford,  the  Roman  Catholic  Bishop  of  Waterford, 
sat  as  one  of  the  Spiritual  Peers,  while  Edward  Comer- 
ford  of  Callan  was  of  the  Commons.  On  this  Army 
liist,  besides  the  above  Captain  Joseph,  there  are  com- 
missioned, in  Colonel  Thomas  Butler's  Foot,  Michael 
Comerford  a  Lieutenant,  and  James  and  Garret 
Ensigns ;  and  in  Colonel  Dudley  Bagnall's,  John  Com- 
erford was  an  Ensign.  On  the  Attainders  of  1691 
are  four,  of  the  County  of  Kilkenny,  with  Thomas 
Comerford  of  Enniscorthy.  In  1709,  John  Comer- 
ford was  a  Colonel  in  the  Spanish  Brigade  ;*  and  in 
1747,  Lieutenant  Comerford,  of  Bulkeley's  Regiment, 
was  wounded  at  Lauffield. 


CAPTAINS  VALENTINE  AND  PEIRS  WALSH. 
This  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of 

*  O'Conor  8  Military  Memoirs,  p.  351. 


EARL  OF  TYRONE'S  INFANTRY.  563 

Edward  the  Third.  In  1587,  the  Queen,  by  letters 
under  the  Privy  Seal,  commanded  that  Nicholas 
Walsh,  who  had  been  Chief  Justice  of  Munster,  and 
was  then  Second  Justice  of  the  Bench  in  Dublin, 
should  be  sworn  of  Her  Majesty's  Privy  Council.  He 
was  subsequently  promoted  by  King  James  to  be 
Chief  Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas.  A  little  genea- 
logical manuscript  in  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  (F.  iii. 
27),  gives  some  links  of  the  pedigree  of  the  Walshes 
of  Killencargy,  County  of  Wicklow,  and  of  Kil- 
gobbin,  Carrickmines,  and  Shanganagh,  County  of 
Dublin,  for  many  generations.  Amongst  the  '  En- 
glished Irish,'  reported  in  the  time  of  James  the 
First  to  be  sojourning  after  the  siege  of  Kinsale 
in  the  King  of  Spain's  dominions,  were  "William 
Walsh,  Nicholas  *  Wise,'  Captain  Thomas  Preston, 
James  Gemon,  Walter  De  la  Hoyde,  (who  served 
the  ancient  Irish  in  the  last  war),  George  De  la 
Hoyde,  Captain  Bathe,  Thomas  Stanyhurst,  John 
Bathe,  Ac."  In  1599,  Sir  Nicholas  '  Welch'  was  one 
of  the  Councillors  appointed  by  the  Lord  Deputy  to 
be  assistant  on  the  President  of  Munster,  his  acts  in 
which  duty  are  detailed  in  the  Pacata  Hibemia.  In 
1605,  Sir  Oliver  Lambert,  Knight,  Privy  Councillor, 
had  a  grant  of  {inter  alia)  estates  of  Richard  and 
Oliver  *Walshe,'  in  the  King's  County,  both  of  whom, 
as  the  patent  alleges,  were  *  slain  in  rebellion  against 
Queen  Elizabeth.' 

There  were  of  Walshes  attainted  in  1642,  six  in  the 
County  of  Kildare,  five  in  Wicklow,  four  in  Dublin, 

00  2 


/>64  KINO  James's  irisii  army  list. 

and  one  in  Meath.  At  the  Kilkenny  Assembly  in 
1646,  Thomas  Walsh,  the  Roman  Catholic  Archbishop 
of  Dublin,  was  of  the  Spiritual  Peers,  while  Michael 
and  William  of  Park,  County  of  Wicklow,  with 
John  of  Ballybechaine,  and  John  of  Wallford,  were  of 
the  Commons.  An  inquisition,  tiiken  in  1617,  finds 
that  John  Walsh,  of  the  old  stock  at  Shanganagh, 
died  in  1671,  seised  in  tail-male  of  Kilturk,  'Connagh,' 
Cork,  and  Little  Bray  ;  that  he  held  same  directly 
under  the  King  by  military  service,  and  that  Edward 
Walsh  is  his  son  and  heir.  On  the  subsequent  death 
of  this  Edward  without  issue,  these  estates  passed  to 
his  brother,  in  whose  time  by  a  private  Act  of  the 
Irish  Parliament  (11th  Anne,  chap.  4)  the  Cork  or 
Corkagh  parcel  was  sold  for  the  payment  of  debts. 
Besides  the  above  two  Captains  in  this  Regiment, 
Robert  Walsh  was  a  Lieutenant  and  John  Walsh  an 
Ensign  ;  while  in  Lord  Galmoy's  Horse,  Lewis  and 
Oliver  Walsh  were  Cornets.  In  Colonel  Cormuck 
O'Neiirs  Infantry,  James  was  an  Ensign,  and  in 
Colonel  John  Grace's,  Robert  Walsh  was  a  Captain 
and  Adam  Walsh  an  Ensign.  This  Robert,  described 
as  '  of  Cloneshy,'  was  one  of  the  Representatives  of 
the  County  of  Kilkenny  in  the  Parliament  of  1689 
at  Dublin. 

Both  Captains  Valentine  and  Peirs  were  of  the  Sept 
distinguished  as  '  Walsh  of  the  Mountains.'  The 
former  was  attiiinted  in  1691,  described  as  of  Pil- 
town.  County  of  Waterford,  as  was  Piers  of  Guning, 
County  of  Kilkenny,  with  ten  others  in  the  latter 


EARL  OF  Tyrone's  infantry.  565 

County,  five  in  Wexford,  two  of  Wicklow,  and  two 
of  Dublin.  The  only  Walsh  estate,  on  which  a  claim 
was  made  at  Chichester  House,  was  that  of  Robert 
Walsh  in  the  County  of  Kilkenny,  whereon  Mary  his 
widow  claimed  the  fee  of  tithes  and  glebes  found  to 
be  forfeited  by  him,  but  which  she  alleged  were  hers 

under  the  will  of  Piers  Walsh,  her  father. Of  the 

Walshes  in  foreign  Brigades  and  service  see  fully 
OCaUagharis  Brigades^  vol.  1,  p.  180,  &c.  In 
1745,  12th  July,  a  merchant  of  Nantes,  of  the  name 
of  Walsh,  is  mentioned  by  Voltaire  (Siecle  Louis 
XIV. J  vol.  4,  p.  58)  as  the  son  of  an  Irishman 
attached  to  the  house  of  Stuart ;  adding  that  he  was 
the  person  who  furnished  Prince  Charles-Edward  with 
a  frigate,  in  which  he  embarked  at  the  above  date 
'  for  the  Crown  of  Great  Britain.'  The  '  relics'  of 
Walsh's  Regiment,  when  stationed  at  Vannes  in  1792, 
and  the  names  of  the  respective  officers,  are  given  in 
the  Reminiscences  of  an  Emigrant  Milesian,  (v.  2, 
pp.  175-6.) 


CAPTAIN  FRANCIS  CRUISE. 

Of  this  Anglo-Norman  family,  which  had,  on  the  con- 
quest of  England,  settled  in  Cornwall,  a  branch  came 
to  Ireland  with  the  invaders  of  Henry  the  Second's 
time,  and  obtained  grants,  from  the  successful  'Strong- 
bow'  and  Prince  John,  of  various  estates  in  the 
Counties  of  Dublin  and  Meath  :  those  in  the  former 


566  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

included  the  glen  of  the  Naul,  on  the  boundary  of 
each.     At  its  head  a  member  of  this  family  erected 
that  castle  whose  ruins  feintly  testify  its  former  im- 
portance, and  in  which  his  descendants  resided  down 
to  the  time  of  Charles  the  First.     Stephen  'de  Crues' 
was  the  individual  seised  of  the  Naul  in  the  time  of 
Richard  the  First  and  King  John.     His  lineal  descen- 
dant, Hugh  'de  Crues,*  married  the  heiress  of  Sir 
Henry   Tyrrell,   to   whom   the   Chief  Serjeantcy  of 
Leinster  was  granted  by  Prince  John  ;  and  by  this 
marriage,  according  to  the  construction  of  the  law  at 
that  period,   Tyrrel's   estates,   with   the  serjeantcy, 
passed  to  this  Hugh,  and  his  filling  such  office  at  the 
time  is  proved  by  a  roll  in  the  Tower  of  London. 
His  grandson,   Nicholas  '  de  Cruys,'  had  licence  to 
enfeoflF  his  son  Robert  in  the  estates  and  serjeantcy; 
soon  after  which,  Robert  dying,  King  Edward  the 
Second,  in  1320,  committed  to  the  Royal  Escheator 
the  custody  of  his  estates,  &c.,  to  hold  during  the 
minority  of  his  son  Richard.     In  1346,  Thomas,  son 
of  a  Peter  de  Cruys,   was  commissioned,  with  the 
Baron  of  Slane  and  others,  to  parley  with  the  disaffect- 
ed Irish  of  Meath,  and  induce  them  to  allegiance. 
Walter  de  Cruys  was  about  the  same  time  confirmed 
by  Edward  the  Third  in  his  seisin  of  the  manor  of 
Balrothery,  which  his  father  had  held  before  him  ; 
while  another  branch  of  the  family  was  then  seised  of 
the  manor  of  Stillorgan,  at  the  south  side  of  the  Lif- 
foy.     By  an  inquisition  taken  in  1356,  it  was  found 
tliat  tlie  King's  Escheator,  acting  on  the  aforesaid 


EAKL  OF  TYRONE'S  LNFANTRY.  567 

authority  of  1320,  had  seised  upon  sundry  lands 
which  were  held  by  military  service  of  De  Cruys's 
manor  of  the  Naul ;  that  Richard,  then  a  minor, 
having  subsequently  attained  age  acquired  same,  and 
died  seised  thereof  in  1338,  leaving  John  de  Cruys  his 
heir,  who  died  in  1359,  similarly  seised  of  the  manor 
of  the  Naul,  as  well  as  of  other  lands  in  Cruisetown 
and  Altemash,  which  last  he  held  of  the  Lady  Eliza- 
beth de  Burgo,  as  of  her  manor  of  Kells.  Margaret, 
the  only  child  and  heiress  of  this  John,  had  previously 
married  Simon  Cruise,  and  thus  kept  the  estates,  &c. 
in  the  same  name  and  family.  That  Simon  acquired 
the  serjeantcy  also,  and  acted  in  discharge  of  its  duties, 
is  proved  by  a  record  of  1376  in  the  office  of  the 
Chief  Remembrancer,  Dublin.  In  that  year  a  John 
Cruys,  who  appears  to  have  been  a  son  of  this  Simon, 
was  elected  a  confidential  envoy  to  England,  to  com- 
municate with  the  government  there  on  the  state  of 
Ireland,  and  he  received  £20  as  remuneration  for  his 
expenses  of  travel  and  sojourn.  In  1380,  he  was 
summoned  to  a  Parliament  convened  to  meet  at 
Baltinglas ;  in  two  years  after  was  appointed  one  of 
the  guardians  of  the  Peace  for  the  Counties  of  Dublin 
and  Meath  ;  in  1385,  filled  the  office  of  Justice  in 
Eyre,  and  in  the  same  year  had  a  treasury  liberate 
for  his  expenses  and  services  in  a  military  expedition 
against  the  OTooles  and  other  'Irish  enemies,'  on 
which  occasion  he  was  badly  wounded.  In  1386, 
the  King's  Escheator  was  ordered  to  give  possession 
of  the  manors  of  Clonmore  and  Mansfieldstown  in  the 


568  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

County  of  Louth  to  (as  it  would  seem)  this  John  and 
Matilda  his  wife.  In  the  following  year,  he  and 
John  D'Arcy,  then  Sheriff  of  Meath,  had  similar 
commission  with  that  which  was  given  to  Thomas 
de  Cruys  in  1346. 

In  1394,  John  Cruys  was  summoned  to  a  great 
council,  and  in  1399,  by  a  writ  reciting  that,  whereas 
John  Cruys,  *chevaler,'  held  160  acres  at  Thomcastle 
(Booterstown  near  Dublin),  the  rent  of  which  to  the 
Crown  he  was  unable  to  discharge,  by  reason  of  the 
premises  being  subject  to  be  burned  and  laid  waste 
by  adjoining  Irish  enemies  of  the  mountains  ;  it  was 
thereupon  directed  that  he  should  be  exempted  from 
any  such  payments  during  his  life.  An  inquisition 
of  1407  finds  that  this  John  had  died  seised,  in  his 
own  right  and  in  right  of  his  wife,  of  the  manors  of 
Merrion,  Thorncastle,  Killsallaghan,  Rathmore,  Do- 
naghpatrick  and  Ballgyhen,  with  portions  of  those  of 
Duleek,  Dundalk,  and  Kenlis,  of  which  Thomas,  who 
was  their  son  and  heir,  became  afterwards  possessed  ; 
while  a  James  Cruys,  who  married  Catherine  Plunket, 
had  livery  from  the  Crown  of  the  inheritance  of  the 
Naul,  with  the  office  of  Chief  Serjeant*  It  is  of  record 
that,  on  some  untrue  suggestions  to  the  Crown,  this 
office  was  afterwards  conferred  on  a  Walter  Groulding, 
who  and  his  descendants  for  four  generations  usurped 
the  office,  until  in  the  time  of  Edward  the  Sixth 
(1552)  Walter,  described  as  the  descendant  and  heir 
of  the  above  James  Cruys,  proceeded  to  recover  the 

*  Lynches  Feudal  Dignities,  pp.  104,  &c. 


EARL  OF  TYBONE'S  INFANTRY.  569 

office  before  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Privy  Council, 
when,  "after  the  production  and  examination  of  divers 
and  several  ancient  and  authentic  writings,  deeds, 
licences,  and  inquisitions  ;  and,  after  allowing  a  long 
time  to  the  counsel  for  the  Crown,  to  show  any  title 
in  the  King,  when  passing  the  patent  to  Goulding, 
it  was  decreed  and  adjudged  that  the  said  Walter 
Cruys's  ancestors  were  all,  under  the  grant  from  King 
John,  lineally  seised  and  possessed  of  said  office,  and 
that  said  Walter  should  be  immediately  restored  to 
the  possession  thereof,  and  enjoy  same  according  to 
said  grant  of  King  John.  In  1610,  it  was  found  on 
inquisition  that  Christopher,  son  and  heir  of  Walter 
de  Cruys,  was  seised  of  the  manors  of  Naul,  Grallagh, 
and  Cruisetown  in  the  Counties  of  Dublin  and  Meath, 
and  also  in  his  demesne  as  in  fee  of  the  Chief  Ser- 
jeantcy  of  the  County  of  Dublin^  "which  office  was 
granted  to  his  ancestor  by  the  most  serene  Prince 
John,  formerly  King  of  England,  to  be  held  from  him 
and  his  successors  by  military  service ;  that  said  Chris- 
topher died  in  that  year  (1610),  and  was  succeeded 
by  his  grandson  and  heir,  Christopher  Cruise,  who 
continued  seised  thereof  to  the  time  of  the  civil  war, 
when  he  forfeited  on  attainder  the  manor  of  the 
Naul  and  other  lands  in  the  County  of  Dublin,  with 
the  Castle  and  500  acres,  which  were  granted  to 
Charles,  Viscount  Fitz-Harding.*  With  him  were 
then  attainted  Walter  Cruise  of  Cruisetown,  County  of 
Meath,  and  Peter  Cruise  of  the  Naul.      The  lat- 

*  D'Alton's  Hist.  County  of  Dublin,  pp.  487  &  494. 


570  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

ter  was  transplanted,  on  a  Connaught  debenture,  into 
that  Province,  and  from  him  are  the  western  Cruises 
principally  descended.  Their  previous  existence,  how- 
ever, in  Clare  is  shown  by  an  annal  of  the  Four  Mas- 
ters at  1584,  where  is  stated  that,  when  Sir  John 
Perrot  was  on  his  memorable  circuit,  to  persuade  or 
compel  the  gentry  of  that  devoted  Province  to  com- 
pound for  titles  to  their  estates,  "he  was  waited  upon 
at  Quin  Abbey  (in  Clare),   where  he  stopped,   by 

Cruise,  then  SheriflF  of  the  County."     In  five 

years  after  the  same  annalists  record  an  engagement 
between  the  Burkes  and  the  people  of  Inchiquin,  in 
which  "  Thomas,  the  son  of  Christopher  Cruise,  was 
slain."  In  1646,  Walter  Cruise  of  Arlonan  was  one 
of  the  Supreme  Council  at  Kilkenny.  In  1668,  a 
confirmatory  grant  of  lands  in  the  County  of  Louth 
to  Mary  and  John  Fowke  contained  a  saving  of  the 
right  of  a  Christopher  Cruise  to  a  mortgage  thereon. 
The  Attainders  of  1691  broke  the  fortunes  of  many 
of  the  name,  and  in  particular  of  Patrick  Cruise  of 
Taberath,  County  of  Meath,  and  Patrick  Cruise  of 
Dublin,  M.D.;  from  whom,  as  well  as  from  the  above- 
mentioned  Walter  of  Cruisetown,  are  descended  the 
Cruises  of  Rahood,  Belgart,  Drynam,  &c.,  in  short  all 
the  Cruises  of  Leinster,  as  well  as  some  in  Munster. 
Drynam  had  been  the  estate  of  the  Russells,  but,  by 
the  marriage  of  Andrew  Cruise  of  the  old  Naid  line 
with  Bridget,  the  daughter  and  heiress  of  Bartholo- 
mew Russell,  in  1771,  ante  p.  436.  William  Robert 
Russell  Cruise,  the  great  grandson  of  that  marriage, 
now  represents  those  two  lines. 


EARL  OF  TYRONE'S  INFANTRY.  571 

CAPTAIN  DOMINICK  FERRITER. 

This  family  is  of  Irish  record  from  the  time  of 
Edward  the  Third.  "  It  was,**  writes  the  Reverend 
Mr.  Rowan  to  the  compiler  of  these  papers,  "  a  family 
established  at  Dingle  in  the  County  of  Kerry,  and 
conspicuous  in  the  troubles  of  1641,  &c.,  when  a 
member,  Piers  Ferriter,  was  taken  prisoner  and  exe- 
cuted by  Cromwell's  commander.  Brigadier  Neilson, 
at  Kilkenny."  Besides  this  officer,  Edmund  Ferriter 
stands  upon  the  Army  List  a  Captain  in  Colonel 
Nicholas  Browne's  Infantry  ;  neither  name,  however, 
appears  on  the  subsequent  Attainders,  but  only  those 
of  Maurice  Ferriter  of  Ballynalug,  and  Peter  Ferriter 
of  Ballyoughtcr  in  the  County  of  Kerry. 


CAPTAIN  NICHOLAS  STAFFORD. 

This  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  earliest 
period  after  the  English  Invasion.  Within  the  scope 
of  the  present  Illustrations,  it  is  only  allowable  to 
mention  that  in  1599  Francis  Stafford  was  one  of  the 
Counsellors  appointed  to  be  assistant  to  the  Lord 
President  of  Munster,  in  conducting  the  government 
of  that  disturbed  Province  ;  while  a  Captain  William 
StaflTord,  with  one  hundred  Infantry,  and  a  Lieutenant 
Thomas,  were  distinguished  there  in  that  service,  as 
shown  in  the  ^Facata  Hibemia.'  In  1600,  Dr. 
Nicholas  Stafford  was  appointed  by  the  Queen,  Bishop 


572  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

of  Ferns,  in  the  enjoyment  of  which  See  he  died 
in  1604.  In  1606,  King  James  the  First  granted 
to  William  Barker  the  wardship  and  marriage  of 
Nicholas  StaflFord,  son  and  heir  of  Richard  Stafford  of 
Ballinakaherne,  County  of  Wexford,  deceased  ;  for  a 
fine  of  £17  16s.  8d.  and  an  annual  rent  to  the  same 
amount,  with  the  usual  allowance  for  his  maintenance 
and  education  in  Trinity  College.*  A  manuscript 
book  of  obits  in  that  College  supplies  links  of  the 
pedigree  and  descendants  of  this  Nicholas  for  four 
generations.  At  the  Supreme  Council  of  Kilkenny  in 
1646,  Richard  Fitz-Richard  Stafford  (evidently  of  the 
Ballinakaherne  line)  was  one  of  the  attending  Con- 
federate Catholics.  Of  Dean  Alexius  Stafford,  a 
secular  priest  of  this  County,  who  celebrated  mass  in 
Christ  Church  daily  during  King  James's  sojourn  in 
Dublin,  mention  has  been  made  before  {ante  p.  415). 
He  was  one  of  the  Representatives  of  the  Borough  of 
Bannow  in  the  Parliament  of  1689,  as  was  the  above 
Captain  Nicholas  Stafford  of  that  of  Fethard  in  Wex- 
ford.    After  James's  flight  to  France, Stafford, 

Esq.  was  one  of  his  Court  at  St.  Germains.  The 
Attainders  of  1691  include  this  Nicholas,  described  as 
of  Fethard  and  Kilcoran,  County  of  Wexford,  with  six 
others  of  the  name. 


LIEUTENANT  JOHN  WINSTON. 

He  is  described,  in  the  inquisition  on  his  attainder, 

*  Patent  Holl,  3  James  I.  in  Cane.  Hib. 


EARL  OF  TYRONE'S  INFANTRY.  573 

as  *of  Ballycashin,  County  of  Waterford,  and  his  name 
does  appear  a  corruption  from  Wynchedon  or  de 
Wynchedown.  Eichard  de  Wyncedoun  is  on  Irish 
records  of  the  time  of  Edward  the  Second.  In  1345, 
John  Wynchedon  was  one  of  three  leading  men 
assigned  to  treat  on  peace  with  Mc  Dermot  and  his 
men,  and  to  reclaim  them  to  friendship  ;*  the  name 
was  then  also  established  in  Cork.  In  1377,  Eichard 
Wynchedon  was  farmer  of  the  Eoyal  lands  in  that 
County.f  He  was  afterwards  one  of  the  Justices  in 
Eyre  in  Munster,  while  John  Wynchedon  was  ap- 
pointed to  several  offices  of  trust  in  the  same  province, 
and  was  also  one  of  the  Justices  in  Eyre  there  in  1407. 


LIEUTENANT  JOHN  'RONAN.' 

The  O'Eonans  or  Eonaynes  were  a  Sept  long  settled 
in  Munster  and  parts  of  Leinster.  At  the  time  of 
the  English  Invasion,  two  of  the  name  presided  over 
Irish  Bishoprics ;  Einad  O'Eonan  over  Glendaloch, 
and  Mel-Brendan  O'Eonan  over  Kerry  (i.  e.  Ardfert). 
The  Attainders  of  1642  present  only  the  name  of 
Owen  CEonayne  of  Ballybeg,  County  of  Kildare  ; 
while  in  1646,  Francis  O'Eonayne  of  Kilkenny  was 
one  of  the  Confederate  Catholics  there  assembled. 
The  Attainders  of  1691  include  the  above  Lieutenant, 
described  as  of  Hilltown,  County  of  Waterford,  with 

♦  Rot.  Pat.  19  &  20,  Edw.  8,  in  Cane.  Hib. 
t  Rot.  Glaus.  51,  Edw.  3  in  Cane.  Hib. 


574  KING  James's  misn  army  list. 

nine  other  Ronanynes.  At  the  Court  of  Claims  in 
1700,  William  Ronayne  claimed  and  was  allowed  the 
fee  of  Youghal  and  County  of  Cork  estates,  which  had 
been  forfeited  by  James  Ronayne  of  Ronayne's  Court; 
and  at  same  time  were  allowed  claims  of  Hamilton 
Montgomery  and  Grace,  otherwise  Ronayne,  his  wife, 
and  those  of  Anstace,  Elizabeth,  and  Margaret  Ronayne, 
minors,  by  their  guardians,  as  charged  on  said  estates. 
James  Ronayne  also  forfeited  plots  and  tenements 
in  Kinsale.  In  certain  forfeitures  of  Nicholas  of 
Youghal,  Amos  Strettell  and  Edward  Webb,  on  behalf 
of  themselves  and  all  the  Quakers  of  Ireland,  claimed 
a  remainder  for  years. 


ENSIGN  PETER  AYLWARD. 

Tuts  family  name  is  recorded  on  the  Irish  Rolls  from 
the  time  of  Edward  the  Second  ;  and  is  located  on 
Ortelius's  map  in  the  Barony  of  Upper-third,  County 
of  Waterford.  In  1566  and  1577,  Peter  Aylward 
was  Mayor  of  Waterford,  as  was  Nicholas  Aylward  in 
1592,  Sir  Peter  Aylward  in  1627,  and  John  Aylward 
in  1650.  In  1602,  the  Lord  Deputy,  on  his  return 
from  Munster,  after  the  successful  termination  of  the 
war  in  that  Province,  calling  at  Waterford,  knighted 
there  Richard  Aylward  and  Edward  Gough,  "two 
ancient  and  well  deserving  citizens.***  A  confirma- 
tory patent  of  1666  to  Francis  Jones  affected  to  con- 

*  Pacata  Ilibemia,  p.  503. 


EARL  OF  TYRONE'S  INFANTRY.  575 

vey  to  him  certain  lands  in  Wexford,  the  estate  of 
Richard  Aylward ;  but  for  which  he,  Aylward,  had 
three  years  previously  obtained  a  decree  of  innocence. 
The  patent  therefore  saved  his  right,  but  left  him  to 
his  remedy  in  law.  The  attainder  of  the  above  officer 
describes  him  as  '  Pierse'  Aylward  of  Aylwardstown, 
County  of  Kilkenny,  and  of  Faithlegg,  County  of 
Waterford. 


ENSIGN  FEANCIS  GARVAN. 

According  to  ancient  Irish  genealogists,  the  '  O'Gar- 
veys'  (for  to  this  Sept  the  present  officer,  it  is  consi- 
dered, belonged)  were  a  very  ancient  family  located  in 
that  territory  of  '  Craobh  Ruadh^  '  the  red  branch,' 
which  the  early  native  poetry,  and  even  the  modern 
Arch-poet  of  Ireland  have  so  celebrated.  It  comprised 
much  of  the  present  Counties  of  Armagh  and  Down, 
and  its  principal  chiefs  were,  with  the  O'Garveys,  the 
O'Dunlevy,  O'Egan,  O'Lynch,  0*Moran,0'Hanvey,&c.; 
while  O'Heerin,  in  his  Topography,  locates  a  branch  of 
this  family  in  the  Barony  of  Ballaghkeen,  County  of 
Wexford.  In  1589,  Dr.  John  Garvey  was,  by  Queen 
Elizabeth,  promoted  from  the  See  of  Kilmore  to  the 
Primacy  of  Armagh.  The  Attainders  of  1642  name 
six  Garveys;  those  of  1691  present  five. 


576  KING  James's  ieish  army  list. 

REGIMENTS    OF    INFANTRY. 

COLONEL  RICHARD   NUGENT. 

Captains.                         LieutemmU,                          Bmgnt. 
Richard  Nugent,  

ColoneL 

Lieateiuuit-Colonel 

Major. 
Fergoa  Fairell. 
Patrick  MLnett. 
George  Dowdall. 
Matthew  Nugent. 


CAPTAIN  PATRICK  MISSETT. 

The  Inquisitions  of  1691  describe  him  as  of  Plucks- 
town,  County  of  Meath,  with  his  relative  James  Mis- 
sett  of  the  same  locality ;  they  also  name  Bartholomew 
of  Naas,  and  Robert  of  Robertstown,  County  of 
Kildare  ;  the  former  a  Lieutenant,  and  the  latter  an 
Ensign  in  Sir  Maurice  Eustace's  Regiment  of 
Infantry.  Of  these  Kildare  Missetts  the  Attainders 
of  1642  record  three,  viz.,  James  and  Laurence 
Missett  of  Castlemartin,  and  Grcorge  of  Kilcullen- 
Bridge,  in  that  County. 


LORD  GORMANSTON'S  INFANTRY.  577 

REGIMENTS   OF    INFANTRY. 

JENICO   PRESTON,   LORD   VISCOUNT   GORMANSTON. 

CaptaiHi.  Ideuienanti.  Entigns. 

Jcnioo  Preston,  «_ 

Colonel. 
[Richftrd  EostaeeJ  -- 

Lieutenant- Colonel. 

Major. 
Olirer  Fitzgerald.  Gerald  Fitsgerald.  Thomas  Fitigerald. 


COLONEL    JENICO     PRESTON,    LORD 
GORMANSTON. 

This  name  is  found  on  Irish  record  from  the  time  of 
Edward  the  Second.  In  1342,  Robert  de  Preston 
was  appointed  one  of  the  Justices  of  the  Common 
Pleas  in  Ireland,  and  in  1358  was  advanced  to  be 
Chief  of  that  Court.  In  the  previous  year,  it  was 
"  agreed  and  granted  by  the  Lord  Justice,  Chancellor 
and  Privy  Council  at  Dublin,  that  Robert  de  Preston 
(his  son),  then  the  King^s  Sergeant  (1357),  should,  for 
tlie  King's  benefit  and  profit,  accompany  the  Lord 
Justice  towards  the  parts  of  Leinster  and  Munster,  to 
plead  and  defend  the  pleas  of  the  Crown,  and  should 
receive  four  shillings  per  day  wages,  for  himself  and 
a  man  and  horse  at  arms."  This  individual  was 
knighted  in  1361  by  Lionel,  Duke  of  Clarence,  and 

pp 


578  KING  James's  irish  a&mt  ust. 

obtained  a  grant  in  fee  of  the  manor  of  Gormanston. 
He  was  likewise  Lord  of  Preston  in  Lancashire,  and 
filled  the  office  of  High  Chancellor  of  Ireland.  His 
great  grandson,  another  Sir  Robert  Preston,  was  con- 
stituted Lord  Deputy  there  in  1478,  and  in  the  same 
year  was  elevated  to  the  Peerage  by  the  title  of 
Viscount  Gormanston.  His  son.  Sir  William  Preston, 
the  second  Viscount,  was  Lord  Justice  of  Ireland  in 
1515.  On  the  breaking  out  of  the  civil  war  of 
1641,  Nicholas,  then  the  Viscount  Gormanston,  caused 
the  resident  Noblemen  and  Gentry  of  the  County  of 
Meath  to  assemble  on  the  Hill  of  Crofty,  near 
Gormanston.  The  Lords  Fingal,  Slane,  Louth, 
Dunsany,  Trimleston  and  Netterville,  with  upwards  of 
1,000  of  the  leading  gentry,  responded  to  his  invita- 
tion ;  and  here,  according  to  a  preconcerted  arrange- 
ment, they  were  met  by  Roger  Moore  and  the  other 
leaders  of  the  movement,  attended  by  a  detachment  of 
their  forces.*  He  was  accordingly  in  the  following 
year  attainted,  with  Robert  Preston  also  described  as 

of  Gormanston, Preston  of  Rogerstown,  County 

of  Meath,  James  of  Grangemore,  and  Richard  of  Kil- 
kelan,  County  of  Kildare.  The  Assembly  of  the  Con- 
federate Catholics  at  Kilkenny  in  1646  was  attended 
by  three  members  of  this  House,  Thomas,  James, 
and  Robert  Preston  of  Gormanston.  The  former, 
styled  Colonel  Thomas,  was,  by  Cromwell's  Act  of 
1652,  excepted  from  pardon  for  life  and  estate, 
together  with  Nicholas,  Viscount  Gormanston. 

♦  D'Alton's  History  of  Drogheda,  v.  2,  p.  457. 


LORD  GORMANSTON'S  INFANTRY.  579 

In  February,  1685-6,  Lords  Gormanston  and 
Ikerrin,  on  behalf  of  themselves  and  several  other 
Lords  and  Gentlemen,  petitioned  for  reversals  of  their 
fathers'  outlawries  imposed  on  account  of  the  late 
civil  war.  "Several  of  the  petitioners,"  wrote  the 
Earl  of  Clarendon  to  the  Earl  of  Sunderland,  "  have 
served  the  King  very  well  since,  and,  by  the  late 
King's  favor,  have  been  advanced  to  hope  titles  and  be 
restored  to  their  estates ;  and  certainly  they  (as  many 
as  are  alive  at  least)  ought  to  be  restored  in  blood  as 
well  as  to  their  estates.  The  children  of  many  of 
them  are  in  his  Majesty's  service,  and  therefore  may 
deserve  to  partake  so  much  farther  of  his  Majesty's 
favor  ;  but  the  best  way  of  doing  it  will  be  the  ques- 
tion, for  it  is  a  case  of  greater  consequence  than  may 
at  first  appear."  *  The  King  subsequently  assented 
to  Lords  Gormanston  and  Ikerrin  bringing  writs  of 
error  to  reverse  their  fathers'  outlawries,  and  directed 
that  the  cases  of  others  should  be  considered  at 
Council,!  while  Lord  Gormanston  was  himself  at  the 
same  time  made  a  Privy  Councillor.  When,  however, 
the  intentions  of  making  such  applications  transpired, 
caveats  were  immediately  entered  against  granting 
any  such  writs  of  reversal  ;  the  opposition  naturally 
arising  from  the  persons  who,  under  the  Acts  of  Settle- 
ment, were  in  actual  and  for  some  time  recognised 
possession  of  lands,  the  ancient  property  of  those 
Lords,  &C.J     In  November,  1688,  previous  to  King 

*  Singer's  Correspondence  of  Lord  Clarendon,  v.  1,  p.  267. 
t  Idem,  p.  399.  J  Idem,  p.  487. 

PP2 


580  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

James's  abdication,  a  Lord  Preston  was  his  Secretary 
of  State  ;  and  in  the  January  following,  after  that 
Monarch's  flight,  this  Nobleman  received  a  letter  from 
him,  which  led  to  subsequent  suspicions  of  his  being 
engaged  with  Lord  Clarendon  and  others  in  a  conspi- 
racy for  a  counter-revolution  in  favour  of  James,  for 
which  he  was  afterwards  arraigned,  tried,  and 
condemned.* 

The  noble  Colonel  of  this  Kegiment  sat  in  the  Par- 
liament of  Dublin,  while  another  Jenico  Preston  was 
a  Lieutenant  in  the  Earl  of  Tyrone's  Infantry. 
When  King  James  meditated  advancing  towards 
Dundalk,  soon  after  his  arrival  in  Dublin,  "  a  brigade 
of  Guards,  consisting  of  two  battalions,  together  with 
Gormanston's  and  Creagh's  Regiments,  each  of  which 
made  a  good  battalion,  came  to  the  camp  about  the 
Bridge  of  Affane  by  eleven  o'clock  at  night,  and  the 
rest  next  morning,  before  noon.f  This  Regiment, 
which  was  here  so  incomplete,  is  reported  as  compris- 
ing, after  the  battle  of  the  Boyne,  thirteen  companies, 
a  total  of  650  men.J  In  1691,  this  Lord  was 
attainted  on  five  Inquisitions.  At  the  Court  of 
Claims  in  1700,  Anthony  Preston,  *  called  Lord 
Viscount  Gormanston,'  and  Mary  his  wife,  claimed 
and  were  allowed  the  benefit  of  a  trust  term  for  500 
years,  created  to  secure  a  charge  of  £3,000  for  said 


•  Singer's  Correspondence  of  Lord  Clarendon,  v.  2,  pp.  211, 
251,  319,  n.  and  331. 

t  Clarke's  Mem.  of  James  II.,  v.  2,  p.  379. 
t  Singer's  Correspondence,  v.  2,  p.  514. 


LORD  GORMANSTON'S  INFANTRY.  581 

Mary,  and  a  remainder  in  tail  for  Anthony,  off  Lord 
Gormanston's  forfeited  estates.  A  Nicholas  Preston 
also  claimed  and  was  allowed  a  remainder  for  his  life, 
as  was  Captain  Robert  Preston  a  remainder  in  tail, 
expectant  upon  several  other  remainders  in  being,  as 
attaching  to  said  estates  :  while  James  Butler,  Esq., 
and  Margaret,  Lady  Viscountess  Gormanston,  his 
wife,  claimed  in  her  right  an  annuity  of  £500  per 
annunij  with  an  arrear  of  £3,400  as  due  thereoff. 


[LIEUTENANT-COLONEL  RICHARD 
EUSTACE]. 

This  officer  does  not  appear  on  the  present  Army  List, 
the  appointment  having  been  made  subsequent  to  its 
issue.  The  name  is  here  inserted  from  Dr.  King's 
Appendix.  He  was  of  Barretstown  in  the  County  of 
Dublin. 


582 


KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 


REGIMENTS    OF    INFANTRY. 


COLONEL   HENRY   DILLON. 


Captaint. 

The  Colonel. 
Walter  Burke, 

Lieutenant  -Colonel . 
John  Morgan, 

Major. 
Luke  Dillon. 
Theobald  Dillon. 
Thomas  Dalj. 
Edward  Fitzgerald. 
Hugh  O'Donnell. 
Edmund  Rejnolds. 
William  Bourke. 
Lucas  Powell. 
Tliomas  Dillon. 
James  Lallj. 
Patrick  M^Gawlej. 
Robert  Dillon. 
Christopher  Dillon. 
George  Browne. 
Walter  Blake. 
William  Brabazon. 
Hugh  M*Dermott. 
John  D*Alton. 
Terence  M*Donough. 
John  Dillon. 
Robert  Fitzgerald. 
John  D* Alton. 


LieutenanU. 

Hubert  Dillon. 
Paul  Rutledge. 


Francis  Martin. 
Bryan  O'Connor. 
Peter  Daly. 
Murrongh  Melaghlin. 
Terence  Sweeny. 
Morgan  Reynolds. 
Patrick  Bourke. 
Alexander  Plnnket. 
Thomas  Dillon. 
GeraU  IjJIy. 
Edmund  Tyrrell. 
Christopher  Dilk>n. 
Bartholomew  Dillon. 
Thady  Naughton. 
Valentine  Blake. 
Gilbert  Talbot 
Richard  Fitzgerald. 
Luke  Sheill. 
Thady  M*Donough. 
Miles  Bourk. 
Robert  Vox. 
Richard  D'Alton. 


Enngut, 

Edmund  Dillon. 
Tliomaa  Dolphin. 


Bryan  M'Dermott. 
Thomas  Dillon. 
John  Molloy. 
Redmond  Fitzgerald. 
Michael  Roorke. 
Ferdinaudo  Reynolds. 
Edmond  Daly. 
Edmund  Dowell. 
Christopher  Dillan. 
Thomas  Costello. 
Philip  M*GawIey. 
Phelim  Hart. 
Hubert  Farrell. 
RowUind  'Bourk.' 
Nicholas  Lynch. 
Miles  Laughlin. 
Michael  M'Dermott. 
Andrew  D* Alton. 
Cornelias  M'Donough. 
Richard  Dillon. 
Philip  Fox. 
John  D* Alton. 


COLONEL  HENRY  DILLON'S  INFANTRY.  583^ 

COLONEL  HENRY  DILLON. 

This  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of 
the  Invasion,  immediately  after  which  Sir  Henry 
Dillon,  styled  of  Drumrany,  had  from  King  John  large 
grants  over  that  portion  of  Western  Meath  and 
Annaly,  which  was  thence  called  the  Dillon's  Coun- 
try. His  descendants  were  Barons  of  Kilkenny  West, 
and  subsequently  ennobled  as  Earls  of  Eoscommon, 
Viscounts  Dillon  and  Mayo,  and  Barons  of  Clonbrock. 
In  the  sixteenth  century  the  name  of  Dillon  is  con- 
spicuous on  the  Roll  of  the  Judicial  Officers  of  Ireland. 
In  1532,  Sir  Bartholomew  Dillon  was  appointed  Chief 
Justice  of  the  King's  Bench.  In  1554,  Robert  Dillon, 
of  Newtown  near  Trim  was  named  a  Justice  of  the 
Queen's  Bench,  and  advanced  in  1559  to  the  Chief 
Justiceship  of  the  Common  Pleas.  In  1560,  Richard 
Dillon  of  Proutestown,  County  of  Meath,  became  a 
Justice  of  the  Queen's  Bench.  In  1570,  Sir  Lucas 
Dillon  was  Chief  Baron  of  the  Exchequer.  In  1581, 
Robert  Dillon,  of  Riverston,  County  of  Westmeath,  was 
second  Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas.  In  1590,  Gerald 
Dillon  was  a  Justice  of  the  Queen's  Bench.  In  two 
years  after,  Thomas  Dillon,  theretofore  Chief  Justice 
of  Connaught,  was  appointed  a  Justice  of  the  Common 
Pleas  ;  and  in  1638,  Robert  Lord  Dillon  was  one  of 
the  Keepers  of  the  Great  Seal. 

From  the  above  Sir  Henry  Dillon  of  Drumrany 
sprang  Sir  Theobald,  the  founder  of  the  noble  house  of 
CosteHo-Gallen,  and  who  was  ennobled  in  1621-2  by 


584  KING  JAMES'S  IKISH  ARMY  LIST. 

the  title  of  Viscount  thereof.  His  successor,  Lucas, 
the  second  Viscount,  married  in  1625  the  Lady  Mary, 
daughter  of  the  Earl  of  Antrim,  by  whom  he  left  issue 
an  only  son,  Viscount  Lucas,  who  died  in  1629 ;  when, 
as  a  manuscript  obit  in  the  Trinity  College  MSS. 
records,  his  remains  were  conveyed  in  a  coach  from 
Kilnefaghny,  where  he  died,  to  Athlone,  in  whose 
abbey  he  was  buried.  His  only  son,  the  third  Vis- 
count, died  an  infant,  when  the  title  reverted  to  his 
uncle  Thomas,  the  fourth  Viscount,  who  was  attainted 
in  1 642,  and  driven  with  his  four  sons  into  exile  on 
the  continent ;  whence,  however,  he  returned  on  the 
Restoration,  and  was  restored  to  his  extensive  estates 
in  the  Counties  of  Mayo,  Roscommon,  and  Westmeath. 
He  was,  however,  attainted  in  1642,  with  nine  others 
of  his  name.  Of  the  Confederate  Catholics  assembled 
at  Kilkenny  in  1646,  &c.,  were  Edmund  and  John 
Dillon  of  Streamstown,  James  of  Clonegassel,  and 
Lucas  of  Lough-Glyn.  Those  excepted  fix)m  pardon 
for  life  and  estate  by  Cromwell's  Act  of  Denunciation 
were  James  Dillon  of  Roscommon,  and  James  Dillon, 
brother  to  the  Viscount  Dillon  of  Costello-Gallen. 
Theobald  Dillon  succeeded  in  1682  to  this  title  as  the 
seventh  Viscount ;  and  he  appears  on  this  Army  List 
(as  before)  the  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  Lord  Clan- 
ricarde's  Infentry.  He  raised  two  Regiments  for 
King  James's  service  ;  one, — ^that  under  present  con- 
sideration, — commanded  by  the  above  Colonel  Henry 
Dillon,  his  eldest  son  and  successor  in  the  title,  one  of 
the  Representatives  of  the  County  of  Westmeath  in  the 


COLONEL  HENRY  DILLON'S  INFANTRY.  585 

Parliament  of  1689,  and  afterwards  Governor  of 
Galway.  The  second  Regiment  so  raised  by  Viscount 
Theobald  was  put  under  the  command  of  his  second 
son,  the  Honorable  Arthur  Dillon,  and  was  that  after- 
wards assigned  to  form  part  of  MountcasheFs  Brigade. 
In  1686,  Dillon,  Lord  Roscommon,  together  with 
Tyrconnel,  the  Lords  Limerick  and  Gormanston, 
Justin  Mac  Cartie,  Richard  Hamilton,  Nicholas  Pur- 
cel,  and  others,  signed  a  proclamation  of  amnesty,  as 
emanating  from  the  Council  Chamber  ;  whereby  it 
was  declared  "  that  none  of  his  Majesty's  subjects  of 
this  Kingdom  shall  at  any  time  hereaft;er  be  sued, 
vexed,  or  disquieted,  either  by  indictment,  information 
or  otherwise,  in  his  Majesty's  name  or  at  his  suit,  for 
or  by  reason  of  any  treasonable,  seditious,  or  other 
words  whatsoever  spoken  or  that  may  be  pretended 
to  have  been  spoken  by  any  of  them,  before  the  de- 
cease of  his  late  Majesty  and  his  now  Majesty's 
accession  to  the  crown."*  [This  Lord  Roscommon, 
however,  it  is  to  be  remarked,  was,  at  his  own  request, 
presented  in  December,  1688,  by  the  Earl  of  Claren- 
don to  the  Prince  of  Orange  at  the  Prince  of  Den- 
mark's.!]  1^  December,   1686,  Lord  Clarendon 

wrote  to  the  Earl  of  Sunderland,  in  reference  to  fill- 
ing  a  vacancy  on  the  Irish  Bench,  and  those  com- 
petent to  fill  it : — "  There  are  Mr.  Garret  Dillon,  Mr. 
Nangle,  and  Mr.  Browne  ;  these  three  are  Roman 
Catholics.  Mr.  Nangle  I  know  has  no  mind  to  be  a 
Judge,  nor  I  believe  will  Mr.  Dillon,  he  being  in  very 

♦  Singers  Corresp.  vol.  1,  p.  519.        f  Wem,  v.  2,  p.  237. 


586  KLVG  JAMES'S  IRISH  ABMY  LIST. 

great  practice  ;  he  is  a  veiy  honest  gentleman,  and  it 
is  not  fit  for  me  to  omit  the  best  men.''*  This  latter 
was  raised  to  a  Serjeantcy  at  the  close  of  the  ensuing 
year.  On  the  establishment  of  1687-8,  Colonel  Gary 
Dillon,  Earl  of  Roscommon,  was  put  upon  the  Pension 
List  for  X200  per  annum.  He  sat  in  the  Parliament 
of  1689,  together  with  Theobald,  Viscount  Dillon,  of 
Costello-Gallen  :  while  of  the  Commons  were  John 
Dillon,  one  of  the  Representatives  of  the  Borough  of 
Roscommon  ;  this  Honorable  Colonel  Henry,  one  for 
those  of  Wcstmeath;  and  the  aforesaid  Prime-Serjeant 
Gerald  for  the  Borough  of  Mullingar.  It  may  be 
here  mentioned  that  the  above  Theobald,  Viscount 
Dillon,  married  Mary,  a  daughter  of  Sir  Henry  Tal- 
bot of  Templeogue,  County  of  Dublin,  and  was  after- 
wards attainted;  ])ut  the  outlawry  was  reversed  in 
favour  of  his  son  and  successor,  Henry,  the  eighth  Vis- 
count. Theobald's  second  son,  Arthur,  entered  the 
military   service   in    France   as  hereinafter  noticed. 

The  above  named    Prime-Serjeant  Dillon  was 

seised  in  fee  of  divers  estates  in  the  Counties  of  Mayo 
and  Roscommon,  which  he  devised  in  1690  to  Theo- 
bald, his  then  only  son,  in  tail-male,  with  remaindei*s ; 
but  he  was  himself  attainted.  He  followed  King 
James  to  France,  and  there  had  two  other  sons,  James 
and  Claude,  who  both  died  there,  intestate  and  un- 
married. Theobald,  the  eldest  son,  however,  survived 
his  father,  continuing  to  be  a  Catholic  until  his  death. 
In  1720,  he  married  Mary,  eldest  daughter  of  Richard 

♦  Singer  s  Corresp.  v.  2,  p.  122. 


COLONEL  HENRY  DILLON'S  INFANTRY.  587 

Malone,  by  whom  he  had  Nicholas,  his  only  son,  and 
three  daughters.  Theobald  lived  to  1763,  his  son 
Nicholas  being  then  with  him  in  France,  but  he,  on  his 
fether's  death,  which  occurred  in  that  year,  came 
over  and  conformed ;  in  four  years  after  which  he 
died  intestate,  unmarried,  and  without  issue.* 

Besides  the  fifteen  Dillons  in  this  Begiment,  Gerald 
Dillon  was  a  Captain  in  Lord  Abercorn's  Horse,  Lord 
Dillon  was  Lieutenant-Colonel  in  the  Earl  of  Clan- 
ricarde's  Infantry,  and,  in  Colonel  Oliver  O'Gara's, 
Charles  Dillon  was  an  Ensign.  In  July,  1691,  after 
the  battle  of  Aughrim,  Lord  Dillon  was  Governor  of 
Galway.  On  the  26th  of  that  month  he  capitulated, 
"marching  out,"  says  Story,  "with  the  Irish  garrison, 
having  not  above  2,300  men,  and  those  but  indiffer- 
ently armed  and  worse  clothed."  It  may  be  added 
that  a  Major  Dillon  was  one  of  the  hostages  given  by 
the  Governor  for  the  due  performance  of  the  Articles 
on  the  Irish  side.f  On  the  9th  of  September  follow- 
ing, Lough-Glyn  Castle,  commanded  by  Colonel  Theo- 
bald Dillon,  surrendered  to  the  summons  of  King 
William's  party.  In  the  memorable  month  of  October 
following,  Colonel  Garret  Dillon,  the  Prime-Serjeant, 
was  one  of  the-  executing  parties  to  the  civil  Articles 
of  Limerick.  The  Attainders  of  1691  record  the 
names  of  Henry,  Lucas,  and  Christopher  Dillon  of 
Killenfaghny ;  Gerald  and  Theobald  Dillon  of  Port- 
lick  ;  John  Dillon  of  Roscommon ;  Arthur,  Christopher, 
and  James  Dillon  of  Lough-Glyn ;  James  Dillon  of 

•  Pleadings  in  Chancery.       t  Hardinian's  Galway,  p.  162. 


588  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

Lissian ;  with  fifty-nine  other  Inquisitions  taken  on 
the  name.  At  the  Court  of  Claims  in  1700,  Red- 
mund  Dillon,  a  minor,  claimed  and  was  allowed  a 
remainder  in  tail,  after  the  decease  of  Margery  Dillon, 
in  various  lands  in  the  Baronies  of  Kilkenny  West 
and  Rathconrath,  forfeited  by  Pierce  Dillon  ;  while 
said  Margery  claimed  her  jointure  thereoff. Ed- 
mund Dillon  was  allowed  a  revereion  in  fee  in  Mayo 
lands,  forfeited  by  Christopher  Dillon  ;  off  which 
Margaret  Dillon,  his  widow,  sought  and  was  allowed 
her  dower ;  while  Richard  Bourk  and  Mary  Bourk, 
alias  Dillon,  also  obtained  a  certain  amount  of  jointure 

off  the  same  property. Garret  Dillon  was  allowed 

a  mortgage  on  Peter  Dillon's  forfeited  lands  of  Gran- 

aghan,  &c. Mary,  Catherine,  and  Elizabeth  Dillon, 

minors,  claimed  by  their  guai-dian  and  were  allowed 
portions  of  £150  each,  off  lands  in  the  Counties  of 
Dublin  and  Meath,  forfeited  by  Martin  Dillon.  Robert 
Dillon,  also  a  minor,  was  allowed  a  remainder  in 
special  tail  therein  :  while  Matthew  Dillon,  in  full 

age,  sought  and  obtained  a  similar  remainder. 

Gerald   Dillon  was    allowed  a  fee  in  Portlick,  &jc. 

County  of  Westmeath. Henry  Lord  Dillon  claimed 

the  fee  of  lands  of  the  County  of  Roscommon,  as  pur- 
chased for  his  benefit  by  John  Dillon,  the  forfeiting 
proprietor,  his  trustee ;  he  also  claimed  an  annuity,  a 
chiefry,  a  term  for  years,  and  an  estate  tail  in  several 
estates  in  Mayo,  Galway,  and  Westmeath,  forfeited  by 
Gerald  Dillon,  all  which  claims  were  allowed  ;  as  was 


COLONEL  HENRY  DILLON'S  INFANTRY.  589 

the  claim  of  a  Thomas  Dillon  to  a  tnist  estate  in  fee, 
held  by  said  attainted  Gerald  for  his  benefit. 

Arthur  Dillon,  before  mentioned  as  the  second  son 
of  Theobald,  the  seventh  Viscount  Dillon,  passed  into 
France  with  a  Regiment  raised  by  that  nobleman,  and 
consisting  of  two  battalions  of  1,600  men  and  two 
companies.  It  formed  part  of  Mountcashers  Brigade; 
its  Colonel  at  the  time  of  his  landing  being  only 
twenty  years  of  age ;  he  immediately,  however,  rose  to 
high  rank.  In  1691,  his  Regiment  was  distinguished 
at  Urgel.  In  1694,  a  battalion  of  his  served  in  Spain, 
in  Catalonia  under  Marshal  Noailles  ;  and  at  the 
siege  of  Rosas,  Dillon's  Grenadiers  carried  the  counter- 
scarp in  three  days,  after  which  the  place  surrendered. 
In  1696,  his  Regiment  continued  to  serv#in  Spain 
under  the  Duke  de  Vendome,  and  it  is  recorded  that 
at  the  little  village  of  Colfilla,  two  hundred  of  his 
Regiment  drove  back  4,000  Spaniards  in  two  well 
contested  assaults.  In  1697,  at  the  siege  of 
Barcelona^  his  Regiment  dislodged  the  Spaniards  from 
the  neighbouring  hills,  whence  they  had  been  enabled 
occasionally  to  throw  succours  into  the  place,  and  to 
incommode  the  besiegers.  This  successful  achieve- 
ment led  to  the  immediate  capture  of  the  City,  and 
the  termination  of  the  war  by  the  Treaty  of  Rjrswick.* 
Dillon's  Regiment  participated  with  those  of  Galmoy, 
Berwick,  and  Burke  in  the  campaigns  of  1701,  1702, 
and  1703.  In  the  latter  year,  in  the  Tyrol,  Dillon 
and  his  Irish^Forces  were  ordered  to  clear  the  moun- 

♦  ,.0'Conor's  MiHt.  Mem.  v.  1,  p.  230,  &c. 


r)yO  KINO  James's  iRisir  army  list. 

tains  on  tlie  nortliern  side  of  the  lake  of  Garda. 
"  The  passages  wei-e  eh^se<l  with  entrenchments  con- 
structed by  Austrian  engineers,  and  guarded  ])y  the 
jeasants  and  regular  militia.  On  viewing  them,  they 
Avere  found  impregnable  in  front,  while  in  the  rvve 
steep  precii)ices  lifted  their  summits  to  the  clouds, 
accessible  only  to  the  wild  animals  of  the  Alps. 
There  the  eagle  built  his  nest,  the  chamois  bounded 
from  cliff  to  clift^  and  the  bouquelin  gambolled  in  the 
Avantonness  of  his  freedom ;  but  man  had  never  been 
seen  on  these  summits.  The  Irish  scaled  them,  and, 
appearing  i  ii  the  rere  of  the  entn^nchments,  so  ten-i- 
fied  the  anned  ixiasantry  and  the  few  I'egular  troops 
who  weixi  with  them,  that  after  a  few  discharges  they 
abandoned  their  position  with  the  utmost  precipitation. 
Dillon  caused  sevenil  fires  to  blaze  on  the  summit  of 
tlie  mountain,  in  order  to  magnify  his  detachment  into  a 
large  body  in  the  eyes  of  the  garrison  and  inhabitants 
of  Kiva;  wheivui>on  the  citizens,  apprehensive  of  the 
horrors  of  the  city  being  taken  by  storm,  shut  their 
gjites  and  sent  a  deputation  to  Dillon  with  the  keys. 
He  entered  in  triumph,  and  his  detachment  was 
regaled  with  refreshments,  and  possessed  themselves 
of  several  pieces  of  cannon  and  considerable  ammu- 
nition."* Dillon's  was  not  less  distinguished  in  1704 
in  Piedmont  and  Savoy.  In  the  following  year  he 
w^as  made  a  Field-Marshal,  was  aj)pointed  Governor  of 
Toulon,  signalized  himself  in  Lombardy,  was  constitu- 
ted Knight  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  and  raised  to  the  r.ink 

*  O'Conor's  Milit.  Mom.  v.  1,  p.  278,  &c. 


COLONEL  HENRY  DILLON'S  INFANTRY.  591 

of  Lieutenant-General.  In  the  early  part  of  1707,  he 
served  in  Dauphin^.  He  married  Christiana,  the 
niece  (it  would  seem)  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  Dominick 
Sheldon,  before  alluded  to,  ante^  p.  68,  by  whom  he 
had  five  sons,  the  eldest  bom  in  1701.  The  third, 
James,  a  Knight  of  Malta,  succeeded  to  the  command 
of  this  Brigade,  and  fell  at  its  head  at  Fontenoy ;  when, 
in  consideration  of  his  services,  and  those  of  his  next 
brother,  Edward,  who  succeeded  him  in  the  command, 
the  King  of  France  was  induced  to  declare  that  the 
Colonelcy  of  that  Brigade  should  not  be  conferred  on 
any  person,  who  did  not  bear  the  name  of  Dillon  and 
was  recommended  by  the  family  in  whom  it  origi- 
nated. The  fiillest  particulars  of  this  Brigade  will  be 
found  in  OCaRagharis  Brigades  (vol.  1,  p.^01,  &c.). 
At  the  battle  of  Ypres  in  1745,  the  Colonel  of 
Dillon's  Eegiment,  the  Lieutenant-Colonel,  and  two 
Captains  were  killed,  while  four  Captains  and  five 
Lieutenants  were  wounded.  In  1747,  at  the  battle 
of  Lauffidd,  Colonel  Dillon,  *  nom  cdebre  dans  lea 
troupes  Irlandaises^  distinguished  himself  yet  more; 
his  Regiment  lost  there  three  Captains  and  four  Lieu- 
tenants, while  four  Captains  and  one  Lieutenant  were 
wounded.  [The  Muster  Roll  of  Dillon's  Regiment  at 
Lisle  in  1794,  and  the  last  gathering,  after  it  was  dis- 
banded, of  those  who  remained  in  France  at  Arras, 
are,  with  some  interesting  and  it  would  seem  authen- 
tic particulars,  given  in  the  Reminiscences  of  an  Emi- 
grant  Milesian^  v.  2,  p.  175]. 

•  Voltaire,  Siecle  Louis  XIV.,  v.  4,  p.  102. 


592  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

CAPTAIN  EDWARD  REYNOLDS. 

The  family  of  Reynolds  is  anglicised  from  Mac  Ranall, 
a    Sept    who   held    the    territory    of    Monter-Iolis, 
comprising  the   southern    part   of   the    County    of 
Leitrim,  with  the  northern  part  of  Longford,  including 
within  its  ambit  the  Castles  of  Rinn,  Lough-Scur,  and 
Leitrim,  and  the  religious  houses  of  Fenagh,  Lough- 
Scur,  and  Leitrim.     The  native  annals  record  their 
too  fi-equent  feuds  with  the  O'Riiarcs,  the  rival  tanists 
of  Brefney.     In  1535,  Mac  Ranall,   Archdeacon   of 
Kells,  was  deputed  by  the  unfortunate  Lord  Thomas 
Fitzgerald  (the  Silken  Lord),  to   solicit  aid  in   his 
insurrection,  from  the  Pope  and  the  Emperor  Charles 
the  Fifth.*     In  the  seventeenth  century,  Anne  Ware, 
a  younger  sister  of  Sir  James  Ware,  the  justly  vene- 
rated antiquarian,  was  married  to  Humphrey  Reynolds 
of  Lough-Scur.      In  1642, Reynolds  of  New- 
castle, County  of  Dublin,  was  attainted;  and  in  1646, 
Charles  Reynolds,  described  as  'of  Jamestown,'  sat 
amongst  the  Confederate  Catholics  in  Kilkenny.     In 
the  latter  year  O'Ruarc,  "  Chief  of  Brefhy,  with  his 
Sept,  Bernard  Mac  Ranall,  Captain  of  his  Sept,  Conrad 
Mac  Ranall  and  Cornelius  Mac  Ranall,  with  their  ad- 
herents, repudiated  the  political  settlement  then  pro- 
posed, commonly  called  'the  Peace   of  Ormonde.* "f 
The  Act  of  Explanation  (1665)  contained  a  proviso 
for  restoring  James  Reynolds  of  Lough-Scur  to  all  his 

♦  Clarke's  James  II.,  v.  1,  p.  176. 
t  De  Burgo,  Hib.  Dom.  p.  879. 


COLONEL  HENRY  DILLON'S  INFANTRY.  593 

lands,  and,  in  some  ensuing  confirmatory  patents  of 
1679,  there  are  savings  of  his  rights  in  the  County  of 
Roscommon,  as  also  of  those  of  Humphrey  Reynolds. 
The  above  Captain  Edward  Reynolds  was  one  of  the 
Representatives  of  the  County  of  Leitrim  in  the  Par- 
liament  of  1689  ;  and,  besides  him,  there  appear  in 
commission  upon  the  present  Army  List  in  this  Regi- 
ment Morgan  Reynolds  a  Lieutenant,  and  Ferdinando 
an  Ensign  ;  while  in  Colonel  Oliver  O'Gara's  Infantry 
Turlough  Reynolds  was  an  Ensign.  Those  attainted 
of  the  name  in  1691  were,  with  the  above  Edward, 
(styled  of  Leitrim)  John  Reynolds  of  Blundelstown, 
County  of  Dublin,  Charles  of  Dublin,  Fardagh  of 
Castlefore,  Loughlin  and  Bruin  of  Lisnagann,  Connor 
and  Thady  of  Ballinaboy  (all  in  the  County  of 
Leitrim).  On  Edward's  attainder,  a  portion  of  the 
ancient  estate  of  Rathmore  was  considered  confiscated 
as  his,  but  at  Chichester  House  the  fee  thereof  was 
claimed  by  and  allowed  to  Bridget  Reynolds,  alias 
Long,  *  his  widow,'  slie  deriving  title  by  descent  from 
her  father,  Patrick,  and  through  her  brother,  Christo- 
pher Long. 


CAPTAIN  LUCAS  POWELL. 

The  Powells  are  of  Welsh  extraction  the  most 
respectable,  descended  from  Howell  ap  Rhys  of 
Pinkelly  in  Caermarthenshire.  In  1641,  a  William 
Powell  claimed  title  to  the  Vicarage  of  Laraghbryan, 

QQ 


594  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

against  Lady  Talbot  ;  it  was,  however,  adjudged  to  her 
by  an  onler  of  the  Irish  House  of  Commons. 
Amongst  the  Royalists  who  were  in  1().>2  tried  by 
court-martial  in  St.  Patrick's  Church,  was  a  Thomas 
Powell.  In  1688,  Sir  John  l^owell  was  a  Puisne 
Judge  of  the  Irisli  Kings  Bench,  and  in  tlie  following 
year  was  transferrcd  to  the  Common  Pleius.*  At  the 
battle  of  the  Boyne,  a  Lieutenant  Powell,  '  of  the 
(luards,*  was  killed.f  The  Attainders  of  1691  have 
of  this  name  only  Edward  Powt41  of  Rathcormac, 
County  of  Cork. 


CAPTAIN  JAMES  LALLY. 

An  interesting  old  manuscript  has  been  forwarded  in 
aid  of  this  work  by  Mr.  Browne  of  Moyne  ;  it  is 
entitled,  "  Extracts  from  the  Grenealogy  of  the  most 
illustrious  House  of  O'MuUally  or  O'Lally  of  Ireland, 
collected  from  the  old  Irish  MS.  Books  of  Pedigrees, 
as  well  as  from  the  records  preserved  in  the  offices  of 
the  Exchequer,  the  Rolls,  and  the  Auditor-Greneral  in 
said  kingdom,  by  William  Hawkins,  Esq.,  King  of 
Arms,  &c.,  under  the  seal  of  his  office."  This  compi- 
lation deduces  the  family  from  Amlavus  O'Maollalla, 
Chief  of  TuUa-ny-Maolalla,  descended  in  the  thirteenth 
generation  from  Maolalla,  who,  at  the  close  of  the  tenth 
century,  was  ruler  of  Moen-nioge,  now  Clanricarde  ; 
from   which    period    the    annals   recorded   are   sad 

•  Singers  Corresp.  v.  2,  p.  273. 

t  Clarke's  Mem.  James  II.,  v.  2,  p.  399. 


COLONEL  HENRY  DILLON'S  INFANTRY.  595 

evidences  of  the  feuds  that  existed  between  the 
tanists  of  this  house  and  the  De  Burgos.  At  length,  in 
1523,  Dr.  Thomas  O'Mullally  or  Lally  appears  presi- 
ding as  Archbishop  of  Tuam  at  a  synod  there  held. 
In  1541,  Melaghlin  Mac  Dermott  O'Mullally 
submitted  himself,  his  vassals,  and  land,  by  indented 
articles  of  agreement,  to  Sir  Anthony  St.  Leger,  Lord 
Deputy  ;  and  delivered  his  eldest  son,  John  Mc 
Melaghlin,  then  twenty-five  years  old,  as  a  hostage  for 
performance  on  his  part.  Melaghlin  had  married 
Margaret,  daughter  of  Cormac  Mac  Roger  Mac  Der- 
mot.  Chief  of  Moylurg,  and  their  son,  said  John, 
styled  Baron  of  Tully-Mullally  (converted  into  Tullin- 
daly,  and  yet  later  to  Tolendal)  distinguished  himself 
with  his  galloglasses  at  the  siege  of  Boulogne  in 
1544.  He  married  a  daughter  of  Hugh  O'Madden, 
Chief  of  Silanchia,  and  his  brother  William  O'Mullally 
was  Archbishop  of  Tuam  in  1573,  by  the  Queen's  ap- 
pointment. In  1585,  this  Prelate  was  nominated  in 
a  commission  for  the  pacification  of  Connaught,  and 
died  in  1595.  James  O'Mullally,  the  great  grandson 
of  John,  forfeited  a  great  part  of  the  family  estate  in 
Cromwell's  time  ;  he  had  married  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  Gerald  Dillon  of  Feamore  in  the  County  of  Mayo 
(brother  of  the  first  Viscount  Dillon  of  Costello- 
Gallen),  and  died  on  the  old  soil  of  Tullindaly.  His 
brothers  Donald  and  William,  following  the  fortunes  of 
Charles  the  Second,  were  outlawed,  and  the  remainder 
of  the  Lally  estates  in  the  Baronies  of  Dunmore  and 
Kilconnell,  County  of  Galway,  were  thereupon  confis- 

QQ2 


596  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

cated.  The  grandson  of  the  last  named  James  O'Mul- 
lally  was  another  James,  a  Captain  [the  officer  under 
present  consideration]  afterwards  Colonel,  who  was 
killed  at  Montmelian.  Thus  far,  almost  in  the  words 
of  the  aforesaid  Manuscript  Pedigree,  the  authenticity 
of  which  is  vouched  by  "  Lally  Marquis  TollendaJ, 
Peer  of  France,  Minister  of  State,  in  Paris,  29th 
October,  1817." 

This  Captain  James  Lally  sat  as  Representative  of 
Tuam  in  the  Parliament  of  16H9,  in  the  roll  of  which 
he  was  expressly  styled  of  Tullindaly.  When  Theo- 
bald,  the  second  Viscount  Dillon,  (writes  O'Cal- 
laghan*)  raised  in  1690,  and  sent  over  to  France  the 
Eegiment  subsequently  known  as  Dillon's  Kegiment, 
to  form  part  of  Lord  Mountcashel's  Brigade,  having 
appointed  his  son  Colonel  thereof,  though  then  not 
twenty  years  of  age,  he  conferred  the  rank  of  Colonel, 
as  Commandant  of  the  second  Battalion,  on  his  cousin 
James  Lally  de  Tollendal  ;  who,  with  his  brothers 
Gerald,  William,  and  Mark  Lally,  mainly  contributed 
to  form  that  second  Battalion  from  several  independent 
companies.  In  the  blockade  and  siege  of  Montmelian, 
in  November,  1691,  this  James  was  killed.  Besides 
this  James  in  Colonel  Henry  Dillon's  Infantry, 
Edmund  Lally  was  a  Captain,  and  another  James 
Lally  was  an  Ensign  in  Lord  Galway's.  The  Attainders 
of  1691  have  but  the  names  of  James  and  Gerald. 
The  Tollindaly  so  confiscated  was  sold  in  1703  to 
Edward  Crew,  styled  of  Carrowkeel,  County  of  Gal- 

*  History  of  the  Brigades,  p.  121. 


COLONEL  HENRY  DILLON'S  INFANTRY.  597 

way,  it  being  described  as  "  the  castle,  town,  and 
lands  of  Tullynadaly,  &c.,  in  the  Barony  of  Dunmore, 
County  of  Galway  ;"  subject,  however,  to  a  legacy  to 
Michael  Lally,  and  portions  to  Bridget  Lally  and  to 
Mary  Jordan,  alias  Lally. 

Gerald  Lally,  the  attainted  brother  of  James  and 
his  companion  in  exile,  married  in  France  a  lady 
connected  with  some  of  the  noblest  houses  in  that 
kingdom,  and  they  were  the  parents  of  Thomas  Arthur 
Lally,  the  Count  Lally,  styled,  from  a  devotion  to  the 
natale  solum^  '  de  ToUendal.'  He  was  bom  in  Dau- 
phin^ in  1702,  and  was,  according  to  the  custom 
then  in  France,  entered .  a  soldier  on  his  birth.  He 
obtained  a  Company  in  Dillon's  Irish  Brigade  at  the  age 
of  nineteen,  and  at  twenty-five  was,  on  Cardinal  Fleury's 
selection^  sent  to  negotiate  some  important  state 
affairs  with  the  Court  of  Russia ;  a  mission  in  which 
he  acquitted  himself  so  well,  that  he  gained  the  confi- 
dence of  his  master  and  a  recommendation  from  the 
Czarina.  In  1743,  be  fought  at  Dettingen.  In 
1744,  a  Regiment  was  drafted  from  an  Irish  Brigade 
for  his  command,  hence  styled  '  Lally's  Regiment,' 
down  to  its  reduction  in  1763.  At  the  battle  of  Ypres, 
in  May  of  the  following  year,  this  body  of  men  was 
signally  distinguished ;  Colonel  Lally  and  several  of  his 
officers  were  wounded.  He,  however,  as  Voltaire 
relates,*  "took  with  his  own  hand  many  English 
officers,  whereupon  the  King  caused  him  to  be 
appointed  a  Colonel,"  afterwards  a  Brigadier-General. 

\         ^  Swofedal        ''^.  v.  4,  p.  181. 


51)8  KING  James's  irisii  aRxMy  list. 

In  the  succeeding  July  (1745),  when,  by  the  aid  of 
Walsh,  a  merchant  in  Nantes,  who  was  an  Irish  refu- 
gee, Prince  Charles  Edward  embarked  in  this  last  effort 
to  recover  the  crown  of  his  ancestors.  Colonel  Lally 
attended  him,  shared  all  the  dangers  and  hanlships  of 
that  campaign,  and  was,  as  Voltaire  expresses  it^  the 
soul  of  the  enteqirise.  The  Duke  of  Cumberland 
caused  him  to  be  seized  as  a  spy,  but  by  influential 
interposition  he  was  discharged,  on  the  terms  of  quit- 
ting England  within  twenty-four  hours.  "  His  hatred 
of  the  English  and  his  courage,"  says  Voltaire,  "  led  to 
his  having  been  selected  some  years  after  to  command 
the  expedition  n*quire<l  to  uphold  the  French 
Company  established  for  traffic  in  India."  The 
details  of  this  api)ointment  and  the  circumst^inces  con- 
nected with  it  are  given  fully  by  that  historian  ; 
enough  here  to  say  that,  when  he  was  appointed  to 
this  command  in  1755,  it  Avas  avowed  that  he  should 
have  fortliwith  a  force  of  3,000  men  and  £250,000  in 
money,  with  three  ships  of  war ;  to  which  the  French 
India  Company  might  add  such  vessels  as  they  could 
arm.  The  equipment  was  not,  however,  sent  out 
until  two  years  after,  and  then  so  curtailed  in  eveiy 
particular,  that  Lally  declined  taking  charge   of  it, 

until  peremptorily  ordered  so  to  do. The  captui-e  by 

the  English  in  1761  of  Pondicherry,  of  which  he  was 
GovciTior,  closed  his  career  and  that  war  in  India. 
He  was  taken  prisoner  by  the  English,  removed  to 
Miulras,  and  thence  transported  to  England  ;  where, 
liaviiig  learned  the  weighty  accusations  and  charges 


COLONEL  HENRY  DILLON'S  INFANTRY.  599 

fcat  were  raised  against  him  in  his  own  country,  he 
sought  and  obtained  leave  to  return  thither  to  meet 
and  confute  them.  Repairing  to  Fontainbleau,  he 
wrote  to  the  Duke  de  Choiseul,  'I  have  brought 
hither  my  head  and  my  innocence,  and  shall  await 
your  orders/  These  orders  were  of  unexampled 
severity.  His  property  was  seized,  and  himself  incarce- 
rated in  the  Bastille  for  fifteen  months  before  he  was 
brought  to  trial.  "  Is  this  the  reward  of  forty  years* 
service  T  he  cried,  as  he  passed  at  the  age  of  64  to  the 
Conciergerie — to  judgment.  He  was  sentenced  to  die, 
and  having  been  guarded  to  the  place  of  execution 
and  gagged,  was  beheaded  in  1766,  some  hours  previ- 
ous to  that  which  was  fixed  by  his  judges.  His 
remains  were  buried  in  an  obscure  church  of  Paris. 
Thus  died  the  Count  Lally  de  ToUendal  the  Elder, 
the  victim  of  court  intrigues  to  screen  the  faults  of 
others. — — He  left  a  son,  Gerald  de  Lally,  bom  at 
Paris  in  1751,  who,  in  the  generous  reverence  of  his 
father's  reputation,  was  successftdly  labouring  in 
1789  to  obtain  from  the  Parliament  of  Rouen  a 
reversal  of  his  condemnation  and  an  acknowledgment 
of  his  innocence,  when  the  Revolution  breaking  out 
paralysed  his  efforts,  and  obliged  him  to  seek  an 
asylum  in  Switzerland.  But  Grerald  was  a  zealous 
Royalist,  and  he  it  was  who,  on  the  memorable  20th 
of  July  in  that  year,  presenting  the  unfortunate  King 
to  his  people,  delivered  the  eloquent  and  pathetic 
address  which  is  extant  in  the  journals  and  history  of 
the  time.     Hib  Isy^ltj  driving  him  again  into  exile, 


600  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

he  retired  into  Switzerland  ;  whence,  nevertheless,  he 
returned  to  Paris  in  1792,  with  the  vain  hope  of 
saving  the  King's  life,  but  he  was  promptly  arrested 
and  imprisoned  in  the  Abbaye ;  whence  making  his 
escape  to  England,  he  resided  for  some  years  at  Rich- 
mond, until,  on  the  Restoration  of  the  Bourbons  in 
1814,  he  was  made  a  Privy  Councillor  by  Louis 
XVIIL,  with  whom  he  retreated  to  Ghent  on  the 
return  of  the  exiled  Emperor  in  the  following  year. 
On  the  second  Restoration  he  was  created  a  Peer,  and 
soon  after  died. 


CAPTAIN  PATRICK  MAC  GAWLEY. 

The  Mac  Gawleys,  or  more  correctly  Mac  Awleys, 
were  Chiefs  of  Calrigia,  a  territory  on  the  borders  of 
Westmeath  and  King's  County,  comprising  the 
present  parish  of  Ballyloughloe  in  the  Barony  of  Clon- 
ronan  ;  while,  acconling  to  Mac  Geoghegan,  the  Sept 
also  possessed  part  of  the  Barony  of  Kilcoursy  in  the 
King's  County.  They  trace  their  lineage  from  Manie, 
the  fourth  son  of  Niall  of  the  Nine  Hostages  ;  and  a 
venerable  pedigree,  long  preserved  in  the  family, 
details  the  succession  from  him  to  Awley  of  the  13th 
century,  and  from  him  to  the  present  representative. 
In  this  pedigree  the  respective  matches  of  each  tanist 
are  confidently  given.  The  Four  Masters  commemo- 
rate the  death  of  Aireachtach  Mac  Awley,  then  Chief 
of  Calrigia,  in  1 187.     In  1460,  Manus  Mc  Awley,  its 


COLONEL  HENRY  DILLON'S  INFANTRY.  601 

chief,  married  Una  O'Mulloy,  daughter  of  the  Lord  of 
Fearcal.  In  1527,  say  the  same  annalists  with 
undisguised  candour,  Aulaff  Oge  Dhu  Mac  Awley, 
the  Chief  of  Calrigia,  was  slain  by  the  Clan  Colman  ; 
but  previous  to  his  death  he  had  his  revenge,  for  he 
slew  at  the  same  place  Fiochadh  Mac  Geoghegan.  In 
the  seventeenth  century  occurred  the  marriage  of 
Henry  Mac  Gawley,  then  the  Chief,  with  Maria 
daughter  of  John  Brown  of  the  Neal.  A  very  detailed 
pedigree  in  the  ascending  line  of  this  Henry,  through 
twenty-four  generations,  to  Byrne,  son  of  Maurice, 
whom  it  mentions  as  having  been  baptized  by  St. 
Patrick,  is  incorporated  in  a  Funeral  Entry  in  Bir- 
mingham Tower.  Henry  had  by  this  lady  five  sons; 
ithe  above  Patrick,  Henry,  John,  Philip,  and  Gerald. 
Francis,  third  son  of  said  Patrick  by  the  daughter  of 
John  Leicester  of  Kilcormack,  was  father  of  Awley  Mac 
Awley,  who,  in  the  early  part  of  his  life,  was  in  the 
service  of  Maria  Theresa.  His  son  was  the  late 
Count  Francis  Philip  Mac  Awley,  who  married  in 
1808  Clara,  daughter  and  sole  heiress  of  the  Count 
Cerati,  and  was  in  1815  the  chosen  Prime  Minister  of 
the  Ex-Empress  Maria  Louisa.  He  died  in  1835, 
when  his  son  Valeric,  Count  Magawley  (Cerati), 
succeeded  to  the  representation  of  this  ancient  Sept. 
The  Mac  Gawleys  attainted  in  1691  were  the  above 
Patrick,  styled  of  Tulliwood,  County  of  Westmeath, 
with  twelve  others  of  the  name.  He  had  risen  to  be 
a  Lieutenant-Colonel  in  this  campaign,  and  was 
adjudged  within  the  Articles  of  1698.     At  the  Court 


(502  KiXG  James's  irish  armv  list. 

of  Claims  in  1700,  Christopher  Mac  Gawley  and 
Jane  his  wife  claimed  an  estate  tail  in  Westmeath 
lands  forfeited  by  James  Mac  Gawley,  but  their 
prayer  was  disallowed  ;  while  a  Patrick  Mac  Gawley 
sought  and  obtained  a  long  leasehold  term,  and  a 
mortgage  affecting  Westmeath  lands,  as  well  those  of 
said  James  Jis  of  Henry  Mac  Gawley.  In  1709,  a 
Michael  '  Mac  Auley '  was  a  Colonel  in  Spain  of  a 
Regiment  formed  by  Philip  the  Fifth,  of  those  Irish 
who  had  deserted  from  the  English  army  then  in  that 
country  ;  and  in  the  Spanish  campaign  of  the  follow- 
ing year  O'Conor  *  mentions  this.  Kegiment  as  having 
been  distinguished. 


CAPTAIN  WALTER  BLAKE. 

The  founder  of  this  family  in  Ireland,  says  Sir 
Bernard  Burke  in  his  Banm^tafje^  was  Richard  Blake, 
alias  Ciuldell,  who  accompanied  Prince  John  in  1185 
into  this  Kingdom,  and  subsequently  obtained  large 
grants  in  Connaught.  His  desci^ndant  and  namesake 
was  commanded  in  1303,  as  Sheriff  of  Connaught,  to 
levy  a  debt  due  to  the  Crown  by  David  de  Burgo. — 
In  1487,  Robert  Blake  was  Bishop  of  Clonmacnoise 
by  the  Po]x»'s  provision.  Francis  Blake  of  this  old 
Galway  family  was  one  of  the  Confederates  at  the 
Supreme  Council  of  Kilkenny,  of  which  Assembly  Sir 
Richard  Blake,  the  fijunder  of  the  family  of  Ardfry, 

*  (VConor's  Milit.  Mem.  p.  353. 


COLONEL  HENRY  DILLON'S  INFANTRY.  603 

was  Speaker.  In  King  James's  New  Charter  to 
Galway  in  1687,  fourteen  of  this  name  were  set  down 
upon  the  Roll  of  Burgesses.  Eigh£  of  the  name  of 
Blake  were  attainted  in  1691,  and  amongst  them  the 
above  Walter,  described  as  of  Galway.  He  was  in 
truth  Sir  Walter  Blake  of  Menlough ;  and,  though  he 
was  one  of  the  Representatives  of  the  County  of 
Galway  in  the  Parliament  of  1689,  he  was  yet,  says 
Sir  Bernard  Burke,*  '  the  first  Catholic  gentleman 
that  joined  the  standard  of  the  Prince  of  Orange,  and 
obtained  a  commission  from  his  Highness  to  raise  a 
Regiment  which  he  maintained  and  clothed  at  his  own 
expense.*  He  was,  however,  formally  attainted  in 
1691,  as  was  also  John  Blake  of  Ardfry ;  but  Sir 
Walter  was  adjudged  within  the  articles  of  1698  and 
1699,  as  were  Lieutenant  Blake  of  Drum,  and 
Richard  Blake  of  Ardfry.  The  latter  was  one  of  the 
Burgesses  named  in  the  New  Charter  to  Galway,  but 
not  having  taken  arms  for  either  party,  his  own 
burned  Ardfry  and  destroyed  his  property,  in  conse- 
quence of  which  De  Ginkle  promised  him  relief  that 
he  afterwards  obtained;  but,  being  a  papist,  much  diffi- 
culty was  interposed  to  his  getting  possession  of  his 
lands,  f  Francis  and  Martin  Blake,  who  were  also  of 
King  James's  party,  obtained  pardons  under  the  Great 
Seal.  At  Chichester  House  Sir  Walter  Blake  claimed 
and  was  allowed  a  fee  in  estates  in  the  County  of 
Clare,  forfeited  by  John  Blake  of  Ardfry ;  while  on 
other  estates  of  said  John,  Isidore  and  Patrick  Blake, 

♦  Peerage,  p.  M.  f  *  ^*  Southwell  M8S.  p.  38. 


604  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

minors,  by  their  uncle  and  guanlian  Thomas  Lynch, 
sought  respective  remainders  ;  as  did  Mary  Lynch, 
othenvise  Blake,  his  widow,  her  jointure.  Joseph 
Henry  Blake,  the  representative  of  the  Ardfry  line, 
was  in  1800  ennobled  by  the  title  of  Lord  Baron 
Wallscourt. 


CAPTAIN  WILLIAM  BRABAZON. 

Sir  Bernard  Burke  remarks  in  his  Peerage  that 
Jaques  C.  Brabazon  appears  in  the  Roll  of  Battle- 
Abbey,  as  one  of  the  Knights  that  accompanied  the 
Conqueror  to  England.  In  1534,  his  lineal  descend- 
ant. Sir  William  Brabazon,  was  Vice-Treasurer  and 
General-Receiver  of  Ireland,  and  was  thrice  at  the 
head  of  the  Irish  government  as  Lord  Justice.  His 
eldest  son,  Edward  Brabazon,  was  one  of  the  Repre- 
sentatives for  the  County  of  Wicklow  in  Perrot's  Par- 
liament of  1585,  and  from  him  have  descended  the 
Earls  of  Meath.  This  name  does  not  appear  on  the 
Attainders  of  1641  ;  but  in  1652,  Anthony  Brabazon, 
described  as  of  Ballinasloe,  a  younger  branch  of  the 
aforesaid  Sir  William,  and  ancestor  of  the  Baronets  of 
the  County  of  Mayo,  was  excepted  from  pardon  for 
life  and  estate  by  Cromwell's  Ordinance.  It  has  not 
been  ascertained  of  what  family  was  the  above 
Captain  ;  and  the  Earl  of  Meath  of  that  day  was  so 
identified  with  King  William,  as  to  have  been 
attainted  in  James's  Parliament.     He  had  the  com- 


COLONEL  HENRY  DBLLON'S  INFANTRY.  605 

mand  of  a  Regiment  in  the  service  of  the  former  at 
the  battle  of  the  Boyne  ;  at  the  subsequent  first  siege 
of  Limerick  led  a  Regiment,  on  which  occasion  several 
of  his  men  were  shot  *  and  he  was  wounded  ;  was 
sworn  of  King  William's  Privy  Council,  and  afterwards 
of  Queen  Anne's,  and  died  in  February,  1708,  s.p. 


CAPTAIN  HUGH  MAC  DERMOT. 

The  early  annals  of  this  once  powerful  family  are 
fully  detailed  in  the  '  Book  of  Lecan,'  avowedly  from 
the  more  ancient  Psalter  of  Cashel.  The  '  Book  of 
Kilronan,'  compiled  by  their  chief  ^  Seanachies^  the 
O'Duigenans,  has,  as  might  be  expected,  most  inte- 
resting particulars  of  their  lineage. He,  who  in  re- 
mote time  may  be  pointed  out  as  Prepositus  of 
this  Sept,  was  Maolruana,  King  of  Moylurg  at  the  time 
of  the  battle  of  Clontarf  in  1014  ;  he,  however, 
having  been,  as  the  Annalists  relate,  too  old  to  be  pre- 
sent at  that  great  engagement,  one  of  his  sons  led  his 
Sept,  the  Clan-Maolruana,  on  that  memorable  day. 
His  lineal  descendant  in  the  seventh  generation  was 
Dermott,  who  died  in  1159,  "  Supreme  Councillor, 
Sage,  and  excellent  Mediator  of  one-fifth  of  Con- 
naught."  In  him  the  surname  originated,  while  their 
territory  was  called  Moylurg.  Conor,  the  son  of  this 
Dermott,  Tanist  of  Moylurg  in  the  twelfth  century, 
after  enjoying  the  sovereignty  of  this  little  principal- 

'  *  Rawdon  Papers,  p.  884. 


606  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

ity  for  ten  years,  took  upon  him  the  Cistoixjian  habit, 
and  became  a  monk  in  the  Abl)ey  of  Boyle,  within 
whose   still   noble   and    picturesque    walls    he    was 
interred  in  115)8  ;  whereupon  tlie  jrovernment  hereof 
devolved  upon  Tumultagh  (Timothy)  Mac   Denuot, 
his  son,  wlio  erected  in  1204  the  origintJ  castle   on 
an  Island  of  Lough  Ke,  witliin  the  beautifid  demesne 
of  Viscount  Lorton.     Thomas,  (the  son  of  Ferral  Mac 
Dermot,  tliei-etofoiv  Abbot  of  Boyle),  was  in  1262 
promoted  to  the  Bishopric  of  Elpliin.     In  tliis  interval 
branched  off  the  founders  of  the  ]\Iac  Dermots-na-Gall 
and  the  McDermotts  Ruagh  (Roe).     Early  in   the 
fourteenth  century  Dermot  McDermot  ofMoylurgwas 
one  of  the  Irisli  Magnates  who,  from  a  hatred  of  the 
English  government,  invited  the  invasion  of  Edwai*d, 
the  brother  of  King  Robert  Bruce.     On  his  arrival  in 
Ulster,  Dermot  was  one  of  the  first  who  joined  his 
standanl,  and  fell,  his  unsuccessfid  ally,  in  the  last 
struggle  of  the  invader  at  the  battle  of  Athenry,  with 
many  other  McDermots,  his  adherents.     From  Conor 
Mac  Dermot  of  this  period  sprung  the  McDermots  'of 
the  Rock.'     To  the  Parliament  convened  by  Sir  John 
Perrot  in  1585,  Teigue  the  son  of  Hugh  'Oge,'  being 
tanist  of  Moylurg  and  very  old,  sent  his  relative  '  of 
the  Rock,'  viz.  Bryan,  son  of  Rory,  son  of  Teigue,  son 
of  Rory  Oge,  who  was  the  great  grandson  of  Connor, 
the  founder  of  that  line  (as  aforesaid),  to  represent  the 
Sept  at  this  first  national  Assembly.     Teigue's  line 
afterwards    became    extinct,    and    the    Captainship 
passed  to  the  family  '  of  the  Rock.' 


COLONEL  HENRY  DILLON'S  INFAJJtRY.  607 

In  1602,  when  the  Lord  Deputy  Mountjoy 
passed  the  Christmas  at  Galway,  the  McDermot 
(styled  'of  the  Curlews')  made  his  submission  to  him. 
Bryan  McDermot  was  then  the  Chief;  in  1603,  how- 
ever, his  estates  were  held  to  be  confiscated,  and 
seven  leading  members  of  the  Sept  were  obliged  to 
sue  out  their  pardons.  In  1604,  King  James 
granted  to  Sir  Theobald  Dillon,  Knight,  (afterwards 
created  Viscount  Dillon,  and  ancestor  of  the  Colonel 
of  this  Regiment),  the  wardship,  of  Bryan  Oge 
McDermot,  son  and  heir  of  the  aforesaid  Bryan  '  of 
the  Rock,'  for  the  consideration  of  a  fine  of  £4,  and 
an  annual  rent  of  £3  6s.  8d.,  the  patentee  retaining 
thereout  certain  allowances  for  the  maintenance  and 
education  of  the  minor.  This  Bryan  attained  age  in 
1618,  when  he  had  from  the  Crown  a  grant  which 
would  seem  magnificent  and  extensive  (covering  as  it 
does  sixteen  skins  of  parchment,  the  first  richly  illu- 
minated)  yet  comprising  but  a  portion  of  the  former 
princely  inheritance  of  the  Sept.  He  died  Chief  in 
1636,  and  was  buried  in  a  church  founded  by  one  of 
his  ancestors,  within  the  holy  ambit  of  Clonmacnoise. 
His  second  son,  Charles,  on  the  death  of  an  elder 
brother  Terence  without  issue,  became  seized  of  Moy- 
lurg — its  last  Chief.  He  had  married  Eleanor, 
daughter  *of  the  great  O'Mulloy  of  Croghan,**  in  the 
County  of  Roscommon. 

Hugh  Mc  Dermot,  the  Captain  in  this  notice,  was 

•  For  fuller  particulars  of  this  fine  old  Sept,  see  D' Alton's 
iififia£»  qf  Aoyli^  T.  ly  p.  97,  &c. 


608  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

the  eldest  son  of  said  Charles  and  Eleanor  ;  he  was 
taken  prisoner  at  Aughrim,  but,  on  the  interference 
and  by  the  interest  of  Sir  Robert  King,  the  ancestor  of 
Viscount  Lorton,  (then  residing  at  Rockingham,  part 
of  the  ancient  property  of  the  McDermots),  he  was 
released,  avowedly  by  reason  of  the  humanity  and 
kindness  evinced  by  him  towards  the  Protestant 
Clergy  and  Laity.  He  intermarried  with  Eliza, 
daughter  of  O'Kelly  of  Aughrim,  and  by  her  had  issue 
Charles  and  Terence.  In  January,  1688,  Ballymote 
was  garrisoned  by  the  latter,  who  represented  the 
Borough  of  Boyle  in  King  James's  Parliament  of 
Dublin,  and  was  consequently  attainted  in  King 
William's ;  whereupon  all  his  interest  in  the  &mily 
estates  (the  greater  portion  of  which  had  been  conveyed 
in  1669  to  him  by  his  father)  was  confiscated ;  and  his 
brother  Charles  succeeded  only  to  Coolavin  on  the 
death  of  their  father,  Captain  Hugh,  in  1707. 
Before  that  event,  in  September,  1690,  this  Charles 
was,  in  virtue  of  King  James's  Commission,  directed 
and  empowered  to  receive  for  his  Majesty  the  Castle 
of  Carrick  Mac  Dermott,  i.e.  the  Castle  of  the  Rock, 
in  Lough  Ke,  and  the  Castle  or  Strong  House  of 
Canbo,  and  all  other  the  Castles  and  Strong  Houses 
upon  the  said  Charles's  estate  and  ancient  inheritance. 
He  died  in  1758,  at  the  advanced  age  of  98,  leaving 
issue  by  his  lady,  Catherine  Dillon  of  the  House  of 
Clonbrock,  Myles  his  eldest  son,  who  married  a 
daughter  of  Charles  O'Conor,  the  elder  historian,  and 
died  at  Coolavin  in  1793,  leaving  issue  Hugh  and 


COLONEL  HENET  DILLON'S  INFANTRY.  609 

other  children.  Hugh  married  his  cousin  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Denis  O'Conor  of  Ballinagar,  (ancestor 
of  the  O'Conors  Don),  and  by  her  had  Charles  and 
several  other  children.  Charles  intermarried  with 
Arabella  O'Rourke  of  the  ancient  Sept  of  Brefiiy,  by 
whom  he  has  a  numerous  issue,  and  he  now  ranks  as 
the  lineal  representative  of  the  elder  line  of  the  Mac 
Dermots.  Besides  the  above  Captain  Hugh,  there 
are  in  commission,  in  different  Eegiments  of  this  Army 
List,  nine  other  McDermots  or  McDermotts.  In  the 
Parliament  of  1689,  Terence  McDermott,  who  was  an 
Alderman  of  Dublin,  and  a  Captain  in  Sir  Michael 
Creagh's  Infantry,  represented,  with  his  Colonel,  that 
City.  Terence  of  Coolavin,  with  Captain  John 
King,  represented  the  Borough  of  Boyle ;  while 
Robert  Dermot  was  one  of  the  Members  for  Dundalk, 
and  Bryan  Dermod  for  Carlingford.  The  Attainders 
of  1691  exhibit  the  names  of  thirteen  of  the  Sept. 


CAPTAIN  TERENCE  McDONOUGH. 

The  McDonoughs  were  a  powerful  Sept  in  the 
County  of  Sligo,  having  an  extensive  territory  in  the 
Barony  of  Corran;  they  were  also  at  a  very  early  date 
established  in  the  County  of  Cork,  where  they  held 
the  noble  castle  of  Eanturk.  In  the  former  County 
they  are  considered  to  have  branched  from  the  Mac 
Dermots,  in  the  latter  from  the  McCarties.  This  Sept 
18  ezprefldy  stated  by  the  Four  Masters  to  have  taken 

RR 


610  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

their  patronymic  in  Sligo,  from  a  Donoiigh  who  flou- 
rished there  in  1278.     The  same  Annalists   re<;ord, 
with  much  importance  of  language,  the  progress  of 
Mac  Donough  of  Tyrrerill  in  1397  to  the  plain  of 
Connaught  (about  Boyle),  with  his  whole  force,  pro- 
perty, and  cattle,  in  order  to  aid  the  O'Conor.     In 
1446,  "  the  McDonoughs,  Turlough  Carnich  O'Connor, 
and  O'Conor  Don  having  joined  Mac  William  of  Clan- 
ricanle,  for  the  purpose  of  appointing  a  McDonough 
in  Tyrrerill,  they  finally  agreed  on  electing  two  Mac 
Donoughs,  giving  half  of  the  country  to  each,  namely 
to  John,  the  son  of  Conor  McDonough,  and  to  Teigue 
the  son  of  Tomaltach  More  McDonough."     In  1598, 
"  Ballymote,  (in  Sligo)  which  had  been  in  possession 
of  the  Queen's  people  for  thirteen  years  till  this  time, 
was  taken  by  its  OAvn  original  inheritors,  namely,  by 
the  McDonoughs  of  Corran.''     By  a  patent  of  1617 
various   manors,  castles,  towns,    and  lands  of  their 
ancient  territory  in  the  County  of  Sligo  were,  accord- 
ing to  the  ix)licy  of  the  day,  re-granted  on  new  and 
more  forfeitable  tenures  to  different  members  of  this 
Sept,  as   also   to   those   of  O'Hara,  O'Higgins,   and 
O'Connor ;    while   the  same  patent  included  other 
re-grants  to  the  O'Dowdes  and  O'Garas  in  that  county 
and   in   Mayo.     The  Attainders  of  1642  have  the 
names  of  five  M'Donoughs  ;  those  of  1691,  twelve. 
On  the  Army  List,  besides  Captain  Terence,  there 
appear    Henry   M'Donough,    a   Lieutenant    in   Sir 
Charles  O'Brian's  Infantry ;  and  Morgan  M'Donough, 
an  Ensign  in  Colonel  Oliver  O'Gara's.     In  the  Parli- 


COLONEL  HENRY  DILLON'S  INFANTRY.  611 

ament  of  Dublin  the  above  Terence  M'Donough  was 
one  of  the  Representatives  returned  for  the  Borough 
of  Sligo,  but  appears  to  have  been  the  same  Captain, 
who  was  at  that  time  taken  prisoner  at  Deny  in  the 
attack  at  the  Windmill  ;*  while  Hamilton,  in  his 
"  Enniskillenersj''  (p.  19)  says  that  in  May,  1689, 
Ballyshannon  was  relieved  by  them,  and  the  Irish 
obliged  to  evacuate.  "  All  their  foot  fled  away  to- 
towards  Sligo,  or  got  oflf  safe,  except  some  few  that 
were  taken  in  the  Fish  Island  near  the  town,  with 
their  Captain,  one  Mac  Donough,  a  counsellor-at-law, 
commonly  known  by  the  name  of 'blind'  Mac  Donough." 
In  1690,  one  of  the  Cork  McDonoughs  was  appointed 
by  King  James  a  Governor  of  that  County. 


LIEUTENANT  PAUL  RUTLEDGE. 

This  officer  is  described,  in  the  Inquisition  taken  on. 
his  attainder,  as  'of  Clontikilty,  County  Mayo.'  A 
James  Rutledge,  on  the  same  roll  of  outlawries,  was 
possessed  of  property  in  the  town  of  Galway,  oflf  which 
Catherine  Rutledge,  otherwise  Blake,  claimed  and  was 
allowed  jointure. 


LIEUTENANT  MURROUGH  MELAGHLIN. 

Ths  power  of  the  fiunily  that  bore  this  name,  and  the 

\  p.  61. 

BR  2 


612  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

extent  of  territory  over  which  it  lorded  as  a  Royal 
appropriation,  are  evinced  in  the  grant  from  Henry  the 
Second  to  Hugh  de  Lacy,  making  over  to  him  the 
whole  Province  of  Meath,  including  Westmeath  (of 
modern  partition);  yet,  in  the  lapse  of  centuries,  this 
great  name  has  become  extinct,  or  is  only  sought  to 
be  traced  in  existing  assimilations,  as  M'Loughlin, 
O'Laughlin,  &c.  According  to  the  native  chronicles, 
a  daughter  of  O'Melaghlin,  King  of  Meath  in  the 
ninth  century,  was  the  agent  of  killing  Turgesius  the 
Danish  tyrant,  by  a  stratagem  like  that  related  by 
Plutarch  in  his  Life  of  Pelopidas.  At  the  commence- 
ment of  the  eleventh  century,  Malachy  O'Melaghlin, 
theretofore  the  acknowledged  King  of  Ireland,  was 
deposed  by  Brien  Boroimhe.  In  1105,  the  territory 
of  Meath  was  divided  between  the  sons  of  Donald 
O'Melaghlin.  In  the  progress  of  the  same  century, 
Murrough  O'Melaghlin  was  one  of  the  chief  leaders  in 
the  feudal  conflicts,  that  opened  Ireland  to  the  English 
adventurers  ;  while  the  abduction  of  his  daughter, 
then  wife  of  O'Rourke,  is  eflectively  narrated  by  the 
Annalists  as  leading  in  that  invasion.  His  Kingdom 
passed  from  him,  and  even  his  great  mensal  patri- 
mony, the  Province  of  Meath,  was  given  as  a  Palati- 
nate to  Hugh  de  Lacy,  to  be  held  as  amply  as  it  had 
been  enjoyed  by  said  Murrough.  This  great  &mily 
was,  however,  afterwards  one  of  the  five  Irish  Septs 
to  whom  the  privilege  of  using  the  English  laws  was 
confined.  In  1314,  when  Edward  the  Second  sought 
the  aid  of  the  Irish  magnates,  he  directed  an  especial 


COLONEL  HENRY  DILLON'S  INFANTRY.  613 

letter  missive  to  '  OMdan  Hdyn^  Duci  Hibemorum 
Midice.^  In  1462,  when  the  remaining  estates  of  this 
family  were  invaded  by  the  Palesmen,  aided  by  the 
Lord  Deputy^  the  native  clans  espoused  their  cause 
and  took  the  Viceroy  prisoner.  In  the  time  of  James 
the  First,  this  Sept  was  stripped  of  a  very  considera- 
ble portion  of  their  old  territory,  a  large  tract  of 
which,  described  as  *  O'Melaghlin's  Country,'  situated 
about  Clonmacnoise,  and  comprising  advowsons,  rec- 
tories, churches,  chief  rents,  lands,  &c.  was  granted 
to  Richard,  Earl  of  Clanricarde  ;  while  about  the  same 
time  Francis  Blundel,  '  Clerk  of  the  Commission  for 
Defective  Titles,'  had  a  grant  of  other  O'Melaghlin 
estates  in  the  County  of  Westmeath.  On  the  Attain- 
ders of  1642,  only  two  of  the  name  appear,  William 
(Dhu)  Mc  Melaghlin,  and  Edmund  Mc  Melaghlin  of 
Ballyshanduff,  County  of  Wicklow.  The  outlawries 
of  1691  name  but  one,  Maolseachlin  O'Melaghlin,  of 
Lough-Mask,  County  of  Mayo ;  so  completely  had  the 
family  been  expelled  from  their  ancient  province. 


LIEUTENANT  LUKE  SHEILL. 

The  O'Sheills  were  an  ancient  Clan  of  the  County  of 
Antrim,  and  accordingly  another  officer  of  the  name, 
Lieutenant  Patrick  'O'Sheale,'  stands  on  the  roll  of 
Colonel  Cormuck  O'Neill's  Infantry.  This  Luke  or 
Lucas  was,  however,  of  Ballinderry,  County  of  West- 
ii^^^c^i  ^7  vl^lliLilli  ^"^^  William  Sheill,  and 


614  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  UST. 

Denis  Sheill  were  attainted  in  1691.  There  were 
also  then  outlawed  Daniel  'O'Sheal'  of  Greggan, 
County  of  Antrim  ;  Francis  O'Shiel  of  Boviddy, 
County  of  Derry  ;  Hugh  O'Sheil  of  Dnimgolan, 
County  of  Down,  clerk  ;  and  Patrick  'Sheile'  of  An- 
nabeg,  County  of  Sligo.  In  1695,  Roger  SheUl,  the 
eldest  son  of  the  above  William  of  Ballinderry,  peti- 
tionedr  the  Irish  House  of  Commons,  stating  that  he 
was  a  Protestant  and  the  eldest  son  of  a  Papist,  and 
praying  that  a  Committ-ee  might  be  appointed  to  pre- 
pare heads  of  a  Bill  to  prevent  his  being  disinherited 
by  his  said  father.  To  this  petition  William  Sheill 
replied,  setting  forth  "that  he  was  willing,  without  an 
Act  of  Parliament,  to  settle  his  estates  on  his  Protes- 
tant sons  and  none  else,  and  that  he  had  no  design  to 
disinherit  his  eldest  son  Roger  Sheill,  as  being  a  Pro- 
testant, though  he  be  less  dutiful  to  him  than  his 
other  sons  ;  and  praying  that  in  regard  his  real  estate 
is  not  worth  above  £10  per  annum^  and  that  the 
allegations  of  his  son  Roger  are  false,  that  the  House 
would  examine  into  the  truth  on  both  sides."  A 
Committee  was  accordingly  appointed  for  the  purpose. 
In  1747,  a  Captain  'Sheill,'  was  killed  at  Lauffield  in 
Dillon's  Regiment. 


ENSIGN  THOMAS  DOLPHIN. 

This  name  is  of  record  in  the  native  Annals  from  the 
time  of  Henry  the  Third. 


COLONEL  HENRY  DILLON'S  INFANTRY.  615 


ENSIGN  EDMUND  DOWELL. 

This  oflScer  does  not  appear  on  the  Attainders  ot 
1691;  the  only  persons  of  the  name  there  are  Hugo 
and  Patrick  O'Dowell  of  Tullyard,  County  of  Down  ; 
and  Dionysius  'Doweir  of  Moneylagh,  County  of 
Roscommon. 


ENSIGN  THOMAS  COSTELLO. 

The  Costellos,  or,  as  the  family  were  more  usually 
styled  on  the  Irish  records,  Mc  Costellos,  sprung  in 
truth  fix)m  Hostilio  the  second  son  of  Gilbert  de  An- 
gulo.  In  1192,  his  descendant  and  namesake  Gilbert 
Mac  CosteUo  led  what  the  Annalists  call  an  army  to 
Easroa  near  Ballyshannon,  and  there  erected  a  castle. 
Myles  Mc  CosteUo  invaded  the  country  of  Mac  Ranall 
in  1247,  but  was  repulsed.  In  1487,  say  the  Four 
Masters,  John  (Dhu)  Mc  CosteUo,  Lord  of  Sleive 
Lugha  (in  Mayo)  died,  and  two  of  the  Sept  were  nomi- 
nated to  succeed  him  ;  and  in  1565,  when  recount- 
ing the  mUitary  expedition  of  Sir  Richard  Bingham 
through  that  county,  they  mark  Castlemore,  near 
BaUaghaderrin,  as  the  chief  seat  of  the  Mac  CosteUo. 
In  1666,  say  the  Rawdon  Papers^  'the  great  Tory, 
Colonel  CosteUo,  was  kUled.'  The  name  does  not  ap- 
pear on  the  attainders  of  1641,  and  only  that  of  WU- 
Uam  CosteUo,  of  Ross,  County  of  Wexford,  on  those 
of  1691  ;  but^  by  the  proceedings  before  the  Court  of 


616  KING  JAMES'S  lEISH  ABMY  LIST. 

Claims  in  1700,  it  is  shown  that  a  Thomas  'Costelloe' 
there  claimed  a  remainder  in  Mayo  lands,  forfeited  by 
Miles  *Costelloe;'  his  petition  was,  however,  *dismist.' 


ENSIGN  PHELIM  HART. 

The  name  of  Hart  or  'Hert'  is  of  Irish  record  from 
the  time  of  Edward  the  First,  while  O'Dugan  says 
that  the  O'Harts  were  an  ancient  Sept,  settled  in  the 
immediate  vicinity  of  Tara.  On  the  Attainders  of 
1642  are  two  O'Hartes  and  one  Hart.  The  name 
does  not  appear  on  those  of  1691  ;  but,  at  the  sales 
of  1703,  the  estate  of  a  John  Hart,  described  as  *of 
Blundelstown,  County  of  Dublin,'  was  sold  as  forfeited 
property  by  the  Commissioners.  Besides  this  Ensign, 
a  Simon  Hart  held  the  same  rank  in  the  Infantry 
Regiment  of  Sir  Maurice  Eustace. 


LORD  GALWAY'S  INFANTRY. 


617 


REGIMENTS    OF    INFANTRY. 


ULICK,   LORD  GALWAY'S. 


Captaina, 
The  Colonel. 
Morrogh  Fkhertj, 
Lieat.  Colonel. 
Thomaa  Mag»th. 
Mike  Bonrke. 
Thomas  Bonrke. 
^John  Power. 
M'LftQghlin  Donnelan. 
John  M'Coghlan. 
lliomaa  Bonrke. 
Edmund  Lallj. 
John  Carroll.  . 
James  Power. 
Comelins  Horan. 
James  Lynch. 
TJlick  *  Bonrck.' 


lAeuUnanU. 

Edward  TuUy. 
James  Lynch. 

Terence  Biagnith. 
Redmond  Archdeacon. 
Ulick  Bonrke. 
David  Stapleton. 
M*Langhlm  Daly. 
Comelins  Coghlan. 
Richard  Bonrke. 
William  Kelly. 
William  Carroll. 
Richard  Bonrke. 
Boger  Horan. 

Dominick  Martin. 


Entignt. 
Richard  Wolferston. 
Daniel  Mally. 

James  Egan. 
Carberry  Egan. 
Hnbert  Bonrke. 
William  Synon. 
Gerald  Bonrke. 
Morgan  *  Cuolaghan.' 
Francis  Bourke. 
James  Lally. 
Daniel  Carroll. 
Thomas  Lynch. 
Lawrence  Carroll. 


COLONEL  ULICK  DE  BURGH,  LORD 
GALWAY. 

The  family  of  Bourke  and  Burke  has  been  noticed  as 
fully,  as  here  allowable,  at  the  Earl  of  Clanricarde's 
Regiment  of  Infantry,  antej  p.  5 11 ,  &c.  This  Ulick  was 
the  eldest  son  of  William,  Earl  of  Clanricarde,  by  his 
second  wife.  He  was  created  Baron  Tyaquin  and 
Viscount  Galway.  Lodge  characterizes  him  as  a 
nobleman  of  true  courage,  and  endued  with  many 
good  qualities.     He  fought  in  this  army  when  but 


618  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

twenty-two  years  of  age,  and  fell  at  Aughrim. 
"  Some  say,**  writes  Story,  "  that  my  Lord  Galway 
had  hard  measure  from  some  of  our  troops,  who  killed 
him  after  he  had  surrendered  himself  a  prisoner,  not 
to  themselves  but  to  some  others." 


LIEUTENANT-COLONEL  M0RR06H 
OTLAHERTY. 

Tins  Sept  was  originally  settled  in  the  Barony  of 
Clare,  County  of  Galway  ;  whence  in  the  thirteenth 
century  they  were  driven  to  the  western  side  of 
Lough  Corrib,  and  were  there  styled  Lords  of  lar  or 
Western  Connaught.  On  the  islands  of  that  water 
they  had  many  castles,  traces  of  some  of  which  still 
remain.  "  In  1132,"  writes  Hardiman,*  "  the  King 
of  Munster  despatched  a  body  of  men  by  sea,  to  take 
the  Castle  of  Galway,  which  his  General  Cormac  Mac 
Carthy  having  effected,  put  the  garrison  to  the  sword, 
levelled  and  destroyed  the  Castle  and  Town,  and  soon 
after  defeated  and  slew  Connor  OTlahertie,  Lord  of 
lar-Connaught.''  In  1243,  Henry  the  Third  sum- 
moned  the  OTlahertie  to  do  military  service  against 
the  King  of  Scotland.f  To  Perrot's  Parliament 
in  1585,  "  no  one  of  note  went  from  the  Western 
Province  of  Connaught,  except  Morrogh  ('  na  duagh^' 
*of  the  battle-axes,')  the    son   of   Teigue,    son    of 

*  History  of  Galway,  p.  40. 

f  Lynch  on  Feudal  Dignities,  p.  191. 


LORD  GALWAY'S  INFANTRY.  619 

Morrogh,  son  of  Roderic  OTlaherty.''*  About  this 
time  the  O'Briens  were  expelled  from  the  Isles  of 
Arran  by  the  OTlaherties  of  lar-Connaught,  when  a 
Commission  issued  which  found  them  the  right  of  the 
Queen,  and  she  thereupon  granted  them  to  John 
Rawsonof  Athlone.f  In  1606,  John  King,  of  Dub- 
lin, had  a  grant  from  the  Crown  of  castles  and  lands, 
estates  of  the  OTlaherties  in  the  County  of  Galway, 

*  slain  in  rebellion;'  while  in  1610,  Morrough-ne- 
Moyer  OTflahertie  of  Benowen  had  a  grant  of  the 
castles  or  forts  of  Benowen,  and  Ballynahinch,  with 
various  lands,  fisheries,  and  chief-rents,  described  as 
having  come  to  the  Crown  by  the  attainder  of  Teigue, 
son  of  Sir  Morrogh-ne-doe  O'Flahertie,  'lately  slain  in 
rebellion/  In  two  years  after.  Sir  Robert  Newcomen, 
Benight,  had  a  grant  of  other  Galway  lands,  part  of 
the  estate  of  said  Teigue. 

Morrogh  Flaherty  of  Culvin,  County  of  Westmeath, 
is  the  the  only  one  of  this  name  on  the  Outlawries  of 
1642.  In  Cromwell's  Act  of  1652,  said  Morrough-ne- 
Moyer  OTlaherty  of  the  County  of  Galway,  and 
Teigue  OTlaherty  were  excepted  from  pardon  for  life 
and  estate.  The  former  passed  out  of  Ireland  to 
serve  King  Charles  the  Second  '  beyond  the  seas,'  and 
received  that  Monarch's  thanks  therefor  in  the  clause 
of  Boyal  gratitude  embodied  in  the  Act  of  Settlement. 
Roderic  O'Flahertie,   the  well-known  author  of  the 

*  Ogygia^'  was  bom  in  1630,  within  the  old  family  ter- 

*  Four  Masters,  ad  ann,  f  Hardiman's  Galway,  p.  319. 


620  KING  JAMESES  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

ritory  at  Moycullen,  his  interest  in  which  was  lost  on 
the  confiscations  of  1641.  He  dedicated  the  Ogygia 
to  James,  then  Duke  of  York*;  and  was  living  on  the 
old  soil  in  1709,  when  Mr.  Molineux,  the  antiquary, 
made  him  a  visit,  which  is  very  interestingly  spoken 
of  in  a  Manuscript  in  Trinity  College,  Dublin, 
(I.  4,  12.)  Nine  years  after,  he  died,  in  the  89th 
year  of  his  age,  of  want,  as  is  alleged  in  a  Tract  recently 
published  by  the  Irish  Archaeological  Society.  In 
1641,  Morrough  Dhu  OTflahertie  was  chosen  one  of 
the  Captains  of  the  forces  raised  by  the  Assembly 
then  held  at  Loughrea,  and  his  able  resistance  to  the 
Marquis  of  Clanricarde,  is  oftien  alluded  to  in  the 
Memoirs  of  that  nobleman.  Amongst  the  nobles  and 
chiefs,  who  went  out  of  Ireland  to  Charles  the  Second 
in  his  exile,  and  who  were  afterwards  specially  men- 
tioned in  his  Letter  from  Breda,  was  this  Captain 
Morrough,  then  the  OTflahertie,  and  who  had  married 
the  daughter  of  Viscount  Mayo.  Besides  this  officer, 
whose  Lieutenant-Colonelcy  was  soon  after  given  to 
John  Power,  Hugh  Flaherty  was  a  lieutenant  in 
Colonel  Heward  Oxburgh's  Infantry.  The  Roll  of 
the  ensuing  Outlawries  names  Teigue  Mac  Morgan 
Flaherty  of  Ballynahinch,  and  Hugo  and  Patrick 
Flaherty  of  Park,  in  the  County  of  Galway,  but  has 
no  mention  of  this  Morrough  ;  while  at  the  Court  of 
1700,  Bryan  Flaherty  claimed  and  was  allowed  a 
term  for  years  in  County  of  Galway  lands  *  forfeited  by 
Morrogh  Flaherty.' 

♦  Ware's  Writers,  p.  271. 


LORD  GALWAY'S  INFANTRY.  621 

Amongst  the  Manuscripts  of  Marsh's  Library,  (  V. 
3.  1.  25,  No.  25)  is  a  Petition  of  Comet  Robert  Fla- 
herty,  in  which  he  states  "  that,  being  bred  a  Protest- 
ant, he  had  ever  sought  to  advance  the  cause  of  King 
William  and  that  religion,  that  he  was  suffering  for 
his  principles,  &c.,  and  prayed  Royal  relief."  In  the 
alarm  which  existed  in  1745,  on  the  assertion  of  the 
Pretender's  title  in  Scotland,  the  representative  of  this 
family  proffered  to  the  Viceroy  (the  Earl  of  Chester- 
field) at  Dublin  Castle,  the  most  solemn  assurances  of 
his  fidelity  and  of  that  of  his  family  and  people  to  the 
King's  person  and  government.  His  grandson,  John, 
inherited  the  remaining  family  estates,  and,  accepting 
a  commission  in  his  Majesty's  army,  was  styled  therein 
Sir  John  O'Fflahertie,  his  ancestors  having  been 
always  held  to  be  hereditary  Knights  of  West  Con- 
naught.  Sir  John's  son  and  heir,  says  Lynch,*  is  the 
present  Thomas  Henry  O'Fflahertie  of  Lemonfield, 
County  of  Galway,  who  still  inherits  a  portion  of  the 
family  estates.  In  1747,  Captain  Francis  Flaherty, 
in  Lally's  Regiment,  was  severely  wounded  in  the 
battle  at  LauflSeld.  In  1768,  died  at  Nice  Count 
O'Flaherty,  who  had  been  long  in  the  Imperial 
service ;  and  in  two  years  after  died  General 
O'Flaherty,  for  many  years  in  the  service  of  Spain. 

♦  Feudal  Dignities,  p.  163. 


622  KING  JAMES'S  IBISH  ARMT  LIST. 

CAPTAIN  Mclaughlin  donelan. 

The  Sept  of  the  O'Donelans,  from  which  this  Captain 
descended,  were  Chiefs  of  Clan-Breasail  in  the  Barony 
of  Leitrim,  County  of  Galway  ;  and  are  so  located  by 
O'Dugan  in  his  Topographical  Poem  on  Ireland. 
They  also  ruled  over  Hy  Tuirtre,  a  territory  lying 
along  the  northern  shores  of  Lough  Neagh,  comprising 
the  Baronies  of  Toome  and  Antrim,  in  the  County  of 
Antrim.  They  derive  their  lineage  from  Murrough 
Mullethan,  a  King  of  Connaught  in  the  eighth  century, 
from  whose  time  frequent  annals  of  their  obits  in  the 
Irish  Chronicles  commemorate  them  as  *  Chief  Poets' 
of  that  Province.  In  1412,  Tully  O'Donelan,  then 
Chief,  built  the  Castle  of  Ballydonelan  on  the  site,  it  is 
related,  of  a  more  ancient  stronghold  of  his  family.  He 
also  built  a  chapel  and  family  cemetery  at  the  abbey 
of  Kilconnel,  hence  called  *Chapel-Tully.'  Melaghlin 
O'Donelan  died  at  Ballydonelan  in  1548  ;  he  was  father 
of  Dr.  Nehemiah,  who  was  educated  at  Cambridge,  and 
consecrated  Archbishop  of  Tuam  on  Queen  Elizabeth's 
patent  in  1595.  He  married  Elizabeth  O'Donnell, 
daughter  of  the  then  Earl  of  Tyrconnell,  and  died  in 
1609,  leavingbyher,  John,  hiseldestson,and  James,  who 
became  Lord  Chief  Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas  in 
Ireland.  John  was  the  great-grandfather  of  the  above 
officer,  who  should  be  more  correctly  styled,  *  Me- 
laghlin Donelan.'  He  rose  to  the  rank  of  Colonel, 
was  wounded  at  Aughrim,  and  was  afterwards  com- 
prehended in  the  Articles  of  Limerick.     He  had  mar- 


LORD  GALWAT'S  INFANTRY.  623 

ried  Mary,  daughter  of  Robert  Dillon,  (ancestor  of  the 
Lords  Clonbrock,)  and  died  at  his  house  in  Dublin  in 
1726,  leaving  issue,  through  which  this  family  has 
been  since  represented,  and  is  now  by  another 
Malachy,  a  minor.  James  Donelan,  the  brother  of 
the  above  officer,  was  a  Captain  and  afterwards  a 
Major  in  Lord  Louth's  Regiment  of  Infantry.  At 
the  close  of  the  campaign  he  passed  into  France, 
where  he  obtained  a  commission  and  rank  from  Louis 
the  Fourteenth,  but  was  killed  in  Piedmont  in  1693. 
The  Attainders  of  1691  included  Edward  Donnelan 
of  Killenane,  County  of  Galway ;  with  James  Donelan 
of  Ballydonelan.  In  1696,  Nehemiah  Donellan,  a 
collateral  of  this  House,  being  then  a  Baron  of  the 
Irish  Exchequer,  was  appointed  one  of  the  Commis- 
sioners of  the  Great  Seal,  and  had  at  the  same  time  a 
grant  of  lands  in  the  Counties  of  Galway  and  Roscom- 
mon. In  1703,  he  was  appointed  Chief  Baron.  This 
Nehemiah  was  the  surviving  son  of  the  aforesaid  Sir 
James  Donellan,  Chief  Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas. 
He  had  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Alderman  John 
Preston  of  Dublin,  and  had  issue  by  her  James,  John, 
and  William  Donellan.  She  died  in  September, 
1684,  and  was  buried  in  Christ  Church.*  The  peti- 
tions preferred  against  the  forfeited  estates  by 
Donelans  in  1700,  were  for  claims  attaching  to  the 
confiscations  of  Lord  Bophin,  Lord  Galway,  Hugh 
Kelly,  Sir  Edward  Tyrrell,  and  the  Earl  of  Clanri- 
carde.  In  1742,  Peter  O'Donelan  was  the  Roman 
Catholic  Bishop  of  Clonfert 

•  TTim         ^.Qtxy,  Berm.  Tur. 


624  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

CAPTAIN  CORNELIUS  HORAN. 

The  O'Horans  were  a  clan  in  the  County  of  Galway. 
This  Captain  does  not  appear  on  the  Roll  of 
Attainders,  but  his  Lieutenant  Roger  Horan  does,  and 
is  there  described  as  of  Abbey  Gormigan,  County  of 
Galway. 


LIEUTENANT  EDWARD  TULLT. 

He  was  also  of  a  Galway  family  ;  and  though  he  does 
not  appear  on  the  Attainders  of  1691,  there  are  there 
Thaddeus  Tully,  of  Athlone,  Thomas  of  Galway,  and 
Matthew  of  Clymore  in  that  County.  Claims  on  the 
estates  of  the  latter  were  prefeiTcd  in  1700  by  Agnes 
Tully,  his  widow,  for  her  jointure,  as  well  as  on  behalf 
of  her  sons  by  said  Matthew,  viz.  Edward^  William, 
Thomas,  and  Matthias,  for  remainders  ;  and  on  behalf 
of  her  daughters  Mary  and  Agnes  for  their  portions. 
These  claims  were,  however,  dismissed  for  non-prosecu- 
tion, and  the  estate  of  Clymore  was  thereupon  sold  by 
the  Commissioners  of  the  Forfeitures  to  Frederick 
Trench,  Esq.  of  Galbally,  ancestor  of  the  Earl  of 
Clancarty. 


LIEUTENANT  DAVID  STAPLETON. 

This  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of 
the  English  Invasion.     Another  officer  of  the  name, 


LORD  GALWAY'S  INFANTRY.         625 

Piers,  was  a  Lieutenant  in  Major-General  Boiseleau's 
Infantry,  and  in  their  attainders  they  are  described, 
the  former  as  of  Kilbolane  and  Buttevant,  the  latter 
as  of  Ballyfrizzle,  County  of  Cork  ;  while  another 
Stapleton.  whose  Christian  name  is  not  given,  is  styled 
of  Portumna,  County  of  Galway.  At  the  memorable 
battle  of  Fontenoy,  fought  on  the  11th  of  May,  1745, 
M.  Stapleton,  Lieutenant-Colonel  in  Berwick's 
Brigade,  was,  in  consequence  of  his  gallant  conduct, 
promoted  to  be  a  Brigadier.  Being  made  a  prisoner 
at  CuUoden  in  the  ensuing  year,  he  headed  a  memorial 
from  the  officers  there  taken,  to  the  Duke  of  Cumber- 
land, by  which,  acknowledging  themselves  prisoners 
of  war  of  His  Britannic  Majesty,  they  engaged  not  to 
go  out  of  the  town  of  Inverness  without  his  Grace's 
licence.  "  Done  at  the  Head  Quarters  at  Inverness, 
April  17th,  1746."  Signed  and  sealed.  This  interest- 
ing  memorial  of  banished  Irish  Cavaliers  is  preserved 
in  the  Gentleman's  Magazine  of  1746,  p.  211. 


ENSIGN  WILLIAM  SHINAN. 

The  attainder  of  this  officer  describes  him  as  of  Kil- 
bolane, County  of  Cork ;  while  a  previous  attainder 
of  1642  has  William  Shynnane  of  Castletown  in  the 
same  county  ;  but  the  name  so  spelt  was  evidently 
corrupted  from  O'Shanahan — "a  Sept,"  writes  that 
able  Irish  genealogist,  Dr.  Mc  Dermott,  in  his  notes 
to  tiie  l*<iJiJU^I9ters  (Geraght/s  edition,  p.  199), 

ss 


626 


KING  JAMES  S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 


"  descended  from  Lorcan,  King  of  Munster,  and 
grandfather  of  Brian  Bom,  and  hence  a  branch  of 
the  Dalcassians.  They  were  in  ancient  times  power- 
ful Chiefs,  and  in  the  great  battle  of  Moinmor  in 
Desmond,  fought  in  1151,  it  is  stated  by  the  Fonr 
Masters  that,  amongst  others,  seven  chiefs  of  the 
O'Shanahans  were  slain.  Their  ancient  territory  was 
called  Feadlia  Hy  Rongaile,  or  'the  Woods  of  Hy 
Rongaile,'  comprising  the  country  about  Eibhione, 
near  Cashel.  In  modem  times  they  possessed  the 
lands  of  Rathmoyne,  between  Cashel  and  Temple- 
more." 


REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY. 

LORD   JOHN   BELLEW'S. 

Captains.  Lieutenants.  Kntigns, 

Lord  Dollew,  

Colonel. 
[Nicholat  Fitzgerald, __  

Lieatenant-Colonel .  ] 

[John  Dowdele,  

Mi^r.] 

Colin  Hanlon.  John  Ilanlon.  Patrick  Hanlon. 

Henry  O'Neill.  Ter.  Morris. 

Oliver  Murphy.  Phelim  *  Mnrphie.*  Daniel  Crowley. 

Bryan  'Murphye.'  Dennis  *  Mnrphie.*  John  •  Murphey.' 

Richard  Bellew.  John  DowdalL 

Patrick  Bellew.  Tady  Crowley. 

Hugh  O'Neill,  John  Halfpenny. 

Grenad. 


LORD  BELLEW'S  INFANTRY.  627 


COLONEL  JOHN  LOUD  BELLEW. 

The  family  of  Bellew,  originally  of  Norman  descent, 
came  with  the  Conqueror  to  England,  and  into  Ire- 
land in  the  ensuing  century.  In  both  countries  it 
has  been  so  distinguished,  as  to  exhibit  no  less  than 
eighteen  Knights  of  the  pre-eminently  chivalrous 
Order  of  the  Banner ;  while  Peers  and  distinguished 
Commoners  of  the  same  lineage  occur  most  numerous 
on  the  Rolls  of  Parliament,  but  whose  honors,  by  fail- 
ure of  issue,  or  yet  more  by  attainders,  have  become 
extinct.  Richard  Bellew  was  one  of  the  Representa- 
tives of  Dundalk  in  Perrot's  Parliament  of  1585  ; 
and  Sir  John  Bellew  of  Willystown  in  Louth  repre- 
sented that  County  in  the  Parliament  of  1639.  He 
was  afterwards  one  of  the  members  of  the  Supreme 
Council  of  Kilkenny  in  1646  ;  and  as  such  was 
excepted  from  pardon  for  life  and  estate  by  Cromwell's 
Act  of  1652.  Having  married  Mary,  daughter  of 
Robert  Dillon  of  Clonbrock  (ancestor  of  the  Lords 
Clonbrock),  he  was  himself  the  founder  of  the  lines 
that  are  now  represented  by  Lord  Bellew  and  Sir 
Michael  Dillon  Bellew  respectively. 

John  Bellew  of  Bellewstown,  who  had  by  the  Act 
of  Settlement  been  restored  to  his  previously  usurped 
estates,  was  the  Colonel  above  named.  On  the  acces- 
sion of  James  the  Second  he  was  knighted,  appointe<l 
one  of  that  Monarch's  earliest  Councillors,  and  soon 
after  created  an  Irish  Peer  by  the  title  of  Baron  Bel- 
lew of  Duleek,  and  was  also  constituted  Lord  Lieute- 

ss  2 


G28  KING  James's  irisu  army  list. 

nant  and  Governor  of  the  County  of  Loutli.  In  the 
command  of  this  Kegimcnt  he  was  taken  prisoner  at 
Aughrim,  and  was  so  severely  wounded  that  he  died  in 
the  following  January,  as  commemorated  on  his  tomb, 
still  standing  in  the  middle  of  the  aisle  of  Duleek 
church.  It  states  that  he  was  shot  in  the  belly  at 
Aughrim,  and  that,  ''  as  soon  lUii  he  found  himself  able 
to  undertake  a  journey,  he  went  with  his  lady  to 
London,  where  lie  died,  12th  January,  1692.  He 
was  laid  in  a  vault  at  Westminster  till  the  April  fol- 
lowing, when  his  coi^se  was  brought  hither."  His  lady, 
Dame  Maiy  Bellew,  alias  Bermingham,  of  Dunfert, 
County  of  Kildare,  wlio  erected  the  monument,  died 
in  1694.  Lord  liellew  was  outlawed  in  1691,  ami 
his  estates  were  actually  granted  to  Loixls  Komney  and 
Trevor ;  but,  he  having  been  comprehended  within 
the  Articles  of  Limerick,  these  estates  werc  restored 
to  his  second  son,  Kichard,  who  had  obtained  a  par- 
don, as  hei'eafter  noted.  Tlie  Honorable  Walter,  the 
eldest  son  of  Lord  Bellew,  succeeded  to  the  title,  and 
was  by  court  influence  permitted  to  enjoy  it,  though 
he  too  was  wounded  at  Aughrim.  He  died  without 
issue  male  in  1696,  when  the  aforesaid  Ilichard 
became  the  third  Lord  Bellew.  His  son  John  was 
the  fourth,  but  he  also  died  without  issue  male  at 
Lisle,  whereby  the  Bellewstown  line  became  extinct. 
The  Attainders  of  1642  comprise  the  names  of  Nicholas 
Bellew  of  Balruddery,  surgeon  ;  and  of  Patrick  Bellew 
of  Athboy.  The  Declaration  of  Royal  gratitude  from 
Charles  the  Second,  as  'for  services  beyond  the  seas,* 
includes  Lawrence  Bellew  of ,  County  of  Louth. 


LORD  BELLEW'S  INFANTRY.  629 

Besides  the  three  Bellews,  officers  in  this  Regiment, 
there  were  eleven  others  commissioned  on  this  Army 
List.  In  King  James's  Parliament  of  1689  Lord 
Bellew  sat  as  one  of  the  Peers,  while  in  the  Commons 
Thomas  Bellew  was  one  of  the  Representatives  for 
the  County  of  Louth.  On  the  3rd  of  July  in  that 
year  the  Duke  of  Berwick  wrote  to  General  Hamil- 
ton, then  besieging  Derry,  "I  marched  yesterday 
morning  from  Newtown-Stewart,  and  joining  Sunder- 
land at  'Omey,' I  marched  hither  (Trelick) My 

advance  guard  cut  off  several  of  their  sentries,  and 
pushed  a  great  many  of  the  Rebels'  party  with  such 
vigour  as  they  beat,  with  thirty  dragoons,  three  troops 
of  Horse  of  theirs,  which  were  drawn  up  at  a  distance 
from  us.  Captain  Patrick  'Belue'  (i.  e.  Bellew  of 
this  Regiment)  and  Major  'Magdonner  commanded 
the  van-guard.  There  was  eight  or  nine  of  the  enemy 
killed,  but  none  of  Ours."*  Schomberg,  soon  after  he 
landed  in  Ulster,  garrisoned  Lord  Bellew's  Castle 
near  Dundalk.  "At  our  coming  to  Dundalk,"  (in 
September,  1689),  writes  Story,  "we  got  about  2,000 
of  Lord  Bellew's  sheep,  which  came  in  very  good  time 
to  the  army,  for  it  had  gone  hard  with  us  before,  for 
want  of  provisions.''!  During  this  sojourn  of  Schom- 
berg, three  of  his  Colonels,  dying  of  distemper,  were 
interred  in  Lord  Bellew's  vault  at  Dundalk,  but  they 
were  taken  up  on  the  Irish  regaining  possession  of 
the  place,  and  interred  at  the  church   door.  J      In 

♦  MSS.  in  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  F  2,  19. 

t  Story's  Imptrtifil  Hidtory,  pt.  1,  p.  19.        J  Idem,  p.  36. 


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630  KING  James's  irish  abmy  list. 


1690,  Thomas  Bellew  was  one  of  the  Deputy  Lieu 
tenants  of  the  County  of  Meath,  as  was  Roger  Belles 
of  that  of  Louth.  The  Inquisitions  of  1691  include 
Richard  Lord  Bellew,  with  eighteen  other  Bellows 
In  1696,  this  Richard  Lord  BeUew  preferred  his  peti 
\  I  tion  for  pardon,  grounded  on  allegations  and  proofs 

I  '  which  were  admitted,  and  he  afterwards  satin  the 

House  of  Peers  in  1707.  His  sister  was  the  wife  o1 
Denis  Kelly  of  Aughrim,  who  was  long  a  state  pri- 
soner  in  the  Tower  of  London.  John,  the  eldest  son  ol 
Sir  Patrick  Bellew  of  Barmeath,  had  also  at  this  time 
a  pardon  under  the  Great  Seal.  At  the  Court  o1 
Chichester  House  in  1700,  various  claims  were  pre- 
ferred as  affecting  the  Meath  estates  of  Thomas  Bel 
lew  of  Gafney  and  Dundalk. 


[LIEUTENANT-COLONEL  NICHOLAS 
FITZGERALD.] 

This  officer  does  not  appear  on  the  present  Arm] 
List,  but  his  appointment  is  mentioned  in  Graham^ 
Derriana  (p.  36).  Of  the  family  name,  seepost^  "Sii 
John  Fitzgerald's  Infantry." 


[MAJOR  JOHN  'DOWDELE.'] 

Neither  is  his  name  on  this  Army  List,  but  is  sup 
plied  from  King's  State  of  the  Protestants^  Appendix 
Of  the  family,  see  ante^  at  the  Royal  Infantry. 


LOKD  BELLEW'S  INFANTRY.  631 


CAPTAIN  COLIN  HANLON. 

The  O'Hanlons  were  Tanists  of  a  large  territory 
within  the  present  County  of  Armagh,  and  up  to  the 
time  of  James  the  First  enjoyed  the  honor  and  office 
of  Hereditary  Standard-bearer  of  Ulster — a  privilege 
which  Sir  William  Russel,  when  Lord  Deputy,  with 
due  policy  recognised  ;  as,  marching  against  O'Neill 
and  the  Northern  insurgents,  he  committed  the  royal 
standard,  (which  the  O'Mulloy  had  carried  through 
the  Pale),  to  Hugh  O'Hanlon,  who  had  theretofore 
submitted  to  English  government.  In  1314,  King 
Edward  directed  an  especial  letter  missive  to  Neill 
O'Hanlon,  ^Dtici  Hibemorum  de  Erther^  for  his  aid 
in  the  Scottish  war.  In  1337,  on  the  violation  of  a 
peace  existing  between  the  Crown  and  Donald  O'Han- 
lon,  a  Commission  was  directed  to  enquire  into  the 
circumstances  of  such  disruption,  and  in  1346  it  was 
provided,  that  he  should  be  taken  under  the  protec- 
tion  of  the  King.  In  the  reign  of  James  the  First, 
encroachments  having  been  made,  in  the  working  out 
of  the  Plantation  of  Ulster,  on  the  estates  of  Patrick 
O'Hanlon,  who  was  at  the  time  a  pensioner  of  the 
King,  he  petitioned  the  Privy  Council  of  England,  who 
in  1605  thereupon  ordered  that  he  should  be  re- 
stored to  his  lands  in  the  County  of  Tyrone  ;  and  that 
an  equivalent  in  lands  should  be  given  to  him,  in 
lieu  of  any  injury  he  may  have  received  by  the 
erection  of  Fort-Norris  on  his  land  ;  and  that  the 
pension  granted  to  him  by  the  late  Queen  should  be 


G32  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

continued.  In  the  same  year  Sir  Ogliy  O'Hanlon 
was  one  of  the  Ulster  forfeitors  ;  and,  as  his  lands 
adjoined  the  fort  and  castle  of  Moyry,  County  of 
Armagh,  a  certain  portion  was  allotted  towards  the 
maintenance  of  its  garrison ;  but  a  subsequent  patent 
provided  that  it  "might  be  lawful  for  O'llanlon  and  his 
heirs  to  possess  it  and  the  lands  thereto  assigned,  so 
long  as  it  should  continue  without  a  ward.  In  1612, 
Turlogh  Groome  O'llanlon  and  others  of  his  Sept  had 
grants  of  other  premises  in  their  old  County  of  Ar- 
magh, to  hold  for  ever  subject  to  the  conditions  of  the 
Plantation  of  Ulster.  Bedmund  O'Hanlon  had  about 
the  same  time  licence  to  surrender  his  lands,  with  the 
object  of  receiving  a  re-grant  thereof  from  Eling 
James.  The  memorable  Act  by  which  Ulster  was  de- 
clared confiscated,  and  its  leading  chiefs  were  attaint- 
ed, included  "Oghy  Oge  O'Hanlon,  eldest  son  of  the 
said  Sir  Oghy  O'Hanlon,  Knight,  late  of  Tovergy, 
County  of  Armagh." 

The  Attainders  of  1642  present  but  the  name  of 
Fyrmyn  'O'Hanlyn'  of  Castlemore,  County  of  Cork. 
Those  of  1691  comprise  Shane  Bane  O'Hanlon,  Oghy 
OTIanlon,  Phelim  Mc  Edmund  Teigue  O'Hanlon, 
Bryan  Mac  Oghy  O'Hanlon,  all  of  Tyrone'sditch, 
County  of  Armagh.  Phelimy  Mc  Patrick  Oge 
Ollanlon  of  Clara,  Kedmond  of  Phecos  and  Roger  of 
Tonragee,all  in  said  County;  with  John  Hanlon,  clerk, 
and  Patrick  Hanlon,  both  of  Carlingford,  County  of 
Louth. 


LORD  BELLEW'S  INFANTRY  633 

LIEUTENANT   THADT   CROWLEY    AND 
ENSIGN  DANIEL  CROWLEY. 

The  O'Crowleys  were  a  Sept  of  Cork,  who,  in  Smith's 
History  of  that  County,  are  said  to  have  branched 
from  the  McDermots  ofMoylurg.  In  the  Munster 
war  of  Elizabeth's  time,  the  Crowleys,  then  styled  of 
Carberry,  sought  and  obtained  the  protection  of  the 
Lord  President,  and  continued  loyal  until  the  landing 
of  the  Spaniards.*  The  Attainders  of  1641  include 
twenty-six  members  of  the  family,  all  of  this  County. 
Those  of  1691  comprised  the  above  Thady  Crowley, 
described  as  of  Temple-brien,  County  of  Cork,  with 
eight  others  of  the  name,  but  some  diflferently  spelt. 


LIEUTENANT  JOHN  HALFPENNY. 

This  name  does  not  appear  on  the  Attainders  of  1691, 
while  on  those  of  1641  are  Cornelius  Halfpenny  of 
Angestown,  and  Terence  Halfpenny  of  Roestown, 
County  of  Meath,  with  John  Halfpenny  Oge  of  Lusk. 
It  is  not  improbable  that  this  John  Halfpenny,  then 
young  {Oge\  may,  with  inveterate  fidelity  to  the 
Stuart,  have  been  the  above  Lieutenant. 

♦  Pacata  Hibernia,  p.  138. 


640  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Cork ;  and  he  had  by  her  six  sons,  five  of  whom 
entered  military  service  in  the  armies  of  the  East 
India  Company.  The  sixth,  Robert  Fagan,  entered 
the  British  service,  was  wounded  in  the  assault  of 
Bona-Fortuna  in  the  island  of  Martinico,  in  1802, 
and  fell  in  the  following  year  at  the  taking  of  St. 
Lucia.  Of  the  five  who  served  in  India,  James 
Patrick  Fagan  is  the  survivor.  He  was  engaged  in 
the  arduous  campaigns  under  Sir  Robert  Abercrombie 
against  the  French  islands  in  the  Indian  Seas,  and  in 
that  against  Nepaul,  in  the  capacity  of  Brigade-Major 
to  the  advance  division  of  the  army;  for  which  ser- 
vice he  received  the  war  medal,  and  was  nominated 
Paymaster-in-Chief  to  all  the  troops  constituting  the 
Raypoolana  and  Malwah  field  forces.  This  appoint- 
ment he  held  for  sixteen  years,  when  he  was  com- 
pelled to  return  for  his  health  to  Euroi)e,  having 
received  a  gratifying  acknowledgment  of  his  services, 
in  a  special  report  from  Lord  William  Bentinck,  then 
Governor-General.  He  and  his  brothers,  while  in 
India,  were  called  '  the  military  family.'  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  Fagan  (as  he  now  ranks),  being  anxious  to 
continue  this  designation  in  his  line,  has  placed  two 
of  his  sons  in  the  Indian  army. 

The  second  son  of  the  above  Captain  Christopher 
Fagan  was  Stephen  Fagan,  a  merchant  of  Cork, 
whose  son  James  married  Ellen,  daughter  of  Ignatius 
Trant,  Esq.,  lineal  descendant  of  Sir  Patrick  Trant, 
whose  attainder  and  confiscations  are  mentioned  post^ 
at  Major-General  Boiseleau's  Regiment.     The  present 


LORD  KENMARE's  INFANTRY. 


641 


William  Fagan,  a  member  of  Parliament  for  the  City 
of  Cork,  is  the  eldest  son  of  that  marriage. 


LIEUTENANT  THOMAS  CARTER. 

The  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of 
Edward  the  First ;  but  nothing  has  been  ascertained 
concerning  this  officer  or  his  kindred  about  the  period. 


REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY. 

CHRISTOPHER,  LORD   SLANE'S. 

Ccgatams,  Lieutenanit,  Entignt, 

The  Colonel.  IgoaUns  Nagle. 

[Maurice  O'Connell,  . 

Lientenant-Colonel.  ] 

w.....  Major.  ...  

Locaa £7erard.  ..............  Richard  Uriall. 

Bartholomew  Ciuack.         -.  Walter  Usher. 

Christopher  Cnsaok. 

This  Regiment,  so  imperfect  at  the  date  of  this  List,  was  reported  after 
the  Battle  of  the  Boyne  as  comprising  thirteen  companies,  with  a  total  of 
660  men.* 

*  Singer's  Correspondence  of  Lord  Clarendon,  v.  2.  p.  513. 

TT 


648 


KINO  JAMES'S  misn  ARMY  U8T. 


REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY. 

COLONEL  CORMUCK   O'NEILL'S. 


The  Colonel. 

Folix  0*NeUl, 

Licnteoant-Colonel. 

James  O'Neill. 

Arthur  M*GilI. 

Cormack  O'llagan. 

Thomas  M*NaughtOD. 

Daniel  Uagartj. 

William  Stewart 

Ross  McQuillan. 

Henry  O'Neill, 
Grenad. 

Bryan  O'Neill. 

John  Clements. 

Con  O'NeilL 

ArtO'Hagan. 

Cormack  O'Hara. 

Robert  Butler. 

Thomas  O'Cahane. 

Henry  Courtney. 
Roger  O'Cahane. 

Bryan  O'Neill. 

Con  O'NeiU. 

Daniel  O'Hagan. 

Peter  Dobin. 

Christopher  Russell. 

Hugh  O'Gribbin. 

Art  O'Harane. 


Emiofu, 


Henxy  Smyth. 

Thomas  0*NciU. 
Cormuck  M*GilL 
Oliver  O'Hagan. 
Daniel  Mokay. 
Daniel  O'DonncIl. 
Alexander  Stewart 
Cormuck  M'Quillan. 

iHngh  Magennis. 
Henry  O'NeiU. 

Edward  M'Conway. 

John  Gemon. 

iDonaghy  M  'Gunshenan 
Bryan  M*Gann. 

John  O'Hagan. 

Arthur  O'Hara. 

Con.  O'Dogherty. 

Bryan  O'Cahane. 

\  Bryan  M'Monus. 

Patrick  O'Sheale. 
Edmund  M*IldeiTy. 


Thomas  Dobin.. 
Edmund  Savage. 
Christopher  Fleming. 


James  Walsh. 

James  O'Crilly. 
Neill  M*GUL 
Cormuck  O'Hagap. 
Bryan  O'Connor. 
Maurice  O'Hagarty. 
Alexander  Stewart 
Theo.  McQuillan. 


Terence  M'Conway. 
John  Clements. 

Myles  M*Namee. 

James  O'Hagan. 
Manus  O'Hara. 
John  O'Dogherty. 
Donoghy  O'Cahane. 

Darby  O'Cahane. 

Cormuck  M*Cann. 
Art  O'Neill. 


Hen.  Savage. 
Fhtriok  O'Harane. 


COLONEL  GORMUCK  O'NEILL'S  INFANTRY.  649 

COLONEL  COKMUCK  O'NEILL. 

This  family  of  native  Royalty  has  been  fully  noticed,  ante^ 
p.  557,  &c.,  at  the  Earl  of  Tyrone's  Infantry.  Colonel 
Cormuck,  as  there  suggested,  resided  at  Broughshane 
in  the  County  of  Antrim,  was  Sheriff  of  that  County  in 
1687,  one  of  its  Kepresentatives  in  1689,  and  was 
outlawed  in  1691.  At  the  commencement  of  this  cam- 
paign  a  part  of  this  Regiment  was  despatched  with  the 
Earl  of  Antrim's  to  strengthen  the  garrison  of  Carrick- 
fergus.* 


CAPTAIN  ARTHUR  McGILL. 

TfflS  officer  appears  by  the  description  in  his 
attainder  of  1691  to  have  been  of  Carryroan,  County 
of  Antrim.  At  the  Court  of  Claims  in  1700,  Hugh 
Colvill  preferred  a  petition  for  the  reversion  of  a 
chattel  interest,  which  this  Arthur  held  in  that 
county,  and  the  claim  was  allowed.  Rory  Magill  of 
Lame  and  Bryan  Magill  also  forfeited  lands  in  same 
county. 


CAPTAINS  ART,  CORMUCK,  AND  DANIEL 
O'HAGAN. 

This  ancient  Sept  were  Chiefs  of  Tullaghoge,  within 

*  Mackenzie's  Siege  of  Derry,  p.  11. 


650  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

the  present  Barony  of  Dungannon,  County  of  Tyrone. 
They  were  amongst  those  hereditary  Tanists  who 
assisted  at  the  inauguration  of  the  O'Neills,  successive 
Princes  of  that  country  ;  and  Sir  Nicholas  Malby,  in 
a  Report  on  the  state  of  Ireland  which  he  made  to 
Queen  Elizabeth  in  1579,  describes  this  O'Hagan  as 
one  of  the  principal  men  of  note  in  that  country. 
True  to  the  O'Neill,  they  attended  him  subsequently  in 
the  Munster  war,  and  were  engaged  at  the  battle  of 
Einsale.  The  Act  of  1612  for  the  attainder  of  this 
great  Chief  accordiugly  included,  in  the  visitation  of 
its  penalties,  John  Opanty  Ollagan,  late  of  Dungan- 
non, with  Henry  and  Teigue  O'Hagan  of  the  same 
place.  The  above  officers  are  described  in  the  Inqui- 
sition taken  on  their  attainder.  Art  as  of  Dungannon, 
and  Cormuck  and  Daniel  of  the  County  of  London- 
deny.  Five  others  of  this  Sept  were  then  likewise 
outlawed  in  the  latter  County. 


CAPTAIN  THOMAS  McNAUGHTON. 

This  officer  is  described  on  the  Inquisition  for  his 
attainder  as  '  of  Kiltimurry,  County  of  Antrim.' 


CAPTAIN  DANIEL  HAGARTY. 

The  O'Hagartys  were  another  Ulster  Sept  sub-feuda- 
tory to  the  O'Neill,  under  whose  leadership  Maolmura 


COLONEL  COBMUCK  O'NEILL's  INFANTRY.  651 

O'Hagarty  fought  and  fell  at  the  battle  of  Einsale. 
The  Attainders  of  1691  have  but  two  of  the  name 
both  of  this  Province  ;  James  Hagarty  of  Pennyburn- 
MOl,  County  of  Londonderry,  and  William  Hagarty 
of  Tyrehugh,  County  of  Donegal,  clerk. A  Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel Hagarty  in  Lally's  Regiment  was 
wounded  in  1747,  at  the  battle  of  Lauffield,  having 
so  distinguished  himself  as  to  merit  a  pension  of 
1,200  francs  thenceforth  from  the  King  of  France.* 


CAPTAIN  WILLIAM  STEWART. 

The  Inquisition,  taken  on  the  attainder  of  this  oflScer, 
describes  him  as  of  Dundermod,  County  of  Antrim  ; 
the  only  other  then  attainted  individual  of  the  name 
being  George  '  Stuart'  of  Lisnadevin,  in  the  same 
County. 


CAPTAIN  ROSS  Mc  QUILLAN. 

The  Mc  Quillans  were  Lords  of  the  Territory  of  the 
Routes  in  the  County  of  Antrim,  holding  their  chief 
residence  in  the  fine  old  sea-girt  Castle  of  Dunluce. 
They  are  considered  to  have  been  themselves  invaders 
fix)m  Wales  on  earlier  inhabitants  of  the  North.  With- 
in that  county,  not  far  from  the  Ravel-water,  are 
the  ruins  of  another  castle  at  Clough,  traditionally 

♦  O'Conor'g  Milit.  Mem.  p.  404. 


C52  KIXG  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  UST. 

l)elieved  to  have  been  in  very  remote  times  also  a 
chief  seat  of  the  Mc  Quillan,  until  dispossessed  by  the 
Mc  DonncUs,  after  a  great  battle  fought  between  them 
near  the  mountain  of  Ora.  This  castle  stood  upon  a 
high  insulated  basaltic  rock  about  twenty  feet  above  the 
level  of  the  surrounding  ground,  and  was  encompassed 
l)y  a  foss.  According  to  the  same  local  traditions,  it 
was  burnt  in  1641,  with  a  hostility  that  left  standing 
only  a  noble  gateway,  about  twenty  feet  high  and 
fourteen  wide,  with  its  mortar  work  five  feet  in  thick- 
ness and  ix)werfully  cemented  ;  the  niin  is  surround- 
ed on  every  side  by  forts. When  Edward  Bruce, 

in  1315  invading  Ireland,  encamped  before  the  Castle 
of  Carrickfergus,  ten  or  twelve  of  the  petty  Princes 
of  the  North  came  in  to  him  and  proffered  their 
allegiance ;  amongst  whom  was  the  Mc  Quillan. 
In  1358,  say  the  Four  Mtisters,  died  Senechaa 
ilc  Quillan,  who,  in  the  existing  native  government, 
ranked  High  Constable  of  Ulster  ;*  and  the  death  of 
Slevin  Mc  Quillan  in  ten  years  after  is  commemorated 
by  these  historians  with  the  same  title,  as  hereditary. 
Succeeding  annals  are  filled  with  narratives  of  active 
and  melancholy  feuds  between  the  O'Neills,  O'Don- 
nells,  and  O'Cahanes  on  the  one  side,  and  the 
Mc  Quillans  on  the  other.  On  the  13th  July,  1563, 
woa  fought  the  battle  of  Ora,  before  alluded  to,  be- 
tween the  Mc  DonneDs,  headed  by  Sorle-buy,  and  the 
Mc  Quillans,  headed  by  Conway  Mc  Quillan,  whose 

*  Annals  of  the  Four  Masters. 


COLONEL  CORMUCK  o'NEILL'S  INFANTRY.  653 

tomb  is  still  pointed  out  by  the  people  at  Ardagh,  in 
the  parish  of  Ramoan. 

An  interesting  existing  manuscript,  of  modem  date 
( 1823),  but  compiled  from  ancient  papers  of  authority, 
commences  a  history  of  this  family  from  Edward 
Mc  Quillan,  who  was  bom  in  1503,  and  ranked  as 
Prince  of  Dalaridia  for  seventy  years,  during  five 
reigns  of  English  Sovereigns.  On  the  Plantation  of 
Ulster,  his  estates  were  seised  by  the  Crowii.  "The 
King,''  says  the  manuscript,  "as  sensible  of  the  in- 
justice  done  to  the  McQuillan  in  depriving  him  of 
his  estate,  offered  him  the  lands  of  O'Doherty,  Prince 
of  Inishowen,  in  lieu  of  them;  but  Mc  Quillan  refused 
to  accept  thereof,  indignantly  saying  he  would  not 
take  lands  belonging  to  another  man  ;  that,  as  he  was 
not  attainted,  he  still  expected  to  get  his  own,  and 
that  all  the  claim  Mc  DonneU  had  to  the  lands 
was  his  being  married  to  Mc  Quillan's  daughter.'' 
Edward  did  not  outlive  the  Plantation  ;  his  decease 

occurred  at  the  very  advanced  age  of  102 He 

was  descended  from  Feidlim  Fionn  Mac  Quillan,  who 
was  descended  from  Fiach  Mac  Quillan,  a  son  of  Niall 
of  the  Nine  Hostages "I  believe,"  adds  the  com- 
piler of  the  document  (Edward  Mc  Quillan,  bom  in 
1760),  "  that  my  great-grandfather  was  the  first  of 
the  family  who  conformed  to  the  established  religion, 
with  his  two  youngest  sons;  Richard,  my  grandfather, 
and  his  youngest  brother,  Charles ;  but  his  eldest 
daughter,  Mary,  was  so  steadfast  in  the  Romish  reli- 
gion, that  she  went  to  Spain  before  the  battle  of  the 


6o4  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Boyne,  and  became  there  Maid  of  Honour  tx)  the 
Queen,  an  office  which  she  filled  to  the  day  of  her 
death,  when  she  left  a  fortune,  to  which  I  am  heir, 
if  it  could  be  (jot.  Her  two  eldest  brothers  were 
strict  Catholics  also  (one,  it  may  be  presumed,  the 
al)ove  Captain  Ross),  and  followed  the  fortunes  of 
King  James  the  Second,  the  gi^andson  of  him  who 
deprived  the  family  of  their  principality.  They  were 
in  Limerick  at  the  time  of  the  siege,  and  intending 
to  follow  the  King  to  Franco,  when,  in  the  very  act 
of  talking  leave  of  their  brother  officers,  one  of  them 
was  killed  by  a  cannon  ball.  The  other  went  to 
France,  and  served  with  distinction  in  the  Irish 
Brigade,  as  did  also  his  son  Lewis  Mc  Quillan,  who 
died  at  Versailles  some  time  previous  to  the  year 
1766,  leaving  a  large  property  to  the  nearest  heir 
of  the  name  of  McQuillan  and  House  of  Dunluce. 
This  my  father  went  to  France  to  seek  ;  when  he  went 
to  the  Jesuits'  College  at  Versailles,  there  to  prefer 
his  claim  (they  being  the  trustees  to  the  property  of 
all  officers  of  the  Irish  Brigade  in  France)  ;  but  the 
kingdom  was  then  in  a  ferment  on  account  of  the  ex- 
pulsion of  these  Jesuits  ;  he  was  arrested,  and  all  his 
papers  taken  from  him,  amongst  which  was  a  pedigree 
of  the  Mc  Quillans,  as  long  as  the  third  chapter  of 

Luke The  McDonneDs,  who  got  a  great  part  of 

our  lands,  wish  it  to  be  believed  that  the  Mc  Quillan 
family  is  extinct,  and  really  they  were  nearly  extin- 
guished by  the  Mc  Donnells,  as  shown  in  these 
Memoirs  ;  but  they  are  not  yet  extinct,  for  there  are 


COLONEL  CORMUCK  O'NEILL'S  INFANTRY.  655 

several  of  them  living  in  Ireland,  and  when  I  last 
heard  from  America,  my  brother  had  two  sons  and 
one  grandson  living  ;  and  I  have  also  two  sons  living 
and  two  daughters,  and  all  my  children  comfortably 
settled/'  The  Memoir  concludes  with  the  attestation, 
"  As  my  family  was  never  attainted,  my  blood  is 
legally  pure,  and  I  am  the  legitimate  lineal  hereditary 
(in  abeyance)  Prince  of  Dalaridia ;  though  I  now 
subscribe  myself  only  plain  Edward  Mac  Quillan,  this 
11th  of  12th  Mo.  1823,  being  the  completion  of 
my  63rd  year."  The  son  of  that  Edward,  Joseph  Mc 
Quillan,  is  now  living  in  the  County  of  Wexford. 

Previous  patents  of  James  the  First  record  pardons 
passed  to  several  members  of  this  Sept;  and,  yet  more, 
a  grant  in  1608  of  the  territory  of  Clinaghartie  in 
Lower  Clandeboy,  County  of  Antrim,  comprising 
twenty-one  extensive  townlands,  with  all  heredita- 
ments, advowsons,  &c.  of  churches,  formerly  belong- 
ing to  any  religious  houses  therein  ;  the  Mc  Quillan 
being  bound  to  find  and  maintain  every  year,  for  the 
space  of  forty  days,  two  able  horsemen  and  six  foot- 
men to  serve  the  King,  Lord  Deputy,  or  Governor  of 
Carrickfergus,  whenever  required  within  the  Province 
of  Ulster,  and  to  answer  all  risings  out  and  general 
hostings.  In  1619,  however,  a  royal  letter  was 
issued  for  a  surrender  of  this  territory  from  the 
patentee,  and  in  truth  the  family  were  so  utterly 
despoiled,  that  the  name  does  not  appear  on  the  Out- 
lawries either  of  1641  or  1691,  with  the  exception  of  a 
James  Mc  Quillan,  who  forfeited  on  the  latter  occasion, 


fi.'ifi  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

wlion  Ilugli  Colville  claimed  at  Cliichestcr  House  a 
chattel  n'lnainder  in  the  lands  of  Attefatliaw,  County 
of  Antrim,  as  forfeited  by  said  James. 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  CLEMENTS. 

NoTiHXO  worthy  of  not<i  has  been  ascertained  of  this 
ollicer  or  his  family. 


CAPTAIN  CORMUCK  OTIARA. 

Tnis  very  ancient  Sept  is  spoken  of  very  fully,  ante,  p. 
467,  &c.  In  IGU,  Teiguc  O'Hara  had  a  grant  of 
the  castle,  town,  and  lands  of  Coolany  (Coolooney), 
with  uinvards  of  one  hundred  townlands,  stated  to 
have  been  parcels  of  the  estate  of  Teagh  Temple 
(Temple  House),  with  sundry  chief-rents  and  moduses, 
fairs,  court.s,  &c.  In  the  ensuing  confiscations  on 
the  civil  war  of  1641,  no  less  than  thirteen  OTIaras 
were  forfeiting  proprietors  within  the  Barony  of 
Leney,  but  the  name  of  Teiguc  does  not  appear 
amongst  them.  In  1661,  Margaret,  daughter  of 
Thady  O'llara  of  Crebilly,  by  Catherine,  sister  to 
Daniel  O'Neill,  page  of  honor  to  King  Charles  the 
Second,  was  married  to  the  third  Viscount  Netter- 
ville.* 

Besides  this  Captain,  John  '  Ilara '  was  a  Lieutc- 

♦  Archdall's  Ixwlge's  Peerage,  vol.  4,  p.  "210. 


COLONEL  CORMUCK  0\\EILL's  INFANTRY.  657 

nant  in  Colonel  Dominick  Browne's  Infantry.  The 
latter  was  of  the  Sligo  stock,  and  is  described  in  the 
Inquisition  on  his  attainder  as  John  O'Hara  of  Clon- 
acule,  County  of  Sligo  ;  as  is  the  former  of  Loughdale, 
County  of  Antrim.  Daniel  O'Hara  of  the  same  place 
was  then  also  attainted,  as  were  Teigue  of  Crebilly, 
and  John  his  son  ;  John  of  BaJlynahinch,  County  of 
Down  ;  Roger  of  Montagh,  County  of  Sligo  ;  and  Ar- 
thur O'Hara  of  Faris,  County  of  Antrim.  In  1703, 
the  confiscated  estates  of  the  aforesaid  John  O'Hara 
of  Ballynahinch,  and  of  a  Kean  CHara  in  the  County 
of  Antrim,  were  sold  to  the  Hollow  Swords'  Blades 
Company.  The  Baronage  of  Tyrawley  was,  after  the 
Revolution,  conferred  on  an  O'Hara,  as  was  that  of 
Kilmain  on  James  O'Hara,  ante^  p.  469.  History 
records  the  achievements  of  Governor  O'Hara  in 
Senegal  in  1766  ;  of  Admiral  and  Captain  O'Hara  in 
the  following  year  ;  of  Captain  O'Hara  in  Africa  in 
1770,  and  in  the  French  service  in  1777  ;  but  all 
further  notices  of  them  are  inadmissible  here. 


CAPTAINS  FRANCIS  AND  ROGER 
O'CAHANE. 

This  Sept  claims  descent  from  Niall  of  the  Nine 
Hostages,  the  King  of  Ireland  who  brought  St. 
Patrick  a  captive  from  France  to  its  shores.  They 
constituted  one  of  the  most  powerful  families  of 
ancient  Dalaradia  in  Ulster,  from  whence  passed  out 

uu 


G58  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

the  cmigi^ants  who  colonised  Scothind,  conquered  the 
Picts,  and  estahlished  a  Kingdom  there,  which,  in 
memory  of  their  oKl  home,  was  named  Dalriada. 
From  them  descended  the  line  of  Scottish  Kings — 
the  Stuart,  for  whose  service  the  j)resent  Anny  List 
wjis  drawn  up.  In  the  earliest  Annals  of  Ireland, 
Dalriada  and  the  O'Cahanes  are  associated  with 
events  of  chivalrous  and  romantic  interest.  At 
Dunseverick,  on  the  northern  coast  of  Antrim,  upon 
a  rock  over  the  sea,  amidst  tlie  basaltic  wonders  of  the 
Giant's  Causeway,  was  enacted  their  castle;  its  im- 
l)osing  ruins  still  remain. 

On  the  earliest  adoption  of  surnames  in  Ireland, 
Eogan  O'Cahan  is  recorded  an  Abbot  in  the  County 
of  Galway,  A.I).  080.  In  1145,  died  Sluaghdcach 
O'Cahanc,  *  Bishop  of  the  people  of  Leighlin.'  In 
1192,  a  porch  of  the  black  church  of  St.  Columbkill 
was  built  by  0*Cahane  of  the  Crieve,  {i.e.  the  Barony 
of  Coleraine),  soon  after  which  this  powerful  Sept 
possessed  themselves  of  the  greater  part,  of  the  County 
of  Derry,  thence  called  the  O'Cahane's  Country.  In 
1244,  Henry  the  Tiiird  requested  the  attendance  and 
assistance  of  the  O'Cahane  in  his  projected  war.  In 
1314,  King  Edward  directed  a  special  letter  missive  to 
Dermod  O'Cahane,  '  Duci  Hibevnonnn  de  Feimi'tveeve^ 
for  military  service  in  Scotland.  Associated  with  the 
O'Neill,  the  McGenis,  O'Hanlon,  McMahon,  Maguire, 
and  other  Chiefs  of  Ulster,  under  the  command  of 
Richard  de  Burgo,  Earl  of  Ulster,*  the  O'Cahanc  em- 

♦  Rot.  Scot.  7,  Edw.  2  in  Tur.  L. 


COLONEL  CORMUCK  O'NEILL'S  INFAxNTBY.  659 

barked  from  Drogheda  for  Scotland.  In  1338,  David 
McOghy  0''  Kyne'  sued  out  a  patent  of  pardon  and 
protection.  This  was  the  first  recorded  conversion  of 
the    name    towards    that   by   which   it  is   latterly 

frequently  known Kyan.     Before  this  time,  a 

monastery  was  founded  by  the  O'Cahan  at  Dungiven, 
which  became  thenceforth  the  burial  place  of  the 
&mily,  and  still  exhibits  monuments  of  sculptured 
ornament  commemorative  of  them.  One  is  particu- 
larly alluded  to  in  a  note  of  Dr.  O'Donovan  to  the 
Four  Masters,  ad  arm.  1385.  About  the  middle  of 
the  fourteenth  century,  Angus  '  Oge'  (the  younger), 
Lord  of  the  Isles,  married  the  daughter  of  the 
O'Cahane  ;*  and  in  1537,  Cornelius  O'Cahane  was 
Bishop  of  Baphoe. 

Amongst  the  State  Papers,  temp.  Henry  the  Eighth, 
is  a  Report  of  1542,  from  the  Lord  Deputy  of  Ireland 
and  his  Council  to  the  King,  in  which  it  is  written, 
"Now,  as  to  the  further  occurrences  of  this  your 
realm,  for  as  much  as  one  McQuillan,  which  is  an 
Englishman  (they  claim  to  be  of  Welsh  descent),  and 
now  submitted  to  your  Majesty's  obedience,  is  invaded 
by  one  called  O'Cahan,  by  the  aid  as  it  is  supposed 
of  CDonnell  his  galloglas,  we  have  therefore  sent 
John  Travers,  with  a  convenient  number  of  horsemen 
and  footmen,  to  the  aid  of  the  same  McQuillan,  as  well 
for  that  the  same  O'Cahane,  which  never  yet  showed 
any  obedience  to  your  Majesty,  should  not  destroy  the 
said  McQuillan,    as  also  to  give  courage   to  others 

*  Archdairs  Lodge's  Peerage,  v.  7,  p.  111. 

ITU  2 


U60  KING  JAMES'S  IRISU  ARMY  UST. 

that  have  in  like  sort  submitted  themselves  to  your 
obedience  as  McQuillan  has  done,  shall  in  like  case  be 
aided  if  they  persist  in  their  due  allegiance."*  At 
the  close  of  this  year,  Manus  O'Cahane,  then  the 
Chief,  renewed  his  submission  to  the  King,  and  signed 
an  indenture  of  peace,  a  copy  of  which  is  preserved  in 
the  Lambeth  MSS.f  In  1558,  George  Dowdall,  the 
iirst  Archbishop  of  Armagh  after  the  Reformation, 
urged,  in  a  letter  to  tlie  Viceroy,  the  policy  of  expelling 
the  Ilebridean  Scots  from  Ulster,  by  procuring  their 
Irish  neighbours,  O'Neill,  O'Donnell,  O'Cahane,  and 
otliers,  to  unite  against  them.  He  further  relied  that 
the  power  of  tlie  Scots  in  Ireland  proceeded  princi- 
pally, from  the  Irish  Cliiefs  engaging  them  as  their 
auxiliaries  in  their  private  quarrels  ;  a  practice  to  the 
suppression  of  which  the  Primate  earnestly  directed 
the  attention  of  the  Viceroy.  J  Accordingly,  in  1567, 
Sir  Henry  Sydney  reported  to  the  Queen,  "All  Tyr- 
conneFs,  togetlier  with  O'Cahane's  country  under  the 
government  of  O'Cahane,  is  in  great  obedience  to 
your  Majesty,  and  daily  doth  annoyance  to  the 
rebels.''  At  the  Irish  Conciliation  Pai'liament,  sought 
to  be  assembleil  in  Dublin  by  Sir  John  Perrot,  in 
1585,  "there  came  to  it  (say  the  Four  Masters), 
O'Cahane,  Lord  of  Oireach-O'Cahan,  namely,  Rode- 
ric,  the  son  of  Manus,  son  of  Donough  the  hospitable, 
son  of  John,  son  of  Accency."     It  was  in  his  time, 


♦  State  Papers,  imj}.  Hen.  VIII.,  v.  3,  p.  399. 

t  Idem,  p.  407-8. 

J  Gregory's  Hebrides,  p.  198. 


COLONEL  CORMUCK  O'NEILL'S  INFANTRY.  661 

and,  as  appears,  with  his  aid,  that  the  McConnell,  or 
McDonnell,  settled  in  Antrim.  The  O'Cahanes,  how- 
ever,  sedulously  adhered  to  the  O'Neill  as  their  Lonl 
Paramount,  and  fell  with  his  fortunes,  being  expressly 
by  name  included  in  the  act  for  his  attainder,  by 
which  all  Ulster  was  declared  confiscated  to  the 
Crown.  In  the  Egerton  Papers^  recently  published 
by  the  Camden  Society,  is  an  interesting  report  from 
Sir  John  Davis  to  the  Lord  Chancellor,  dated  in 
1607,  wherein  he  writes,  "  The  Earl  of  Tyrone  is  sent 
for  into  England,  to  receive  order  in  the  cause  between 
him  and  O'Cahane,  or  rather  between  him  and  the 
King's  Majesty,  touching  the  title  of  O'Cahane's 
Country  ;  and  he  is  directed  by  the  King's  letters  to 
attend  at  Court  about  the  beginning  of  Michaelmas 
term."* 

In  1615,  on  an  alleged  conspiracy  ''to  seize  and 
destroy  Deny  and  the  other  principal  towns  of  the 
Plantation,"  a  few  of  the  chief  Irish  gentlemen  of  the 
North  were  apprehended,  tried,  and  six  of  them  found 
guilty  and  executed ;  one  of  these,  it  appears,  was 
Rory  O'Cahane,  whose  estate  was  thereupon  granted 
away  by  the  Commissioners  of  the  Plantation,  as 
forfeited.!  The  Duchess  of  Buckingham  having, 
after  her  first  widowhood,  married  the  Earl  of  Antrim, 
took  up  her  residence  in  that  County,  and  there 
raised  a  force  of  1,000  men  in  aid  of  the  Monarchy. 
Lord  Wentworth,  who  was  at  the  time  Lord  Deputy, 

*  Camden  Papers,  v.  12,  p.  414. 

t  Ordnance  Survey  of  Deny,  pp.  40-41. 


.41 


662  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

directed  her  Grace  to  have  these  recruits  marched  by 
the  route  of  Newtown-Limavadj,  in  passing  through 
which  village  she  was  induced  to  visit  the  wife  of 
0*Cahane,  whose  castle  had  been  demolished  and 
himself  banished.  ^4n  the  midst  of  a  half  ruined 
edifice  was  kindled  afire  of  branches,  and  the  window 
casements  were  stuffed  with  straw,  to  keep  off  the 

rigour  of  the  season. There  lodged  the  wife  of 

O'Ciihnne.*'*  Colonel  'O'Kyan,'  mentioned  in  the 
wars  of  Montrose,  and  who  was  executed  after  the 
defeat  at  Philipsburg,  is  considered  to  have  been  in 
his  day  the  head  of  the  O'Cahanes ;  while  another 
officer,  styled  Manus  Roe  O'Cahane,  was,  by  Crom- 
well's  Act  of  I6t52,  excepted  from  pardon  for  life 
and  estate.  In  ten  years  after,  Nicholas  '  Cahane'  of 
this  family  was  called  upon  his  knees  before  the  Irish 
House  of  Commons,  and  committed  to  prison,  for 
alleged  disrespect  "  to  the  best  of  Kings,  on  whose 
head  God  by  his  miraculous  providence  had  placed  a 
crown  of  pure  gold,  which  all  the  machinations  of 
such  as  he,  would  never  be  able  to  remove.^f  In  the 
Army  List  given  in  Berwick's  Batcdon  Papers  (p. 
360),  a  Kegimcnt  of  Infantry  in  this  campaign  is 
stated  to  have  been  commanded  by  an  O'Cahane,  and 
O'Conor  in  his  Military  Memoirs  says  O'Cahane  did 
raise  such  a  force.  Three  other  O'Cahanes,  it  will  be 
observed,  held  commissions  in  this  Regiment,  while 
John  O'Cahane  was  an  Ensign  in  the  Earl  of  Antrim's 

*  Grahanrs  Derriana,  p.  4C. 
t  Cotnin.  Journ.  v.  2,  pp.  604-5. 


COLONEL  CORMUCK  O'NEILL'S  INFANTRY.  663 

Infantry,  and  Owen  '  Cahane'  was  a  Lieutenant  in 
Lord  Clare's  Dragoons. 

The  Attainders  of  1691  enumerate,  with  Captain 
Francis,  described  as  of  Pennybum-Mill,  County  of 
Derry,  and  Captain  Roger  *  Keigh'  O'Cahane  of  Con- 
najteile.  County  of  Tyrone,  twelve  others  of  the  Sept. 
After  the  capitulation  of  Limerick,  Lord  Iveagh 
brought  over  a  body  of  the  expatriated  soldiers  to 
France,  who  were  sent  thence,  as  before  mentioned, 
under  the  command  of  Colonel  McDonnell  for  the 
service  of  the  Emperor  of  Austria  in  Hungary.  He 
employed  them  against  the  Turks,  by  whom  they  were 
so  severely  handled,  that  the  remnant  was  drafted  into 
other  corps  of  the  Imperial  army.*  Of  these  suffer- 
ing Irish  reftigees  were  two  O'Cahanes,  whose  Peti- 
tions to  King  William,  "  that  they,  being  sick,  might 
safely  repair  to  Ireland,  their  natural  soil,"  have  been 
noted  as  in  the  Sovihwell  Manuscripts.  It  is 
alleged  f  that  the  Irish  Eoman  Catholics  petitioned 
the  Pretender,  in  1711,  to  nominate  a  Dr.  Bryan 
O'Cahane,  then  Parish  Priest  of  Ballynascreen, 
County  of  Down,  to  the  vacant  See  of  Deny. Bunt- 
ing, in  his  Ancient  Musk  of  Ireland  (pp.  44  &  68), 
makes  mention  of  a  celebrated  Irish  harper  of  the 
name  of  O'Cahane,  who,  having  been  about  the  year 
1773  in  the  Highlands,  often  entertained  the  Lord 
Mac  Donald  at  his  residence  in  the  Isle  of  Skye,  with 
his  excellent  -performance  on  the  harp.     "  He  was 

♦  O'Callaglian's  Brigades,  vol.  1,  p.  359. 
t  Ordnance  Survey  of  Derry,  p.  69. 


664  KING  JAMES'S  IBISH  AEMY  LIST. 

i  considered  one  of  the  chief  O'Cahanes  of  his  old  terri- 

I  tory  ;  and  the  names  of  the  estates  in  the  North,  to 

j  which  he  was  tnulitionally  entitled,  were  enumerated 

j  at  the  great  meeting  of  the  harpers  some  years  since 

I  in  Belfast." 

I  

II  CAPTAIN  HENRY  COURTNEY. 

j  Ills  name  docs  not  ai)i)ear  on  the  Outlawries  of  1691, 

||  nor  has  any  information  been  obtained  of  him  or  his 

ji  family. 

i 

1- 


CAPTAIN  PETER  DOBIN. 

Tins  officer  is  described  in  the  Inquisition  for  his  at- 

I  tiiinder  as  of  Drumferagh,  County  of  Antrim  ;  within 

which  county  were  then  also  outlawed  Thomas  ^Dobbin' 

fi  of  Clough  and  Henry  Dobbin  of  Ballynacard  ;  while 

!'  in   the   County   of  Kilkenny  three    Dobbins  stand 

i  outlawed.     At  the  Court  of  Claims,  Captain  William 

ij  Dobbin    was    allowed    an  equity  of  redemption  on 

a  mortgage  of  County  of  Antrim  lands,  forfeited  by 

said  Captain   Peter.     Another    Peter    Dobbin    was 

Quarter-master  in  Lord  Dongan's  Dragoons  ;  while  a 

third  Peter,  alias  Piers,  was  an  Ensign  in  the  Earl  of 

Tyrone's  Infantry.    Anthony  Dobin  was  a  Burgess  of 

Carrickfergus  in  the  time  of  James  the  First,  as  was 

Nicholas  Dobin  in  the  time  of  Charles  the  First. 


COLONEL  COBMUCK  O'NEILL'S  INFANTRY.  665 


CAPTAIN  HUGH  O'GKIBBIN. 

He  was  attainted  by  the  description  of  Hugo  O'Grib- 
bin  of  Killegneen,  County  of  Antrim.  See  further 
of  this  name  at  Colonel  Kobert  Cliflford's  Dragoons. 


CAPTAIN  ART  O'HARANE. 

The  O'Horans  were  a  clan  of  Hy  Maine  in  the  County 
of  GaJway,  but  do  not  seem  convertible  into  this  name. 


LIEUTENANT  HENRY  SMITH. 

The  Attainders  of  1642  present  the  name  of  Richard 
*  Smith,'  described  as  of  Madanstown,  County  of 
Meath.  In  1665,  Sir  Edward  Smith  was  appointed 
Chief  Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas  in  Ireland,  as  was 
John  *  Smith'  a  Puisne  Judge  thereof  in  1700.  In 
the  Parliament  of  1689,  two  of  the  name  were  of  the 
Temporal  Peers — Smith,  Viscount  Carrington  of  Bar- 
rifore,  a  '  Papist,'  and  Smith,  Viscount  Strangford,  a 
Protestant ;  while  William  Smith,  Bishop  of  Raphoe, 
was  one  of  the  Spiritual  Peers.  Besides  this  officer, 
three  other  Smiths  were  commissioned  oa  this  Army 
list,  and  the  Attainders  of  1691  present  four  Smiths, 
the  majority  of  whom,  including  Lieutenant  Henry, 
appear  to  have  been  of  the  County  of  Kilkenny. 


G66  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

LIEUTENANT  DANIEL  MAKAY. 

In  the  settlement  of  property  in  Ulster  consequent 
upon  the  Plantation,  Randal  Mc  Donnell  of  Dunluce, 
Earl  of  Antrim,  conveyed  lands  in  that  County  to 
Daniel  '  Mc  Key  *  of  Ballytirim,  to  hold  in  fee;  where- 
of said  Daniel  died  seised  in  1622,  leaving  Alexander 
Mc  Allaster  Mc  Key  his  son  and  heir,  tlien  of  full 
a{:^\*  The  prosimt  Lieutenant,  it  may  be  concluded, 
was  the  son  of  this  Alexander. 


LIEUTENANT  EDWARD  Mc  CONWAY. 

Amongst  tlic  manuscripts  of  Mr.  Robert  Conway 
lluriey  of  Tralee  (which  have  been  kindly  forwarded 
in  aid  of  these  Illustrations),  is  a  very  interesting 
pedigree  of  the  family  of  Conway,  compiled  from  the 
Herald's  Office  in  London  and  North  Wales,  and  yet 
more  especially  from  one  at  Ragley,  certified  by 
Francis,  Viscount  Beauchamp,  *  now  Marquis  of  Hert- 
ford.' From  this  it  appears  that  Sir  John  Conway, 
of  Ragley  in  Worcestershire,  (whose  lineage  is  there 
deduced  from  Sir  William  Conais,  High  Constable  of 
England  in  the  tuue  of  the  Conqueror),  was  made 
Governor  of  Ostend  in  1586  by  the  Earl  of  Leicester; 
and  that  having  married  Ellen,  daughter  of  Sir  Fulke 
Greville  of  Beanchamp's-court,  Warwickshire,  he  died 
in  the  fii'st  year  of  the  reign  of  James  the  First, 

*  IiiquLs.  1G35,  in  Caiic.  11  ib. 


COLONEL  CORMUCK  O'nEILL's  INFANTRY.  667 

leaving  issue  by  her,  two  sons  ;  Sir  Edward,  his  suc- 
cessor ;  and  Sir  Fulke,  his  second  son.  The  latter,  in 
1609,  on  the  Plantation  of  Ulster,  settled  as  an  under- 
taker in  Antrim,  where  he  obtained  a  large  territory 
in  Killultagh,  the  ancient  inheritance  of  Con  O'Neill. 
Sir  Fulke  was  a  distinguished  officer  in  Ireland,  be- 
came a  Representative  of  Antrim  in  Parliament,  and 
ultimately  a  Privy  Councillor.  He  died  in  1624, 
leaving  a  son  Christopher,  Member  for  the  Borough 
of  Armagh  in  the  Parliament  of  1613,  and  who  mar- 
ried the  eldest  sister  of  the  justly  revered  Sir  James 
Ware.  By  her  he  had  James  Conway,  Captain  of 
Horse,  who,  with  his  cousin  Lord  Conway,  accom- 
panied Charles  the  Second  in  his  exile.  On  the 
Restoration,  the  former  returned  to  Ireland,  witli 
nothing  but  his  commission  to  depend  upon.  Here 
Smith,  in  his  *  History  of  Kerry ^  takes  up  the  migra- 
tion ;  "  there  came  into  this  county,  soon  after  the 
Restoration,  James  Conway,  son  to  Christopher  Con- 
way,  nephew  to  Lord  Conway.''  He  married  (re- 
sumes the  manuscript)  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Edward 
Roe,  Esq.  of  Clohane,  County  of  Ke^,  by  Alice, 
daughter  of  Jenkin  Conway  of  Castle  Conway  in  the 
same  county,  one  of  the  Munster  undertakers  who,  in 
the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  came  from  Wales  with 
Sir  William  Herbert,  Sir  Edward  Denny  and  Robert 
Blennerhassett,  to  plant  some  of  the  forfeited  estates 
of  the  Desmond  ;  on  which  occasion  Jenkin  obtained 
the  seignory  of  Killorglin  (afterwards  called  Castle 
Conway),  comprising  the  castles,  towns,  and  lands 


4 

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! 


GG8  KING  JAMES*S  IRISH  ABMT  LIST. 


thereof,  the  island  of  InisfaUen,  and  several  other 

denominations,   5260   acres,   in  said  county ;    with 

r  sundry  advowsons.     This  castle  was  afterwards  burnt 

by  order  of  the  Lord  President  of  Munster.     James 

'  Conway,  in  consequence   of  his  marriage  with  the 

Kerry  lady,  settled  at  Clohane,  and  had  by  her  two 

sons,  Edward  and  Christopher.     The  former  married 

a  daughter  of  John  Blenerhasset  of  Ballyseedy,  and 

seems  to  be   identic^  with  the  above  Lieutenant^ 

erroneously  styled  on   the  Army  List,  by   a   Sept 

designation,  '  McConway.'     It  is  to  be  observed,  how- 

ever,  that  the  Hurley  manuscript,  from  which  these 

illustrations  are  drawn,  states  that  Christopher,   a 

brother  of  Edward,  was  also  an  officer  in  King  James's 

Army,  and  fell  at  Aughrim  ;  he  had  married  Joan 

Roche  of  the  House  of  Dundine,  County  of  Cork,  by 

whom  he  had  issue  six  sons  (and  one  daughter, 

Elizabeth,  who  became  the  wife  of  John  O'Connell  of 

Derrynane).     The   second  of  his  six  sons,  James 

Conway,  went  to  France  with  the  Irish  emigrants, 

'  and  had  the  command  of  a  company  in  Lord  Mount- 

cashel's  Regiment.      Thomas  Conway,  the  fourth  of 

\  Christopher's  sons,  had  by  his  wife  Anne,  daughter  of 

:!  Patrick  Fitzgerald  of  Gallerus,  for  his  second  son, 

another  James  Conway,  Count  Conway  in  France,  a 

I  very  distinguished  officer  in  the  Irish  Brigade  ;  and 

I  i  he,  marrying  Julianne  O'Mahony,  had  by  her  two  sons, 

I    .  ^  Thomas  Count  Conway,  and  Thomas  Henry,  Viscount 

\  Iff  Conway,  both  officers  in  the  service  of  Fmnce  ;  but 

i  f  neither  left  male  issue.     Edward,  the  third  son  of 


COLONEL  CORMUCK  O'NEILL'S  INFANTRY.  669 

Thomas  and  Anne  Conway,  married  Ellen  Mahony, 
by  whom  he  had  two  sons  ;  Thomas,  who  died  in  1824, 
s.  p. ;  and  James,  who  became  a  Lieutenant-Colonel 
in  the  Fifty-third  Foot ;  his  eldest  son,  John  S.  Con- 
way,  appears  to  be  now  the  representative  of  this 
ancient  family. 

To  return  to  the  immediate  descendants  of  Chris- 
topher  Conway  by  Joan  Koche ;  Robert,  their  fifth 
son,  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Colonel  Maurice 
Hussey  of  Flesk-bridge,  now  called  Cahirnane,  by 
whom  he  had  a  son,  Edward  Conway  ;  who,  marrying 
Christian,  daughter  of  Edward  Rice,  left  issue  by. her 
one  son,  who  died  unmarried  in  1777,  and  two  daugh- 
ters ;  Lucy,  who  also  died  unmarried  in  1799,  and 
Mary,  who  married  John  Hurley  in  1784,  by  whom 
she  left  issue  two  sons,  Robert  Conway  and  John 

Hurly,  and  five  daughters. Robert  Conway,  the 

eldest,  died  without  issue  ;  John,  the  younger,  married 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  the  well  known  Richard  Kir- 
wan  of  Creg  Castle,  the  eminent  philosopher,  by 
whom  he  had  issue  as  before  mentioned  (ante^  p.  292). 
Christopher,  the  sixth  son  of  Christopher  and  Joan 
Roche,  married  Ellen  Mahony,  by  whom  he  had  two 
sons.  Sir  Matthew  and  Sir  Robert,  Knights  of  St. 
Louis,  and  who  both  died  without  issue.  All  these 
children  of  Christopher  and  Joan  were  educated 
members  of  the  Church  of  Rome,  and  hence  their 
necessitated  devotion  to  foreign  service. 

In  Coric  Abbey,  County  of  Tyrone,  is  a  monument 
commemorating  Captain  Cormac  Conway,  who  fought 
for  King  James  at  Aughrim. 


670  KING  JAMES'S  IRISU  ARMY  LIST. 


LIEUTENANT  DONAGIIY  MAC  GUNSHENAN. 

A  Clan  of  tliis  name  was  located  iu   Fermanagh, 
about  Lough  Erne. 


LIEUTENANT  BRYAN  Mc  CANN. 

The  Mc  Canns  wore  chiefs  of  Ily  Breasail,  an  ancient 
territory  on  the  borders  of  Armagli  and  Tyrone,  near 
Lough  Neagh.  In  1181),  (say  the  Four  Masters) 
died  Echinilidh,  son  of  Mc  Can,  'the  delight  and 
happiness  of  all  Tyrone/  In  1212,  the  death  of  Donogh 
Mac  Can,  Chief  of  the  Sept,  is  recorded.  Five  of  this 
family  were  slain  in  the  Munster  war  of  Elizabeth's 
time,  at  the  battle  of  Kinsale. 


LIEUTENANT  CON  O'DOHERTY. 

The  O'Dohertys  were  an  ancient  Sept,  a  branch  of 
the  O'Donnells,  located  on  the  territory  between 
Loughs  Foyle  and  Swilly  and  the  Atlantic,  now  known 
as  the  Barony  of  Inishowcn,  County  of  Donegal.  In 
1194,  an  Abbey  was  founded  for  Cistercians  at  Hil- 
fothair  in  this  county  by  the  O'Doghertie.  It  was  a 
filial  establishment  of  Easroa,  to  which,  in  process  of 
time,  it  was  united.*  In  three  years  after,  Eachmar- 
cagh  O'Doghertie,  who  had  assumed  the  chieftaincy 

*  Archclairs  Men.  Hib.  p.  99. 


COLONEL  CORMIJCK  O'NEILL'S  INFANTRY.  671 

of  Kinel-Connell,  the  country  of  O'Donnell,  was  slain 
by  John  de  Courcy,  in  an  engagement,  where  fell 
several  of  both  those  native  Septs.  In  1454,  Donell 
O'Donnell,  chief  of  Tyrconnel,  was  taken  prisoner  by 
the  O'Dohertie.  The  Tanist  succession  of  these  rival 
Chiefs  is  very  accurately  and  fiilly  given  by  the  Four 
Masters.  In  1548,  O'Doherty  was  one  of  the  *  con- 
federates '  with  Con  O'Neill  against  English  govern- 
ment.*  In  1582,  say  the  Four  Masters,  died  the 
O'Doherty,  i.e.  John,  son  of  Phelim,  son  of  Connor 
Carrach,  Lord  of  Inishowen.  "  Had  the  deceased  been 
a  hostage  to  be  ransomed,  horses  and  flocks  would 
have  been  given  for  his  ransom  ;  his  son  John  Oge 
was  appointed  in  his  place,  in  opposition  to  Cahir 
O'Doherty,  and  on  that  account  the  country  was 
much  plundered  in  its  crops,  com,  dwellings,  and 
cattle."  At  the  Parliament  convened  by  Sir  John 
Perrot,  in  1585,  this  Sept  was  represented  by  John 
Oge,  the  son  of  John,  son  of  Phelim,  son  of  Connor 
Carrach  O'Doherty.  In  three  years  after,  he  was 
taken  prisoner  by  the  forces  of  Sir  Richard  Bingham 
and  Sir  Thomas  Norris,  on  the  charge  of  having 
"  made  friendship  and  alliance  with  a  portion  of  the 
men  of  the  Spanish  fleet."  He  died  in  1601,  "  Lord 
of  the  Barony  of  Inishowen,"  say  the  Masters,  "  and 
there  was  not  a  Lord  of  a  Barony  amongst  the  Irish 
more  distinguished  for  manual  action  and  hospitality, 

or  more  bold  in  counsel  than  he." That  rank  and 

title  the  O'Doherty   maintained  until  the  time  of 

♦  Stuart  8  Armagh,  p.  287. 


672  KING  James's  iRisn  army  ust. 

James  the  First,  when  Sir  Cahir  O'Doherty  was  killed 
in  a  contest  with  the  English.      He  had  in  1605  a 
grant  from  King  James,  of  various  manors,  lordships, 
castles,  lands,  advowsons,  &c.  in  the  County  of  Inish- 
owen,  or  O'Doherty's  Country,  saving  and  reserving 
the  Castle  of  Culmore,  in  lieu  of  which  he  was  to 
ivceive  four  salmons  per  day  during  the  season  an- 
nually,  with  tlie  custody  of  the  castle  in  time  of  peace, 
or  when  not  occupied  by  the  Crown  ;  to  hold  same  to 
him  and  his  heirs  male,  paying  between  Michaelmas 
and  All  Saints'  days  30  good  and  fat  beeves  at  Newiy, 
and  he  and  his  said  heirs  attending  all  hostings,  risings 
out,  and  journies,  with  twenty  footmen  and  six  horse- 
men armed,  and  with  victuals  for  forty  days,  to  serve 
against  the  '  rebels '  in  Ireland.     This  was  a  resto- 
ration patent,  as  of  territory  theretofore  forfeited  by 
Sir  John  O'Doherty,  Knight,  Chief  of  his  name  and 
fotlier  of  said  Sir  Cahir.     The  Act  of  1612,  however, 
for  the  attainder  of  the  Earl  of  Tyrone  and  confisca- 
tion of  Ulster,  included  Sir  Cahir  O'Doherty,  *  late  of 
IJirtecastle,  County  of  Donegal',  in  its  extermination  ; 
and  the  King  thereupon  directed  that  his  possessions 
within   the   Barony  of  Inishowen   and  O'Doherty's 
Countrie  should  be  granted  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester, 
Knight,  with  liberty  to  create  manors  and  freehold 
estates.       To    a   lady    of    this  broken    down    and 
landless  family,   'Hose  O'Doherty,  daughter  of  the 
Dynasts  of  Inisliowen,'  a  monument  is  erected  in  the 
Franciscan  church  at  Lovaine.     It  states  that  she  was 
first  married  to  Caffry  O'Donnell,  cousin  of  the  Prince 


COLONEL  CORMUCK  O'NEILL'S  INFANTRY.  67^ 

of  Tjrrconnel,  and  secondly  to  Owen  O'Neill,  Com- 
mander of  the  Catholic  Army  in  Ulster.  In  1691, 
was  attainted  Charles  Doherty  of  Muff,  County  of 
Cavan  ;  as  was  also  Edmund  O'Doherty  of  the  County 
of  Donegal.  The  latter  forfeited  derivative  interests, 
the  reversion  of  which  in  fee  was  claimed  in  1700  by 
the  Earl  of  Donegal,  but  his  petition  was  dismissed  as 
cautionary. 


LIEUTENANT  BRYAN  MAC  MANUS. 

The  Mc  Manus  was  Chief  of  a  numerous  and  influen- 
tial Clan  of  Fermanagh.  According  to  the  native 
Annalists,  they  had  the  command  of  the  shipping  in 
Lough  Erne,  and  held  the  post  of  hereditary  chief 
managers  of  its  fisheries  under  the  Maguire.  A 
branch  of  this  family  was  also  located  on  the  borders 
of  the  Counties  of  Leitrim  and  Roscommon.  The 
Four  Masters  record,  at  1498,  the  death  of  Mac 
Magnusa  of  Seanaid,  i.  e.  Cathal  Oge,  the  son  of 
Cathal,  son  of  Cathal,  son  of  Gillpatrick,  son  of 
Matthew,  &c.  a  Coadjutor  Bishop  of  Clogher  for 
fifteen  years  before  his  death,  "  a  patron  of  learning 
and  art  in  his  own  country,  chief  conservator  of  the 
canons,  a  fountain  of  charity  and  mercy  to  the  poor 
and  unprotected  of  God's  people,  a  man  who  brought 
together  many  historical  books  which  he  compiled 
for  himself — ^the  Book  of  Annals  of  BcJlymacmanus^ 
[better  known  as  the  Annals  of  Ulster^  published  in 

XX 


G74  KING  James's  iRisn  army  list. 

the  splendid  collection  ofthelatcDr.  Charles  O'Conor, 
lierum  Hlhernicnrtim  ScriptoreSj  vol.  IV.]  He  died 
of  the  small-pox  on  the  10th  of  the  kalends  of  April, 
1498,  in  the  60th  year  of  his  age."  The  Attainders 
of  1642  have  hut  one  of  this  name,  and  far  away  from 
the  homes  of  the  Sept ;  he  is  described  as  Owen  Mc 
Manus  of  Dunbouke,  County  of  Wicklow.  Those  of 
1691  tnice  them  buck  in  their  old  ground,  but  to  be 
again  expelled.  There  were  then  outlawed  Roiy 
rhclimy  Mc  Manns  of  Lisnaskea,  County  of  Fer- 
managh, and  Cullcn  Mc  Manus  of  Tullycool,  County 
of  Down.  A  Colonel  Hugh  Mc  Manus  was  killed  at 
Auglirim. 


LIEUTENANT  EDMUND  Mc  ILDERRT. 

Is  the  Inquisition  taken  on  his  attainder,  he  is  called 
and  described  as  Edward  Mc  Ilderry,  Salt-pans, 
County  of  Antrim. 


ENSIGN  JAMES  O'CRILLEY. 

Nothing  has  been  ascertained  of  him  or  his  Sept,  but, 
from  the  Regiment  in  which  he  appears,  and  the 
description  of  his  brother  officers,  the  entry  seems  a 
mistake  for  O'Clery,  a  name  of  the  deepest  historic 
interest  in  Irish  genealogy.  That  Sept  had  large  pos- 
sessions in  Ty  r-hugh  ;  their  chief  seat  being  at  KUbar- 
ron,  where  still  remain  the  ruins  of  their  castle,  situ- 


COLONEL  CORMUCK  O'NEILL'S  INFANTRY.  675 

ated  on  a  rock  over  the  shore  of  the  Atlantic,  near 
Ballyshannon.  They  were  highly  distinguished  in 
the  native  literature,  and  became  hereditary  bards 
and  historians  to  the  O'Donnells,  Princes  of  Tyrcon- 
nel.  One  of  them,  Michael  O'Clery,  was  a  native  of 
Donegal,  bom  about  the  year  1580  ;  at  an  early  age  he 
resorted  for  education  to  the  Irish  Franciscan  monas- 
tery of  Louvain,  whence  returning  to  his  native  land, 
and  eager  to  rescue  its  historic  memorials,  (then,  he 
feared,  on  the  verge  of  annihilation)  he  travelled  for 
fifteen  years  through  Ireland,  collected  all  manu- 
scripts, civil  and  ecclesiastical,  that  could  be  disco- 
vered, and,  from  the  mass  of  these  materials,  drew  out 
the  Annals  styled  of  the  Four  Masters.  They  com- 
mence at  the  earliest  period  of  Irish  history,  and  are 
brought  down  to  the  year  1616.  This  work  is,  as 
might  be  conjectured,  especially  diffuse  in  celebrating 
the  obits  and  achievements  of  the  family  of  O'Clery  ; 
yet  the  name  does  not  appear  on  the  Attainders  of 
1641,  while  those  of  1688  have  only  Koger  O'Clery  of 
Kirelly,  County  of  Londonderry. 


ENSIGN  MYLES  Mc  NAMEE. 
Nothing  has  been  ascertained  of  him  or  his  Sept. 


IX  2 


676  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY. 

COLONEL   CHARLES   CAVENAGH'S. 

dqttaltu.  Litut€imHtg.  Etuigns, 

Tlio  Colonel.  IU>narentiirc  Kinselagh. 

[John  Lacy, 

Lieutenant- Colonel.  ] 
[Gros.  Penleverande, 

Blujor.] 

Walter  Esmond.  Denis  *  Kavanagh.' 

Le  Sr.  DefToser. 

Robert  Esmond.  Edmund  Kanranagh. 

Antliony  Eustace. 

Ignatios  CaTonagh,  {  William  Boole. 

Grenad.  ( William  Fislier. 

[Nicholas  Warren.] 


COLONEL  CHARLES  CAVENAGH. 

Dermod  Mac  Murrougii,  who  led  in  the  English 
invaders,  was  at  the  time  King  of  Leinster.  Donal 
Cavenagh  was  his  only  son,  and  as  such,  though  illegi- 
timate, assumed  a  title  of  sovereignty  in  that  pro- 
vince. His  descendants,  known  as  Cavenaghs,  or 
Mac  Murrough  Cavenaghs,  maintained  their  inde- 
pendence, and  held  the  title  of  Kings  of  Leinster, 
with  large  possessions  in  Wexford  and  Carlow,  down 
to  the  reign  of  Elizabeth.  On  a  fortress  by  the  bank 
of  the  Barrow,  between  Carlow  and  Leighlin,  they 
were  inaugurated,  attended  by  the  OTSfolan,  Chief 
of  Forth  in  Carlow,  as  King's  Marshal.     In  1314| 


COLONEL  CHARLES  CAVENAGH's  INFANTRY.        677 

Edward  the  Second  directed  his  especial  missive  to 
Maurice  *Kavanagh'  Mac  Murrough,  for  his  aid 
against  the  Scots.  In  1417,  died  the  most  illustrious 
individual  of  this  Irish  Sept,  Art  Mac  Murrough 
O'Cavenagh,  King  of  Leinster  ;  "a  man,"  say  the 
Masters,  "  who  defended  his  province  against  the  Eng- 
lish  and  Irish  from  the  age  of  16  to  that  of  60;  a  man 
distinguished  for  his  hospitality,  knowledge,  and  feats 
of  arms  ;  a  man  full  of  prosperity  and  Royalty,  a 
founder  of  churches  and  monasteries  by  his  bounty  and 
contributions.  He  had  been  forty-two  years  in  the 
government  of  Leinster,  when  he  died."  Throughout 
these  Annals,  his  contests  with  the  English,  in  the  very 
presence  of  their  King,  Richard  the  Second,  are  proudly 
recorded  ;  and  when  his  son,  after  a  long  imprison- 
ment, was  restored  in  1428  to  his  people,  they  write, 
"  Murrough,  Lord  of  Leinster,  namely  Donogh,  the  son 
of  Art  Cavenagh,  who  was  imprisoned  in  England  for 
the  space  of  nine  years,  was  ransomed  by  his  own 
Province,  which  was  joyiul  news  to  the  Irish."  In 
the  Munster  wars,  at  the  close  of  the  reign  of  Queen 
Elizabeth,  Donal  O'Cavenagh,  sumamed  *  Spanagh  * 
having  sojourned  some  time  in  Spain,  became  a  distin- 
guished leader  of  the  Irishry.  On  the  Roll  of  Attainders 
in  1641  appear  four  of  the  name  ;  while,  at.  the  head 
of  these  of  1691,  Charles  Cavenagh,  the  above 
Colonel,  is  described  as  of  Carrickduff,  County  of 
Carlow,  Esq.  with  Ignatius  and  James  Cavenagh  of 
the  same  place,  and  nineteen  others  in  the  Counties  of 
Carlow  and  Wexford. 


678  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

[LIEUTENANT  COLONEL  JOHN  LACY.] 

Tins  post  does  not  appear  filled  upon  the  present  Army 
List,  but  having  been  subsequently  so  appointed,  as 
sliown  in  AppendLx  to  King's  State  of  the  Protestant;^^ 
it  is  here  inserted  ;  while  the  available  notices  of 
tlie  family  and  of  this  Colonel  are  set  down  at 
Lieutenant  John  Ljicy,  in  the  Royal  Regiment  of 
Infantrv. 


(CAPTAINS  WALTER  AND  ROBERT  ESMONDE. 

This  name  is  of  Norman  extraction,  '  Esmon '  and 
'  Sieur  Esmon '  appearing  on  sundry  early  records. 
In  Wexford,  more  especially,  it  is  traceable  from  the 
time  of  Edward  the  First,  who,  in  1303,  projecting 
his  invasion  of  Scotland,  commissioned  Henry  '  Est- 
mund '  to  provide  ships  in  the  harbour  of  Wexford 
and  in  the  adjoining  havens,  to  be  in  readiness  to  pass 
over  thence  in  the  service  of  that  campaign.  In  1349, 
John  Esmonde  was  consecrated  Bishop  of  Ferns,  from 
which  See  he  was  afterwards  translated  to  Emly.  In 
1371,  Thomas  Estmonde  was  Constable  of  Wexford 
Castle. 

About  the  year  15fi0,  John  Esmonde,  the  founder 
of  the  existing  line  of  Baronets,  and  then  head  of  this 
family,  was  settled  at  Johnstown  in  the  County  of 
Wexford,  a  property  which  by  forfeiture  and  alienation 
has  since  passed  to  the  family  of  Gi'ogan.  In  the 
time    of  Queen    Elizabeth    flourished  Laurence  Es- 


COLONEL  CHARLES  CAVEXAGIl'S  INFANTRY.        679 

monde,  great  grandson  of  the  above  John  of  1569. 
A  '*  Brief  Description  of  the  Barony  of  Forth,"  written 
in  1684  for  Sir  William  Petty,  and  now  or  lately  in 
the  possession  of  Sir  Thomas  Phillips  of  Middlehill,  is 
very  full  on  the  family  of  Esmonde ;  and  in  relation 
to  this  Laurence,  says  that  he  "  during  his  minority 
continued  a  '  martialist,'  in  the  Low  Countries  of  Ger- 
many, the  famous  academy  of  military  discipline  and 
good  literature,  the  only  theatre  of  warlike  stratagems 
and  heroic  exploits,  wherein  he  became  an  excellent 
proficient,"  &c.  He  was  afterwards  employed  by 
Queen  Elizabeth  in  Holland,  and  in  Ireland  in  the 
wars  of  the  Pale;  was  knighted  by  Sir  Henry 
Sidney,  and  afterwards,  when  serving  in  Connaught, 
so  distinguished  himself  by  zeal  and  activity,  that  in 
1622  he  was  raised  to  the  Peerage  as  Lord  Esmonde, 
Baron  of  Limbericke,*  County  of  Wexford.  He  mar- 
ried a  Catholic  lady  of  the  name  of  OTflahertie,  by 
whom  he  had  a  son  Thomas ;  but,  on  the  suggestion 
that  this  marriage  was  illegal,  he  having  been  a  con- 
formist. Lord  Esmonde,  without  taking  any  legal 
steps  to  annul  it,  took  to  his  second  wife  a  grand- 
daughter of  the  Earl  of  Ormonde,  by  whom,  however, 
he  had  no  issue.  Lord  Esmonde  sat  in  the  Irish 
Parliament  of  1634  as  a  Peer,  and  was  one  of  the 
nobles  who  attended  the  unfortunate  Lord  Strafford 
in  the  memorable  procession  to  St.  Patrick's  Cathe- 

*  This  title  was  afterwards,  with  the  Earldom  of  Castlemain, 
conferred  by  Charles  II.  upon  Roger  Palmer,  husband  of  a  Royal 
fiivourite. 


680  KING  JAMESES  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

dnU,  being  tlien  one  of  the  Privy  Council  of  Ireland. 
During  the  ensuing  civil  war,  the  custody  of  the  fort  of 
Duncannon  was  entrusted  to  him,  then  *  an  old  but 
exiKTienced  officer.'  He  was  compelled,  however,  to 
i>urrendcr  it  in  March,  1644,  to  General  Preston, 
u])on  obtaining  quarter  and  sufferance  for  life  and 
goods.  The  disaster,  however,  so  sorely  affected  him, 
that  he  died,  '  worn  out  with  age '  and  vexation, 
within  a  short  time  after ;  having,  by  a  will  executed 
inimediutoly  i)revioiisIy,  directed  his  interment  *in 
tlie  cha|)el  lie  had  built  at  Limbericke,'  and  bequeathed 
all  his  estates,  upwanls  of  seventy  townlands,  with 
advowsons,  manors,  rectories,  and  fisheries  (after  some 
j)rior  limitations),  to  Laurence;,  the  eldest  bom  of  his 
afoi-esaid  son  Thomas,  in  tail-male.  This  Thomas  had 
been  created  a  Baronet  during  his  father's  life,  but, 
under  the  domestic  circumstance  alluded  to,  and  the 
troubles  of  the  i^riod,  he  never  claimed  the  Baronage 
(Hi  his  father's  deatli.  He  attended  the  Council  of 
Kilkenny  in  1G46,  when  the  Nuncio  advised  that, 
in  all  military  affaire  within  their  cognizance.  Sir 
Thomas  Esinonde  should  be  taken  into  consultation. 
He  was  conse([uently,  by  Cromwell's  Act  of  1652, 
excepted  from  pardon  for  life  and  estate.  The  Act 
of  Settlement,  however,  directed  that  he  should  be 
restoixnl  to  his  principal  seat  and  2,000  acres  of  land, 
exclusive  of  those  portions  of  the  family  estates  then 
in  the  i)ossession  of  the  Duke  of  Albemarle  or  his 
tenants.  Many  subsequent  confirmatory  patents, 
from  Charles  the  Second  to  men  of  the  '  new  interest* 


COLONEL  CHAKLE8  CAVENAGH's  INFANTRY.        681 

in  Wexford,  contain  savings  of  the  rights  of  Sir 
Thomas,  as  also  of  Laurence  his  son,  afterwards  the 
second  Baronet,  who  in  1687  was  Sheriff  for  the 
County  of  Carlow,  in  the  year  after  which  he  died. 

The  Outlawries  of  1691  comprise  Thomas  Esmonde 
of  Wexford,  William  of  Johnstown,  and  John  of 
Ferrybank,  all  in  that  County.  This  John  appears 
identical  with  John  who  afterwards  succeeded  as  the 
fourth  in  the  line  of  the  Baronets,  and  with  an  indi- 
vidual of  the  same  name  who,  after  the  Kevolution, 
passed  over  to  the  Continent,  and  served  in  the 
Spanish  Army  as  Captain  of  a  Regiment  of  Dragoons, 
under  the  Marshal  Duke  of  Berwick.  Two  confi- 
dential and  familiar  letters,  firom  the  son  of  this  illus- 
trious commander  to  Captain  John  Esmonde,  have 
been  shown  to  the  compiler  of  this  work.  The  first, 
of  6th  November,  1733,  from  Barcelona,  opens,  "A 
commission,  dear  Jack,  has  been  given  me  which 
obliges  me  to  go  off  tomorrow  morning,  and  I  can 
assure  you  I  am  very  sorry  to  part  you  without  see- 
ing you ;  but  since  it  cannot  be,  I  will  tell  you  at 
least  in  this  letter  what  you  are  to  do." — (The  writer 
then  gives  directions  as  to  the  route  for  the  march  of 
Horse  and  Dragoons  through  France  to  the  seat  of 
war)  "  When  you  come  near  Avignon,  you  can  take 
a  trip  thence  to  see  the  Duke  of  Ormonde,  and  if  you 
find  there  a  cook,  that  perhaps  will  be  sent  from 
Paris  for  me  to  the  Duke  of  Ormonde,  you  will  take 

him  along  with  you I  am  persuaded  you  will 

take  care  the  Horse  should  be  embarked  in  good 


682  KIXG  JAMES'S  IRI8U  ARMY  UST. 

ships,  and  you  may  be  sure  that  Marvillac,  Maredo, 
&c.,  as  also  Mahony,  will  render  you  all  the  services 

that  depend  on  them I  Ixilieve  that  when  you  have 

once  passed  the  Rlione,  it  will  not  be  amiss  you  should 
march  on  before  with  the  horse  and  mules,  tx)  the 
place  where  you  are  to  embark,  that  you  may  rest 
them  for  some  days  before  embarking  ;  but  inform 
before-hand  whether  if  you  are  to  go  off  from  Antibe 
or  Toidon,  for  it  is  not  as  yet  well  resolved  upon. 

&c.  &c.,     Most  faithfully  yours,   Liria." — ^The 

letter,  so  signed  while  his  father  lived,  is  contrasted 
with  his  signature  to  the  second,  of  the  20th  Februaiy, 
1736,  when,  the  old  Duke  having  died,  he  signs,  *  Ber- 
wick.' It  is  written  fixDm  Naples  :  "  My  health,  God 
be  praised,  is  vciy  good,  and  I  want  nothing  but 
fair  weather  to  '  make '  a  little  exercise ;  great  talk 

of  peace,  and  if  so,  we  shall  soon  return  home." 

This  Duke  died  at  Naples  in  1738,  leaving  issue  as 
mentioned  cmte^  p.  27.  His  correspondent.  Captain 
John  Esmond,  had  long  previously  entered  the 
Spanish  service  as  a  Cadet,  was  on  commission  in 
1719,  and  raised  to  a  Captnincy  in  1734.  After  the 
death  of  the  third  Baronet,  he  sought  in  1739  a  pass- 
port to  his  native  country,  '  to  take  care  of  his  private 
concerns,'  which  was  granted  under  the  official  seal 
on  the  28th  of  May  in  that  year.  Accordingly,  his 
claim  having  been  allowed,  he  died  the  fourth  Baro- 
net in  1758,  as  recorded  in  Burke's  Baronetage. 
Sir  Walter,  the  brother  and  successor  of  Sir  John, 
closeil  the  elder  line  of  this  Baronetcy,  he  leaving  no 


COLONEL  CHAKLES  CAVENAGH'S  INFANTRY.        683 

male  issue.  His  daughter  and  sole  heiress  married 
Stanislaus  Maximilian  James  Mc  Mahon,  of  the 
County  of  Clare,  by  whom  she  had  issue  a  son  and  a 
daughter ;  but  the  Baronetcy  passed  to  the  heir  male 
of  the  second  son  of  the  first  Baronet,  viz.  James 
Esmonde  of  Ballynestra,  and  is  now  borne  by  his  son 
and  heir,  Sir  Thomas  Esmonde,  a  Deputy  Lieutenant 
and  Privy  Councillor. 

Patrick  Chevalier  d'Esmonde,  a  Colonel  in  the 
Austrian  service,  was  during  a  considerable  time  a 
captive  in  Turkey  :  he  left  an  only  daughter  and 
heiress,  who  married  Charles  Count  Kavanagh,  (of 
the  family  of  Borris),  a  Greneral  of  Cavalry  in  the 
Imperial  Anny.* 


[CAPTAIN  NICHOLAS  WARREN.] 

This  officer  does  not  appear  upon  the  present  Army 
List,  although  his  commission  bears  date  on  the  1  st 
of  December,  1688.  He  was  of  a  family  long  pre- 
viously settled  at  Corduff,  before  alluded  to,  antCj  p. 
440. 


LIEUTENANT  BONA  VENTURE  KINSELAGH. 

The  O'Kinsellaghs  were  a  numerous  and  territorial 
Clan,  located  in  the  Counties  of  Carlow  and  Wexford. 

*  Burke*!  Peengr  -«d  Baronetage,  p.  376. 


684  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  UST. 

The  only  individual  of  the  name  attainted  in  1642, 
was  Dermott  Kinselagh  of  Ballaghmone,  County  of 
Kildare.  Eneas  'Kinsly*  of  Ballynacargy  was  a 
member  of  the  Supreme  Council  at  Kilkenny  in  1 646. 
The  above  oflScer  is  described  in  the  Inquisition 
taken  on  his  attainder,  as  of  Ferns  in  the  County  of 
Wexfortl  ;  at  which  place  a  Turlogh  Kinsellagh  was 
then  also  outlawed,  with  Arthur  Kinsellagh  of  Bally- 
<lutF,  in  the  same  County. 


LIEUTENANT  WILLIAM  BOOLE. 

Tins  officer  is  described  in  the  Inquisition  on  his 
outlawry  as  of  Clonegal,  in  the  County  of  Carlow. 


LIEUTENANT  WILLIAM  FFISHER. 

Nothing  has  been  ascertained  worthy  of  notice  re- 
specting this  officer,  or  the  name  at  the  period. 


COLONEL  THOMAS  BUTLER  S  INFANTRY. 


685 


REGIMENTS    OF    INFANTRY. 

COLONEL  THOMAS  SUTLER'S. 


CapiMns.  lAeuienanti, 

Tlie  Colonel  John  Nngent. 

[ De  Busby,  William  Smyth. 

LieatenanUColonel.  ] 

Major.  

James  Batler.  Philip  Wall. 

Edward  Fitz  Gerald.  Nicholas  Lambert. 

James  Eyerard.  Thomas  Mandeville. 

Richard  Butler.  James  Hackett. 

Thomas  Kehoe.  Michael  Comerford. 

Maurice  Roche.  Richard  Tobin. 

Garrett  Gough.  John  Tobin. 

John  Ankittell  Richard  Ankittell. 

Thomas  Shee.  Richard  Malone. 

Michael  Bryan.  John  Howley. 

Ambrose  Mandeville.  Marcus  Shea. 

Thomas  Tiemey.  

John  Lambert.  

Edward  Mandeville.  


Eniigru. 

Gefiry  Fitz  Gerald. 
James  Comerford. 


Richard  Bourke. 
Marcus  Quirke. 
John  Mandeville. 
Daniel  Meagher. 
John  Lucker. 
Nicholas  Roche. 
John  Gough. 
James  Sarsfield. 
James  Tobin. 
Garret  Comerford. 
Patrick  Mandeville. 


Edmund  Bray. 
John  Fitz  Maurice. 


COLONEL  THOMAS  BUTLER. 

Of  this  noble  family  and  Colonel,  see  antey  at  Lord 
Galmo/s  Horse. 


()86  KIXG  JAHES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 


[LIEUTENANT-COLONEL  DE  BUSBY]. 

This  officer  is  inserted  in  the  Army  List,  on  the 
authority  of  the  Ai)pen(lix  to  King's  State  of  th  Pro- 
tf'Stants. 


CAPTAIN  THOMAS  KEHOE. 

A  family  of  this  name  appears  then  and  previously 
located  in  the  County  of  Wicklow.  Of  the  attainted  in 
1642  are  recorded  Thomas  Mac  Mulmurry  M'Eehoe, 
and  William  McShane  McFarrel  McKehoe  of  Enock- 
andarragh,  County  of  Wicklow  ;  while  there  were 
outlawed  in  1691  John  '  Keagho'  of  Ballymuraroe,  in 
the  same  County,  and  Humphrey  '  Keagho'  of  Bally. 
l)c^d<lin,  in  the  adjoining  County  of  Wexford.     More 

in  confonnity  with  the  latt<?r  orthography  was 

Keoghoe,  an  Ensign  in  Sir  Maurice  Eustace's 
Infantry. 


CAPTAIN  GARRETT  GOUGH. 

This  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of 
Edward  the  Second ;  in  that  of  Henry  the  Sixth,  John 
'Goghe'  was  a  Justice  in  Eyre.  In  1601,  Edmund 
Gough  was  knighted  by  the  President  of  Munster, 
Lord  Carew,  for  his  services  in  the  province,  and 
especially  at  the  battle  of  Kinsale.     In    1626,   Dr. 


COLONEL  THOMAS  BUTLER's  LXFANTRY.  687 

Francis  Gough  succeeded  to  the  See  of  Limerick. 
The  Attainders  of  1642  record  the  names  of  Richard 
'  Geogh'  of  Lusk,  and  John  Geogh  of  Heathstown,  in 
the  County  of  Dublin  ;  William  Gough  of  Bally  com- 
mon, County  of  Wicklow,  and  Patrick  Gough  of  Ark- 
low.  At  the  Kilkenny  Assembly  in  1646,  Patrick 
Gough  of  Kilmanahan  was  one  of  the  Commons.  In 
King  James's  Parliament  of  Dublin  (1689),  Edward 
Gough  sat  as  one  of  the  Representatives  of  Youghal. 

The  above  officer  is  described  on  the  Attainders  of 
1691,  as  Garrett  'Goff'  of  Kilmanaheen,  County  of 
Waterford  ;  a  son  or  relative,  it  would  seem,  of  the 
Patrick  who  sat  in  the  Council  of  Kilkenny.  With 
him  were  then  outlawed  Edward  '  GoflF,'  merchant  of 
Cork,  and  Edward  'Goff'  of  Youghal,  Alderman. 
Ignatius  Gough  also  was  a  forfeiting  proprietor  in 
Dublin,  as  was  Patt  Gough  in  the  County  of  Meath. 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  ANKITTEL. 

So  early  as  in  the  reign  of  Richard  the  Second,  the 
name  of  'Angetale'  is  of  Irish  record.  The  officer 
here  introduced  appears  to  have  been  of  Ballinakill, 
in  the  Queen's  County,  of  which  estate  he  had  livery 
on  coming  of  age  in  1640. 


088  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 


CAPTAIN  THOMAS  SHEE. 

The  Sept  of  the  O'Shee  or  O'Shea  was  extended  over 
territory  in  the  Counties  of  Kerry,  Tipperary,  and  in 
later  years  in  Kilkenny.  An  ancient  MS.  pedigree 
in  the  Collections  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  (F,  3, 
27),  sets  forth  that  Sir  Kichard  Shee,  Knight,  died  in 
August,  1 608,  leaving  Luke  of  Kilkenny,  his  eldest 
son,  an<l  Thomas  his  second  son,  '  sometime  Mayor 
thereof ;'  this  latter  married  Ellen,  daughter  of  Nicho- 
las Dobin  of  Waterford,  by  whom  he  had  no  issue, 
and,  dying  in  1636,  was  buried  in  St.  Mary's  Church, 
Kilkenny.  Luke,  the  eldest  son  of  Sir  Richard,  mar- 
ried Ellen,  daughter  of  Edmund,  Viscount  Mountgar- 
rat ;  by  whom  he  had,  besides  seven  daughters,  two 
sons,  1.  Robert,  who  married  Margaret,  daughter  and 
co-heiress  of  Richard  Masterson  of  Ferns,  County  of 
Wexford,  Knight ;  2.  Edmund,  who  married  Dorothea, 
daughter  of  Nicholas  Dormer  of  Ross,  County  of  Wex- 
ford.  At  the  Supreme  Council  of  Kilkenny,  Edward 
Shee  and  Robert  Fitz-William  Shee  of  that  city,  with 
Walter  Shee  of  Trim,  were  of  the  Confederate  Catho- 
lics. The  declaration  of  Royal  gratitude  of  1662 
includes  Ensign  George  Shee  of  Kilkenny.  Besides 
the  above  officer,  James  Shea  was  a  Quarter-Master 
in  Lord  Galmoy's  Horse.  The  Attainders  of  1691 
include  the  above  officer,  described  as  Thomas  Fitz- 
John  Shea,  merchant,  with  seven  other  cavaliers  of 
the  name,  all  of  the  City  of  Kilkenny.  At  the  Court 
of  Claims,  John  '  Shee,*  Ellen  Shee  his  sister,  Francis 


COLONEL  THOMAS  BUTLER'S  INFANTRY.     689 

Shee  and  Patrick  Shee,  for  themselves,  and  as  execu- 
tors of  William  Shee,  claimed  and  were  allowed 
charges  affecting  the  County  of  Kilkenny  estates  of 
James  Shee  ;  while  Henry  Shee  had  a  similar  allow- 
ance of  the  benefit  of  several  freehold  interests  there- 
out :  Laurence  Shee  also  claimed  and  was  allowed  a 
charge  on  Kilkenny  lands  of  Samuel  Shee. 

At  the  battle  of  LauflSeld,  in  1747,  Captain  Shea, 
in  Roth's  Regiment,  was  wounded. 


CAPTAINS    AMBROSE    AND    EDWARD 
MANDEVILLE. 

This  name  is  of  record  in  Ulster  from  the  time  of  John 
de  Courcy's  invasion,  when  some  of  the  family  followed 
his  standard.  In  1302,  Thomas  de  Mandeville, 
'of  Ireland,'  had  a  treasury  order  for  £566  13s.  4d., 
for  his  expenses  in  men,  arms,  and  horses,  incurred  in 
the  King's  first  expedition  to  Scotland,  and  his  and 
their  expenses  of  passage.  In  1325,  King  Edward 
the  Second  granted  to  John  de  Mandeville  the  office 
of  Sheriff  of  Down  and  Newtown  during  pleasure, 
with  such  fees  as  other  sheriffs  of  said  counties  in  times 
past  used  to  receive.  In  1335,  Henry  de  Mandeville 
had  liberates  for  his  services  in  Ulster  against  the 
Mc  Cartan,  as  also  for  relieving  Green  Castle  when 
besieged.  Nothing  has  been  ascertained  worthy  of 
notice  respecting  these  officers  or  their  connections, 
nor  do  they  appear  on  the  Attainders. 

YY 


690  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMT  LIST. 

CAPTAIN  THOMAS  TIERNEY. 

A  Francis  '  Tirney/  described  as  of  Galway,  mer- 
chant,  alone  appears  on  the  Attainders  of  1691. 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  LAMBERT. 

This  individual  was  the  younger  son  of  James  Lam- 
bert, who  in  the  seventeenth  century  was  head  of  the 
Lamberts  of  Carnagh  in  the  County  of  Wexford,  at 
present  n^presented  by  Henry  Lambert,  a  Deputy- 
Lieutenant  for  that  county,  and  at  one  time  its  Repre- 
sentative in  Parliament.  There  were  attainted  in 
1691,  Pet<3r  'Lamport' of  Wexford,  Nicholas  Lamport 
of  Carnagh,  and  Peter  of  Ballyhew  in  the  County  of 
Wexford.  A  Charles  Lambert  of  Aggard,  County  of 
Galway,  was  also  at  this  time  a  forfeiting  proprietor  ; 
on  whose  estate  John  French  and  Jane  his  wife 
claimed  and  were  allowed  an  estate  for  her  life. 


LIEUTENANT  PHILIP  WALL. 

An  Edmund  Wall,  holding  various  lands  in  the 
Parish  of  Uglin  in  Carlow,  was  attainted  in  1641. 
In  the  declaration  of  thanks'  clause  in  1662,  Ensign 
Piers  Wall  was  included,  '  for  services  beyond  the 
sea.'  This  Lieutenant  Philip,  as  appears  by  the 
Inquisition  for  his  attainder,  was  a  merchant  of 
Drogheda.     Six  other  Walls  were  outlawed  at  the 


COLONEL  THOMAS  BUTLER'S  INFANTRY.    691 

same  time  ;  while  a  Richard  Wall,  who  was  an  Ensign 
in  Lord  Louth's  Infantry,  does  not  appear  in  this 
proscribed  Roll. 

In  1747,  Lieutenant  Wall,  of  Clare's  Regiment  of 
Brigade,  was  wounded  at  the  battle  of  Lauffield. 


LIEUTENANTS  RICHARD  AifD  JOHN  TOBIN. 

This  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of 
Edward  the  Third.  It  was  especially  established  in 
the  County  of  Tipperary.  A  manuscript  Book  ot 
Obits  in  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  (F  iv.  18),  supplies 
seven  links  of  Uie  generations  of  Tobins  of  Killaghy, 
in  the  seventeenth  century.  In  Colonel  Dudley  Bag- 
nail's  Infantry,  Edward  Tobin  was  a  Lieutenant.  In 
King  James's  Parliament  of  Dublin,  James  Tobin  sat 
as  one  of  the  Representatives  for  the  Borough  of  Feth- 
ard,  County  of  Tipperary  ;  and  the  Attainders  of 
1691  include  with  him  Pierce  'Tobyn'  of  Jerpoint, 
and  James  Tobjm  of  Killalow,  in  the  County  of  Kil- 
kenny. 

On  the  first  formation  of  Galmoy's  Horse  Regiment 
of  Brigade,  James  Tobin  was  appointed  a  Major. 


LIEUTENANT  RICHARD  MALONE. 

The  O'Malones,  a  very  ancient  Irish  Sept,  are  consi- 
dered to  have  been  a  branch  of  the  O'Conors,  Kings 
of  Connau^t^  and  »e         "'  "    >«rraphical  records, 

TT  2 


692  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

located  in  the  Baronies  of  Brawney  and  Clonlonan, 
County  of  Westmeath.  The  Four  Masters  exhibit 
them  in  frequent  succession  as  Abbots  or  Bishops  of 
Clonmacnoise.  On  the  Roll  of  Attainders  of  1642 
stand  the  names  of  John  Malone  of  Skerries,  clerk  ; 
Christopher  of  Drogheda,  merchant ;  and  William 
Malone  of  LismuUen,  Esq.  An  ancient  manuscript 
mentions  those  of  the  name  that  acted  in  that  Civil 
War  as,  "  Young  Edmund  Malone,  living  near  Ath- 
lone,  '  a  notorious  rebel  ;'  James  Malone  of  Ballina- 
liown,  Roiy  and  Thomas  Malone  of  the  parish  of  Kil- 
Iwggan,  Morres  Malone  of  the  King's  County,  and 
the  above  William  Malone  of  LismuUen."  This  latter 
was  one  of  the  influential  proprietors  who  attended  the 
celebrated  meeting  of  the  Catholic  party  on  the  Hill 
of  Crafty.  In  the  Parliament  of  Dublin,  Dermot 
Malone  sat  in  the  Peers  by  the  title  of  Baron  of  Glen- 
malicre  and  Courchy ;  while  in  the  Commons, 
Edmund  Malone  of  Ballynahown,  Esq.,  and  Edmund 
Malone,  barrister,  represented  the  Barony  of  Athlone. 
This  Edmund  of  Ballynahown  was  a  Lieutenant  in 
Colonel  Richard  Grace's  liegiment  of  Horse,  (not  in- 
cluded in  this  List)  ;  and  John  Malone  of  Cartrons 
was  a  Cornet  of  Horse  in  the  same  service.  Anthony 
Malone  of  Ballynahown  was  also  a  Lieutenant  in  this 
army.  The  Malones  attainted  in  1691  were  Edward 
of  LismiUlen,  County  of  Meath  ;  Anthony  of  Ballyna- 
hown, John  and  Edmund  of  Cartrons,  Hugh  of  Mullin- 
gar,  Edward  of  Dublin,  and  Patrick  and  John  of  Dro- 
morc,  County  of  Down.     Edmund  Malone,  styled  of 


COLONEL  THOMAS  BUTLER'S  INFANTRY.    693 

'Kathleigh/  subsequently  obtained  a  pardon  under  the 
Great  Seal.  Edmund,  the  barrister,  was  one  of  those 
who  in  1703  appeared  at  the  bar  of  the  Irish  House 
of  Commons,  together  with  Sir  Theobald  Butler  and 
Sir  Stephen  Eice,  to  protest  against  'the  passing  of  the 
*Act  to  prevent  the  further  growth  of  Popery,'  as  sub- 
versive of  the  rights  secured  to  themselves  and  their 
Koman  Catholic  countrymen  by  the  Treaty  of  Lime- 
rick. 

In  1786,  Colonel  Sir  James  Stackpole  Malone  (Q  ? 
Moloney)  volunteered  on  a  forlorn  hope  connected 
with  the  reduction  of  Montreal.  He  had  one  hundred 
men  under  his  command,  who  were,  with  himself,  all 
cut  down,  excepting  only  seven.* 


LIEUTENANT  JOHN  HOWLEY. 

Although  in  latter  years  this  name  has  been  borne 
in  England  by  an  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  and  in 
Ireland  is  of  respectability  in  the  Counties  of  Mayo, 
Sligo,  Tipperary,  and  Limerick,  it  yet  does  not  appear 
on  the  Attainders  of  1641,  or  1691 ;  and  is  not  other- 
wise associated  with  the  present  work  than  in  the 
above  Lieutenant,  who,  as  the  compiler  has  been 
informed,  was  the  great  grandfather  of  the  present 
Sergeant  John  Howley. 

♦  Dublin  Journal,  March  9th,  1786. 


694  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

ENSIGN  MARCUS  QUIRKE. 

The  O'Cuirces  (Quirkes),  or  Mac  Quirkes  were  an 
ancient  Sept  of  Munster.  In  1643  were  attainted 
Teige  Mac  Quirke  of  Ballymacquirke,  County  of  Cork, 
with  Donell  and  Cornelius,  his  sons.  Amongst  those 
thanked  for  *  services  beyond  the  seas/  by  the  clause 
in  the  Act  of  Settlement  so  often  alluded  to,  were 
Ensigns  Pierce  and  William  Quirke  of  the  County  of 
Tipperary.  In  1686,  Colonel  John  Russell  received 
an  onler  from  Tyrconnel  to  provide  for  sundry  officers, 
who  could  not  then  be  received  into  the  respective 
Regiments  of  the  army,  in  his  (Colonel  Russell's)  Regi- 
ments, duty  free,  and  to  place  them  in  their  respective 
companies.  One  of  the  officers  named  for  this  service 
was  Ensign  *  Matthew'  Quirke.* 


ENSIGN  JOHN  LUCKER. 
Nothing  has  been  ascertained  of  him  or  his  family. 


ENSIGN  EDMUND  BRAY. 

The  name  of  De  Bray  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the 
time  of  King  John.  This  officer  seems  to  have  been 
connected  with  a  family  of  the  name  in  Oxfordshire  ; 
from  which  county  Lord  Abingdon  wrote  in  June, 

*  Singers  Correspondence  of  Lord  Clarendon,  v.  1,  p.  459. 


COLONEL  THOMAS  BUTLER'S  INFANTRY.    695 

1685,  to  the  Earl  of  Clarendon,  "  I  had  forgot  to  tell 
your  Lordship  that  Mr.  Bray  was  the  second  gentle- 
man in  this  county  who  offered  his  service  to  go  a 
volunteer  with  me  ;  which  I  take  so  kindly,  that  if 
your  Lordship,  thinks  fit  and  he  behaves  himself  well, 
I  will  hereafter  give  him  some  command  in  the  Militia, 
wherein  his  father  was  Lieutenant-CdoneL"*  The 
Diary  of  Clarendon,  in  September,  1688,  says,  "  Sun- 
day, Mr.  Bray  dined  with  me ;  he  told  me  Lord 
Abingdon  had  agreed  to  set  him  up  as  one  of  the 
Knights  for  this  County,  for  the  Pariiament  which  is 
to  meet  in  November  next^f  A  Mr.  John  Bray  was 
nominated  by  King  James  an  Alderman  in  the  new 
Charter  of  Clonmel ;  he  afterwards  represented  that 
borough  in  the  Parliament  of  Dublin,  and  was  at- 
tainted in  1691. 


KEGIMENTS    OF    INFANTRY. 

SIR  JOHN  FITZ-6£RALD'S. 

Cegfttaint,  iMutmanti,  Eiuign$. 

The  CoIoneL  . 

John  Binns,  ......  ... 

Lieatenani-ColoneL 

Major. 
(Suatiim  M<0»ftle.  Kndagfa  Letij.  Thomas  Donovan. 

*  Singei^i  Ckmespondence,  y.  1,  p.  186. 
t 


696  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

COLONEL  SIR  JOHN  FITZ-GERALD 
[BARONET]. 

The  annals  and  achievements  of  this  noble  and  historic 
name  are  emblazoned  in  the  history  not  only  of  Ire- 
land,  but  of  every  civilized  country  of  the  world.  In 
the  limited  scope  of  memoir  here  allowable  it  may  be 
noted  that,  in  the  centuries  within  the  scope  of 
these  Illustrations,  after  the  merciless  extermination  of 
the  Munster  war  against  the  Earl  of  Desmond,  John 
Fitz-Thomas  Fitz-Grerald  fled  from  Cork  to  Spain,  as 
did  James  Fitz-Gerald  from  Kerry.  The  Attainders 
of  1642  present  no  less  than  sixty  Inquisitions  on  Fitz- 
Geralds;  those  in  Meath  comprising  Sir  Luke  Fitz- 
Grerald  of  Tecroghan,  Richard  of  Rathrone,  and  four 
others  ;  those  in  Kildare,  Pierce  Fitz-Gerald  of  Bally- 
sonnan,  James  of  Timolin,  Maurice  of  Allen,  John, 
William,  James,  and  Oliver  of  Blackball,  and  forty- 
seven  others. — In  the  Supreme  Council  at  Kilkenny 
sat  Christopher  Fitz-Gerald  of  Coynelunan,  Edmund 
of  Ballymartyr,  Edmund  of  Brownsford,  Gerald  of 
Clonegad,  Gerald  of  Timogue,  the  aforesaid  Luke  of 
Tecroghan,  Matthew  of  Gobinstown,  the  said  Maurice 
of  Allen,  Nicholas  of  Marmayne,  Thomas  of  Binneys- 
ford,  and  said  Pierce  of  Ballysonnan.  Cromwell's  Act 
'for  settling  Ireland'  excepted  from  pardon  for  life 
and  estate  said  Sir  Luke  Fitz-Gerald  of  Tecroghan, 
Knight,  and  Pierse  Fitz-Gerald  of  Ballyshannon,  'com- 
monly called  Mac  Thomas ; '  while,  on  the  other  hand, 
the  Parliamentary  thanks  in  the  Act  of  Settlement 


SIR  JOHN   FITZ-GERALD'S   INFANTRY.  697 

were  given  to  Mr.  Edmund  Fitz-Gerald  and  Colonel 
Eichard  Fitz-Gerald  of  Ballymaloe,  to  Ensign  Morris 
Fitz-Grerald  of  Ballynamartery,  County  of  Cork,  and 
to  Mr.  George  Fitz-Gerald  cf  Tecroghan. 

This  George  Fitz-Gerald  was  son  of  the  said  Sir 
Luke  (by  his  wife,  Mary,  daughter  of  Lord  Netter- 
ville),  grandson  of  Sir  Edward,  and  lineal  male  de- 
scendant in  the  fifth  generation  from  Thomas  Fitz- 
Gerald,  the  seventh  Earl  of  Eoldare,  by  his  first  wife, 
Dorothy,  daughter  of  Anthony  O'More,  the  Lord  of 
Leix,  whom  he  married  in  his  father's  life-time,  when 
only  Lord  of  OffaJey.  George  died  about  the  year 
1669,  leaving  Mary  Fitz-Gerald  his  only  child  and 
heiress  ;  who,  intermarrying  with  her  cousin  Henry 
Fitz-Gerald,  the  inheritor  and  representative  of  the 
Fitz-Geralds  of  Rathrone,  and  thus  descended  from  a 
common  ancestor  with  that  of  Tecroghan,  thereby 
united  these  two  ancient  Houses.  Accordingly,  on  the 
Attainders  of  1691,  this  Henry  is  styled  on  one  Inqui- 
sition as  of  Tecroghan,  on  another  as  of  Rathrone. 
Their  son  and  heir  was  Gerald  Fitz-Gerald  of  Rath- 
rone, who  married,  in  1720,  Glare,  only  daughter  of 
Sir  John  Bellew,  Baronet ;  by  whom  he  had  issue 
Gerald  Fitz-Gerald  the  younger,  of  Rathrone,  who  was 
Member  of  Parliament  for  Kildare  in  the  year  1761, 
and  for  Harristown  in  1768.  He,  the  last  heir  male 
of  Henry  and  Mary  Fitz-Gerald,  died  unmarried  in 
1775,  and  the  representation  descended  through  his 
sister  JuUa  (who  had  in  1757  married  John  Daly  of 
Dalybrook,  Ck)anty  of  Kildare)  to  her  only  married 


698  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  A&MT  LIST. 

child  and  heiress,  Bridget  Fitz-Gerald  Dalj ;  and 
through  her,  on  her  marriage  with  William  Eenney, 
Esq.  of  Kilclogher,  Co.  of  Galwaj,  and  of  Ballytarsney, 
County  of  Wexford,  to  their  eldest  son,  James  Fitz- 
gerald  Eenney,  Esq.,  who,  by  his  wife,  the  Honorable 
Jane  Olivia  Nugent,  daughter  of  the  late  William  Tho- 
mas, Lord  Riverston,  had  issue  only  William  Nugent 
Kenney,  a  Captain  in  the  Eleventh,  who  died  unmar- 
ried ;  James  Christopher  Fitz-Gerald  Kenney,  Esq.  of 
Kilclogher  and  Merrion  Square  ;  and  a  third  son, 
Nugent  T.  F.  Kenney  of  Correndoo,  County  of  GaL 
way.  This  James  is  now,  therefore,  the  representative 
and  heir  general  of  the  families  of  Tecroghan  and 
Rathrone.* 

This  name  is  abundantly  displayed  over  the  presen,t 
Army  List  James  Fitz-Gerald  was  a  Captain  in 
Colonel  PurceU's  Horse,  in  which  John  Fitz-Gerald 
was  a  Quarter-Master.  In  Sir  Neill  O'Neill's,  Char- 
les  Fitz-Gerald  was  a  Captain,  as  were  Morres  and 
John  in  Lord  Clare's,  in  which  latter  Thomas  was  a 
Cornet,  and  Gerald  a  Quarter-Master.  In  Colonel 
Robert  Clifford's,  James  Fitz-Gerald  was  a  Captain, 
and  Christopher  a  Cornet.  Maurice  was  a  Captain  in 
Colonel  John  Hamilton's  Infantry.  In  Lord  Mount- 
cashel's,  Garret  and  Charles  were  Captains,  Francis 
and  Robert  Lieutenants,  and  James  and  Edward  En- 
signs. Edmund  Fitz-Gerald  was  a  Captain  in  the 
Earl  of  Clancarthy's,  wherein  Gerald  was  a  Lieuten- 

*  See  Sir  Bernard  Burke's  valuable  genealogical  works, 
passim. 


SIR  JOHN   FITZ-GERALD'S  INFANTRY.  699 

ant.  (It  would  seem  that  either  of  the  Grendds  here 
underlined  was  the  son  of  Henry  and  Mary  above 
alluded  to).  In  the  Earl  of  Tyrone's  Infantry, 
Edmund  was  a  Captain,  and  Richard  and  another 
Edmund  Lieutenants.  In  Lord  Gormanston's,  Oliver 
Fitz-Gerald  was  a  Captain,  Gerald  a  Lieutenant,  and 
Thomas  an  Ensign.  In  Colonel  Henry  Dillon's, 
Edward  and  Robert  were  Captains,  Richard  a  Lieu- 
tenant, and  Redmond  an  Ensign.  Edward  was  a 
Captain  and  Geofl^y  an  Ensign  in  Colonel  Thomas 
Butler's  ;  Edmund  a  Captain  in  Lord  Kilmallock's. 
In  Major-General  Boiseleau's,  Maurice  and  Garret 
Fitz-Gerald  were  Captains,  and  Edmund  an  Ensign. 
James  and  Dudley  were  Captains,  and  Edmund  a 
Lieutenant  in  Colonel  Nicholas  Browne's.  Thomas 
was  a  Captain  in  Colonel  Charles  O'Bryan's ;  as  were 
John  and  David  in  Colonel  Roger  McEUicot's,  wherein 
James  was  a  Lieutenant,  and  Nicholas  an  Ensign. 
Laurence  Fitz-Gerald  was  a  Lieutenant  in  Lord 
Galmoy's  Horse,  Christopher  a  Comet  in  Sarsfield's  ; 
as  were  Garret  and  Walter  in  Lord  Dongan's,  and 
John  in  Colonel  Francis  Carroll's  Dragoons.  Richard 
Fitz-Gerald  was  a  Lieutenant  in  the  Royal  Regiment 
of  Foot.  Walter  was  a  Lieutenant  and  Maurice  an 
Ensign  in  Colonel  Sir  Maurice  Eustace's  Infantry.  In 
Colonel  Edward  Butler's,  John  Fitz-Gerald  was  a 
lieutenant,  as  was  Gibbon  Fitz-Gerald  in  Colonel 
John  Barrett's. 

In  the  Parliament  of  1689,  Fitz-Gerald,  Earl  of 
Eildare,  did  not  sit ;  but  in  the  Commons,  Edward 


700  Ki\G  James's  irisii  army  list. 

Fitz-Gerald  was  one  of  the  Representatives  of  the 
Borough  of  Inistiogue,  William  of  that  of  Athy,  a 
second  Edward  of  Ilarristown,  Oliver  of  Lanesborongh, 
James  of  Ratoath,  Nicholas  of  the  City  of  Waterford  ; 
while  this  officer,  Sir  John,  and  Gerald  Fitz-Gerald, 
Esq.,  commonly  called  the  Knight  of  Glin,  were  Mem- 
bers for  the  County  of  Limerick.  This  Parliament 
was  convened  in  May,  1689  ;  on  the  first  of  June 
following,  says  a  Diary  of  the  day,*  "  there  marched 
from  Dublin  Sir  Michael  Creagh,  the  present  Lord 
Mayor,  with  his  Regiment,  Sir  John  Fitz-Gerald  from 
Rathcoole  and  Lucan,  with  his  Regiment,  and  several 
others  from  other  parts  towards  Trim,  twenty  miles 
from  Dublin,  the  place  appointed  for  the  general 
rendezvous  of  tlie  army  that  are  sent  against  Ennis- 
killen.  Colonel  Sarsfield  from  Sligo  is  to  join  them, 
and  so  to  march  to  Enniskillen  to  attack  it,  with  a 
resolution  to  bear  it  down.  All  Sir  Michael  Creagh's 
Regiment  was  raised  in  Dublin,  Sir  John  Fitz- 
Gerald's  from  Munster,  and  most  that  are  gone  down 
there  are  all  raw  fellows,  not  knowing  how  to  fire  a 
gun."  On  the  following  25th  of  July,  writes  Macken- 
zie,f  "the  enemy  had  several  cows  feeding  behind 
their  lines  near  us ;  our  men  resolved  they  would  try 
to  get  so  welcome  a  prey  into  their  own  hands,  and  ac- 
cordingly  early  this  morning  they  go  out,  surprised  Sir 
John  Fitz-Gerald's  Regiment,  who  were  in  these  lines, 
made  havoc  of  them,  beat  them  from  their  trenches, 

♦  Somers's  State  Tracts,  vol.  U,  p.  420. 
t  Siepo  of  Perry,  p.  15. 


SIR  JOHN   FITZ-GERALD'S   INFANTRY.  701 

killed  the  Lieutenant-Colonel,  (then  another  Fitz- 
Gerald),  and  Captain  Frank  Wilson,  and  took 
Captain  Nugent  prisoner,"  but  were  driven  back  with- 
out  obtaining  their  desired  prey.  During  the  ensuing 
siege  of  Deny,  a  Captain  Fitz-Gendd  was  killed  at 
Pennybum-Mill,*  as  was  another  Captain  at  the 
Boyne.f  The  Colonel  at  present  under  consideration 
"  had  suflfered  under  the  machinations  of  the  whigs  in 
the  reign  of  Charles  the  Second,  having  been  one  of 
the  Eoman  Catholic  gentry  arrested  and  conveyed  to 
England  in  1680,  on  account  of  the  pretended  Popish 
Plot.  After  the  accession  of  James  the  Second,  he  was 
appointed  a  Lieutenant-Colonel  to  the  Infantry  Eegi- 
ment  of  Colonel  Justin  McCarty  (Lord  Mountcashel), 
and  in  1689  was  made  Colonel  of  this  Regiment,  with 
which  he  served  at  the  siege  of  Derry."J  His  ser- 
vices on  the  22nd  of  June,  1690,  near  Dundalk,  are 
noticed  ante^  p.  109.  In  the  same  month  of  the  fol- 
lowing year,  when  De  Ginkle  was  advancing  to 
besiege  Athlone  with  his  veteran  army.  Sir  John  Fitz- 
Gerald  sent  out  a  party  of  Irish  grenadiers  to  dispute 
the  passes  and  defiles  ;  and  this  duty  they  discharged 
with  equal  courage  and  prudence,  "keeping  the 
masses  of  the  enemy  in  check  as  long  as  possible, 
while  retiring  before  superior  numbers,  making  them 
purchase  their  advance  at  considerable  loss.''§     He 

♦  Walker's  Siege  of  Deny,  p.  60. 

t  Clarke's  Mem.  James  II.,  v.  2,  p.  399. 

%  O'Callaghan's  Irish  Brigades,  vol.  1,  p.  232. 

f  (yCUlaghan's  Green  Book,  p.  300. 


702  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  UST. 

took  an  active  part  afterwards  in  defending  Limerick 
from  the  same  assailant ;  but  O'Conor  writes  that  he 
was  removed  for  D'Usson,  '  one  more  versed  in  the 
science  of  defending  fortified  places.'  After  the  capi- 
tulation he  passed  with  his  Regiment  to  France,  where 
his  Brigade  was  styled  *the  Regiment  of  Limerick/ of 
which  Jeremiah  O'Mahony  was  Lieutenant-Colonel, 
and  William  Therry  Major.  In  that  country,  and 
in  other  parts  of  the  Continent,  this  Regiment '  ac- 
quired glorious  renown'  in  various  engagements  in 
Normandy,  Germany,  and  Italy,  as  ftilly  set  forth  in 
O'Conor  s  Military  Memoirs.  Sir  John  Fitz-Gerald 
fell  at  Oudenarde  in  1698. 

Although  not  an  adherent  of  King  James,  another 
Fitz-Gerald  is  too  intimately  connected  with  the  times 
to  be  here  omitted.  Robert  Fitz-Gerald,  second  son 
of  the  sixteenth  Earl  of  Kildare,  was,  on  the  accession 
of  James,  "stripped  of  all  his  employments  and 
estates  to  the  value  of  £3,300  per  annum^  and  impri- 
soned in  Newgate  for  twenty-one  weeks  ;  but  after- 
wards, in  consequence  of  the  state  of  his  health,  was 
removed  to  his  own  house,  where  he  remained  guarded 
for  five  months.  On  the  landing  of  King  WiUiam  in 
Ireland  he  was  placed  in  close  durance  in  Trinity 
College,  and  so  restrained  until  the  defeat  of  James 
at  the  Boyne,  when  he  broke  fix)m  his  prison,  9,nd  by 
his  courage  and  prudence  preserved  Dublin  from  being 
sacked.  When  King  William  entered  the  metropolis. 
Captain  Fitz-Gerald  had  the  honour  of  presenting  to 
his  Majesty  the  keys  of  the  city,  and  was  afterwards 


SIB  JOHN   FITZ-GERALD'S   INFANTRY.  703 

sworn  of  his  Privy  Council.'^ The  Attainders  on 

Inquisitions  of  1691  against  Fitz-Geralds  are  in  num- 
ber in  the  several  counties,  twenty-one  in  Waterford, 
seventeen  in  Cork,  as  many  in  Westmeath,  twenty- 
three  in  Eildare,  nine  in  Meath,  six  in  Limerick  and 
Kilkenny  respectively,  five  in  Longford,  four  in  Ros- 
common and  in  Dublin,  two  in  Carlow,  two  in  Wick- 
low,  and  one  each  in  Clare,  Kerry,  Queen's  County, 
and  Cavan.  At  the  Court  of  Chichester  House  in 
1700,  Dame  Ellen  Fitz-Gerald  claimed,  as  the  widow 
of  Sir  John  Fitz-Gerald,  deceased,  and  was  as  such 
allowed,  her  jointure  off  his  County  of  Limerick 
estates ;  Piers  Fitz-Gerald  also  claimed  and  was 
allowed  a  remainder  for  years  in  other  Limerick  pos- 
sessions of  said  Sir  John. Thomas  and  John  Fitz- 
Gerald,  minors,  by  their  guardian,  claimed  and  were 
allowe'd  an  estate  tail  to  Thomas,  with  remainder  to 
John,  in  other  Limerick  lands  forfeited  by  Gerald 
Fitz-Gerald  ;  while  John  Fitz-Gerald,  second  son  of 
said  Gerald,  and  five  of  his  daughters,  claimed 
portions  off  his  said  Limerick  lands,  but  their  prayer 

was    dismissed. Mary    Fitz-Gerald    claimed    an 

estate  for  her  life  in  County  of  Kildare  lands  for- 
feited by  Henry  Fitz-Gerald,  her  husband,  which  was 
allowed  if  she  survived  him,  while  Luke  Fitz-Gerald 
claimed  and  was  also  allowed  a  reversion  in  fee  in 
said  Kildare  estate,  after  the  death  of  said  Mary ;  and 
Gerald  and  Edward  Fitz-Gerald,  minors,  by  William 
Fitz-Gerald,  their  prochein  ami,   claimed  and   were 

♦  Burke's  Peerage,  pp.  604-5. 


704  KING  JAMESES  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

allowed  estates  in  tail-male,  not  only  in  the  Kildare 
estates  of  said  Henry,  but  also  in  other  of  his  estates 

in   Meath,  Westmeath,  and   Cavan. Alice  Fitz- 

Gerald,  otlierwise  Dillon,  claimed  dower  for  herself, 
and  portions  for  her  daughters  Elinor  and  Alice  Fitz- 
Gerald,  off  Cork  lands  of  Edmund  Fitz-Gerald,  her 
husband  and  their  father— dismissed  as  cautionary. 

In  1747,  Lieutenant  Edward  Fitz-Gerald,  in 
I'lare's  Regiment,  was  wounded  at  Lauffield.  The 
i'xi)l()its  of  Brigadier  James  Fitz-Gerald  in  Dillon's 
Regiment,  and  his  death  in  1773,  are  related  in 
(VCallaglian's  Brigades^  vol.  1,  p.  91. 


LIEUTENANT-COLONEL  JOHN  BINNS. 
Nothing  has  been  ascci-tained  of  him  or  his  iainily. 


LIEUTENANT  KEDAGH  LEART. 

The  Sept  of  O'Leary  was  territorially  settled  in 
Muskerry,  County  of  Cork,  between  Macroom  and 
Inchageela,  where  are  still  the  ruins  of  several  of  their 
castles.  They  suffered  much  in  the  Desmond  war, 
and,  on  the  defeat  of  Juan  de  Aquila  at  Kinsale, 
Mahon  Mac  Donough  O'Leary  passed  over  with  him 
out  of  Ireland.*  On  the  Attainders  of  1642  occur 
the   names   of  Connor   O'Leary    of    Carrignycony, 

*  Pa  cat  a  Ilibcrnia,  p.  425. 


LORD  LOUTH'S  INFANTRY.  705 

Auliff  O'Leary  of  Cunnowley,  with  fourteen  other 
O'Learys,  all  located  in  the  County  of  Cork.  On 
those  of  1691,  William  Leary  of  Aghare,  County  of 
Cork,  stands  alone. 


REGIMENTS    OF    INFANTRY. 

OLIVER,   LORD  LOUTH'S. 

Ca^p4aim»,                         lAaiimcmU,  Emigns. 

The  Colonel.  

Lieatenant-Colonel. 

Migor. 
Baniaby  Borne.  James  Hnaeey.  Joeeph  Dowdall. 

Junes  Donellan.  Henry  Plonkett. 


CAPTAINS  THEOBALD  AND  CHARLES 
THROCKMORTON. 

Of  this  name  it  can  only  be  said  that  the  latter  officer 
is  described,  in  the  Inquisition  on  his  attainder  in 
1691,  as  *  of  Crucetown,  County  of  Louth.' 


zz 


706 


RING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  U8T. 


REGIMENTS    OF    INFANTRY. 

LORD  KILMALLOCK'S. 


Ct^ams.  LiaUmfmts. 

The  Colonel  

John  Power,  

Lientcnant-Colonel. 

John  Chnppel,  . 

Mi^or. 

Walter  Galwiy.  

Morgan  *  KATenagh.'  . 

Patrick  Power.  

Thomas  Bryan.  

Janies  Roch.  Peter  NUiilL 
Martin  Snpplo. 

Terence  Browne.  

Edmund  Fiti-Gerald.  Peregrine  Spencer. 

John  Barry.  

Kidiard  Bntler.  James  Bntler. 

Pion  Birmingham.  

David  Mac  Jonnin. 

John  Noble.  

Daniel  Egan.  

Richard  Butler,  

Orenad. 


Toby  Bntler. 


COLONEL  DOMINICK  SARSFIELD,  LORD 
KILMALLOCK. 

The  family  of  Sarsfield  has  been  fully  written  of  in 
the  notices  of  the  illustrious  Patrick  Sarsfield's  'Horse.' 
In  reference  to  this  noble  officer,  his  grandfather  was 
Sir  Dominick  Sarsfield,  Enight,  Chief  Justice  of  the 


LORD  KILMALLOCK'S  INFANTRY.  707 

Common  Pleas.     He  was  created  Premier  Baronet  of 
Ireland  in  1619,  and  raised  to  the  Peerage  in  1624,  as 
Baron   of  Barrett's   County  and  Viscount  Kinsale, 
both  localities  lying  in  Cork  ;  but  the  Baron  of  Kin- 
sale  (De  Courcy),  having  preferred  his  remonstrance 
to  the  Crown,  as  that  the  title  of  Kinsale  belonged  to 
him,  the  appointment  was  submitted  for  the  conside- 
ration and  decision  of  the  Lords  and  Judges,  which 
was  given  in  favour  of  Lord  Kinsale  ;  whereupon  Sir 
Dominick  was  soon  after  created  a  Viscount  Sarsfield 
of  KilmaJlock,  with  the  precedence  of  the  former 
patent.     He  died  in  1636,  and  was  buried  in  Christ 
Church,  Cotk.     He  left  two  sons,  William  the  eldest, 
his  immediate  successor,  whose  only  son  David  or 
Daniel,  the  third  Viscount,  died  in   1687  without 
issue  ;  when  Dominick,  the  second  son  of  the  first 
Viscount,  succeeded  to  the  title,  and  was  father  of  the 
above  Dominick  junior,  the  fourth  Viscount  of  Kil- 
mallock.     He  was,  in  1689,  constituted  of  the  Privy 
Council  of  King  James,  sat  as  a  Peer  in  the  Parlia- 
ment of  that  year,  subsequently  distinguished  himself 
at  the  first  siege  of  Limerick,  was  also  at  the  battle  of 
Aughrim,  and,  after  the  Capitulation  of  Limerick,  fol- 
lowed the  fortunes  of  the  dethroned  Stuart.     On  the 
reorganization  of  the  Irish  forces  in  Bretagne,  he  was 
iq^pointed  First-Lieutenant  in  the  second  troop  of 
Horse  Guards^  commanded  by  his  brother-in-law  the 
Baii  of  Laoaiu    la  1693,  he  was  commissioned  to 
'"^'^'^^''^  Mflgflij^feMlM^        ^^*^  ^  ^^^  command  of 
^  fittj^MMMHlH  suited  Dragoons,  having 

zz  2 


708  KIXG  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Turennc  O'Connor  (the  Marshal  deTurenne's  godson) 

his  Lieutenant-Colonel,  and de  Sales  his  Major. 

This  Regiment,  together  with  that  of  the  Queen's 
Irish  Dragoons,  1,400  men,  he  headed  at  the  battle  of 
Marsiglia  in  1693,  continuing  Colonel  of  the  former 
until  after  the  peace  of  Ryswick  in  1697,  when  that 
Regiment  was  broken  up.*  He  afterwards  became  a 
Colonel  of  Dragoons  in  Spain,  and  was  Governor  and 
Commander  at  Badajos.  In  the  Spanish  campaign  of 
1710,  he  fell  in  battle.f  He  had  been  attainted  in 
1691,  when  Sir  Robert  Southwell,  whose  grasping  at 
confiscations  has  been  more  particularly  alluded  to 
arite^  p.  386,  having  represented  his  losses  by  the 
Irish  rebels  and  the  English  soldiers  as  amounting 
from  March,  1689,  to  All  Saints'  day,  1690,  to 
£4,759,  he  thereupon  obtained  a  grant  of  the  estates 
of  this  '  Dominick  Sarsfield,'  as  also  of  those  of  James 
Ronayne  and  Peter  Levallin,  all  situated  in  the 
County  of  Cork. 


LTEUTENANT-COLONEL  JOHN  POWER. 

Some  few  notices  of  this  great  name  in  Ireland, 
beyond  the  scope  generally  proposed  for  these  Illustra- 
tions, cannot  be  uninteresting.  On  the  Invasion  of 
Ireland,  the  Earl,  popularly  called  Strongbow,  con- 
ferred upon  Robert  le  Poer  the  territory  of  Waterford, 

*  O'Callaghan's  Irish  Brigades,  vol.  1,  p.  IGO. 
t  0'Ck)nor's  Milit.  Mem.  v.  1,  p.  218. 


LORD  KILMALLOCK'S  INFANTRY.  709 

excepting  therefrom  the  city  and  the  cantred  of 
the  Ostmen  or  Danes,*  whom  the  invaders  found 
settled  there,  and  in  good  policy  encouraged  as  mer- 
chants. At  the  close  of  the  thirteenth  century,  when 
the  Earl  of  Desmond  refused  to  attend  a  Parliament- 
ary summons,  the  Lord  Deputy,  raising  the  King's 
standard,  marched  into  Munster,  seized  his  possessions, 
and  executed  Eustace  le  Poer  as  one  of  his  chief  ad- 
herents.f  Amongst  the  Irish  Magnates  and  Captains 
who,  in  1314,  accompanied  Edward  the  Second  in 
his  expedition  against  Scotland,  were  John  le  Poer, 
Arnold  le  Poer,  and  Peter  le  Poer,  Knight  In  1320, 
Meyler  le  Poer  was  Bishop  of  Leighlin,  as  was  Robert 
Poer,  of  Waterford  and  Lismore,  in  1446.  The 
Attainders  of  1641  include  David  Fitz-John  Power  of 
Prowhus  ;  Edmund,  alias  Naghton  Power  of  Drome- 
nyne  ;  and  Robert  Power  of  Castletown,  all  in  the 
County  of  Cork.  The  Supreme  Council  of  Kilkenny 
in  1646  had  David  'Poor'  of  Clonmore,  and  John 
Power  of  Kilmacdan  of  its  members.  The  Declara- 
tion .  of  Royal  thanks  in  the  Act  of  Settlement  parti- 
cularly notices  Mr.  David  '  Powre'  of  Kilbolane,  and 
Captain  Edmund  Power  of  Inch,  County  of  Cork. 

Besides  this  Lieutenant-Colonel  John  and  Captain 
Patrick  in  this  Regiment,  another  John  Power  was 
Lieutenant-Colonel  in  Sir  Michael  Creagh's,  as  was 
James  Power  in  Colonel  Dudley  Bagnall's  Infantry  ; 
and  the  name  was  commissioned  in  six  other  Regi- 
ments of  this  List    In  the  Parliament  of  1689  sat 


M^'^^MimS  t  Idem,  p.  89. 


710  KING  JAMES'S  IBISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Power,  Earl  of  Tyrone,  in  the  Peers;  while  in  the 

Commons  John  Power  was  one  of  the  Members  for 
the  Comity  of  Waterford,  as  was  John  Power  of  Kilbo- 
lane  for  the  Borough  of  Charleville.  The  Attainders 
of  1691  include  the  aforesaid  John  Power  of  Eilbolane, 
with  three  others  in  Cork,  four  in  Carlow,  three  in 
Galway,  one  in  Clare,  and  thirty-one  in  Waterford, 
On  the  formation  in  France  of  the  Brigade  Begiment 
styled  '  of  Dublin,'  this  John  Power  was  appointed 
Colonel,  while  another  John  Power,  the  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  it  would  seem  of  Sir  Michael  Creagh's,  had 
the  same  rank  under  him. 

In  1703,  John  Power,  'commonly  called  Lord 
Power,'  petitioned  Queen  Anne,  setting  forth  that 
''  during  the  late  calamitous  times  he  was  kind  and 
serviceable  to  divers  Protestants,  especially  in  Lime- 
rick during  the  siege,  he  being  then  Mayor  of  the 
city  ;  that  he  had  gone  to  France  and  was  in  the 
army  there,  when  encouragement  having  been  given 
to  him  by  the  late  King  William,  he  quitted  France, 
though  offered  a  Major-Generalship  if  he  remained  ; 
that  the  sudden  death  of  that  King  retarded  his  in- 
terest, but  her  Majesty  having  given  him  licence  to 
return,  he  gave  up  his  son  to  be  educated  a  Protes- 
tant, the  Queen  allowing  a  yearly  maintenance  for 
his  education  ;  and  that  she  gave  himself  an  appoint- 
ment to  go  and  serve  the  King  of  Portugal,  her  ally. 
That,  during  his  absence  from  the  kingdom,  he  was 
outlawed  as  for  treason,  though,  as  he  relied,  he  had 
neither  real  nor  personal  property  that  could  accrue 


LORD  KILMALLOCK's  INFANTRY.        711 

to  the  Crown  by  his  outlawry.  That,  however,  by  a 
recent  Act  of  Parliament  such  attainder  could  not  be 
cleared  away  but  only  by  another  Act  of  Parliament, 
the  benefit  of  which  he  thereby  prayed,'** 


MAJOR  JOHN  CHAPPEL. 

The  name  of  Chappel, '  de  la  Chapelle,'  is  of  record  in 
Ireland  from  the  time  of  Edward  the  Second,  when 
this  family  was  seised  of  estates  in  the  County  of  Cork. 
On  the  death  of  Maurice  de  la  Chapelle  in  1326,  his 
estates  in  that  county  were,  according  to  the  profit- 
able Royal  prerogative  of  wardships,  granted  during 
the  minority  of  James,  his  son  and  heir.  In  1347, 
John  de  la  Chapelle  was  appointed  a  Guardian  of 
the  Peace  in  that  county.  Of  this  rather  rare  sur- 
name was  also  Dr.  William  Chappel,  bom  in  Notting- 
hamshire in  1582,  advanced  in  1633,  on  the  recom- 
mendation of  Dr.  Laud,  then  Bishop  of  London,  to 
the  See  of  Killaloe  ;  by  the  same  influence  was  sworn 
Provost  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  in  1638  ;  where, 
"in  order  to  give  the  junior  students  a  taste  of 
government,  he  established  a  Roman  Commonwealth 
among  them,  to  continue  during  the  Christmas  vaQa- 
tion,  in  which  tiiey  had  their  dictator,  consuls,  cen- 
sors, and  other  officers  of  the  Roman  state  in  great 
splendor."!  It  may  be  remarked  that  this  divine 
sou^t  prafennent  in  the  province  where  the  above 

Boo.  lib.      t  Ware's  Bishops. 


712  KING  JAHES'8  IRISH  AEMY  U8T. 

individuals  of  his  name  had  settled,  and  in  1638  he 
was  consecrated  Bbhop  of  Cork  ;  but,  when  the  civil 
war  of  1641  broke  out,  he  fled  to  England,  and, 
dying  at  Derby  in  1649,  was  buried  in  the  family 
grave  at  Belthorp  in  Nottinghamshire.  The  above 
Major  John,  from  the  regiment  in  which  he  took  rank, 
seems  to  have  been  also  of  Cork.  He  was  a  Lieute- 
nant-Colonel at  Aughrim,  where  he  was  taken  prisoner. 


CAPTAIN  MARTIN  SUPPLE. 

Nothing  is  known  of  this  officer,  but  the  family  was 
also  of  Cork.  On  the  Outlawries  of  1691,  appears 
John  '  Soople'  of  Kilcolman  in  that  county  ;  and,  at 
the  Court  of  Chichester  House  in  1700,  Jane  Supple, 
otherwise  Kenny,  claimed  her  jointure  off  lands  there 
forfeited  by  the  above  Martin,  as  did  William  Supple 
a  remainder  in  taU  therein.  A  James  Supple,  also, 
on  behalf  of  himself  and  his  son  William,  claimed  a 
remainder  in  tail  out  of  the  same  interest ;  but  all 
these  petitions  were  dismissed  as  cautionary. 


CAPTAIN  DAVID  MAC  JONNIN. 

Mac  Jonnin  or  Jennings  is  a  name  peculiarly  located 
in  the  Connaught  Counties  of  Mayo  and  Galway  ;  a 
branch  is  also  traced  in  the  County  of  Down  ;  ac- 
cordingly   the  Attainders    of    1691    include  James 


LORD  KILMALLOCK'S  INFANTRY.  713 

Jennings  of  Tullyard,  County  of  Down  ;  David,  Hu- 
bert, Thomas,  and  Michael  Jonyne  of  Eilloran  ;  and 
Francis  Jonyne  of  Skeloghoa  in  the  County  of  Mayo : 
but  this  Captain  does  not  appear  thereon. 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  NOBLE. 

At  the  close  of  the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  Richard 
Noble  of  Dublin  married  Maria  Ryan,  heiress  of  a 
castle  and  some  premises  in  Naas  in  the  County  of 
Eildare.  This  officer,  it  would  seem,  was  a  descendant 
of  that  marriage,  and  the  inquisition  had  on  his  at- 
tainder describes  him  as  John  Noble  of  Blackball, 
County  of  ELildare  ;  while  a  (Jeorge  Noble  of  Birtown 
in  the  same  county  was  also  then  attainted.  So  early 
as  in  the  reign  of  Edward  the  First,  Philip  le  Noble 
appears  on  Irish  record.  In  the  tim^  of  Henry  the 
Fourth,  John  Noble  was  the  incumbent  of  Drumcar, 
County  of  Louth. 


CAPTAIN  DANIEL  EGAN. 

The  Sept  of  Mac  Egan  was  territorially  seised  of 
Clan-Dearmida,  a  district  of  the  Barony  of  Leitrim, 
County  of  Galway  ;  within  which  they  had  in  old 
time  some  castles.  They  were  celebrated  Brehons  of 
Gonnaughty  as  also  of  Monster.  Accordingly  John 
MacEgaa  k.AtpnMhjM  Brehon  of  the  O'Conor, 


714  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  UST. 

slain  at  the  battle  of  Athenry  in  1316 ;  and  tiie  Four 
Masters  commemorate,  at  1378,  the  death  of  Teigue 
Mac  Egan,  chief  Brehon  of  North  Connaught^ "  a  man 
of  learning,  free  fit)m  pride  and  arrogance,  who  k^t 
a  house  of  general  hospitality ;"  and  in  1399  they 
relate  the  death  of  Boothgalach  Mac  Egan  of  Ormond, 
*•  a  man  learned  in  the  laws  and  in  music,  and  eminent 
for  hospitality ;'  also  of  Giolbarua-neev,  son  of  Conor 
Mac  Egan,  Chief  Professor  of  I-aws,  with  many  subse- 
quent obits,  similarly  recording  their  learning  and 
hospitality.  The  Attainders  of  1642  name  Owen 
and  John  Mac  Egan  of  Aghmagh,  County  of  Cork  ; 
while  the  Declaration  of  Royal  thanks,  in  the  Act  of 
1662,  includes  Owen  Oge  Mac  Egan  of  the  County  of 
Cork,  Adjutant  Besides  this  oflBcer,  four  others  of 
the  name  appear  on  the  present  Army  List.  The 
name  of  Captain  Daniel  Egan  does  not  occur  on  the 
Outlawries  of  1-691 ;  but,  at  the  Court  of  Chichester 
House,  Daniel  ^Eagan,'  a  minor,  claimed  by  his 
guardian  an  estate  tail  in  County  of  Eildare  lands  as 
forfeited  by  Thomas  Egan  ;  Margaret  Egan  claimed 
a  small  jointure  thereoff ;  and  Elizabeth,  Mary,  and 
Anne  Egan,  their  daughters,  claimed  also  by  their 
guardian  portions  of  one  hundred  pounds  for  each 
thereout ;  but  all  these  petitions  were  dismissed,  and 
Thomas's  estate  in  that  county  was  in  1703  sold  by 
the  Commissioners  of  Forfeiture  to  William  Hewetson 
of  Clough,  in  the  same  county,  discharged  of  all  said 
liabilities.  A  Jdm  Egan  forfeited  in  the  confisca- 
tions of  this  time  lands  in  the  County  of  Tipperary  ; 


LORD  KILMALLOCK's  INFANTRY.  715 

off  which  Pierce  Nugent,  in  right  of  his  wife  Mary, 
*  who  had  been  theretofore  wife  of  Dan  Egan/  (very 
probably  the  above  Captain  Daniel),  claimed  her 
jointure. 


LIEUTENANT  PEREGRINE  SPENCER. 

Although  this  name  is  known  in  Ireland  from  the 
time  of  Edward  the  Third,  the  present  officer,  whose 
Christian  name  should  have  been  set  down  as  Hugo- 
line,  not  Peregrine,  was  associated  with  a  more  illus- 
trious origin,  the  gifted  author  of  the  *  Faerie  Queen. 
In  1580,  Edmund  Spencer  accompanied  Lord  Grey, 
then  Viceroy  of  Ireland,  as  his  secretary ;  an  office 
which  he  held  until  1588,  when  he  was  appointed 
Clerk  of  the  Council  of  Munster,  and  on  the  plant- 
ation of  that  province,  he  had,  in  1591,  a  grant  of 
the  manor  and  castle  of  EUcojiman,  with  other  lands, 
containing  3,028  acres,  in  the  Barony  of  Fermoy ; 
and  here,  on  the  banks  of  the  Awbeg,  the  poet's 
*  gentle  Mulla,'  was  composed  the  Faerie  Queen.  He 
was  not,  however,  so  devoted  to  the  muses  as  to 
neglect  the  opportunities  which  his  post  gave  him  of 
aggrandizing  his  income,  and  this  by  oppression  and 
injustice,  which  provoked  the  vengeance  of  his  vic- 
tims ;  his  house  was  burned,  a  litUe  child  of  his  was 
consumed  in  Ae  flameBi  and  he  and  his  wife  were 
obliged  to  t^  ^^^Mtti  '  ^^*  Hardiman 


716  KING  JAMES'S  I&ISH  AKMT  UST. 

says,*  he  died  of  want,  leaving  two  sons,  Sylvanus 
and  Peregrine.  Sylvanus  had  also  two  sons,  Edmund 
and  William.  To  the  former,  Charles  the  First 
granted  the  manor,  castle,  &c.  of  Kilcolman  ;  but  he 
dying  without  issue,  the  right  to  Kilcolman  survived 
to  William,  whose  possession  having  been  intruded 
upon  during  the  civil  war  of  1641,  he  presented  a 
petition  in  1657  for  redress,  which  was  favoured  by 
Cromwell ;  and,  although  the  lands  were  on  the 
Restoration  granted  under  the  Act  of  Settlement  to 
Lord  Kingston,  yet  were  they  restored  to  said  Wil- 
liam Spencer  by  a  patent  grant  of  1678,  together 
with  other  lands  in  the  Counties  of  Galway  and 
Roscommon,  this  addition  comprising  nearly  two 
thousand  acres  ;  said  William,  by  his  wife  Barbara, 
left  a  son  Nathaniel.  The  poet's  second  son.  Pere- 
grine, died  in  1641,  seised  of  the  lands  of  Rinney, 
near  Kilcolman,  to  which  the  above  Hugoline,  his 
eldest  son,  succeded ;  but,  being  a  Roman  Catholic, 
and  having  attached  himself  to  the  cause  of  James 
the  Second,  he  was  outlawed.  Thereupon,  in  1697, 
some  impropriate  rectories  and  tithes  of  which  he  was 
seised  were,  under  the  Act  of  Settlement,  conveyed  to 
augment  poor  vicarages,  while  his  said  estate  of  Rin- 
ney, described  as  three  hundred  and  thirty-two  acres, 
&c.,  was  granted  by  patent  to  the  above  Nathaniel, 
son  of  William,  as  the  next  Protestant  heir  of  said 
Hugoline ;  and  he,  in  1716,  sold  the  lands,  &c.  of 
Ballinasloe,  with   the  fairs   and    markets  there,  to 

•  Irish  Minstrelsy,  vol.  1,  p.  819,  &c. 


LORD  KILMALLOCK'S  INFANTRY. 


717 


Frederick  Trench,  ancestor  of  the  present  Eari  of 
Clancarty.  These  fairs  became  afterwards  the  most 
celebrated  in  the  British  Empire.  The  will  of  this 
Nathaniel  Spencer,  dated  14th  October,  1718,  was 
proved  in  1734,  in  the  Prerogative  Court,  Dublin. 


REGIMENTS    OF    INFANTRY. 

SIR   MAURICE  EUSTACE'S. 


Captaitts, 
The  Colonel. 
[John  Wogan, 
Lieutenant-Colonel.] 


Major. 
James  Clinch. 
Edward  Moore. 
John  Warren. 
Thomas  Denn. 
Thomas  Hnssej. 
Olirer  Bochford. 
Cornel.  Conan. 
James  Eustace. 
Francis  S^graye. 
Edward  Masterson. 
Thomas  Sherlock. 


Francis  Tipper. 
Bartholomew  Missett 
Richard  Warren. 
Christopher  'Denne.' 
Mejler  Hussey. 
Michael  Beifbrd. 
Walter  Uta-Gerald. 
Maorioe  Kellj. 
Laurence  Segraye. 
Richard  Eustace. 


Eimgru, 


Simon  Hart 

Robert  <  Shirlock. 
Edward  Lawless. 
John  Hussey. 
Ulysses  *Bouik.' 
BCaurice  Fita-Gendd. 
Patrick  Godding. 
—  Kehoe. 
John  Eustace. 


COLONEL  SIE  MAURICE  EUSTACE. 
Db  BUBOO  wiimtjmmjk  'nption  on  a  monument 


718  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

'  in  the  Church  of  St.  Sextus,  as  deriving  this  family 

from  the  Roman  martyr  St  Eustachius.     Declining, 

r  however,   to  adopt  such   apocryphal  deductions   of 

pedigree,  it  will  suffice  here  to  state  that  the  Irish 

branch  of  this  family  may  be  traced  to  that  *  adven- 

K  turer  of  the  first  water'   Maurice  Fitz-Gerald,  to 

i 

I  whom  Henry  the  Second  gave  the  Barony  of  Naas. 

'  i  His  relative  Eustace,  the  founder  of  this  name,  inhe- 

',  rited  the  northern  parts  thereof,  with  part  of  the 

f  Barony  of  Kilcullen  ;  and  a  descendant  of  his,  Rich- 

ard  Fitz-Eustace,   was   Baron    of   Castlemartin   in 
1200  ;   while  others  became  Barons  of  Harristown 
and  Portlester.     In  1356,  a  member  of  the  family 
*  founded  the  Dominican  friary  at  Naas,  and,  according 

to   De  Burgo,  in   due   reverence   to  their  reputed 
r  origin,  dedicated  it  to  St.  Eustachius.      In  1373, 

;  Thomas,  Archbishop  of  Dublin,  appointed  Thomas, 

son  of  Almaric  Fitz-Eustace,  Constable  of  the  Casjle 
of  Ballymore,  with  a  salary  of  £10  per  annum^  pro- 
vided he  should  reside  there  with  his  family,  and 
govern  the  tenants  without  extortion,  and  guard  and 
maintain  the  fortress.  In  1454,  Sir  Edward  Fitz- 
Eustace,  being  Lord  Deputy  of  Ireland,  *  a  warlike 
Knight  and  fitted  for  a  government  which  required 
activity  and  vigour,'  routed  the  O'Connors  of  Offaley 
in  that  memorable  engagement,  where  Leland  records 
the  generous  contest  between  a  father  and  son  of  the 
House,  each  seeking,  by  self-devotion,  to  save  the  other 
from  the  vengeance  of  the  enemy.  Sir  Roland 
Eustace,   son   of  Sir   Edward    of  Harristown,   was 


SIB  MAURICE  EUSTACE'S  INFANTRY.  719 

created  Baron  of  Portlester,  with  the  manor  annexed 
in  tail  male ;  and  afterwards  was  appointed  Lord 
Chancellor  and  Treasurer  of  Ireland.  In  1462,  he 
founded  the  Franciscan  monastery  of  New  Abbey,  in 
the  County  of  Eildare  ;  and  also  the  beautiful  struc- 
ture called  jfrom  him  Portlester's  Chapel,  within  the 
precincts  of  St.  Audoen's  parish  church,  Dublin.  In 
1475,  he  and  Sir  Robert  Eustace  were  the  two  most 
noble  and  worthy  persons  appointed  to  represent  the 
County  of  ELildare,  on  the  first  formation  of  the 
honorable  order  of  St.  George.  The  former  after- 
wards, in  his  zeal  for  the  house  of  York,  credulously 
espoused  the  cause  of  the  pretender  Lambert  Simnel, 
but  was  pardoned  on  doing  homage  to  Sir  Richard 
Edgecombe.  In  1472,  Oliver,  son  of  Sir  Roland, 
Lord  Fortlester,  was  raised  to  be  a  Baron  of  the  Irish 
Exchequer. 

In  1580,  the  Eustaces  took  part  with  the  oppressed 
O'Tooles,  and  joined  them  in  resisting  the  wild  expe- 
dition of  Lord  Gray  through  the  romantic  pass  of 
Glenmolaur  for  their  extermination.  Fitz-Eustace, 
Viscount  Baltinglas,  and  his  adherents  were  conse- 
quently attainted,  and  their  confiscated  estates  were, 
in  1605,  granted  to  Sir  Henry  Harrington,  Eiiight, 
^^  in  regard  that  he  had  been  a  very  good,  ancient, 
and  long  senritor  in  the  late  wars  and  rebellion  in 
Ireland."  The  Attainders  of  1642  name  John  Fitz- 
Christopher  Eustace  of  Baltrasney,  County  of  Kil- 
dare;  Maurice  Eustace  of  Castlemartin,  Roland  of 
Blackhall,  and  twelve  others  in  the  said  county  ;  five 


720  KINO  JAMES'S  IRISH  AKMT  LIST. 

in  the  County  of  Wicklow,  and  two  in  that  of 
Dublin.  Oliver  and  Thomas  Eustace,  also,  though 
not  named  on  the  Outlawries  of  that  period,  forfeited 
estates  in  the  Barony  of  Upper  Cross,  County  of 
Dublin.  In  1639,  the  Irish  House  of  Commons 
elected  Mr.  Sergeant  Maurice  Eustace  their  Speaker, 
'a  wise,  learned,  and  discreet  man,  and  of  great 
integrity.'  During  the  ensuing  civil  war,  he  con- 
ducted negotiations  between  the  conflicting  parties, 
in  a  manner  that  elicited,  in  1647,  from  the  Com- 
mons  a  vote  of  thanks  *  for  his  singular  affection  to 
the  English  nation.'  He  had  been,  in  1644,  ap- 
pointed Master  of  the  RoUs,  and  in  1660  was  raised 
to  the  Chancery  Bench.  He  died  in  1665,  having, 
by  his  will  of  that  date,  bequeathed  his  chief  estates 
in  Kildare,  Dublin,  and  Wicklow,  together  with  the 
Abbey  of  Cong,  County  of  Mayo,  and  its  appurte- 
nances, severally,  to  his  nephews  Sir  John  and  the 
above  Sir  Maurice  Eustace,  in  tail  male.  He  also 
devised  to  the  Provost  and  Board  of  Trinity  College, 
Dublin,  a  rent-charge  of  £20  per  annum^  chargeable 
on  the  great  house  built  by  him  in  Dame-street,  for 
the  maintenance  of  a  Hebrew  lecturer  in  that  estab- 
lishment; and  directed  his  interment  in  the  old 
family  vault  at  Castlemartin.  The  latter  direction 
was  not,  however,  complied  with ;  he  was  buried  in 
St.  Patrick's  Cathedral.  The  Royal  declaration  of 
thanks  in  1662  includes  James  Eustace,  styled  of 
Culadain,  County  of  Wexford. 

A  funeral  entry  of  1684,  in  Bermingham  Tower, 


SIR  MAURICE  EUSTACE'S  INFANTRY.  721 

states  the  death  in  that  year  of  John  Eustace,  son  of 
Maurice,  son  of  W*illiam,  of  Castlemartin,  and  conse- 
quently a  brother  of  this  Colonel  Sir  Maurice.  He 
had  married  (states  the  document)  Margaret,  daughter 
of  Edward  Keating  of  Narraghmore,  in  said  county, 
by  whom  he  had  three  sons,  Maurice,  John,  and 
Thomas.  The  former,  Maurice,  married  Margaret, 
daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Newcome,  Knight ;  John,  the 
second  son,  had  four  daughters.  In  two  years  after, 
the  present  Sir  Maurice  was  constituted  a  Privy 
Councillor.  Besides  him,  Richard  Eustace  of  Barrets- 
town  was  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  Lord  Gormanston's 
Infantry ;  and  in  Sir  Neill  O'Neill's  Dragoons,  Nicho- 
las Eustace  was  a  Captain,  and  Christopher  a  Lieute- 
nant The  latter,  it  would  seem,  was  taken  prisoner 
at  the  siege  of  Deny,  in  the  attack  at  the  Windmill,* 
while  this  Lieutenant-Colonel  was  there  wounded. 
On  the  10th  of  May,  1689,  King  James,  in  a  letter  to 
Lieutenant-General  Hamilton,  then  encamped  before 
Derry,  writes,  "  I  am  sending  down  one  great  mortar 
and  two  pieces  of  battery  by  land,  and  the  same  num- 
ber of  both  by  sea  ;  it  was  actually  impossible  to 
despatch  them  sooner.  Ten  companies  of  Eustace's  will 
be  soon  with  you,  all  well  armed  and  clothed.''t  It  is 
remarkable  that  on  this  very  day  the  bill  recognizing 
his  title,  &;c.  was  read  the  third  time  in  his  parliament 
and  presence.  James  Eustace  and  Maurice  Eustace  sat 
there  as  representatives  of  the  Borough  of  Blessington. 

♦  Walker's  Siege  of  Derry,  p.  60. 

f  Vjng  JTames's  Letters,  Trinity  College  MSS.  E.  2  19. 

AAA 


722  KING  JAMES'S  IRISn  ARMY  UST. 

The  Attainders  of  1691  include  the  above  Lieutenant- 
Colonels,  Maurice  Eustace,  styled  of  Castlemartdn, 
Baronet,  and  Richard  of  Barretstown,  County  of 
Dublin  ;  with  ten  others  of  the  name  in  the  County 
of  Kildare,  eiglit  in  Carlow,  and  two  in  Wicklow. 
Maurice  Eustace,  styled  of  Yeomanstown,  County  of 
Kildare,  being  then  absent  from  Ireland,  had,  in  Octo- 
ber,  1691,  on  the  capitulation  of  Limerick,  a  reserva- 
tion of  the  benefit  of  the  Civil  Articles  then  agreed 
upon,  see  ante^  p.  347.  An  Inquisition  taken  at  the 
close  of  the  year,  (14th  March)  1690,  on  Francis 
Eust-ace,  in  i*egard  to  his  possessions  in  the  Baronies 
of  Forth  and  Idrone  in  the  County  of  Carlow,  finds 
that  he  and  his  son  and  heir  Oliver  were  in  actual 
rebellion  on  the  1st  of  May,  1689,  against  the  King 
and  Queen  ;  and  that  after  the  battle  of  the  Boyne, 
they  departed  with  Richard,  Earl  of  Typponnel, 
William,  Earl  of  Limerick,  and  other  rebels  and 
traitors,  beyond  tlie  Shannon,  and  had  there  continued 
in  actual  war  and  rebellion  ;  whereupon  the  jurors 
found  their  respective  freehold  estates  in  both  baronies. 
In  1697,  an  Act  was  passed  for  settling  certain  recto- 
ries according  to  the  will  of  Sir  Maurice  Eustace  ;  and 
in  1720,  another  statute  authorized  the  sale  of  his 
lands  for  the  payment  of  his  debts.  At  the  Court  of 
Claims  in  1700,  various  claims  were  preferred  as 
affecting  the  confiscations  of  the  above  Sir  Maurice 
Eustace,  as  also  those  of  Francis  and  Oliver  Eustace 
in  Carlow,  and  Alexander,  Thomas,  and  Katherine 
Eustace  in  Kildare. 


SIR  MAURICE  EUSTACE'S  INFANTRY.  723 

[LIEUTENANT-COLONEL  JOHN  WOGAN.] 

This  commission  is  filled  from  Doctor  King's  Appen- 
dix, but  does  not  appear  upon  the  present  Army  List. 
Any  available  illustrations  of  the  femily  have  been 
therefore  anticipated  in  the  notices  of  Major  James 
Wogan,  ante,  p.  539. 


CAPTAIN  JAMES  CLINCH. 

This  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  since  the  time  of 
Edward  the  Second.  Those  attainted  in  1642  were 
Richard  Clinch  of  Cappah,  Henry  of  Kill,  and 
Anne  his  wife.  In  1691,  only  Peter  and  Simon 
Clinch,  described  as  of  the  College,  Dublin,  were  out- 
lawed. A  James  Clinch,  described  as  of  Dunshaugh- 
lin.  County  of  Meath,  was,  in  June,  1747,  married  to 
Sarah  Wood  of  the  same  place,  at  Holyhead,*  the 
penal  laws  affecting  Ireland  necessitating  the  celebra- 
tion of  this  union  out  of  that  kingdom. 


CAPTAIN  THOMAS  DENN. 

Thomas  Den  succeeded  to  the  See  of  Ferns  in  1363. 
Peter  Denn,  as  son  and  heir  of  William  Denn,  late  of 

*  Registry  at  Holjhead,  wherein,  as  also  in  that  at  Bangor,  are 
many  other  certificates  of  Irish  families  married  under  similar 
circnmstances,  as  noted  oflf  by  the  compiler  of  this  volume. 

AAA  2 


724  RING  JAMES*S  IKISH  ARMY  UST. 

Muckully  in  the  County  of  Eilkennv,  had  liveiy  of  his 
estates  in  May,  KUO.  In  the  Attainders  of  1642, 
occur  Thomas  and  Christopher  Den  of  Saggard,  County 
of  Dublin.  In  the  grants,  soon  after  the  Bestoration, 
of  Kilkenny  lauds  to  William  Poulter,  to  William 
Warden,  to  Christopher  Hewetson,  to  Anthony  Hor- 
sey, to  Barnard  Annaly,  to  George  Deyos,  and  to 
Anthony  Stampe,  are  several  savings  of  the  rights  of 
Theobald  Denn,  in  the  various  subjects  of  conveyance, 
under  his  decree  of  inmK'ence  in  1663.  Tobias  Den 
of  Grenan,  (where  he  had  a  noble  castle)  in  the 
same  county,  was  attainted  in  169L  as  was  William 
Den  of  Saggard.  A  farm  at  the  latter  locality  was 
forfeited  by  Thomas  Den,  the  fee  of  which  was  claim- 
etl  bv  and  allowed  to  John  Den. 


CAPTAIN  THOMAS  HUSSEY. 

This  family,  Hussey  or  Hoese,  is  of  Xorman  extrac- 
tion. On  the  first  invasion  of  Ireland,  Sir  Hugh 
Hussey,  who  had  married  the  sister  of  Theobald  Fitz- 
AValter,  the  first  Butler  of  that  Kingdom,  obtained  a 
grant  from  Hugh  dc  Lacie  of  large  possessions  in  the 
County  of  Meath,  including  the  locality  of  Galtrim ;  in 
right  of  which  this  family  took  the  palatine  title  of 
Barons  of  Galtrim ;  while  within  the  circuit  of  the 
same  county,  ancient  Meath,  the  Petits  were  Barons 
of  Mullingar,  the  DAltons  of  Bathconrath,  Nangles  of 
Navan,  Marwards  of  Serine,  etc.  etc.     In  1374,  Sir 


SIR  MAURICE  EUSTACE'S  INFANTRY.  725 

John  Hussey,  Knight,  Baron  of  Galtrim,  was*  sum- 
moned to  Parliament ;  as  was  his  son  Edmund  Hussey, 
Baron  of  Galtrim,  to  those  of  1380  and  1382  ;  and 
Sir  Bernard  Burke,  in  his  Landed  Gentry^  gives  the 
succession  of  these  Barons  to  the  time  of  Queen  Eli- 
zabeth,  early  in  whose  reign  a  member  of  the  family, 
obtaining  a  grant  of  lands  from  the  Earl  of  Desmond, 
settled  in  the  County  of  Kerry,  and  established  the 
name  there,  where  it  still  exists.  An  Act  of  Henry  the 
Eighth,  in  1534,  recognizing  Nicholas  Hussey  as  then 
Baron  of  Galtrim,  united  the  parsonage  thereof,  there- 
tofore  claimed  to  be  of  said  Nicholas'  patronage,  to  the 
monastery  of  St  Peter's  by  Trim.  The  Attainders  of 
1642  proscribe  nine  of  this  name  in  Meath  and  two 
in  Kildare,  of  whom  two  were,  in  Cromwell's  Ordinance 
of  Denunciation  in  1652,  exempted  fix)m  pardon  for 
life  and  estate.  Besides  the  three  Husseys  in  this 
Begiment,  James  Hussey  was  a  Lieutenant  in  Lord 
Louth's  Infantry.  In  the  Parliament  of  1 689,  Maurice 
Hussey  of  Flesk  Bridge  (hereafter  alluded  to)  was  one 
of  the  Bepresentatives  of  the  Borough  of  Tralee.  He 
married  Clare,  daughter  of  Sir  Edward  Hales,  Baronet, 
who  was  created  by  James,  after  his  abdication.  Earl 
of  Tenderden.  John  Hussey  was  one  of  the  Repre- 
sentatives of  Dingle-i-couch,  as  was  another,  John 
Hussey  of  Ratoath.  Nine  of  the  name  were  in  1691 
attainted  in  Meath,  three  in  Kerry,  one  in  Louth,  with 
Edward  Hussey  of  Westown  in  the  County  of  Dublin. 
This  last  individual  (Edward  of  Westown),  though 
not  named  in  the  present  Army  List,  was  engaged  for 


726  KING  James's  ikish  abstt  list. 

James  in  this  campaign,  and  attained  the  rank  of 
Colonel ;  by  which  title  he  was  by  the  Conncil  Board 
adjudged  entitled  to  the  benefit  of  the  Articles  of 
Limerick.     He  is  also  so  styled  in  a  family  settlement 
executed  by  his  mother-in-law,  the  Countess  of  Fingal, 
in  1693,  and  in  various  other  ancient  deed&     In  a 
chauntry  of  the  old  church  at  the  Naul,  near  Westown 
House,  is  still  preserved  a  mural  slab,  stating  that 
the  Honorable  Colonel  Hussey  and  his  lady,  Madame 
Mable  Hussey,  otherwise  BamewaU,  had  erected  this 
chapel  and  monument,  for  their  use  and  that  of  their 
posterity,  in  1710.*     John  Hussey  of  CnlmuUen  had 
also  a  pardon  under  the  great  seal,  and  James  Husaej, 
having,  like  Colonel  Edward,  obtained  a  judicial  ac- 
knowledgment of  his  right  to  the  benefit  of  the  Articles 
o{  Limerick,  preferred  a  claim  at  Chichester  House,  in 
1 700,  to  the  Meath  estates  of  his  ancestor,  Thomas 
Hussey;  at  which  time  Jane  Hussey,  otherwise  Tel- 
ling, by  her  husband  Thomas  Telling,  and  on  behalf 
f)f  Christopher  and  Lucy,  their  eldest  son  and  daughter, 
and  Edward,  Val,  Mary,  Catherine,  and  Ellen,,  minors, 
their  younger  children,  claimed  jointure  for  herself 
and  portions  for  them,  off  the  Meath  estates  of  said 
Thomas  Hussey ;  but  their  petitions  were  dismissed  as 
cautionary.     These  estates  were  afterwards  purchased 
by  Isaac  Holroyd.     A  Colonel  Maurice  Hussey  (pos- 
sibly he  of  Flesk  Bridge  in  the  County  of  Kerry, 
ii]K)ve  mentioned)  yielded  to  the  altered  state  of  gov- 
ernment,  and  some  of  his  letters  to  Secretary  South- 

•  jVAlUjn's  Hist.  CJouiity  of  Diil.lin,  p.  486, 


SIB  MAUEICE  EUSTACE'S  INFANTRY.  727 

well  in  the  time  of  Queen  Anne  are  in  the  Southwell 
collection.*  In  one  dated  7th  June,  1703,  he  writes 
complaining  of  a  severe  visitation  of  the  gout,  and 
adds,  "Here  was  lately  a  foolish  report  that  spread 
over  all  our  mountains,  that  several  Irish  Regiments 
were  to  be  immediately  raised  for  the  Queen's  service, 
to  go  into  Portugal,  and  that  I  was  to  have  one. 
Upon  this  rumour,  all  the  Milesian  Princes  of  these 
parts  flocked  to  my  house,  to  offer  their  service  to  go 
along  with  me  to  any  part  of  the  world;  and  they 
would  scarce  believe  but  that  I  had  my  commission  in 
my  pocket,  and  I  could  not  but  take  their  offers  and 
readiness  for  the  Queen*s  service  kindly,  and  made 
them  all  as  welcome  as  my  poor  house  could  afford, 
and  that,  I  ^phancie,'  has  brought  this  fit  of  the 
*goute'  upon  me.  Mac  Cartie  More,  O'Sullivan  More, 
O'Donohue  More,  Mac  Gillicuddy,  Mac  Finin,  O'Leary, 
and  a  long  et  ccetera  of  the  bestngentlemen  of  the  Irish 
of  these  parts,  are,  in  a  manner,  mad  to  be  employed 
in  her  Majesty's  service  abroad,  and  swear  I  must 
go  at  the  head  of  them,  whether  I  will  or  no."  A 
comment  on  this  Colonel's  correspondence  says,  "Not- 
withstanding his  observations,  there  is  every  reason  to 
suspect  the  Colonel  of  being  a  Jacobite.  His  patron 
the  Duke  of  Ormond,  SouthweD,  and  the  whole 
body  were  silent  favourers  of  the  Stuart  interests." 
The  Colonel  Edward  Hussey,  before  mentioned, 
was  grandfather  of  an  Edward  Hussey  of  Westown, 
who  married    in   1743    the  celebrated  Duchess    of 

♦  Thorpe's  Catal.  Southwell  MSS.  pp.  227-8. 


72n  kl>«^  JA-Mi:?'^  IBISU  AUMY  LI^T. 

MaIlrht'^tc^.  uiid  was  created  Earl  Beaulieu  in 
1 7^i.  There  have  Ikx^d  several  of  the  Ilusseys  since 
^i^ialize<l  in  the  AiL^trian  armies :  one.  Anthony,  a 
Si»n  uf  Aiith^'iiy  Mpjiijje  Ilussey.  the  inheritor  of 
We^towii  Huuse.  D.  L..  is  at  present  a  Brevet  Major 
in  that  ^^.-rvice. 


CAPTAIN  OLIVEli  ROCIIFORT. 

This  name  is  trace*!  in  Irish  records  from  the  first 
year  of  the  English  invasion.  In  1194,  Simon  Soch* 
fort  succeeded  tu  the  See  of  Meath.  In  the  subsequent 
century,  when  Edward  the  First  invited  the  aid  of  the 
Magnates  of  Ireland,  to  accompany  him  in  the  war  on 
Scr»tland.  he  summoned  no  less  than  six  of  this  name. 
In  1337,  Maurice  Rochfort  succeedeil  to  the  See  of 
Limerick,  and  in  1464,  at  a  Parliament  held  in  Wex- 
furd,  an  act  was  pissed  to  assure  a  part  of  the  manor 
of  Rathconnith,  County  of  AVestmeath,  to  Robert  and 
Roger  Rrjchfort.  The  Attainders  of  1642  name  three 
Rochfurts  in  Kildare,  four  in  Meath,  and  one  in  the 
County  of  Dublin.  Of  the  Supreme  Council  of  Kil- 
kenny in  1646,  were  Hugh  Rochfort  of  Taghmon,  and 
John  of  Kilbride.  In  March,  1651,  a  Colonel  Roch- 
fort was  tried  by  Court  Martial  in  St.  Patrick's  Ca- 
thedral, Dublin,  for  adherence  to  the  Royalist  cause, 
in  opjwsition  to  the  usurping  powers ;  while,  in  the 
Act  of  Settlement  (1662),  King  Charles  especially 
thanked  Henry  Rochfort  of  Kilbride  ^for  services  be- 
yond  sea."     In  1691,  the  above  Captain  Oliver  was 


•  SIB  MAURICE  EUSTACE'S  INFANTRY.  729 

attainted,  being  described  as  of  Fiddolph,  County  of 
Meath  ;  Christopher  of  Carronstown  and  James  of 
Vesingstown,  in  the  same  county,  were  also  then  out- 
lawed. It  is  to  be  remarked  that  a  Robert  Rochfort 
(it  would  seem  of  the  aforesaid  Westmeath  branch) 
was  in  1700  nominated  on  commission  a  Keeper  of 
the  Great  Seal,  and  in  1707  was  appointed  Chief 
Baron  of  the  Irish  Exchequer. 


LIEUTENANT  CONEL  COONAN. 

This  officer  was  attainted  in  1691  by  the  style  of 
*  Cornelius '  Coonan  of  Kilcock,  in  the  County  of 
Kildare  ;  nothing  further  is  known  of  him  or  his 
family. 


CAPTAIN  FRANCIS  SEGRAVE. 

See  ante.  Captain  John  Segrave  in  the  King's  Own 
In&ntry.  In  1322,  Stephen  Segrave,  who  had  been 
theretofore  Rector  of  Stepney  near  London,  was  ap- 
pointed  to  the  Primacy  of  Armagh.  Of  him  King 
Edward  the  Third  wrote,  soon  after  his  accession,  to 
the  Pope,  commending  him  for  "  the  nobility  of  his 
birth,  the  integrity  of  his  morals,  his  eminent  sanctity, 
and  approved  diligence  in  his  pastoral  function."* 
In  1401,  Richard  *  Sydegrave '  was  appointed  a  Baron 

•  Ware's  Bbhops,  p.  81. 


7:i /  s;:5 /  * lxi?'?  ri^i^d  aimi  li^t. 

'.:  ifiT  IrL-'r.  Excivii-^-irrr.  itd  iii  1423  was  ppi^r^c^^.:  i^e 
(, ':.\Hi of  ::,i:  B- r.  .h.  Il  1 -57S.  ar. -.•L-rr Kichari S^rare 
wii  al.i/.  a  bir  :*  ::  thr:  Ir>h  Exch^^or-r.  vhich 
••^::*:*  K*:  J::!*:*!  f  r  rsrer-rj  jr:^r-.  whrrn  dying  be  wa* 
Kuri-:^i  it  K:iiv:rl;i:i.  A  ^^iri•  h  of  the  t^&milT  having 
*^:rtlfcrl  at  C^hnirh  in  tL^  C  .ir*rr  of  Lhiblin,  it  is  of 
r'r^y^rl  th^t  Iknr.'  5*:irraT^.  on  coiLin.'  of  age  in  1638, 
-'if A  'Mit.  arror'i::.;:  to  :h«i  then  ?:ill  existing  law  of 
v.;;r].-hij'.  a  ]y:r:j:*t  f-'T  "  l;v»rrv  "  of  his  estate*  at  Cab- 
r:;:h.  In  the  lAWAin:!  y»rfir.  Kichari  Segrave,  of 
I>ii]lyl//;:hill  in  th»:  la>t  ra':nt:one»l  coiuitr.  was  the 
Kin;rV  f>rh^:fitor.  Patrick  Srgniv.:-  .>f  Killeglan  was 
f»uf:  of  thf'  inflriential  Catholics  who  attended  the 
;rrcat  rmr^rtin^' of  Tara  in  1C41,  and  was  conse^juently 
attaint«r^l  in  the  following  year.  The  ahove  Captain 
Fran^'is  was  of  Fryarstown,  County  of  Kildare :  John 
.S;;rrav<:  of  Cabragh  was  a  Captain  in  the  Kings  In- 
fantry, and  Laun:nce  was  a  Lieutenant  in  Sir  ^laurioe 
KijstJire's. 

In  1 78/i,  died  at  his  seat  of  Cabragh  John  Segrave, 
f 'olonel  of  the  Finglas  Volunteers  ;  he  was  interred 
with  all  niilitary  honours  at  St.  James's  churchyard, 
long  the  chos«;n  jilace  of  sepulture  for  the  upper  class 
of  Irish  Catholics. 


CAPTAIN  EDWARD  MASTERSON. 

Tims   family   is   located   on    Ortelius's   map    in    the 
P>arr»ny  of  Shelmalici'c,  County  of  AVexfonl ;    and, 


SIB  MAURICE  EUSTACE'S  INFANTRY.  731 

accordingly,  this  officer  is  described  in  his  attainder 
as  of  Monejrfad  in  that  county  ;  the  others  then 
attainted  being  John,  Richard,  Nicholas,  and  Domi- 
nick  Masterson  *  of  Tomcoil,'  and  Alexander  of  Lydon, 
in  the  same  county. 


CAPTAIN  THOMAS  SHERLOCK. 

Ortelius's  map  locates  the  Sherlocks  in  the  Barony 
of  Middlethird,  County  of  Wexford.  The  name 
appears  on  Irish  records  from  the  time  of  the  Tudors, 
and  is  traced  on  the  evidence  of  records  in  the  seve- 
ral Counties  of  Kildare,  Tipperary,  and  Waterford. 
Henry  the  Fifth  conferred  the  Chief  Seijeantcy  of  the 
County  of  Kildare  on  Walter  *  Sherlok ;'  who  had 
from  his  son  and  successor,  in  1432,  a  treasury  order 
for  five  pounds,  on  account  of  his  *  great  labours'  in 
the  County  of  Kilkenny  and  marches  of  the  Pale,  as 
well  as  in  collecting  a  state  subsidy  within  the  Dio- 
cese of  Ossory.  In  1499,  James  Sherlock  was 
appointed  a  Justice  in  Eyre.  In  1616,  John  Fitz- 
James  Sherlock,  of  Waterford  City,  Esq.,  had  a  grant 
from  the  Crown  of  the  wardship  of  John  Fitz-George 
Sherlock,  son  and  heir  of  Sir  George  Sherlock,  Knight, 
deceased.  A  Funeral  entry  of  1636  in  Bermingham 
Tower,  shows  the  death  in  that  year  of  Richard  Sher- 
lock, late  Sovereign  of  the  Naas,  third  son  of  Edward 
Sherlock  of  said  place,  where  he  was  interred.  The 
Attainders   of  1642   present    Edward    Sherlock    of 


732  KING  JAMES'S  IRISU  ARMY  LIST. 

Blackball  and  Clane  ;  with  Thomas  of  Naas,  in  the 
County  of  Kildare ;  and  George  of  Wicklow,  merchant 
The  Act  of  Settlement  (1662)  included  in  the  clause 
for  Royal  gratitude  Sir  Thomas  Sherlock,  Knight 
Besides  the  above  Captain  Thomas,  who  was  of 
Blackball,  County  of  Kildare,  Christopher  Sherlock  of 
Littlerath  in  same  county  was  a  Captain  in  Fitz- 
James's  Foot,  and  Kobert  Sherlock  of  Carlow  was  an 
Ensign  in  Sir  Maurice  Eustace's.  They  were  all 
attainted  in  1691,  together  with  Edward  Sherlock, 
also  of  Blackball,  and  who  had  been  one  of  the  Repre- 
sentatives of  the  ancient  Borough  of  Cloghmyne, 
County  of  Wexford,  in  the  Parliament  of  1689. 
There  were  then  also  attainted  three  other  Sherlocks  in 
the  County  of  Kildare,  and  four  in  that  of  Waterford. 
The  above  Christopher  of  Littlerath  forfeited  various 
rectories  and  tithes  in  the  Counties  of  Carlow 
and  Kildare,  which  were,  under  the  Act  of  Settlement, 
conveyed  to  the  Trustees  for  augmenting  vicarages  ; 
while  the  estates  in  the  latter  county,  also  forfeited  by 
said  Christopher,  were  in  1703  purchased  from  the 
Trustees  of  the  forfeitures  by  GeolTry  Paul  of  Bally- 
raggin.  These  interests  of  Christopher  were  the 
subject  of  much  subsequent  litigation. 


LIEUTENANT  MICHAEL  BERFORD. 

This  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of 
Edward  the  First.     In  1314,  Richard  de  Berfbnl  wjis 


SIR  MAUEicE  Eustace's  infantet.  733 

Chancellor  of  Ireland,  having  been  previously  on  a 
commission,  to  enquire  into  the  rights  in  the  weirs  and 
waters  of  the  Liffey,  between  Dublin  and  the  Salmon 
Leap.  In  1403,  Simon  ^Berfford'  was  one  of  those 
appointed  to  assess  and  array  the  men  of  the  Barony 
of  Ratoath,  County  of  Meath.  On  his  death,  in  ten 
years  after,  his  estates  of  Kilrowe,  &c.  in  said  county 
became  vested  in  the  Crown  during  the  minority  of 
his  heir,  whose  wardship  and  marriage  were  thereupon 
granted  to  Thomas  *  Barre,'  rent-free.  Branches  of 
the  family  were  at  this  time  proprietors  in  Lagore  and 
Scurlockstown,  in  the  same  county.  In  the  reign  of 
Elizabeth,  Michael  Berford  was  the  proprietor  of  Kil- 
rowe, as  heir  of  the  before  mentioned  Simon.  In 
1618,  Nichols  *  Byrford '  was  seized  of  Newtown  near 
Trim,  Culmullen  and  Scurlockstown,  in  the  County  of 
Meath  ;  and  in  1633,  John  Berford  died  seized  of 
Kilrowe,  leaving  Michael  his  cousin  and  heir,  then 
aged  thirty  years  and  married.  It  seems  probable 
that  he  was  the  grandfather  of  the  above  officer. 


ENSIGN  PATRICK  GODDING. 
This  name  does  not  appear  on  the  Attainders. 


734 


KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 


REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY. 

EARL  OF  WESTMEATIl'S,  LATE  COLONEL  FRANCIS  TOOLE'S. 

Cajtt*iiru.  JJ<iutenattts.  Entigiu, 

The  Colonel  John  Dojle.  .. 

Michael  do  la  Horde,  -- -- 

Lientenant-ColoDel . 

GowanTttlbot,  

Major. 

John  White.  

John  Doylc.  John  Toole.  Daniel  Doyle. 

Thomas  Cowdall.  Rryan  McDonnell.  Matthow  Gowdall. 

Garrett  Byrne.  Garrett  Nowlan.  Patrick  Carroll. 

John  Byrne.  Matthew  Kearney.  Milei  BomewalL 
Hen.  Nugent, 

Grenad. 


COLONEL  THE  EARL  OF  WESTMEATIL 

The  materials,  which  the  compiler  of  this  work  has 
amassed  for  illustrating  the  noble  name  of  Nugent, 
would  fill  a  large  volume.  Its  descent  from  the 
illustrious  house  of  Bellesme,  and  its  alliances  with 
the  Royalty  of  England  and  Spain  are  shown  at 
length  in  the  Peerage  of  Sir  Bernard  Burke,  In  Ire- 
land it  is  of  record  from  the  time  when  Hugh  de 
Lacy,  the  poAverful  Palatine  of  Meath,  granted  the 
territory  of  Delvin  to  Gilbert  de  Nugent.  In  1449, 
Richard  Nugent,  Lord  Delvin,  was  Lord  Deputy  of 
Ireland.  In  1463,  Christopher,  the  eleventh  Baron 
of  Dalvin,  was  one  of  the  Irish  Peers  whom  Henry's 


EABL  OF  WESTMEATH's    INFANTRY.  735 

policy,  after  his  victory  at  Stoke  over  the  adherents 
of  Lambert  Simnel,  invited  to  a  feast  at  Greenwich, 
where  that  impostor  was  forced  to  attend  as  a  menial 
at  the  Royal  table.  In  1570,  Nicholas  Nugent  was 
constituted  a  Baron  of  the  Irish  Exchequer  ;  and  in 
1621,  Richard,  Baron  of  Delvin,  was  created  Earl  of 
Westmeath.  The  inquisitions  taken  on  the  name  in 
1642  were  three  in  Meath,  three  in  Eildare,  and 
eight  in  the  County  of  Cork  ;  while  Cromwell's  Par- 
liamentary denunciation  of  1652  excepted  from  par- 
don  for  life  and  estate  Richard  Nugent,  Earl  of  West- 
meath. He  was  the  grandfather  of  Thomas,  the  Earl 
under  present  consideration,  who  had  married  when 
about  sixteen  years  of  age,  after  which  he  went  to 
travel,  and  on  his  return  obtained  the  command  of 
this  Regiment.  In  1686,  James  Nugent  was  Sheriff 
of  Longford,  as  was  Thomas  Nugent  Sheriff'  of  West- 
meath,  and  John  of  Waterford  in  the  same  year.  In 
King  James's  succeeding  Charters  to  the  Corpor- 
ations of  Ireland,  this  name  appears  in  office  in  those 
of  Dublin,  Drogheda,  Swords,  New  Ross,  Derry,  Dun- 
garvan,  and  St  Johnstown,  County  of  Donegal. 

Earl  Thomas's  Regiment  is  very  incomplete  on  the 
present  Muster,  and  has  but  one  of  his  own  name. 
In  the  other  Regiments  of  the  List  it  is  very  numer- 
ously displayed,  as  in  Sarsfield's  Horse,  in  Lord  DoUt 
gan's  Dragoons,  and  in  Fitz-James's,  Tyrone's,  Sir 
Thomas  Butler's,  and  Sir  Michael  Creagh's  respective 
Regiments  of  Infantry.  Colonel  Richard  Nugent 
commanded  another  Regiment  of  Infantry ;  James 


736  KLVG  James's  irish  army  list. 

Nugent  was  Lieutenant-Colonel  in  Colonel  John 
Hamilton's,  while  a  Colonel  Walter  Nugent  is  recortled 
as  having  l)een  killed  at  the  battle  of  Aughrim.*  In 
King  James's  Parliament  of  1C80,  this  Earl  sat  in 
the  House  of  Peers,  though  then  under  age,  by  a  simi- 
lar  Royal  dispensation  to  that  accorded  to  the  Earl  of 
Clancarty,  as  Ixifore  mentioned  (ante  p.  504),  and 
notwithstanding  that  his  ehler  brother,  the  rightful 
Earl,  was  then  living,  but  in  holy  orders  and  abroad. 
In  the  Commons,  Colonel  James  Nugent  was  one  of 
the  Representatives  of  St.  Johnstown,  County  of  Done- 
gal ;  the  Honourable  William  one  of  those  for  the 
County  of  Westmeath.  (He  was  the  youngest  son  of 
Kichard,  the  second  Earl  of  Westmeath,  and  distin- 
guished himself  in  King  James's  service,  especially  by 
forcing  the  pass  over  the  bridge  at  Portglenone  in 
April,  1689,  to  facilitate  approach  to  the  siege  of 
Derry  ;  he  was  killed  at  Cavan  in  1C90,  leaving 
issue  by  his  wife,  who  was  a  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas 
Newcomen  ;  but  they  all  died,  s.  p.f )  Edward 
Nugent  of  Garlanstown  represented  the  Borough  of 
MuUingar  ;  John  Nugent  of  Donore,  and  Christopher 
of  Dardistown  were  the  Members  for  that  of  Fore  ; 
and  Christopher  Nugent  of  Dublin  was  one  for  that  of 
Strabane.  On  the  second  day  of  the  session,  8th  of 
May,  1689,  the  Chief  Justice  Nugent,  then  just  cre- 
ated Lord  Baron  Riverston  (uncle  of  the  Earl  under 
present  consideration),  brought  in  a  Bill,  which  was 

*  O'Callaghan's  Green  Book,  p.  465. 

t  Archdairs  Ix)dge's  Peerage,  vol.  1,  p.  244. 


EARL  OF  westmeath's  infantrt.  737 

read  twice  that  day,  containing  "  a  recognition  of 
King  James's  title,  and  an  abhorrence  of  the  Prince  of 
Orange's  usurpation  and  of  the  defection  of  the  English." 
On  the  10th,  it  received  the  third  reading,  (King 
James  being  himself  present  in  the  House),  and  was 
sent  down  to  the  Commons,  where  it  was  passed  on 
the  following  day ;  when  the  same  mover  intro- 
duced the  Bill  for  encouraging  trade  and  merchant 
strangers,  and  on  the  13th  the  more  memorable  Act 
for  altering  the  Act  of  Settlement. 

This  t^alented  member  of  the  name  was  settled  at 
PaUace  in  the  County  of  Galway  ;  and,  having  at- 
tained much  eminence  at  the  bar,  was  appointed 
King's  Council  in  1685,  and  in  the  following  year 
promoted  to  the  King^s  Bench  as  one  of  the  Justices  ; 
the  King  directing  that  he,  Denis  Daly,  a  Justice  of 
the  Common  Pleas,  and  Charles  Ingleby,  a  Baron  of 
the  Exchequer,  should  be  admitted  to  their  respec- 
tive offices  without  taking  the  oath  of  supremacy. 
In  1687,  he  succeeded  to  the  Chief  Justiceship  of  that 
Bench,  and  was  on  the  3rd  of  April,  1689,  created 
Baron  Riverston.  It  is  to  be  especially  remarked, 
that  the  date  of  this  creation  was  seven  days  before 
that  on  which  the  rebellion  was  declared  by  the  Irish 
Act  of  9  WiU.  3,  c.  2,  to  have  commenced  in  that 
country;  nor  was  it  until  November,  1689,  that  Wil- 
liam and  Mary,  theretofore  Prince  and  Princess  of 
Orange,  were  declared  Sovereigns  of  England,  France, 
and  Ireland.  With  such  a  title,  Lord  Riverston  sat 
a  Peer  in  the  Parliament  of  May,  1689.     After  the 

BBB 


738  KING  James's  ieisii  army  list. 

disastrous  issue  of  tlie  battle  of  the  Boyne,  he  was  one 
of  those  who  ailvised  King  James  to  fly  to  France, 
himself  still  continuing  to  hold  the  office  of  Secretary  of 
State  ;  and  when  Tyrconnel,  after  the  defeat  of  King 
William  from  l)efoiv  Limerick,  felt  necessitated  to  pass 
over  to  the  Exiles  Couit  at  St.  Germains,  and  to 
l)hice  the  government  of  In^land  in  the  hands  of  the 
Duke  of  Berwick,  that  young  and  inexperienced 
nobleman  was  induced  by  some  factious  insinuation  to 
dismiss  Lord  liiverston  from  the  Secretaryship  of 
War,  whieli  lie  then  held,*  and  actually  to  confine  him 
a  prisoner  in  Galway.  On  the  return  of  Tyrconnel, 
however,  to  Ireland,  he  was  immediately  released.  In 
two  days  after  the  capitulation  of  Limerick,  he  receiv- 
ed from  Lieutenant-General  de  Ginkel  the  following 
recognition  of  his  title.  It  recites  that  "  whereas  the 
Iii(jlit  Honourable  Thomas  Lord  Riverston  is  com- 
prehended in  the  late  capitidation  with  the  Irish 
army  at  Limerick,  and  tliereby  entitled  to  be  restored 
to  his  real  and  personal  estate,  and  to  all  other  advan- 
tiiges  accruing  by  the  said  capitulation  ;  and  whereas 
the  said  Lord  Riverston  made  suit  to  me  for  His 
Majesty's  protection  for  himself,  his  family,  and  ten- 
ants, and  for  my  passport  and  licence  to  use  and  cany 
fire-arms,  I  do  hereby  receive  the  said  Lonl  Rivers- 
ton  into  their  Majesties'  special  protection,  with  his 
family,  servants,  rexil  and  personal  estates,  and  his 
tenants,  their  families  and  pt^rsonal  estates ;  and  do 
h(»reby  empower  the  said  Lord  Riverston  and  his  ser- 
vants to  carry  and  use  three  cases  of  pistols,  three 

♦  Clark«/s  Jjimes  II.  vol.  2,  p.  423. 


EARL  OF  WESTMEATH'S  INFANTRY.  739 

swords,  and  two  firelocks  for  the  defence  of  his  person, 
house,  stock,  and  goods,  and  do  hereby  order  all 
officers  civil  and  military  in  the  respective  counties, 
where  any  part  of  his  real  estates  lies,  to  restore  him 
to  the  possession  thereof,  and  to  be  aiding  and  assist- 
ing to  him  in  order  to  receive  the  issues  and  profits 
thereof,  as  at  any  time  heretofore  ;  and  I  do  hereby 
command  all  officers  civil  and  military,  in  the  respec- 
tive garrisons  between  Limerick  and  Galway,  to  sufier 
the  said  Lord  Riverston,  his  lady,  family,  servants, 
goods,  and  carriages,  to  pass  peaceably  from  Limerick 
to  Galway,  or  his  dwelling-house  in  the  County  of 
Galway,  or  to  any  other  part  of  the  Kingdom  as  his 
occasion  may  require  ;  and  all  governors  and  com- 
manders-in-chief in  Limerick,  and  all  other  garrisons 
between  Limerick  and  his  said  house,  are  hereby  re- 
quired to  fiimish  him  with  a  sufficient  convoy  from 
garrison  to  garrison,  from  Limerick  to  his  said  house 
of  abode ;  whereof  all  persons  concerned  are  to  take 
notice  at  their  peril.  Given  at  the  Camp  before 
Limerick,  this  5th  of  October,  1691.  Signed  Bar. 
de  Ginkell."*  It  is  an  awful  document  to  look  upon  ! 
He  was,  however,  attainted,  and  his  title  disallowed, 
as  conferred  after  James  had  abdicated  the  English 
Crown  ;  nevertheless,  he  continued  to  sit  for  some 
time  as  Chief  Justice,  and  is  so  styled  in  King's  Ap- 
pendix, p.  66.  He  had  married  the  Honourable  Mary 
Anne  Bamewall,  daughter  of  Viscount  Kingsland,  by 

*  Copied  from  the  original,  in  the  possession  of  Lord  Rivers- 
ton's  heir  male. 

BBB  2 


740  KING  James's  irisii  army  list. 

Avhom  he  had  issue  three  sons  and  five  daughters. 
He  i-emained  in  the  Kingdom  after  the  Revolution, 
and  died  in  1715. 

The  eldest  son,  Richard  Hyacinth  Nugent,  who  was 
attainted  in  1696,  fled  to  Fnince,  and  there  remained 
until  1727;  previous  to  which,  on  his  proof  that  he 
was  but  six  years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his  attainder, 
and  that  he  had  conformed  to  the  Protestant  religion. 
King  George  consented  to  tlie  passing  of  a  Bill  in  the 
English  Parliament,  whereby  this  exile  was  permitted 
to  return,  and  certain  privileges  were  secured  to  him 
for  the  recovery  of  his  lands,  rents,  &c.*  The  title 
of  Riverston  was  subsequently  borne  by  the  succeed- 
ing heirs  male  of  the  first  Lord ;  but  the  present  heir, 
Anthony-Francis  Nugent,  declined  its  assumption. 

At  the  Battle  of  the  Boyne,  Robert  Nugent,  a  Cor- 
net  in  Tyrconnel's  Horse,  was  wounded.  In  three 
days  after,  three  ecclesiastics  of  the  name  were  pre- 
sented, as  by  the  authority  of  King  James,  to  Irish 
benefices  :  Dr.  William  Nugent  to  the  Rectory  of 
Castletown-Delvin,  Dr.  Oliver  Nugent  to  those  of 
Ardmidchan,  Ballynagarvy,  and  Timole,  and  the 
Reverend  Richard  Nugent  to  the  Rectory  of  Carrick. 
In  1691,  the  Earl,  who  was  Colonel  of  this  Regiment, 
was  indicted  ;  but  he  having  been  one  of  the  hostages 
exchanged  for  the  due  observance  of  the  articles  of 
Limerick,  the  outlawry  was  reversed,  and  he  was 
restored  to  his  estates  and  honours.      He  died  in 

•  The  perception  of  the  rents  of  these  estates  during  the  exile 
of  Richard  Hyacinth  was  the  cause  of  some  family  litigation. 


EARL  OF  WESTMEATH'S  INFANTRY.  741 

1752,  at  the  advanced  age  of  96.  Others  of  the 
name  then  attainted  were  three  in  Meath,  forty-five 
in  Westmeath,  four  in  Dublin,  one  in  Cavan,  five  in 
Roscommon  ;  in  Waterford  three,  Cork  three,  Drogh- 
eda  two,  and  in  Donegal  one.  At  the  Court  of 
Claims  various  petitions  were  preferred  as  for  charges 
afiecting  the  several  estates  of  Sir  John  Nugent, 
Baronet,  of  Colonel  Richard  Nugent,  and  Sir  Thomas 
Nugent,  of  Christopher  Nugent  in  Roscommon  and 
Westmeath,  and  of  James  Nugent  in  the  latter  county ; 
while  the  above  Earl  and  the  aforesaid  Thomas,  Lord 
Riverston,  as  Executors  of  Richard,  late  Earl  of  West- 
meath, claimed  and  were  allowed  the  benefit  of  a 
mortgage  afiecting  Dardistown  and  other  lands. 

On  the  Continent,  *Nugent's  Horse'  served  in 
Flanders  in  1706  and  1707.  It  formed  part  of  the 
wing  of  the  forces  commanded  by  Vendome  at  the 
battle  of  Oudenarde,  in  1708  ;  served  in  1711  in 
Flanders,  under  Villeroy,  against  Marlborough  ;*  and 
at  Spirebach,  '  Nugent's  Horse'  brought  victory  to  the 
cause  in  which  they  were  engaged,  by  a  brave  and 
successful  attack  upon  two  Regiments  of  Cuirassiers, 

completely  armed. f A  John  Nugent,  second  son 

of  James  of  Ballinacor,  entered  the  French  service, 
was  Captain  in  Fitz-James*s  Regiment  of  Cavalry,  and 
particularly  distinguished  himself  at  Fontenoy,  on 
which  occasion  he  obtained  the  Cross  of  St.  Louis. 
He  married  the  daughter  of  Commodore  Pearson,  on 

•  O'CJonor  8  Military  Memoirs,  pp.  339  and  360. 
t  Femur's  Idmeiick,  p.  346. 


742  Kixr.  James's  irish  army  list. 

whose  death  hii  left  the  service,  and,  retiring  to  Bal- 
linacor,  died  thei-e  in  1779,  without  issue. 


LIEUTENANT-COLONEL  MICHAEL 
DELAHIDE. 

Tins  tiimily  is  uiwn  Irish  record  iix)m  the  days  of 
Richard  the  Second.  In  1527,  Christopher  De  la 
Hide  was  a  Justice  of  the  Irish  Common  Pleas,  to  the 
Chief-Justiceship  of  which  Court  Richaixl  De  la  Hide 
was  elevated  in  1532.  In  five  years  after,  the  Act 
for  the  Attainders  consequent  upon  the  Geraldine  re- 
helliun  included  '  that  most  false,  disloyal  traytor, 
James  Delahyde,' '  the  principal  councillor  of  the  Loi-d 
Thomas  Fitz-Gerald  in  all  his  doings,'  (son  and  heir 
of  Walter  de  la  Ilyde  of  Moyglare,  Knight),  with 
John  de  la  Hide  and  Edward  Delahide,  Parson  of 
Kilbery,  and  divers  others.  By  a  subsequent  Statute 
of  Queen  Elizabeth,  however,  in  1585,  after  reciting 
these  attainders  of  the  Delahide  family,  Laurence  de 
la  Hide,  the  son  of  said  James,  and  grandson  of  Sir 
Walter  of  Moyglare,  was,  by  the  Queen  and  Parlia- 
ment, restored  to  his  ancient  blood  and  lineage.  In 
1642,  Francis  Delahyde  of  Phepoestown,  County  of 
Dublin,  was  att4iinted  ;  as  was  Nicholas  'Delahoyde'of 
Carnagh,  County  of  Kildare  in  1691.  Colonel 
Michael  apixiars  to  have  l)een  of  the  Moyglaix?  line, 
but  no  certain  notice  of  him  has  been  discovei'ed. 


EARL  OF  WESTMEATU'S  INFANTRY.  743 

CAPTAIN  JOHN  WHITE. 

This  name  is  traceable  on  the  records  of  Ireland  from 
the  period  of  the  Invasion.  The  Abbe  McGeoghegan, 
indeed,  suggests  that  Walter  White,  in  Henry  the 
Second's  time  Governor  over  a  certain  district  of 
South  Wales,  came  over  then  to  Ireland  with  his  bro- 
thers, who  scattered  themselves  over  that  country, 
their  chief  house  being  at  Leixlip.  Ortelius's  map 
more  especially  locates  the  name  in  the  County  of 
Down.  In  1422,  John  White  was  Attomey-General 
of  Ireland.  Sir  Patrick  White  of  Kilsallaghan  was  a 
Baron  of  the  Exchequer  from  1535  to  1559.  In 
1572,  Nicholas  '  Whyte'  of  Whyte's  Hall,  was 
appointed  Master  of  the  Rolls  there  ;  soon  after  which 
a  '  Colonel  John  White,'  who  was  bom  in  Waterford 
in  1568,  settled  at  Tirlemont  in  the  Netherlands,  and 
became  founder  of  a  branch  of  the  family  traceable  in 
the  foreign  armies,*  and  believed  to  be  only  recently 
extinct.  Another  emigrant,  Dominick  White,  passed 
off  in  the  time  of  James  the  First,  from  Limerick  to 
Bourdeaux,  where  he  settled.  He  was  seised  of  con- 
siderable house  property  in  that  city,  which  he  had 
theretofore  conveyed  to  the  use  of  his  son  Richard, 
with  remainders  in  tail  male  to  other  sons  of  his,  viz., 
Stephen,  Edward,  and  Bartholomew.  In  1637, 
Alison,  heiress  of  Patrick  White  of  Clonmel,  had 
livery  of  her  estates  ;  as  had  Sir  Nicholas  White  of 
the  manor  of  Leixlip  in  the  same  year  ;    and  Edward 

♦  O'Callaghan's  Brigades,  vol.  1,  p.  342. 


744  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  UST. 

of  Balrathnesly,  County  of  Wexford,  as  son  and  heir 
of  Richard  White,  with  similar  licences  of  livery  for 
the  Whites  of  Clongell,  County  of  Meath.  The 
Attainders  of  1642  name  James  White  of  Carbeny, 
County  of  Kildare,  clerk  ;  with  Patrick  of  Soddens- 
town,  and  James  and  Nicholas  of  Clongell,  in  the 
County  of  Meath.  In  the  Supreme  Council  of  1646 
sat  John  White  of  Clonmel  ;  while  the  Act  of  Settle- 
ment named  a  John  White,  possibly  the  same,  though 
described  as  of  Loyhall,  County  of  Limerick,  with  ex- 
press acknowledgment  of  Royal  gratitude  for  his 
services  beyond  the  sea.  Besides  the  above  Captain 
John,  the  name  of  White  appears  commissioned  in  six 
other  Regiments  of  this  List. 

In  the  Parliament  of  Dublin,  Roland  White  was  one 
of  the  Representatives  of  Newry,  Alderman  Nicholas 
White  of  the  Borough  of  Clonmel,  Nicholas  White  of 
New  Ross,  merchant,  of  that  of  Cloughmine,  and 
Charles  White  of  the  Borough  of  Naas.  This  last 
was  of  the  Leixlip  family,  afterwards  a  Privy  Coun- 
cillor ;  he  raised  an  Independent  Troop  for  King 
James's  service.  The  Member  for  Newry,  Roland 
White,  had  a  saving  of  the  benefit  of  the  Articles  of 
Limerick,  on  the  same  grounds,  and  subject  to  the 
same  conditions  as  in  the  case  of  Colonel  Simon  Lut- 
trel.  On  the  Attainders  of  1691  the  above  Captain 
John  is  described  as  of  Ballymore  in  the  County  of 
Westmeath,  with  three  others  of  the  same  locality, 
Ignatius  White  of  Dublin,  commonly  called  Marquess 
of  Abbeville,  and  seventeen  more  of  the  name. 


EAEL  OF  WESTMEATH'S  INFANTRY.  745 

At  the  battle  of  Lauffield  in  1747,  Captain  White  in 
Lally's  Regiment  was  severely  wounded. 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  DOYLE. 

The  O'Doyles  were  a  Sept  of  Carlow  and  Wexford. 
On  the  Attainders  of  1642  appear  three  of  the  name  in 
Wicklow,  one  in  Meath,  and  one  in  the  County  of 
Dublin.  James  Doyle  of  ^Carrig'  was  of  the  Supreme 
Council  at  Kilkenny ;  and  on  the  present  Army  List, 
besides  Captain  John,  three  other  Doyles  were  com- 
missioned. Those  attainted  in  1691  were  the  above 
officer,  described  as  of  Arklow,  County  of  Wexford, 
three  others  in  the  same  county,  and  one  in  Meath, 
Kildare,  and  Dublin  respectively. 


CAPTAIN  THOMAS  COWDALL. 

This  name,  though  now  rare,  is  of  record  in  Ireland 
from  the  time  of  Edward  the  Second.  Nothing,  how- 
ever, is  known  of  this  officer,  except  that  in  1693  he 
sued  out  his  pardon  from  attainder,  on  the  ground 
that  he  had  early  surrendered  himself,  and  had  actually 
gone  over  to  the  service  of  King  William.* 

*  Harris's  MSS.  in  Dub.  Soc.  vol.  10,  p.  240. 


r4« 


KINT.  JAMES  S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 


REGIMENTS    OF    INFANTRY. 


MAJOR  (;ENERAI.  IJOISELEAI  S. 


Tlio  ruli)iu»l. 
Monsr.  Durott. 
i\ill:*han  M  'C:irty. 
I>avia  Colt. 
(J;irn»tt  Coursay. 
Doiio^h  Mac  Swtviiy. 
Hoiirr  Tnint 
RoUtI  Domey. 
Charlos  M'CVty. 
Uono^h  O'Brien. 
Charli's  M*C:irty. 
Con)rliiis  Courtain. 
Patrick  Iliilo. 
Tatriok  Artliur. 
Kilinnnd  IWry. 
DiMiis  Falvey. 
IVtor  M'Swcrny. 
Mili-s  <lc  Cmirsy. 
David  Trant. 
MauriiV  Fitz-GoraKl. 
Philip  Co>;an. 
John  Mahony. 
DaviJ  Riirry. 
KdniDnd  lUinvtt. 
(•arrett  Kitz- Gerald. 
]>auiel  O'llerlihcy. 
Ijarrett  Coursv. 


Luuft*utnt;t. 


Do  R<>iicands. 
Kloronce  M'Carly. 
Kdmuud  Colt, 
lionvtt  Cour8i»y. 
Edmund  .Mae  Swi*t»ny. 
KiHlinond  Connor. 
William  Harrx^ld. 
Charloi  M'Carty. 
•Tohn  Condon. 
Calbhan  M»Carty. 
Riehftrd  Dulman. 
James  Roclie. 
Piers  Stapleton. 
James  Bagf^ott. 
Donnott  Falvey. 
Donojib  M*Swe<?ny. 
Thom:is  Butler. 
James  Trant. 
Philip  Supple. 
John  Barry. 
Martin  Mahony. 
David  Barry. 
Cliaries  M»Carty. 
Janied  Quinn. 
Daniel  CHerlihey. 


Sr.  Phalle. 
De  la  Martinien\ 
Teiguo  Glomey. 
Richard  Cdt. 
Denis  *  Keefe. ' 
Symon  Mac  Sweeuy. 

Thomas  Haly. 
Bartholomew  I.e«ry. 
1  ribbon  Fitz-Gibl>on. 
David  Roche. 
Constans  *  Keefe.' 
Daniel  » O'Keefip." 
Philip  •  Wolfe.' 
David  Barry. 
Ha;jh  Falvpy. 
Kdnmnd  M*Swecny. 
Charles  Carty. 
Michael  Trant 
Edmund  Fitz-Gerald. 
IXinogh  M 'Carty. 
James  Mahony. 
John  Daly. 
Teigne  MCartj. 
Nat  •  >\Tiyte.* 
Garrvtt  Barry. 


MAJOR-GENERAL  BOISELEAU'S  LNFANTRY.  747 


MAJOR  GENERAL  BOISELEAU. 

"  Boiseleau,  a  Captain  of  the  French  Guards,  who  had 
some  knowledge,  which  none  of  the  Irish  had,  of  th(i 
defence  of  fortified  towns,  was  sent  to  Ireland  with 
the  rank  of 'Marshal  de  Camp,'  or  Major  General."* 
This  his  Regiment  was  styled  'the  Munster,'  having 
been  chiefly  raised  in  that  province ;  but  was  early 
disbanded.  In  November,  1689,  when  King  James 
was  necessitated  to  break  up  his  camp  at  Ardee,  by 
reason  of  the  want  of  forage  there,  and  to  retire  to 
Drogheda,  he  left  six  battalions  of  Foot  and  fifty 
Horse  there,  under  the  command  of  this  Major-Gene- 
ral,  scattering  little  garrisons  on  both  sides  of  it  to 
secure  the  country.f  Boiseleau  soon  after  made  an 
attack  on  Newry,  but  was  repulsed  with  the  loss  of  a 
Lieutenant-Colonel.  He  was,  afl«r  the  defeat  at  the 
Boyne,  appointed  Governor  of  Limerick,  before  its 
first  siege  by  King  William,  the  city  having  then  a 
garrison  of  fourteen  Regiments  of  Infantry,  with  three 
of  Horse  and  two  of  Dragoons.  During  that  siege  he, 
the  Duke  of  Berwick,  and  Sarsfield  are  recorded  as 
having  been  most  active  in  preventing  its  surrender. 
"In  the  midst  of  a  cannonade  of  eighteen  pieces  of 
artillery,  supported  by  a  prodigious  blaze  of  musketry^ 
his  standard  was  planted  at  the  top  of  the  breach.^J 

♦  O'Conor's  Milit.  Mem.  p.  116. 
t  Clarke's  James  II.,  v.  2,  p.  383. 
{  O'Callaghan's  Brigades,  v.  1,  p.  374. 


748  KING  JAMES'S  HtlSH  ARMY  LIST. 


CAPTAIN  DAVID  COLT. 

Nothing  more  is  known  of  this  officer  or  his  family, 
except  that  he  was  attainted  in  1691,  by  the  descrip- 
tion of  David  'Coult*  of  Bally ammon,  County  of  Cork. 


CAPTAINS  DONOUGH  AND  PETER 
Mc  SWEENY. 

The  Mac  Sweenys  were,  in  their  origin,  a  branch  of 
the  O'Neills,  and,  settling  in  Donegal,  established  there 
three  great  families.  They  also  became  distinguished 
and  influential  proprietors  in  Munster  in  the  thirteenth 
century,  where  they  ranked  as  subfeudatory  to  the 
Mac  Cartys,  Princes  of  Desmond.  According  to 
Smith's  History  of  Cork,  they  located  themselves  in 
the  parish  of  Kilmurry,  where  they  built  some  castles, 
one  especially  at  Clodagh,  near  Macroom.  A  Mac 
Sweeny,  mentioned  by  the  Four  Masters  at  1397,  is 
stiled  'High  Constable  of  Connaught.'  In  1424,  says 
the  same  authority,  "died  Maolruana  Mac  Sweeny, 
Constable  of  Tyrconnel,  the  star  of  defence  and  bravery 
of  the  province."  In  1524,  "  Mac  Sweeny  of  Tir- 
Boghain  (Barony  of  Bannagh,  in  Donegal),  i.e.  Niall 
More,  son  of  Owen,  died,  after  extreme  unction  and 
penance,  in  his  own  castle  at  Rathain,  on  the  14th  of 
December."  These  Annalbts,  having  executed  their 
great  history  in  the  Abbey  of  Donegal,  and  being  in- 
timately connected  with  that  county,  make  frequent 


MAJOB-GENERAL  BOISELEAU'S  INFAl^TRY.  749 

mention  of  the  Mac  Sweenys  there  located,  and  espe- 
cially record  at  1524  a  treacherous  invasion  on  their 
territory  by  the  Mac  Donnels  and  their  Scots.  In 
1560,  occurs  their  first  notice  of  this  Sept  in  Munster, 
when  the  sons  of  the  Earl  of  Desmond  having  marched 
into  Carberry  (Co.  of  Cork)  on  a  foray,  Mc  Carty 
'Riavach'  attacked  the  plunderers,  being  aided  by 
"  Turlogh  the  son  of  Maolmurry,  son  of  Donogh,  son 
of  Turlogh  Mac  Sweeny,  of  the  tribe  of  Donogh  More, 
from  Tuaith  Tiraidhe  (Tory  Island,  off  Donegal),  with 
a  brave  select  party  of  gallowglasses."  In  1587,  when 
Sir  John  Perrot's  memorable  stratagem  was  effectuated 
in  the  Bay  of  Lough  Swilly,  by  the  enticing  of  Hugh 
Roe  O'Donnell  on  shipboard,  and  his  capture,  "  Mac 
Sweeny  of  the  Districts,  in  common  with  all  others  of 
that  country,  came  to  the  shore,  and  they  proffered 
hostages  and  sureties  in  lieu  of  him ;  but  it  was  of 
no  avail  to  him,  for  there  was  not  a  hostage  in  the 
Province  of  Ulster  they  would  take  in  his  stead." 
Of  the  Munster  line  of  this  Sept,  six  passed  out  of  the 
country  to  Spain,  after  the  result  of  the  war  in  Mun- 
ster, in  Queen  Elizabeth's  time.  In  1612,  Eang  James 
directed  instructions  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester,  then 
his  Lord  Deputy,  on  behalf  of  Owen  Mac  Sweeny,  to 
accept  a  surrender  of  his  lands,  and  grant  to  him  a 
patent  for  their  restoration  on  a  new  title.  "  This 
Owen,"  says  Smith,*  "was  particularly  recommended 
by  the  Lord  Danvers,  President  of  Munster,  and  by 
Sir  Richard  Morison,  Vice-President,  for  having  per- 

*  History  of  Cork,  v.  1,  p.  186.  n. 


7M)  K[NG  James's  irisii  army  list. 

tormod  many  faithful  services  in  that  Kings  reign 
and  in  Queen  Elizabeth's."  Nevertheless,  Owen  Mac 
Sweeny  ()»re,  his  son,  was  attainted  in  1642,  and  thus 
forfeited  the  pro[XM-ty,  whieh  was  theretofore  granted 
ti»  his  fatlier  by  a  title,  whieh  subjectctl  the  whole 
inteivst  to  eonfisration. 

Besides  the  thi-ee  Mac  Swernys  in  this  Regiment, 
the  name  was  in  eonimissicui  on  five  others.  In  Sep- 
tt'inlHT,  1()91,  Sir  Kobert  King  (ancestor  of  Lord 
Ij»rt<»n)  wn)te  to  Colonel  Lloyd,  then  Governor  of 
Athlone,  in  ivlation  to  the  state  of  affairs  al>out  Boyle  ; 
"  Theiv  is  one  ^lac  Swei^ny  has  a  purty  of  al)oiit  one 
hundivd  men  well  armed  in  the  woods  of  Moygai-a, 
four  miles  from  this  ;  and,  though  the  numbers  are 
so  gR'at  to  the  Sheriff's  twenty  men  (all  that  he  has 
here),  and  our  yet  unsettled  militia,  they  have  not 
ventured  on  us,  nor  dui'st,  eould  you  favour  us  with 
a  company  of  your  men.'**  The  Attainders  of  1691 
include  three  of  the  name  in  the  County  of  Cork,  five 
in  Done;/al,  and  one  in  Mayo. 

At  the  battle  of  Ypivs,  says  a  Gazette  of  the  year 
1 74o,  tlu'  Irish  tR)ops  in  the  French  service  recovered 
the  field  when  the  Fi-ench  Guanlsgave  way,  but  they 
suffeivd  much  ;  and  in  Bulkeley's  Regiment,  which 
was  one  of  those  gallant  bands,  Captain  Morgan  Mac 
Sweeny  was  severely  wounded  ;  as  was  Captain 
IJoger  Sweeny  of  the  same  Regiment,  mortally,  at 
Lauffield,  in  two  veai-s  after. 


♦  iVAltons  *  Annals  of  Hoylo/  v.  1,  p.  27r>. 


HAJOR-GENERAL  BOISELEAU'S  INFANTRY.  751 

CAPTAINS  HENRY  AND  DAVID  TRANT. 

This  family,  of  Danish  extraction,  is  on  Ortelius's  map 
located  in  the  Barony  of  Corkaguinny,  County  of 
Kerry.  The  name  does  not  appear  on  the  Attainders 
of  1641.  In  the  Parliament  of  1689,  Sir  Patrick 
Trant  was  one  of  the  Representatives  of  the  Queen's 
County.  The  Attainders  of  1691  include  himself,  de- 
scribed as  Baronet,  of  Coldwell,  County  of  Dublin, 
his  lady,  then  Lady  Helen  Trant,  widow,  with  her 
sons  Richard,  Laurence,  and  Charles  Trant ;  Maurice 
Trant  of  Dublin,  Garrett  of  Portarlington,  Queen's 
County,  and  Gerald  Trant  of  Dingle.  By  the  confis- 
cations  of  Sir  Patrick,  his  very  extensive  estates 
vested  in  the  Crown,  including  lands  in  the  Counties 
of  Kerry,  Kildare,  Dublin,  King's  and  Queen's 
Counties ;  and  within  these  the  Manors  and  Lord- 
ships of  Portarlington,  Lea,  and  Charleston,  all  which 
were  purchased  by  the  Hollow  Swords'  Blades  Com- 
pany, from  the  Trustees  of  the  Forfeitures,  for 
£30,000.  Sir  Patrick  himself  followed  King  James 
to  France,  where  he  died  soon  after  ;  on  the  petition 
of  his  widow,  however,  she  and  her  family  were 
allowed  to  retain  a  small  portion  of  the  Kerry  estate. 
The  only  claimant  upon  Sir  Patrick's  confiscations  at 
Chichester  House  in  1700  was  John,  son  of  Richard 
Trant,  a  grandson,  it  would  seem,  of  the  Baronet.  He 
sought  a  charge  affecting  the  whole  estates,  but  his 
petition  was  dismissed  for  non-prosecution. 


752  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMT  LIST. 

CAPTAIN  ROBERT  DORNET. 

Ax  Owen  O'Dorney,  described  as  of  Clonednllane, 
County  of  Cork,  was  attainted.  Nothing  has  been 
ascertained  of  this  officer  or  of  his  family,  bat  from  his 
associates  in  this  Regiment,  he  would  seem  to  be  of 
the  same  cnuntv. 


CAPTAIN  PATRICK  HIDE. 

Sir  Arthur  '  Ilyde,'  who  was  made  a  Knight  Baronet 
by  Queen  Elizabeth,  having  raised  a  Regiment  in 
England  at  the  time  of  the  Invasion  by  the  invincible 
Armada,  was  one  of  the  Munster  undertakers  endowed 
with  6,000  acres  of  the  Desmond  forfeitures  in  Cork. 
This  Captain,  it  would  seem,  was  his  relative. 
Patrick's  name  does  not  appear  on  the  Attainders  of 
1691,  but  only  that  of  Hugo  Hide  'of  Ballymao- 
Phillip,  County  of  Cork.' 


CAPTAIN  DENNIS  FALVET. 

The  OTalveys  were  Chiefs  of  Cork,  and  in  ancient 
times  recorded  as  the  hereditary  Admirals  of  Desmond. 
One  of  the  despairing  emigrants,  who  passed  into 
Spain  after  the  wars  of  Elizabeth's  time,  was  John 
*  O'Fallevay.' 


MAJOR-GENERAL  BOISELEAU'S  INFANTRY.  753 


CAPTAIN  PHILIP  COGAN. 

This  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  Invasion, 
often  and  eminently  displayed  in  its  history,  especially 
in  connexion  with  Cork,  the  whole  of  which  county 
Henry  the  Second,  on  his  invasion  of  Ireland, 
conferred  jointly  upon  Milo  de  Cogan,  and  Robert 
Fitz-Stephen  his  uncle.  Milo  was  the  first  Consta- 
ble of  Dublin  after  its  reduction  from  the  natives.  In 
1221,  Richard  de  Cogan,  who  was  possessed  of  lands 
in  the  Honor  of  Bray,  was  summoned  to  attend  a 
Great  Council,  ag  was  John  de  Cogan  to  do  military 
service  against  the  Scots  in  1244.  In  1294,  John 
Cogan  was  required  to  do  military  service  in  Gas- 
oony,  as  he  was  again  in  the  ensuing  year.  He  died 
in  1309,  and  was  buried  in  St.  Saviour's  Friary,  Dub- 
lin. In  1334,  William  Cogan  was  Lord  Treasurer  of 
Ireland,  and  in  the  following  year  Milo  de  Cogan  had 
special  summons  to  attend  John  D'Arcy,  the  Jus- 
ticiary of  Ireland;  in  his  expedition  into  Scotland.  In 
1438,  Robert  Fitz-GeoflOy  Cogan  granted  to  Gerald 
Fitz-Gerald,  Lord  of  Decies,  half  the  County  of  Cork, 
described  as  all  his  lands  in  Ireland.  In  1488, 
James  Cogan,  being  Prior  of  the  great  monastery  of 
Holmpatrick,  took  the  oath  of  allegiance  to  Sir 
Richard  Edgecombe,  as  required  by  the  then  recent 
rising  for  Lambert  Simnel.  In  March,  1601,  Rich- 
ard Fitz-Philip  Cogan  was  one  of  those  who  emigrated 
to  Spain  with  Don  Juan  de  Aquila,  about  which  time 
John  de  Courcy,  eighteenth  Lord  of  Kinsale,  married 

ccc 


7H  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Catherine,  daughter  of  William  Cogan,  from  whid 
marriage  the  Baronage  hiis  been  lineally  continued  t 
Baron  John  Constantine,  the  present  Lonl  Kinsale 

A  James  Cogan  was  a  Lieutenant  in  anothej 

Munster  Regiment  of  Infantry,  that  of  Colone 
Nicholas  Browne  ;  he  was  attainted  in  1691  by  IJm 
description  of  Kilmore,  County  of  Cork,  as  was 
Captain  Philip  as  of  Carriokbrinna,  in  that  county, 
What  degive  of  kindred,  if  any,  these  individuals  bon 
to  the  Lords  of  Kinsale,  has  not  been  ascertained 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  MAHONY. 

The  O'Mahonys  were  powerful  chieftains  in  Munster 
and  had  extensive  estates  along  the  sea  coast  of  Corl 
and  Kerry.  Opposite  Hoi'se  Island,  off  the  formei 
county,  was  their  castle  of  Rosbrin,  boldly  erected  oi 
a  rock  over  the  sea;  and  its  proprietor  in  the  time  ol 
Queen  Elizabeth,  availing  himself  of  the  natural  ad 
vantage  it  possessed,  led  a  life  of  such  successfiiJ 
piracy,  that  Sir  George  Carew,  when  Lord  President 
was  obliged  to  demolish  it.  Smith  says  there  was  an 
ancient  Irish  Chronicle,  called  from  this  locality  the 
Psalter  of  Rosbrin,  which  contained  a  gencalogica] 
account  of  the  O'Mahonys.*  In  the  manuscripts  oi 
the  Lambeth  Library,  is  a  "note  of  the  names  of  al 
the  plow-lands  belonging  to  the  O'Mahone  Fione  ir 
Disagh,  a  pait  of  West  Carbury ;"  also  "  the  division  o: 

*  Smith's  Cork,  v.  1,  p.  284. 


MAJOR-GENERAL  BOISELEAU'S  INFANTRY.  755 

the  territory  of  Iveagh  (the  peninsula  of  Mizen  Head), 
a  part  also  of  Carbury,  among  the  O'Mahonys.''  This 
O'Mahony  Fion,  says  an  ancient  authority*  was 
"Sovereign  Prince  of  Rath-lean,  and  next  lawful  heir 
to  the  Crown  of  Cashel,  when  vacant  for  want  of  a 
successor  ;  and,  on  coming  into  the  presence  of  the 
King  of  Cashel,  he  was  not  bound  to  make  any  other 
homage  than  to  bow  his  head."  In  950,  says  Arch- 
dall,  died  Donough  O'Mahony,  Abbot  of  Glendaloch 
and  Clonmacnoise.  In  1089,  this  Sept  obtained  a 
victory  over  Donough  O'Brien.  In  1135,  Connor 
O'Brien,  in  the  alternate  assertion  of  an  old  feud, 
defeated  the  O'Mahonys  in  battle,  slaying  their  chief, 
Cian  O'Mahony,  styled  "  King  of  Rathlean  or  East 
Iveach."  In  1178,  Donat  O'Brien,  with  his  Dalcas- 
sians,  routed  the  O'Donovans  and  the  O'Connels, 
driving  them  from  Limerick  County  to  beyond  Man- 
gerton  in  Kerry.  Here  these  two  exiled  families, 
being  powerfully  assisted  by  the  O'Mahonys,  made 
new  settlements  for  themselves  on  the  ancient  proper- 
ties of  the  O'Donoghues,  O'Learys,  and  O'Driscolls,  to 
which  three  families  the  O'Mahonys  were  always 
declared  enemies ;  after  which  the  O'Donoghues 
settled  at  Killamey,  on  the  borders  of  Lough  Lean. 

At  Perrot's  Parliament  of  1585,  this  Sept  was 
represented  by  Owen,  son  of  Donell,  son  of  Donell-na- 
Screedagh  O'Mahony  (of  the  western  district  of 
Iveragh,  County  of  Kerry),  and  by  Conor,  son  of 
Conor  Fion  Oge,  son  of  Conor  Fion,  son  of  Conor 

id.  p.  54. 

ccc  2 


75(5  KING  JAMES  S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

(VMahoiiy.  hi  the  following  year,  on  an  Inquisition 
taken  at  Shandon  Castle,  thei*e  were  attainted,  as  im- 
plicated  in  the  l)esnion<l  relwUion,  Daniel,  son  of 
( ■unnor  O'AIahony  of  Kosbrin,  and  Conor  O'Mahony 
of  Castle  Mahony,  near  liandon,  who  were  thei-eupon 
adjudged  to  forfeit  all  their  honors,  castles,  manors, 
&c.  In  lHOr>,  Sir  William  Taafte,  Knight,  had  a 
gmiit  in  '  Muskrie,'  County  of  Cork,  of  the  entire  ter- 
ritory or  country  of  Iclioidoe,  containing  twenty-eight 
small  carucates  of  land  of  every  kind,  each  being  120 
acres,  the  givater  i)art  bog  and  unprofitable,  and 
theretofore  the  estate  of  (the  above)  Daniel,  son  of 
Connor  O'Mahony,  attainted.  The  Attaindei's  of 
1643  include  ten  of  this  name  in  the  Ctmnty  of  Cork. 
About  that  time  llourished  Connor  O'Mahony,  long 
residing  at  St.  Roch  in  Lisbon  ;  he  was  born  in  the 
Barony  of  j\Iuskerry,  County  of  Cork,  became  a 
Jesuit,  and  published  some  w^orks  under  a  fictitious 
name,  especially  the  J)ispntatio  Apologetica^  &<5.  in 
1 645,  a  work  which  was  thought  so  ultm  even  by  the 
Supreme  Council  of  Kilkenny,  that  they  ordered  it  to 
the  flames.* 

Dermot  O'Mahony  of  Kosbrin  became  a  Colonel  in 
this  campaign,  and  was  killed  at  Aughrim  ;  he  was 
attainted  in  1691,  with  two  other  Mahonys  of  Cork. 
Daniel,  the  brother  of  said  Colonel  Dermot,  was 
knighted  by  King  James  at  St.  Germains  for  his 
distinguished  conduct  at  Crcmona,  and  afterwards 
obtained  the  title  of  Count  from  Louis  the  Fourteenth 


*  Ware's  Writers,  pp.  121-2.     Hardimau'.s  Galway,  p.  123. 


MAJOR-GENERAL  BOISELEAU'S  INFANTRY.  757 

for  his  good  services  in  France,  Spain,  and  Italy.  In 
the  latter  country  he  was  distinguished  in  1702.     In 

1706,  when  Admiral  Leake  invested  Alicant, 
Mahony,  who  was  its  Governor,  defended  it  until  he 
received  three  wounds,  and  was  obliged  to  send  to 
General  Georges,  who  commanded  the  English  land 
forces,  for  a  surgeon,  a  request  which  was  at  once 
complied  with,  and  the  brave  Governor  still  held  out 
till  the  last  necessity  coippelled  a  capitulation.*     In 

1707,  Mahony's  Dragoons  carried  much  glory  in  the 
victory  of  Almanza,  and  being  in  the  same  year 
appointed  Commander-in-Chief  of  the  Spanish  troops 
in  Sicily,  his  arrival  there  secured  to  the  King  of 
Spain  the  possession  of  that  island,  and  extinguished 
various  smouldering  conspiracies  in  favour  of  the 
Austrians.f  He  was  advanced  to  be  a  Lieutenant- 
General  in  the  Spanish  service,  and  was  ennobled 
with  the  title  of  Count  of  Castile.  "  He  was  not  only 
brave,"  says  Bellerue  in  his  Campaign  of  Vendome^ 
"  but  laborious  and  indefatigable  ;  his  life  was  a  con- 
tinued chain  of  dangerous  combats,  desperate  attacks, 
and  honourable  retreats."  His  son  remained  in  Spain 
and  retained  the  title,  while  his  brother,  Demetrio, 
became  a  Captain  in  the  King  of  Spain's  Guards.^ 
Bacallar  y  Sauna,  in  his  History  of  Spain  under 
Philip  the  Thirds  gives  very  full  details  of  the 
achievements  of  Colonel  Count  Mahony  at  Cartha- 

*  O'Conor's  Milit.  Mem.  v.  1,  pp.  318-19. 

t  Idem,  V.  2,  p.  336. 

X  Notices  of  CJo.K?rry,MS.Roy.  Ir.  Acad.  p.  42. 


758  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

gcna  aiid  other  places  in  Spain.  The  sons  of  Colonel 
Derniot  were  no  less  signalised  in  Holland.*  Of  the 
Brigaded  Regiment  of  Limerick,  of  which  Sir  John 
Fitz-Gerald  was  Colonel,  Jeremy  O'Mahony  was 
Lieutenant-Colonel. 

Smith,  in  his  Hiatory  of  Cork  (v.  1,  p.  201),  re- 
lates the  death  in  1728  of  a  remarkable  character, 
Denis  O'Mahony,  a  priest,  who  had  lived  for  28  years 
in  a  lonely  island  in  the  wild  scenery  of  Gougane 
Barra.     AVhat  a  scene  it  was  to  nourish  the  despair 

of  a  landless  victim  ! In  1745,  Dennis  and  Darby 

Mahoiiy,  Lieutenants  in  Bulkeley's  Regiment,  were 
taken  prisoners  at  sea,  off  Montrose.  In  1766,  says 
a  Chronicle  of  the  time,  "His  Excellency  Count 
Mahony,  Ambassador  from  Spain  to  the  Court  of 
Vienna,  gave  a  grand  entertainment  in  honour  of 
Patrick's  Day  ;  where  were  present  Count  Lacy, 
President  of  the  Council  of  War,  the  Generals 
O'Donnell,  Maguire,  O'Kelly,  Bi-owne,  Plunket,  Mac 
Ellicot,  four  chiefs  of  the  Grand  Cross,  two  Governors, 
several  Knights  military,  six  Staff  OflScers,  four  Privy 
Councillors,  with  the  principal  OflScers  of  State,  who, 
to  show  their  resi)ect  for  the  Irish  nation,  wore  crosses 
in  honor  of  the  day,  as  did  the  whole  Court."f 


*  Notices  of  Co.  Kerry,  MS.  Roy.  Ir.  Acad.  p.  52. 
t  Gent.  Mag.  ad  aim,  p.  195. 


MAJOR-GENERAL  BOISELEAU'S  INFANTRY.  759 


CAPTAIN  DANIEL  O'HERLIHY. 

See  of  this  Sept,  ante^  p.  285,  &c. The  Attainders 

of  1643  describe  eleven  of  the  Sept  of  O'Herlihy  in 
the  County  of  Cork  ;  those  of  1691  have  but  one, 
John  Herriihy  of  Tuogage,  in  that  county. 


LIEUTENANT  JOHN  CONDON. 

The  Condons  were  deemed  so  powerful  a  Sept  of  old, 
that  their  territory  was  adopted  as  the  name  of  a 
Barony  in  the  County  of  Cork.  On  the  first  entrance 
of  the  Lord  President  of  Munster,  in  1600,  into  that 
county,  Mac  Hugh  Condon  was  one  of  the  native 
chiefs  who  first  made  submission  to  him.*  In  1606, 
John  King,  of  Dublin,  had  a  grant  from  the  Crown  of 
certain  estates  in  the  County  of  Waterford,  thereto- 
fore the  property  of  Patrick  Condon  ;  while,  in  seven 
years  after,  David  Condon  of  Ballydorrawne,  County 
of  Cork,  "  in  performance  of  an  indented  order  taken 
and  conceived  between  him  and  Arthur  Hide  of  Car- 
riginedy,  concerning  the  title,  right,  and  possession  of 
all  the  estates  sometime  belonging  to  Patrick  Condon, 
said  David's  father,"  granted,  assigned  and  confirmed 
to  Hide  various  manors  and  lands  in  said  county,  to 
hold  of  the  King  as  fully  as  same  had  been  granted  to 

David  by  letters  patent. The  Attainders  of  1642 

present  the  names  of  ten  Condons  in  the  County  of 

"  *  Pacata  Hibemia,  p.  61. 


76U  KING  James's  ikisu  army  list. 

Cork,  while  on  those  of  1691  are  the  above  Lieu- 
tenant John,  styled  of  Carricknavoura  and  Djsart, 
and  five  othei-s  in  the  same  county.  At  the  Court 
of  Claims  in  1700,  Julian  Condon  preferred  her  peti- 
tion for  her  jointure  in  his  Cork  estate  ;  but  her 
prayer  was  dismissed. 


LIEUTENANT  RICHARD   BULMAN. 

Nothing  has  been  ascertained  of  him  or  his  &mily  at 
the  period. 


ENSIGN   TEIGUE  GLORNEY. 

The  O'Glorneys  or  O'Glomns   were   a  Sept  of  the 
County  of  Kilkenny. 


ENSIGN  THOMAS  'HALY.' 

The  '  O'Halys'  are  located  by  O'Brien  in  a  large  tract 
of  the  Barony  of  Muskerry,  County  of  Cork, 
called  from  them  Pobble-O'Haly.  The  Four  Masters 
record  the  death  in  1309  of  Dennod  O'Healey,  *  the 
most  eminent  of  the  landed  gentry  of  his  time.'  In 
1328,  died  Duvesa,  daughter  of  O'Hely,  and  wife  of 
Donal,  son  of  Teigue  O'Conor.  In  1389,  the  Septs  of 
O'Conor  and  O'Ruarc  invaded  Muinter-Hely,  whose 


MAJOR^ENERAL  BOISELEAU'S  INFANTRY.  761 

*  cavalry'  they  put  to  flight,  slaying  Maniis  O'Hely 
and  others  at  that  place  ;  and  in  1426  is  recorded 
the  death  of  O'Hely  More,  that  is  Conor  Caoch  O'Hely. 
The  oflScer  at  present  under  consideration,  however, 
is,  on  the  authority  of  ancient  family  tradition,  alleged 
to  have  been  of  the  Connaught  Sept  of  O'Hanly  of 
Slieve-Ban,  whose  Chief  in  the  sixteenth  century  had 
three  sons,-  Robert,  Hugh,  and  James.  The  last, 
having  killed  a  person  of  rank  in  a  duel,  retired  from 
that  province  and  settled  in  Limerick,  where  he  took 
the  name  of  Haly,  as  concealing,  though  not  utterly 
renouncing  his  patronymic,  and  there  he  married. 
His  grandson,  William  Haly,  acquired  large  posses- 
sions in  that  county,  of  which  he  was  High  Sheriff  in 
1636.  He  had  two  sons  :  Nicholas,  who,  for  his  ad- 
herence to  King  Charles,  is  said  to  have  been  honour- 
ed with  a  fiat  for  the  dignity  of  Baron ;  in  evidence  of 
which  three  letters  are  referred  to,  one  of  the  King, 
dated  at  Newcastle,  February  20th,  1646,  and  two 
others  of  the  Earl  of  Glamorgan  and  Worcester,  dated 
13th  September,  1646,  and  20lli  April,  1647,  (in  the 
custody  of  William  Haly);  but,  as  it  is  alleged,  the 
patents  could  not  be  made  out,  the  King  being  at  the 
time  a  prisoner  with  the  Scottish  army,  and  not  having 
the  Great  Seal  with  him.  This  Nicholas,  styled  of 
Towrine,  and  his  younger  brother  John  of  Limerick, 
were  of  the  Supreme  Council  of  Kilkenny  in  1646. 
John  died  without  issue.  Nicholas  signed  the  Treaty 
of  Limerick  in  1651  with  Ireton,  as  one  of  the  Com- 
muMdoBers  on  the  part  of  the  garrison,  and  for  the 


702  KING  James's  irisu  army  list. 

|H?ribrniunce  of  which  he  was  one  of  the  hc^stages 
retained.  lie  was  subsequently  stripiied  of  all  his 
property  by  Cromwell ;  but  his  eldest  son,  Robert,  who 
married  Lady  Roche,  the  widow  of  John,  the  tenth 
Viscount  Fermoy,  was  restored  to  his  estates  by  James 
the  Second.  From  very  fiill  notices  of  this  family  in 
the  handwriting  of  the  late  Mr.  James  Roche  (which 
are  necessarily  compressed  here),  it  ap|)ears  suggested 
that  not  only  the  above  officer.  Ensign  Thomas,  but 
also  Edward  Ilaly,  the  Cornet  in  Colonel  Parker's 
Horse,  were  of  this  line  of  ancestry  ;  those  Christian 
names  being  then  introduced  by  marriages  with  the 
Verdon  and  Roche  families.  The  only  representative 
of  this  old  and  resi)ectable  family  now  remaining  in 
Ireland  is  the  Very  Reverend  Robert  Haly,  S.  J.,  resi- 
dent in  Dublin  ;  but  Colonel  O'Grady  Haly  command- 
ing the  47th  Regiment,  (to  whom  the  Crimean 
medal  was  lately  presented  by  Her  Majesty),  and 
Mr.  Haly,  of  the  English  bar,  are  also  representatives 
thereof,  with  many  others  living  in  England,  France, 
India,  and  the  British  Colonies.  There  were  eleven 
Heidys  attainted  in  1691,  but  neither  Thomas  nor 
Edward  '  Haly'  appeal's  upon  the  Roll.  In  1710,  a 
Captain  '  Hely,'  of  Lord  Kilmallock's  Brigade,  was 
killed  in  battle  in  Spain.  A  Lieutenant  Richard 
*  Haly,'  of  Rothe's  Regiment,  was  engaged  at  Fontenoy, 
wounded  at  Lauffield  in  1747,  subsequently  promoted 
to  the  rank  of  Major  in  the  Irish  Brigade  of  France, 
and  died  at  an  advanced  age  about  the  year  1785,  at 
('ambrav. 


MAJOR-GENERAL  BOISELEAU'S  INFANTRY.  763 


ENSIGN  GIBBON  FITZ-GIBBON. 

Four  of  this  name  were  attainted  in  1642,  all  in  the 
County  of  Meath. 


ENSIGN  PHILIP  'WOLFE; 

The  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of 
Edward  the  Second.  On  Ortelius's  map  it  is  located 
in  the  Barony  of  Clanwilliam,  County  of  Tipperary. 
They  were  also  territorial  proprietors  in  the  County 
of  Kildare,  where  Thomas  died  in  1582,  seised  of 
Beart  and  other  estates.  Edmund  Wolfe  was  at  the 
same  time  seised  of  Kilcolman,  Oldcourt,  Ardscull,  &c. 
aU  which  premises  were  forfeited  on  the  attainder  of 
Nicholas  Wolfe  in  1641,  when  three  others  of  the 
name  were  outlawed,  but  none  in  1691.  At  the 
Court  of  Claims,  however,  a  John  Wolfe  petitioned  for 
an  interest  in  County  of  Kildare  lands  forfeited  by 
Sarsfield  ;  and  the  name  existed  in  that  county  to 
modem  times.  The  Rev.  Charles  Wolfe,  who  died 
but  recently,  the  weU  known  author  of  the  lines  on 
the  death  of  Sir  John  Moore,  was  bom  in  1791,  the 
youngest  son  of  Theobald  Wolfe  of  Blackball,  County 
of  Kildare.  In  the  County  of  Clare  it  attained 
eminence  of  another  character,  in  that  ornament  of 
the  Irish  Exchequer,  the  late  Chief  Baron  Stephen 
'  Woulfe.'  The  hero,  Major-General  James  '  Woulfe,' 
who  fell  in  victory  at  Quebec  in  1759,  was  lineally 


1  i 


764 


KING  James's  irish  army  list. 


\  u 


descended  from  a  Captain  George  Woulfe  of  the  City 
of  Limerick,  who  was  one  of  the  victims  proscribed 
for  his  devotion  to  the  Royal  cause  by  Ireton  in  1651, 
when  he  stormed  that  city.  Captain  George,  how- 
ever, escaped  to  the  North  of  England,  where  he 
settled.  His  grandson,  General  Edward  Woulfe,  was 
appointed  Colonel  of  the  8th  Regiment  of  Foot  in 
1745,  and  he  was  the  father  of  the  hero  of  Quebec,* 
who,  at  the  early  age  of  twenty-one,  fought  at  the 
often  mentioned  battle  of  Lauffield. 


1'/ 


REGIMENTS   OF   INFANTRY. 

LORD  BOPHIN's,  ALIAS  COLONEL  JOHN  BOURKE. 


Q^fOauu. 

Eniii^. 

Tho  Colonel. 

Francis  Bourke. 

John  Madden. 

Willism  Connock, 

Lieutenant-  Colonel . 

John  Bodkin, 

Major. 

Patrick  Kirwan. 

Piers  Lynch. 

Andrew  Kirwan. 

Richard  Blake. 

John  Blake. 

Stephen  Lynch. 

Peter  Blake, 

Lawrence  Deane. 

Peter  Blake. 

William  Bourke. 
Francis  Baker,  2nd. 

I  MUes  Bourke. 

Walter  Bourke. 

Robert  Lynch. 

Stephen  Lynch. 

Nicholas  Blake. 

Joseph  Lynch. 

Richard  Blake. 

William  Lynch. 

Arthur  Lynch. 

Dominick  Lovelock. 

Thomas  Brown. 

Nicholas  Lynch. 

Thomas  Lynch. 

Matthew  Bodkin. 

Matthew  Lynch. 

Lawrence  Warren. 

Hugh  Kelly. 

John  White, 

Gz«nad. 

*  Ferrar's  Limerick,  p.  360. 


LORD  bopuln's  infantry.  765 


COLONEL  LORD  BOPHIN. 

This  Peer,  the  second  son  of  William,  Earl  of  Clan- 
ricarde,  was  one  of  King  James's  creation,  on  the  2nd 
of  April,  1689.  He  was,  in  this  campaign,  taken 
prisoner  at  Aughrim  at  the  head  of  his  Regiment, 
brought  off  to  the  Castle  of  Dublin,  and  thence  sent 
to  England.  He  was  attainted  on  Inquisition,  and 
although  a  bill  was  brought  into  Parliament  in  1698 
for  restoring  him  to  his  estate  and  blood,  it  was  thrown 
out  on  the  second  reading;  his  children,  however, 
having  preferred  their  petitions  at  the  Court  of  Claims, 
were  allowed  their  respective  remainders,  and,  in  the 
first  year  of  the  reign  of  Queen  Anne,  an  Act  was  pass- 
ed whereby  Lord  Bophin  was  acquitted  of  all  treasons 
and  attainders,  and  he  and  his  children  restored  to 

their  blood  and  estate. The  Family  of  '  Bourke' 

is  fully  noticed  ante^  at  the  Earl  of  Clanricarde. 


LIEUTENANT-COLONEL   WILLIAM 
CONNOCK. 

This  officer,  of  whose  antecedents  nothing  has  been 
ascertained,  passed  over  to  France  ;  where,  in  the 
Brigades,  he  obtained  the  rank  of  full  Colonel,  by 
reason  of  hb  gallant  actions.  He  particularly  dis- 
tinguished himself  at  Cremona,  and  at  the  siege  of 


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V, 


766  KING  James's  irish  a&mt  list. 

Verrua  in  Piedmont,  in  1704,  where,  however,  he  was 
killed  by  the  bursting  of  a  shell.* 


MAJOR  JOHN  BODKIN. 

*;  This  name  appears  on  the  records  of  GaJway  from  the 

time  of  the  Tudors.  In  1533,  Dr.  Christopher 
'  Bodekine'  was  consecrated  Bishop  of  Kilmacduagh  at 
Marseilles,  and  was  in  three  years  after,  by  the  favour 
of  Henry  the  Eighth,  translated  to  the  Archbishopric 
of  Tuam,  with  which  he  held  to  his  death  the  See  of 
i  'I  Kilmacduagh.f     Dominick  Bodkin  of  Galway  was  one 

I  .'  of  the  Confederate  Catholics  who  assembled  at  Kil- 

!  ;  kenny  in  1646.     At  the  siege  of  Galway  in  1652, 

i  six  townsmen  of  this  name  refused  to  sign  the  articles 

for  its  surrender,  while  twelve  other  Bodkins  absent- 
!  t  ed  themselves  to  avoid  so  doing.J     Besides   Major 

]  John  and  Matthew  Bodkin,  an  Ensign  in  this  Regi- 

j .;  ment,  John  Bodkin  was  an  Ensign  in  Colonel  Domi- 

nick Browne's  Infantry,  as  was  Augustus  Bodkin  in 
the  Earl  of  Clanricarde's.  In  July,  1691,  this 
Major,  then  a  Lieutenant-Colonel,  was  of  the  hostages 
delivered  to  the  besiegers  of  the  town,  to  be  bound 
'M  for  the  due  observance  of  the  terms  imposed  upon 

the  garrison  and  townspeople  until  surrender.§     He 
was  a  merchant  of  Galway,  was  included  in  the  Attain- 


♦  O'Conor  8  Milit.  Mem.  p.  294.  f  Ware's  Bishops,  p.  615. 


^  J  Hardiman's  Galway,  Ap.  p.  83.         §  Idem,  p.  162. 


li 


LORD  BOPHIN'S  INFANTRY.  767 

ders  of  that  year,  but  was  afterwards  adjudged  within 
the  benefit  of  the  articles  of  1698  and  1699. 


CAPTAIN  PATRICK  KIRWAN. 

The  O'Kerwans  were  an  ancient  Irish  Sept  of  Con- 
naught,  but  the  name  has  been,  as  it  may  be  consi- 
dered, anglicised  into  Kirwan,  by  which  orthogra- 
phy it  was  known  in  the  County  of  Galway  from  the 
thirteenth  century,*  whence  they  extended  to  Mayo, 
and  at  a  later  period  to  Waterford  and  Tipperary. 
From  1501  to  the  time  of  the  Revolution  the 
Shrievalty  of  Galway,  then  a  very  important  town,  was 
frequently  filled  by  a  Kirwan,  as  was  not  less  the 
Mayoralty.  In  1582,  Stephen  Kirwan  was  Bishop  of 
Clonfert,  as  was  Francis  Kirwan  of  Killala  in  1646. 
These,  however,  will  not  be  found  in  Waris  Bishops. 
At  the  Supreme  Council  of  1646,  Patrick  Kirwan  of 
Galway  was  one  of  the  Members  ;  yet  would  it  seem 
he  was  the  same  individual,  to  whom  General  Ireton 
in  1652  returned  special  thanks,  for  the  protection  he 
had  afforded  to  the  Protestants  during  the  immedi- 
ately precediHg  years  of  civil  war  ;  Ireton  also  gave 
him,  under  hand  and  seal,  permission  to  carry  arms. 
He  was  of  the  Cregg  line  of  Eorwans,  and  grandfather 
of  the  above  Captain  Patrick ;  while  the  Major  of  this 
Regiment,  John  Bodkin,  was  Captain  Patrick's  mater- 
nal uncle.    Patrick  married  in  1703,  Mary,  daughter 

*  Hardinian^s  Galway,  p.  16. 


.  »i^  KING  JAMr?  $  reiSH  ARMY  UST. 

.■f  Ri^harvl  Martin  of  Dangun.  and  succeeded  to  the 
r  regg  estatfrs  on  the  death  of  his  own  father,  Martin 
Kirwan.  in  ITOo.  Sir  John  Kinvan  was  Major  of 
Gal  way  in  lh<»>.  anvl  its  Rt-pres^ntative  in  the  Parlia- 
ment  of  lt>?.  Ht'  is  said  to  have  been  the  first  who 
intr>iuool  in  that  t«'wn  the  niLHiem  style  of  glass 
windows,  in  lieu  of  the  small  k-aden  lattices  thereto- 
f'lv  useil.  This  family  was  distinguished  in  the  Bri- 
gtitles,  in  the  jicrs-'U  of  Richanl  Kirwan,  the  second  son 
rif  the  alv.ve  Captain  Patrick.  He  was  sent  out  at  an 
f-arly  age  to  study  in  France  :  but,  preferring  a  mili- 
tary liff,  he  obtained  a  commission  in  Dillon  s  Bri- 
paile,  fought  at  Fontenoy  in  1745,  and  was  a  great 
fiwourite  with  Lord  Clare  and  Marshal  Saxe.  He 
died  at  W«XNltield  in  1779.  His  nephew  was  Richard 
Kir^-an,  pre-eminently  styled  the  Chemist,  accounted 
one  rif  the  greatest  philosophers  of  his  day,  and  a 
meml>er  of  most  of  the  literary  institutions  of 
Europe. 


CAPTAIN  WILLIAM  BOURKE. 

The  illustrations  of  the  '  Bourke'  family  occur  anie^ 
at  the  Earl  of  Clanricanle.  This  officer,  afterwards 
promoted  to  a  Majority,  was  taken  prisoner  at 
Aughrim.* 

*  Story's  Impart.  Hist.  p.  2,  p.  137. 


LORD  BOPHIN'S  mFANTRT.  769 

CAPTAINS     ROBERT,    JOSEPH,    NICHOLAS, 

AND  MATTHEW  LYNCH ; 
LIEUTENANTS  PIERS  AND  HENRY  LYNCH, 

AND 

ENSIGNS  STEPHEN  AND  WILLIAM  LYNCH. 

This  family  came  over  to  Ireland  in  the  first  arma- 
ment of  the  English  Invasion,  and  soon  after  settled 
at  the  Knock  in  the  County  of  Meath,  hence  called 
Knock-Lynch.  They  were  there  frequently  styled 
*  Leyns,'  by  that  spelling  received  Royal  mandates  to 
the  Hostings,  and  are  so  denominated  in  the  current 
records  and  state  papers.  A  younger  son  of  this 
house,  migrating  westward,  established  the  name  in 
Galway,*  where  his  line  acquired  much  property,  and, 
until  the  middle  of  the  seventeenth  century,  were  one 
of  its  most  influential  families.  From  them  were 
elected  its  first  and  last  Provost,  and  its  first  and  last 
Sovereign  ;  six  of  its  Recorders  were  also  Lynches. 
During  this  connexion  with  the  place,  they  efiected 
many  public  works  within  this  ancient  town,  much 
strengthened  its  fortifications,  and  founded  various 
religious  houses.  In  1484,  Dominick  Lynch  pro- 
cured the  Charter  fit)m  Richard  the  Third,  under 
which  he  caused  his  brother  Pierce  to  be  elected 
first  Mayor,  and  was  himself  the  second.  His  son 
Stephen  at  the  same  time  sued  out  the  Bull  of  Pope 
Innocent  the  Eighth,  establishing  in  Galway  the  sin- 
gular jurisdiction  of  Warden  ;  from  this  period  to  the 

*  Hardiman's  Gralwaj,  p.  50. 

DDD 


770  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

time  of  the  Restomtion.  in  the  succession  of  its  Mayors, 
no  less  than  ei.L^ht j-four  were  Lynches,  and  the  family 
is  one  of  tlie  f«:nir  tribes  who  have  an  acknowledged 
privilege  vf  burial  in  the  Cathedral  of  that  town.  In 
the  sixteenth  century  the  name  was  established  in 
Mayo.  In  1584,  John  Lynch,  a  native  of  Galway, 
educated  at  Oxford,  was  advanced  by  Queen  Elizabeth 
to  the  Bishopric  of  Elphin.  In  Perrot's  Parliament 
of  the  fullowin«r  vear,  Jonoke  Lvnch  and  Peter 
Lynch  represented  Galway.  In  1602,  Richard 
Lynch  was  Bishop  of  Kilniacduagh.  In  the  Parlia- 
ment of  163!>,  Sir  Robert  Lynch  was  one  of  the  Repre- 
sentatives of  Galway.  He  was  proprietor  of  the  Isles 
of  Arran,  which,  on  his  subsequent  attainder,  were 
included  in  the  grant  to  Erasmus  Smith,  one  of  the 
most  considenible  of  the  London  adventurers  in  Ire- 
land,  whose  title  to  these  islands  was  afterwards  pur- 
chased by  Richard,  Earl  of  Arran.* 

In  1642  were  attainted,  with  said  Sir  Robert 
Lynch,  Oliver  Lynch  of  Dublin,  Myles  Lynch  of 
Cloncurry,  and  Laurence  Lynch  of  Creganstown,  in 
the  County  of  Meath.  The  head  of  the  family  at  the 
Knock  is  not  noted  on  the  Roll,  as  their  Castle 
had  been  in  this  year  taken  by  the  Earl  of  Ormond, 
when  the  besieged,  not  accepting  quarter,  were  put 
to  the  sword.f  The  elder  of  this  house,  Robert 
Lynch  or  Leyns,  was  fain  to  accept  a  certificate  from 
the   usurping    powers,   transplanting  him  and    his 

*  Hardiman^s  Galway,  p.  320. 
t  Temple's  Irish  Rebellion,  p.  80. 


LORD  BOPHIN'S  INFANTRY.  771 

famUy  into  the  County  of  Roscommon,  where  a  small 
allotment  at  the  foot  of  Slieve-Ban  was  all  conceded  to 
him  in  tail  male,  in  lieu  of  his  extensive  Meath  estates. 
Of  the  Confederate  Catholics  at  Kilkenny  in  1646, 
were  Martin,  Nicholas,  and  Eoebuck  Lynch  of  Gal- 
way.  In  1650,  Walter  Lynch  succeeded  to  the  See 
of  Clonfert,  at  which  time  flourished  John  Lynch,  an 
able  antiquary  and  scholar,  born  in  the  town  of  Gal- 
way  ;  after  its  surrender  in  1652,  he  betook  himself 
to  France,  where,  under  the  assumed  name  of  Gratia- 
nus  Lucius,  he  published  his  *  Cambrensis  EversuSy  and 
other  works.  In  regard  to  the  aforesaid  transplanted 
Robert  Lynch  or  Leyns,  (whose  last  male  descendant, 
it  may  be  mentioned,  was  the  author's  maternal 
uncle),  his  will  bears  date  in  1667,  and  commences 
with  a  *  sweet  reminiscence'  of  his  family,  directing 
his  interment  "  in  the  sepulchre  of  my  dear  mother, 
children,  and  grand-children,  in  the  church  of 
Clonard,  without  any  great  cost  or  solemnity  ;  being 
banished  into  Connaught,  and  deprived  of  my  estate, 
and  stript  of  all  my  moveable  goods  and  substance." 

Then,  after  recounting  his  debts  and  providing 

for  their  due  and  early  payment,  he  adds,  "  I  leave 
and  bequeath  my  little  nag  to  my  little  grand-child 
Christopher  Leyns,  and  my  apparel  to  be  distributed 
to  such  poor  as  are  in  want  of  clothes  to  cover  their 

nakedness." ^^  And  in  case  the  Ir.  be  restored,  my 

will  is  that  the  feofiment  I  made  of  Croboy,  in  the 
year  of  our  Lord  1631,  shall  stand  and  be  in  force 
according  to  the   intent  thereof."    The    estate    of 

DDD  2 


772  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Crobjy  here  alluded  to  included  Summer  Hill,  and 
was,  in  two  years  after  the  date  of  this  will,  granted 
by  patent  of  Charles  the  Second  to  Charles  Barker, 
from  whom  it  passed  by  purchase  to  the  ancestor  of 
1am\\  Langford  ;  while  little  more  than  twenty  years 
have  elapsed  since  the  Crown  asserted  its  title  to  the 
Roscommon  allotment,  as  on  failure  of  the  issue  male 
of  Rol>ert. 

In  the  Charter  to  Galway  in  1687,  twenty-three 
Lynches  were  placed  \\\KMi  the  Burgess  Roll.  In  the 
same  year  Sir  Henry  Lynch  was  appointed  a  Baron  of 
the  Irish  Exchequer,  on  Sir  Stephen  Rice  being  ad- 
vanced to  be  chief.  Besi<les  the  nine  officers  of  the  name 
in  this  Regiment,  six  others  were  commissioned  on  this 
list.  In  the  Parliament  of  1689,  Geoflfry  Lynch  was 
one  of  the  Representatives  of  Galway,  while  the 
hostages  for  its  surrender  in  1691  were  Lieuten- 
ant-Colonels Lynch,  Burke,  and  Kelly.  The  Attain- 
ders of  1691  include  fifteen  Lynches. 

In  the  Augustinian  Convent  at  Bruges  are  monu- 
ments to  '  Steveii  Lynch,  who  died  1691;  Agnes 
Lynch,  died  1728  ;  to  Dominick  Anthony  Lynch, 
'Eschevon'  of  Bnigesin  1707,  1711,  1713,  and  1727  ; 
to  Dominick  Lynch,  who  in  1 782  became  a  member 
of  the  society  of  St.  George  there.  James  Lynch, 
(son  of  Henry  Lynch),  whose  wife  was  Anastasia, 
daughter  of  Jasper  Joyce,  has  a  sepidchral  monument 
on  the  outside  of  the  south  wall  of  the  church  of  Notre 
Dame  in  said  city,  commemorating  his  death  on  the 
21st  of  July,  1793,  aged  77.    At  the  battle  of  Lauffield 


LORD  BOPHIN'S  INFANTRY.  773 

in  1747, '  Colonel  Lynch,  a  la  Suite'  in  Lally's  Brigade 
Regiment,  was  wounded  ;  and  in  Hardiman's  Galway 
(p.  18),  mention  is  made  of  a  Count  Lynch,  Mayor  of 
Bourdeaux,  who  so  eminently  distinguished  himself 
in  the  cause  of  the  Royal  family  of  France  in  opposi- 
tion to  Buonaparte. 


LIEUTENANT  LAURENCE  DEANE. 

This  name  Den,  Dene,  Dean,  etc.  is  of  record  in 
Ireland  from  the  time  of  Edward  the  Second,  more 
especially  located  in  the  Counties  of  Cork  and  Carlow. 
In  1609,  Richard  Dean,  a  native  of  Yorkshire,  suc- 
ceeded to  the  See  of  Ossory.  The  only  attainder  in 
1642  of  the  name  is  that  of  Patrick  Deane  of  Lusk  ; 
that  in  1691  is  of  Dominick  Deane  of  Cong,  County 
of  Mayo.  In  1714,  Joseph  Deane  was  appointed 
Chief  Baron  of  the  Irish  Exchequer.  The  kindred, 
however,  of  the  above  officer  is  unknown. 


LIEUTENANT  DOMINICK  LOVELOCK. 

He  was  attainted  in  1691,  as  Dominick  Lovelock  of 
Milltown,  County  of  Galway ;  no  more  is  known  of 
him. 


774 


KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 


ENSIGN  JOHN  MADDEN. 

He  was  indited  in  1691  as  of  Longford,  County  of 
Galway,  and  was  ancestor  of  the  present  Dr.  R.  R. 
Madden,  so  well  known  and  respected  in  various 
walks  of  literature. 


REGIMENTS   OF    INFANTRY. 

colonel  ouver  tfoara's,  late  colonel  iriel 
farrell's. 


Cap(ai$u, 
The  Colonel. 

Lieaten«nt-Colonel. 
Thadj  O'Connor, 

Major. 

John  Conry. 

Ifichael  Shanlj. 
Green  Mulloy. 

WiUuun  Mnlloy. 

William  Shanlej. 

LaOghlin  Nanghton. 

Daniel  <  Kelley.' 
John  *  Kelley.' 

Charles  Phillips. 

BiTan  M*QowTan. 

Owen  Qallagher. 
Christopher  Bellew. 
Henry  M*Dennott  Roe. 
Bryan  Duff  M*Dennott. 


Lieutenants. 
Michael  Shanley. 


Bryan  Conry. 

I  Nicholas  White. 

Theobald  Molloy. 
Thady  Shanley. 
Edmnnd  Nanghton. 

>  Edmnnd  Doyle. 

Connor  M'Dermott. 

Daniel  M'Gowran. 

Ffiurrell  Gallagher. 
Nicholas  Bermingham. 
Roger  M'Dermott. 


Ensigns. 
Fargus  Farrell. 


Thady  Biahon. 

Charles  Dillon. 

John  Connor. 
PanI  Dnigenan. 
Thomas  Nanghton. 

Daniel  *  Kelley.' 

Gildnfie  PhUUps. 

STnrlofl^  Reynolds. 
Morgan  M*Donongh. 
Owen  Gallagher. 
William  O'Gara. 
Arthur  M*Manu8. 
Thomas  Walgrave. 


COLONEL  OUVER  O'GARA'S  INFANTRY.  775 


COLONEL  OLIVER  O'GAKA. 

The  O'Garas  were  the  ancient  territorial  Lords  of 
Moy-0'Gara  and  Coolavin,  in  the  County  of  Sligo. 
So  early  as  in  the  year  1056,  the  Four  Masters  record 
the  death  of  Koderic  O'Gara  ;  and  their  valuable  and 
extensive  Chronicle,  originating  in  the  patronage  of 
Ferral  O'Gara  in  the  commencement  of  the  seven- 
teenth century,  is  particularly  full  in  details  of  this 
House.  Their  dedication  proclaims  him  "a  descen- 
dant of  the  race  of  Heber,  son  of  Milesius,  which  gave 
Ireland  thirty  monarchs,  while  sixty-one  of  that  race 
died  in  the  odour  of  sanctity."  The  antiquary  Michael 
O'Clery,  who  had  at  the  time  peculiar  resources  for 
veriiying  native  genealogies,  many  of  which  perished 
in  the  immediately  ensuing  wars,  confidently  traces 
the  lineage  of  this  Ferral  O'Gara  up  ninety-three 
generations  ;  he  was  himself  the  fiepresentative  of 
the  County  of  Sligo  in  the  Parliament  of  1634.  The 
confiscations  and  ravages  of  CromweD,  however,  left 
but  little  of  their  rank  or  territory  remaining  at  this 
period,  when  the  above  Colonel  Oliver  was  the  head 
of  the  Sept.  He  also  was  one  of  the  Representatives 
for  the  County  of  Sligo  in  the  Parliament  of  1689, 
and  was  connected  by  marriage  with  the  Lady  Mary 
Fleming,  daughter  of  Lord  Slane  and  widow  of  Richard 
Fleming  of  Stahalmock,  by  whom  he  left  no  issue. 
This  regiment,  raised  by  himself,  was  one  of  four 
which  King  James,  in  falling  back  upon  Ardee,  de- 
spatched  under  the  command  of  Brigadier  Sarsfield, 


f 76'  *.  :  KINO  JJJfSS'&  IRISH  ARMY  UST. 

in  September,  1689,  to  retard  the  advance  of  the  Wil- 
liamite  forces  into  Connaught.*  Story  states  that 
Colonel  O'Gara  was  killed  at  the  siege  of  Athlone  in 
June,  1691 ;  but  if  he  intended  to  refer  this  statement 
to  Colonel  Oliver,  it  was  erroneous,  as  A^  is  known  to 
have  witnessed  the  Articles  of  Limerick,  and  accom- 
panied the  Irish  emigrants  to  the  Continent,  where 
he  was  appointed  Lieutenant-Colonel  to  King  James's 
fine  Regiment  of  Irish  Foot-Guards,  amounting,  before 
its  departure  from  Limerick  to  France,  to  1400  men.f 
This  reduction  of  his  rank  to  a  post  subordinate  to 
Colonel  William  Dorrington,  was  soon  redressed  by 
his  appointment  to  the  Colonelcy  of  the  Queen's  Dra- 
goons. He  was  attainted  in  1691,  with  '  Maria'  his 
wife,  John  O'Gara  of  ClunoghUl,  and  Roger  and 
Morgan  *  Gara '  of  Ballyhowla,  County  of  Sligo.  It 
may  be  added  that  the  Reverend  Nicholas  O'Gara, 
faithfid  to  the  memory  of  his  country  in  a  foreign 
land,  was  a  valuable  collector  of  Irish  poems  in  the 
Netherlands.^  In  1734,  Bryan  O'Gara  was  Roman 
Catholic  Archbishop  of  Tuam,  as  was  Michael  O'Gara 
in  1742. 


MAJOR  THADY  O'CONNOR. 
The  Annals  of  this  family  of  native  Royalty  cannot 

♦  Clarke's  James  II.  v.  2,  p.  882. 

t  O'Callaghan's  Irish  Brigades,  p.  164,  &c. 

t  Trans.  Ibem.  Celt.  p.  97  and  174. 


COLONEL  OLIVER  o'GARA'S  iNFAUtBt/  lit, 

be  alluded  to  here  beyond  the  scope  defined  in  tire 
prospectus  of  this  volume.  They  were  particularly . 
located  in  Connaught,  with  branches  in  Kerry  (where 
they  gave  name  to  Iraghti-connor),  and  in  Offaley  of 
Leinster,  hence  there  styled  O'Connor-Failey.  In  1302, 
Edward  the  First  invited  Hugh  O'Conor  to  aid  him 
in  the  Scottish  war,  and  Edward  the  Second  sought 
similar  services  in  1314  from  'O'Conogher,  Dicx 
Hibemicorum  de  Connagh^  and  from  *  Dermod 
O'Tonoghur  d'OflFaley.*  A  Report  to  Government  of 
the  chief  leaders  of  Connaught  in  the  time  of  Henry 
the  Eighth,  and  their  available  strength,  mentions 
O'Conor  as  Lord  of  a  portion  of  that  province,  with 
a  musterable  force  of  120  Horse,  160  Galloglasses, 
and  300  Kerns.  A  manuscript  Book  of  Obits  in 
Trinity  CoDege,  Dublin,  furnishes  several  links  in  the 
generations  of  the  O'Connors-Kerry  in  the  sixteeenth 
and  seventeenth  centuries.  Cromwell's  Act  of  1652, 
*for  settling  Ireland,' excepted  from  pardon  for  life 
and  estate  Charles  O'Conor  Don  of  Ballintobber, 
County  of  Roscommon,  Teigue  O'Connor  Roe  of  said 
county,  Teigue  O'Connor  Sligo  of  Sligo,  and  Charles 
and  Hugh  O'Connor,  his  brothers.  The  acknowledg- 
ment in  the  Act  of  Settlement,  of  Royal  gratitude  for 
services  beyond  the  seas,  includes  Major  Owen 
O'Conor  of  Balinagare,  County  of  Roscommon,  Cap- 
tain Hugh  O'Conor  Don  of  Ballintobber,  Ensign 
Daniel  O'Connor  of  the  County  of  Mayo,  with  Lieu- 
tenant Roger  and  Ensign  Hugh  O'Connor.  This 
Sept  mustered  very  strong  upon  the   Army  List, 


i! 


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778  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

holding  several  commissions  in  fifteen  other  Regi- 
ments. According  to  a  contemporaneous  Diary,*  a 
short  time  before  the  surrender  of  Limerick,  "  Major 
O'Connor,  who  was  Governor  of  Banagher,  surrender- 
ed it  on  condition  of  being  allowed  to  march  out  of  it 
with  his  men.  He  hath  since  been  in  Limerick,  and 
upon  view  of  the  condition  of  that  place,  and  consider- 
ation of  the  wants  of  the  Irish  and  their  impending 
ruin,  came  over  to  us  this  day  (21st  August,  1691)  ; 
also  nine  more  of  the  Irish  army  well  mounted." 
Story  says  that  of  sixty  men,  who  came  over  with 
him,  "forty  laid  down  their  arms,  and  to  each  the 
general  gave  five  shillings  for  encouragemenff  It 
does,  however,  appear  from  the  same  narrator,  that 
a  Colonel  O'Connor,  subsequently  to  the  last  date,  at 
the  head  of  400  Irish,  burned  Edenderry  and  after- 
wards Ballybrittas.J  On  the  Roll  of  Attainders  in 
1691,  stand  Phelim  O'Conor  of  Balinagare,  Roger 
O'Connor  of  Doagh,  Thady  O'Connor  of  Cloonkelly, 
and  Charles  Connor  of  Carrovan,  County  of  Ros- 
common ;  with  eleven  others  in  Kerry,  Kildare, 
Queen's  County,  Sligo,  Longford,  Galway,  Cork,  and 
Dublin.  At  the  Court  of  Chichester  House,  Denis 
O'Conor,  with  Peter  Conry  and  Anne  Conry,  alias 
O'Conor,  his  wife,  and  Bridget  O'Conor,  claimed  and 
were  allowed  three  parts  out  of  four  of  the  real  estates 
of  Major  Owen  O'Conor  in  Ballinagar,  &c.,  under  his 

♦  Harleian  CoU.  v.  7,  p.  481. 

t  Story's  Impartial  History,  part  1,  p.  149. 

J  Idem,  pt.  2,  p.  56. 


COLONEL  OLIVER  O'GARA'S  INFANTRY.     779 

will  of  8th  May,  1685,  but  which  had  been  forfeited 

by  Phelim  O'Conor. Captain   Thomas   O'Connor 

in  Dillon's  Brigade  was  wounded  at  the  battle  of 
Iiauffield. 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  CONEY. 

The  O'Maol  Conrys  were  a  branch  of  the  Southern 
Hy-Nialls,  who  for  centuries  ruled  as  kings  of  Meath 
and  Monarchs  of  Ireland.  They  were  originally  chiefs 
in  Teffia,  in  the  present  County  of  Westmeath  ;  but  in 
the  tenth  century,  crossing  the  Shannon,  located 
themselves  upon  its  western  bank,  and  from  that  time 
were  known  as  Connacians.  This  Sept,  which  be- 
longed to  the  Great  Bardic  Order,  acquired  under  the 
patronage  of  the  O'Conors,  Kings  of  Connaught,  con- 
siderable possessions  in  that  Province,  and  became  its 
Chief  Bards,  as  well  as  Seanachies  to  its  Kings  ;  as 
shown  in  the  Annals  of  the  Four  Masters,  in  the 
compilation  of  which  record,  two  of  the  Sept,  Maurice 
and  Fearfeasa  O'Mulconroy,  contributed  the  ancient 
chronicles  of  their  tribe,  and  were  active  assistants. 
In  virtue  of  the  hereditary  and  honourable  office  of 
Seanachie,  it  was  the  duty  of  the  Chief  of  this  cele- 
brated Bardic  dan  to  officiate  upon  the  Sacred  Hill, 
at  the  Inauguration  of  a  new  King  of  Connaught ;  to 
present  to  him  the  white  wand  or  sceptre,  the  emblem 
of  SoTereignty  ;  to  administer  to  him  the  usual  oath  or 
re  the  customs  of  the  country  ; 


780  KING  JAMESES  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

und,  finally,  to  record  the  proceedings.  In  the 
learned  Dr.  O'Conor  s  Latin  translation  of  the  MSS. 
chronicles  of  Ireland  appears  the  following  account  of 
the  ceremonies,  &c.  i)erfornied  by  Toma  0*Mulconfy 
in  the  year  1312,  at  the  Inauguration  of  Phelim 
O'Conor,  King  of  Connaught.  The  account  is  written 
by  Torna  himself,  and  is  to  be  found  in  the  aforesaid 
Irish  Chronicles : — 

^^CMaolconarii    erant    jure    hereditafio    Begum 

Connacke  Bardi  a  Seculo  AY.,  sine  quorum  genealo^ 

gid  metricdj  in  conventione  Regni^  publice  recUatiddj 

Begem    inaugurare  nefas  est     Hinc  plurimi  istius 

nominis  archi-poetw  Connacice  in  annalibu^  memaran- 

^  tur.     Hoc  est  OMaolconarii  jus. —  Virgam  regiam 

dare  in  ejus  vianum  Begi  inaugurato:  et  ntfaa  est 

alicui  Ducum  Connacice  esse  in  ejus  prcesentid  supra 

.  aggerem  sacrum^  nisi  O'Maokonario^  prope  Begem,  et 

I  (yConnaclitmw^  custodienti  aggeris  sacri: — Ejus  (L  e. 

.  Begis)  equus   militaris  et  vestimenta  traduntur   Yu 

cario  Daehonni: — cujus  est  officium  ire  ad  montem 

'  (i.  e.  arcem  Concohari)  supra  equum  istum: — et  uncia 

1  auri  [datur]  Connachtano;  et  ejus  officium  ineqtudu 

tates    aggeris  sacri  Icevigare^    qiiando   inauguroHo 

Begiajit:''  etc.  etc. 

The  office  of  chief  bard  to  an  Irish  king  was  deem- 
ed a  post  of  great  honour  and  dignity,  and  many  of 
the  duties  of  it  were  of  a  solemn  description :  some  of 
the  functions  of  the  Royal  Seanachies  at  the  ceremony 
of  inauguration  were  in  late  times  performed  by  the 
clergy  themselves,  as  we  find  stated  in  the  account 


COLONEL  OLIVER  O'GARA'S  INFANTRY.     781 

given  of  the  inauguration  of  Hugh  O'Neil,  Titular 
King  of  Ulster  and  Earl  of  Tyrone,  at  the  close  of 
Elizabeth's  reign.  The  inauguration  of  an  Irish  king, 
even  as  late  as  the  reign  of  James  the  First,  was  per- 
formed in  the  open  air,  upon  one  of  the  Sacred  Hills, 
or  places  appointed  for  that  jjpurpose,  and  in  the  pre- 
sence of  the  Septs  of  the  province,  who  were  led 
thither  by  their  respective  chiefe  to  witness  the  cere- 
mony.  The  poet  Spencer,  in  his  History  of  Ire- 
land^ written  in  1597,  thus  describes  one  of  these 
solemn  rites,  of  which  he  himself  had  been  an  eye- 
witness.  "  Whenever  an  Irish  king  or  chief  is  to  be 
inaugurated  on  one  of  their  hills,  it  is  usual  to  place 
him  on  a  particular  stone,  whereon  is  imprinted  the 
form  of  their  first  chieftain's  foot,  and  there  profier  to 
him  an  oath  to  preserve  the  customs  of  the  country. 
There  was  then  a  wand  delivered  to  him  by  the  proper 
officer,  with  which  in  his  hand,  descending  from  the 
stone,  he  turned  himself  round,  thrice  forward,  thrice 
backward,"  In  an  account  of  the  ceremonies  per- 
formed at  the  initiation  of  the  O'Donels,  Princes  of 
Tyrconnel,  it  is  said  that  in  presenting  the  new  king 
with  the  wand,  which  was  perfectly  white  and  straight, 
the  chief  who  officiated  used  this  form  of  words : — 
**  Receive,  0  King,  this  auspicious  badge  of  your 
authorily,  and  remember  to  imitate  in  your  conduct 
the  whiteness  and  straightness  of  this  wand."  This 
hereditary  and  remarkable  office  became  obsolete  in 
the  (yMnlconiy  clan  after  the  split  of  the  great 
'  into  the  three  kindred  but  rival  kouses 


4 

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* 


782  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 


f  of  O'Conor  Don,  O'Conor  Roe,  and  O'Conor  Sligo,  and 

;  the  divisions  of  the  lands  and  Septs  of  Connaught 

i  between  them.      The  O'Mulconrys  became  tributaries 

to  the  O'Conors  Roe.     All  the  branches  of  the  great 
house  of  O'Conor  had  submitted  to  Elizabeth,  and  re- 
maining faithful  to  her  during  the  fierce  wars  of  that 
^  period  in  Ireland,   provoked  the  hostility  of  their 

countrymen,  the  O'Neils  and  O'Donels  of  the  north  ; 
^  who,  in  revenge  for  this  apostasy  from  the  common 

cause,  made  a  descent  into  Connaught  in  1597,  and 
laid  waste  the  territories  of  the  O'Conors  with  fire 
'  and  sword.     In  this  foray,  the  O'Conor  Don,  chief  of 

aU  the  O'Conors,  was  taken  prisoner  ;  the  country  of 
O'Conor  Roe,  south  of  Elphin,  was  ravaged  from  Ath- 
glissento  Sliabh-bann  ;  and  the  Mac  Dermot  ofMoy- 
lurg  was  obliged  to  declare  himself  O'Donel's  vassal, 
and  to  attend  him  when  required,  with  eighty  foot 
and  twenty  horse,  &c.,  &c.  In  this  inroad  of  the 
northern  chieftains,  the  numerically  smaU  Sept  of  the 
O'Mulconrys  was  almost  annihilated,  and  the  decay  ot 
the  family  dates  from  that  period.  Their  subsequent 
history  assimilates  with  that  of  most  other  Irish 
families ;  the  cruel  civil  wars  that  desolated  unhappy 
Ireland  throughout  the  seventeenth  century,  producing 
attainders,  forfeiture  and  exile,  almost  extinguished 
them.  One  or  two  families  of  the  Sept,  neverthe- 
less, continued,  through  all  vicissitudes  of  fortune,  to 
retain  some  footing  in  their  native  province. 

The    above    Captain    John    Conry,  his   brother 
Lieutenant  Bryan,  and  a  third  brother  Patrick,  were 


COLONEL  OLIVER  O'OARA's  INFANTRY.     783 

of  this  house,  and  all  engaged  in  the  service  of  Bang 
James  the  Second  ;  while  another  John  Conry  of  the 
elder  branch  of  the  same  family  claims  more  especial 
notice,  as  well  for  the  sacrifices  he  and  his  descend- 
ants had  made  to  this  cause,  as  for  the  position  and 
rank  they  have  respectively  held  to  the  present  day. 
The  grandfather  of  this  latter  John  was  Moylin 
O'Maolconry,  who  died  in  1637,  the  last  individual 
recognised  in  native  heraldry  as  chief  of  his  nation. 
His  son  Thoma  entered  and  caused  to  be  certified  in 
the  Heralds'  CoUege,  hisfather's  lineage,  which  declares 
him  to  have  been  the  forty-third  in  descent  from 
the  first  recorded  ancestor  ("  Conn"  of  the  hundred 
Battles)  in  that  pedigree.  Thoma,  dying  in  1647, 
was  succeeded  by  his  son  John,  who,  having  taken 
part  and  suffered  in  his  estate,  in  the  Cromwellian 
wars,  fled  to  France,  and  there  married  the  daughter 
of  another  emigrant,  of  the  Fitz-Geralds,  who  had 
quitted  Ireland  in  Elizabeth's  reign,  on  the  destruc- 
tion of  the  great  Greraldine  chief,  the  Earl  of  Desmond. 
John  Conry  served  throughout  the  wars  of  France 
under  the  celebrated  Marshal  Turenne,  and  was  killed 
at  the  passage  of  the  Rhine  in  1672,  leaving  two  sons, 
who  both  returned  to  Ireland.  The  eldest,  Charles, 
who  is  stated  to  have  also  fought  under  Turenne  at 
the  early  age  of  fifteen,  endeavoured  after  the  Resto- 
ration of  Charles  the  Second  to  obtain  compensa- 
tion for  his  family's  losses  in  the  Royal  cause,  but, 
in  common  with  the  large  majority  of  the  ruined 
Indi  gentij,  he  fidled  in  this  object.     However,  in 


7^4  ir^ :-  :^xz^^  n^i-H  aZxt  u^t. 

rrnn-i  ::    rriiic.     *>l  :ic    i'-iijin/n    of    Kii 
J^iir-:i^  Vv:::L  Cii-rle-  C  T.rv.^zll  :l:::iziiig  to  t] 

lU  n  :l:r  ::.  Fri-ic.  i^L  i'liiLZ  t*:-  the  pi 
irr^L-  Tr:.i.:rv-:r  iz  zli  rii^j  ii.  I>Lini  he  devott 
:.i*  :  rrir-r  ir. I  :.>  1::-:  :•:  :Ji-:  rciiir:  vf  that  Monarc 
"^i.  m.  1'  ■  zirT-i.  "^1-1  r.i?  K-  !i..il  t.^itrioiio  oMintr 
--'.  i^  i'.  :.r  r^:-  rr-i^-i  ^  hi?  la-afJ  Sjvertigi 
Hi-  r.in-r.  ":.  -^-rTrr.  i  >ri  l  :  ia'^Tar  in  the  pre$ei 
Arri-v  L:-:.  ri:  ■:r.:nr^:i.::.i' ".-:  rr^:-  ris  e^iablish  tl 
rii:  ::  *:.:*  tt ir.r.j  inn-  :.r  Kir.j  Jiines  as  a  volni 
tr^r.  :"  -^[iih  irs-irl:::  r.  ::  i  p-v  there  was  a  cona 
•irri' '-:  'v-ij".  n;iv:r.j  j.ir.-i  Kinj  Jam-rs's  army  wii 
-arh.ni'i.TVrr  :  hi-  >rp:  he  o:-;M  collect,  he  fougl 
Tir. :  I'll  i:  :h-r  B-:  vr.e.  I^^iving  n:-  :>?ue.  he  was  su( 
Oierrlei  f'T  his  brther  FrarrVasa.  who  was  the  fir 
r;eT.**:-r  of  rhi?  fjTnil^  th^t  pr.-resjol  Pr>testantisii 
Hi-?  ST..  ar.  ther  J.hn.  wa5  a  o»rlebrateil  antiquariai 
aril  ir*  his  'ivvotion  t-  literature  pursueii  the  hered 
tarv  v>:ativn  of  hi.-  anoesr.  r?  :  he  collecte"!  a  vei 
vaiuriM'T  libnirv.  in  a-l-iition  to  ancient  and  curioii 
MSS.  of  the  O'Maolconaire  triV»e.  Among  these,  iti 
Siiid.  was  the  first  volume  of  the  original  of  the  Foi 
Masters,  in  the  C'mpilation  oi which  (as  before  mei 
tioned  i,  two  memlr.-rs  of  the  isrpt  had  been  engaged! 
the  year  1632.  This  volume,  and  many  of  the  Conrti 
MSS.  puss^i-^l  into  the  late  ill-fated  Library  at  Stowi 
John  Conn>y  himself  compiled  a  remarkably  int 


COLONEL  OLIVER  O'GARA'S  INFANTRY.  785 

resting  history  of  his  family  from  the  earliest  period  to 
the  year  1750  ;  it  is  divided  into  chapters,  and 
throws  light  on  many  passages  of  the  general  and 
family  history  of  Ireland.  His  grandson  and  name- 
sake was  the  late  Sir  John  Conroy,  Knight  of  four 
foreign  orders,  and  created  a  Baronet  for  long  and 
fiaithful  services  to  her  Majesty  and  their  Royal 
Highnesses  the  Duke  and  Duchess  of  Kent.  The 
present  Baronet,  a  godson  of  that  Royal  Duke,  bears 
his  respected  name.  Sir  Edward  Conroy  of  Llanbryn- 

mair.  County  of  Montgomery. A  distinguished  indi- 

vidual  of  this  name  was  Florence  O'Mulconry,  titular 
Archbishop  of  Tuam,  and  founder  of  the  Irish  Fran- 
ciscan monastery  at  Louvain,  under  the  auspices  of 
Philip  the  Third  of  Spain.  This  Prelate  was  the  au- 
thor  of  several  works,  and,  dying  at  Madrid  in  1629, 
his  bones  were  subsequently  removed  to  the  Convent 
he  had  founded  at  Louvain.  He  was  intimately  con- 
cerned in  the  political  movements  of  the  times,  and 
was  instrumental  in  aiding  the  escape  of  the  great 
Earls  of  Tyrone  and  Tyrconnel  out  of  Ireland.  The 
fact  is  announced  in  a  letter,  dated  ^^  Dublin,  12th  of 
Sept.  1607,"  from  Sir  John  Davis,  the  celebrated 
Attorney-General  of  Ireland,  to  the  English  Lord 
Chancellor  Ellesmere,  in  which  he  says  that  this  pre- 
late came  over  in  person  in  a  ship  equipped  and  sent 
by  Philip  of  Spain  for  the  rescue  of  these  Earls. 


EEE 


I 


786  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

CAPTAINS  MICHAEL  AND  WILLIAM 
SHANLET. 

The  Shanleys,  sometimes  styled  O'Shanleys,  but  more 
usually  Mac  Shanleys,  are  noticed  as  a  Sept  of  Leitrim 
from  the  thirteenth  century.  In  1254,  Sitric 
Mac  Shanley  was  taken  prisoner  by  Phelim,  son  of 
Cathal  Crov-dearg  O'Conor,  on  suspicion  of  conspi- 
ring to  betray  him.  In  1378,  the  Mac  Shanley  was 
slain  in  an  engagement  between  the  O'Rourkes  and 
Mac  Rannels.  At  1404,  the  Four  Masters  com- 
memorate the  death  of  Donogh,  son  of  Morrough 
Mac  Shanley,  "  a  wealthy  landed  proprietor  of  Cor- 
caghlan  [in  the  County  of  Roscommon],  and  the  in- 
timate friend  of  Roderick  O'Conor,  King  of  Con- 
naught."  In  1473,  "  a  great  commotion  broke  out 
in  Muinter-Eolis  [in  the  County  of  Leitrim],  and 
much  destruction  was  committed  ;  Mac  Rannal  made 
an  attack  on  the  town  of  Mac  Shanly,  which  he 
burned,  and  slew  Donogh,  son  of  Donogh  Mac  Shan- 
ley, with  several  others."*  On  the  plantation  of  the 
Counties  of  Leitrim  and  Longford,  Teigue  Mac  Shan- 
ly  of  Mornin  and  Edward  Oge  Mac  Shanly  in  policy 
sued  out  patents  of  pardon  and  protection,  as  did 
Bryan  Mac  Shanly  of  Ancurvy  in  the  King's  County. 
Besides  the  above  two  Captains,  Thady  and  another 
Michael  Shanley  were  Lieutenants  in  this  Regiment, 
while  Bryan  Shanley  was  an  Ensign  in  Colonel 
Heward    Oxburgh's    Infantry.       In    King  James's 

*  Annals  of  the  Four  Masters,  ad  ann. 


COLONEL  OLIVER  O'gARA'S  INFANTRY.  787 

Charter  to  Jamestown,  County  of  Leitrim,  the  above 
Captain  William  was  appointed  the  Sovereign,  and 
Michael  constituted  one  of  its  free  Burgesses.  Wil- 
liam was  one  of  its  Representatives  in  the  Parliament 
of  1689.  The  Attainders  of  1691  denounce  both 
William  and  Michael  Shanley,  as  of  the  County  of 
Leitrim  ;  with  Thady  and  Brian  Shanley  of  Fenagh 
in  the  same  county  ;  James  '  Shanly'  of  Macetown, 
County  of  Westmeath ;  and  John  of  Swords,  County  of 
Dublin.  A  Michael  Shanly  came  over  to  King  Wil- 
liam, and  was  placed  on  the  pension  list  of  the  mili- 
tary Establishment  for  5s.  per  day,  afterwards  increas- 
ed to  6s.  9d.  until  1729,  when  he  died.  Members  of 
the  family,  with  his  christian  and  surname,  appear  on 
the  Army  Lists  of  successive  years.  In  that  of  1759, 
when  was  raised  in  three  weeks  the  19  th  Regiment 
or  Light  Drogheda  Dragoons,  Michael  Shanly  was  its 
Quarter-Master.  In  1785,  William  Shanley,  the 
lineal  descendant  of  this  Captain  William,  was  High 
SheriflF  of  the  County  of  Leitrim ;  and  his  son  Walter, 
now  an  engineer  in  Canada,  appears  to  represent  the 
Sept. 


CAPTAINS  '  GREENE '  AND  WILLIAM 
MULLOT. 

The  O'MuUoys  or  O'MoUoys  claim  descent  from 
Niall  of  the  Nine  Hostages,  and  were  anciently  Lords 
of  Fearcall  in  the  King's  County,  a  district  extend- 

££E  2 


I 

i 

I 

4 


788  KING  James's  misH  aemy  ust. 

ing  over  the  present  Baronies  of  Ballyboy,  Ballycowen 
and  Eglish,  with  much  of  those  of  Geshil  and  Gany- 
castle.  Of  the  early  and  interesting  annals  of  this 
family,  it  can  only  be  here  noticed  that  in  September, 
1189,  Albin  O'Mulloy,  then  Bishop  of  Ferns,  officiated 
with  the  Archbishops  of  Canterbury  and  Dublin,  and 
with  other  Prelates  and  Nobles,  at  the  coronation  of 
the  renowned  Richard  Coeur  de  Lion  in  Westminster 
Abbey.*  In  the  commencement  of  the  fifteenth  cen- 
tury, Hugh  O'Mulloy  founded  the  celebrated  Carmelite 
monastery  of  Kilcormuck,  in  the  heart  of  Fearcall,  in 
which  he  was  interred  in  1454.  The  state  papers  of 
the  time  of  Henry  the  Eighth  record  numerous  evi- 
dences  of  the  struggles  of  the  O'Mulloys  to  uphold  the 
independence  of  their  Sept  and  territory.  At  length, 
in  1538,  a  treaty  was  concluded  by  the  Lord  Deputy 
with  their  Chief,  by  which  he  (Cahir  O'Mulloy) 
bound  himself  "  to  pay  to  the  King  all  rents  and 
revenues  due  and  accustomed  on  the  country  of 
Fearcall,  and  to  wait  on  the  Deputy  at  any  time  and 
as  often  as  he  will,  with  six  horsemen  and  forty  kem, 
during  one  day  and  one  night,  having  warning  three 
days  before  the  day  appointed."  In  1585,  when,  in 
the  language  of  the  Four  Masters,  a  Parliament  was 
given  to  the  people  of  Ireland  (for  these  assemblies 
were  previously  composed  exclusively  of  the  English 
or  Anglo-Irish  Lords  and  proprietors),  this  Sept  was 
represented  by  Conall,  the  son  of  Cahir  O'Mulloy. 
At  a  somewhat  earlier  period,  the  O'Mulloy  was 

♦  Hoveden,  p.  65G. 


COLONEL  OLIVER   O'GARA's   INFANTRY.  789 

appointed  by  the  Crown  hereditary  Bearer  of  the 
British  Standard  in  Ireland,  in  right  of  which  honour 
an  official  coat  of  arms  was  granted,  representing 
vert  a  mounted  Knight  in  armour,  on  a  steed  richly 
caparisoned  argent ;  and  bearing  in  his  hand  the 
British  standard,  and  on  his  shield  the  family  armo- 
rials. This  right  was  recognized  in  1595,  when,  on 
the  march  of  the  Lord  Deputy,  Sir  William  RusseU,  to 
the  North,  the  Royal  standard  of  England  was  borne 
on  the  first  day,  as  within  the  Pale,  by  O'Mulloy, 
and  in  the  next,  after  passing  out  of  the  Pale,  by 
O'Hanlon,  the  hereditary  standard  bearer  of  O'Neill. 
The  privilege  was  subsequently,  in  1634,  recorded, 
and  the  armorials  exemplified  by  certificate  from  the 
Office  of  Arms.  Early  in  the  reign  of  Queen  Eliza- 
beth, Anthony  O'Mulloy,  a  younger  son  of  Hugh 
O'Mulloy,  then  Chief  of  Fearcall,  migrated  to  the 
County  of  Roscommon,  where  he  became  the  founder 
of  the  Hughstown  and  Oakport  lines.  He  is  said  to 
have  filled  the  important  offices  of  Vice-President  of 
the  Council,  and  Provost  Marshal  of  the  Province  of 
Connaught.  He  died  in  1603,  when  the  Inquisition 
post  mortem  describes  him  by  the  same  cognomen  as 
one  of  the  above  Captains,  *  Greene  MuUoy.'  In 
1613,  a  portion  of  the  Fearcall  inheritance  was  grant- 
ed to  Francis  Blunde,  *  clerk  of  the  Commissioners  for 
defective  titles,'  while  the  estates  of  others  of  the  Sept 
in  the  same  county,  who  had  been  *  attainted'  or '  slain 
in  rebellion,'  were  given  to  Gerald,  Earl  of  Kildare. 
The  declaration  of  Royal  gratitude,  which  \&  incor- 


M 


790  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

f|  porated  in  the  Act  of  Settlement,  acknowledges  the 

,1  services   of  Captain   Charles    O'Mulloy,   Lieutenant 

9  Edmund  O'Mulloy,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Charles  Mulloy, 

^  Captain  Art  Mac  Turlough  Mulloy,  Lieutenant  John 

;  Molloy,  Lieutenant  John  Mac  Art  MoUoy,  Lieutenant 

f  Edward   Molloy,    Ensign   Fenagh   Molloy,    Captain 

4  Turlogh   Molloy   of  Ballyboy,   King's   County,   and 

Terence   MoUoy   of  Gortachuttery   in   said   county. 
Besides  the  above  two  Captains,  there  appear  upon 
:  this  List  Robert  Molloy,  a  Quarter-Master  in  Lord 

,  i  Galmoy's  Horse  ;  James,  a  Lieutenant  in  the  King's 

Infantry  ;  John,  an  Ensign  in  Colonel  Henry  Dil- 
:  Ion's ;   and  Hugh  Molloy,  in  Colonel   Heward  Ox- 

burgh's.     Edward  O'Mulloy,  of  the  above  mentioned 
;!  Hughstown  line,  was  appointed  one  of  the  Burgesses 

in  King  James's  charter  to  Boyle  ;  and  he,  marrying 
Mary,  daughter  of  the  O'Conor  Don,  had  by  her  a 
son,  the  above  Captain  *  Greene'  Mulloy.  Connor 
O'Mulloy,  the  elder  brother  of  the  above  Edward,  was 
the  lineal  ancestor  of  the  families  of  Hughstown  and 
Oakpost.*  He  had  two  sons,  Theobald  and  William 
O'Mulloy,  who,  as  frequently  occurred  in  that  distract- 
ed  period,  espoused  different  lines  of  policy.  Theo- 
bald took  part  with  King  William,  was  a  Captain  of 
his  Dragoons  at  the  Battle  of  the  Boyne,  and,  accord- 
ing to  the  family  tradition,  when  that  King's  horse 
was  shot  under  him,  Theobald  presented  his  own 
charger  to  His  Majesty.    He  lived  to  a  great  age,  and, 

*  For  a  full  memoir  of  this  family,  see  D' Alton's  Aunals  of 
Boyle,  vol.  1,  p.  97,  &c. 


COLONEL   OLIVER   O'GARA'S  INFANTRY.  791 

dying  in  1734,  was  buried  at  Ardcarne  near  Boyle. 
His  son  Charles,  being  in  Athlone  when  some  of 
King  James's  officers  were  raising  recruits  there,  was 
enlisted  into  that  service,  and  was  actually  taken 
prisoner  at  the  Boyne,  by  the  Regiment  of  which  his 
father  was  Captain  ;  he  was  then  but  seventeen,  and 
in  consideration  of  that  father's  services  was  pardoned, 
afterwards  served  for  William,  and  at  the  siege  of 
Sligo  was  wounded  in  the  leg.*  William,  the  second 
son  of  Connor  O'Mulloy,  was  the  above  Captain  ; 
who,  marrying  Alison,  daughter  of  Sir  Oliver  Tuite 
of  Sonna,  County  of  Westmeath,  left  issue  by  her. 
He  was  attainted  in  1691,  with  four  others  of  the 
Sept,  described  as  located  about  their  ancient  territory. 


CAPTAIN  LAUGHLIN  NAUGHTON. 

The  O'Naughtons  were  an  ancient  Irish  Sept  of  the 
County  of  Galway,  located  about  the  country  now 
comprised  in  the  Baronies  of  Leitrim  and  Longford. 
Besides  the  three  Naughtons  in  this  Regiment,  Thady 
Naughton  was  a  Lieutenant  in  Colonel  Henry 
Dillon's  Infantry,  and  Thomas  Mac  Naghton  a  Cap- 
tain in  Colonel  Cormuck  O'Neill's.  The  latter,  how- 
ever, was  of  the  Scottish  Plantation  in  Ulster,  and  not 
of  the  native  Sept. 

*  Burke's  Landed  Gentry,  p.  897. 


793  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

CAPTAIN  BRYAN  MAC  GOWRAN. 

Ortelius's  map  locates  this  Sept  between  ^.eitrini  and 
Cavan  ;  they  were  more  especially  indigenous  in  the 
Barony  of  TuUaghaw  in  the  latter  cojunty,  and  the 
Four  Masters  record  the  successive  chiefs  of  the  Sept, 
In  1593,  the  Maguires  perpetrated  a  predatory  incur- 
sion over  Cavan,  in  which  Dr.  Edmund  Mac  Gawran, 
the  titular  Primate  of  Armagh,  was  accidentally 
killed ;  he  being  then  protected  by  Maguire  from  the 
consequences  of  proscriptions  and  a  reward  offered  for 
his  apprehension.  At  the  time  of  the  Plantation  of 
Ulster,  several  of  the  Mac  Gowrans  were  necessitated 
for  their  protection  to  sue  out  pardons  from  the 
Crown,  and,  in  the  immediately  succeeding  years, 
grants  were  made  and  manors  created  out  of  their 
lordship  of  Tullaghaw  ;  as  the  manor  of  Calva  to 
Hugh  Culme,  other  lands  to  Sir  George  and  Richard 
Graeme  ;  and,  in  1614,  all  the  mountains  of  Quilca, 
Slieve-an-erin,  &c.  to  John  Sandford.  Phelimy  Magow- 
ran,  however,  and  others  of  the  Sept  obtained  from  the 
King  some  small  reserved  portions  within  Tullaghaw, 
to  hold  on  the  conditions  of  the  Plantation  ;  but  even 
these  scanty  concessions  were,  early  in  the  reign  of 
Charles  the  First,  subjected  to  searching  and  hostile 
inquisitions.  This  family,  nevertheless,  contributed 
an  officer  to  Eang  James's  cause,  and  are  still,  though 
in  humble  circumstances,  a  marked  race  within  their 
old  Barony.  In  truth,  their  Barony  is  popularly 
known  as  '  the  Kingdom  of  Glan,'  and  is  to  this  day  so 
isolated,  that  it  is  said  "  no  public  road  leads  into  it, 
and  only  one  difficult  pass,  in  some  places  a  track- 


COLONEL  OLIVER   O'GARA'B  INFANTRY.         't93 

•way,  is  se^n  over  it.  It  is  about  sixteen  miles  in 
length  by  seven  and  a-half  in  breadth,  and  is  densely 
inhabited  by  a  primitive  i^ace  of  Mac  Gowrans,  who 
intermarry  with  each  other,  and  observe  some  pecu- 
liar  customs,  as  an  especial  election  of  their  own  King 
and  Queen  fiiom  the  tribe,  to  whom  they  pay  implicit 
obedience."  A  bard  of  this  family,  commemorated  by 
Hardiman  in  his  Irish  Minstrelsy ^  composed,  amongst 
other  poems,  one  entitled  *  the  Revelry  of  O'Rourke,' 
which  has  been  the  subject  of  Dean  Swift's  well- 
known  parody, 

*  O'Rourke's  noble  fare  shall  ne'er  be  forgot!'  &c. 


CAPTAIN  OWEN  GALLAGHER. 

The  native  Topographers  locate  the  O'Gallaghers  in 
the  Baronies  of  Tyrhugh  and  Raphoe,  County  of 
Donegal,  where  they  had  Castles  at  Lifford  and  Bally- 
shannon.  In  1397,  an  O'Gallagher  was  Bishop  of 
Clonmacnoise,  Laurence  O'Gallagher  was  Bishop  of 
Raphoe  in  1419,  and  in  1549,  Redmond  Gallagher 
was  Bishop  of  Eillala.  The  Sept  is  characterized  in 
the  history  of  their  country  as  commanders  of  O'Don- 
nell's  cavalry,  and  their  achievements  in  that  service 
are  subjects  of  many  annals.  At  the  siege  of  Sligo  by 
O'Donnell  in  1495,  William,  son  of  the  O'Gallagher, 
i.  e.  of  Edmund,  son  of  Donogh,  son  of  Laughlin, 
and  Owen,  son  of  Cormac  O'Gallagher,  were  amongst 
those  killed  by  the  guards  of  the  castle.     In  two 


794  KING  James's  irisii  army  list. 

years  after,  in  a  battle  fought  between  the  O'Neills 
and  O'Donnells,  thi'ee  of  the  leaders  under  O'Donnell, 
named  O'Gtdlagher,   were  slain  at  Ballysadare.     In 
Perrot's  Parliament  of  1585  appeared  as  Representa- 
tive of  this  Sept* the  O'Gallagher,  i.e.  John,  son  of 
Tuathal,  son  of  John,  son  of  Roderic,  son  of  Hugh.' 
The  Masters  record  tlie  death  in  1595  of '  Sir  John 
O'Gallagher,  the  son  of  Tuathal,  a  man  of  great  fame 
and  renown  among  the  English  at  that  time/     When, 
in  six  years  after,  O'Donnell  went  southward  to  the 
Munster  war,  he  entrusted  tlie  custody  of  his  Castle 
of  Ballymote  to  the  O'Gallagher,  i.  e.j  Owen^  son  of 
John  O'Gallagher.     The  Act  of  1612,  for  the  Attain- 
der  of  Hugh  O'Neill,  late  Earl  of  Tyrone,  Rory.  O'Don- 
nell, late  Earl  of  Tyrconnel,  and  their  adherents,  in- 
cludes in  the  severity  of  its  enactments  Hugh  More 
Donell  0"  Gallachor,'  and   Turlogh  Carrach  O'Gal- 
lacher,  both  described  a^  '  late  of  Donegal.'     The  only 
one  of  the  name  on  the  Outlawries  of  1691  is  Ferdo- 
i-oagh  O'Gallagher  of  Boylagh,  County  of  Donegal ; 
while  Harris,  the  Williamite  historian  of  this  cam- 
paign, writing  of  the  capitulation  of  Limerick,  says, 
''  the  numerous  Sept  of  O'Gallagher  in  the  County  of 
Mayo  submitted  to  Colonel  James  Wynne,  and  offered 
to  receive  pay  under  him  in  the  army." 


ENSIGN  PAUL  DUIGNAN. 

The  O'Duigenans  were  located  at  Kilronan,  in   the 
northern  division  of  the  County  of  Roscommon,  and 


COLONEL   OLIVER   O'GARA'S   INFANTRY.  795 

are  especially  celebrated  in  the  native  annals  for  their 
devotion  to  the  history  and  literature  of  their 
country.  Manus  O'Duigenan  was,  at  the  close  of  the 
fourteenth  century,  engaged  in  drawing  up  a  conside- 
rable portion  of  the  Book  of  BaUymote;  subsequently 
to  which  a  Chronicle  was  compiled  that,  deriving  its 
title  from  the  locality  of  this  family,  was  called  the 
Book  of  Kilronanj  or  sometimes  the  Book  of  the 
O'Duigenans ;  and  it  was  one  of  the  Chronicles  from 
which  the  Four  Masters,  one  of  whom  was  Cucorgh- 
righe  O'Duigenan,  collected  their  great  work  in  1632. 
In  1339,  the  Church  of  Kilronan  was  begun  by  Ferral 
Muinach  O'Duigenan ;  it  stood  over  Lough  Meelagh, 
and  has  a  deep  national  interest,  as  in  a  vault  close 
to  the  ruins,  erected  for  the  family  of  Mac  Dermott 
Roe,  were  deposited  the  last  earthly  remains  of  the  once 

celebrated  Carolan. The   Four   Masters  have,  as 

might  be  expected,  numerous  obits  of  O'Duigenans, 
each  of  whom  is  commemorated  as  a  learned  historian 
or  philosopher.  In  1588,  Du%  O'Duigenan  wrote  a 
History  of  the  Sept  of  the  O'Donnels. 


ENSIGN  MORGAN   McDONOUGH. 

This  Sept  has  been  before  treated  of  ante^  p.  609, 
&c.,  and  here  it  can  alone  be  stated  that  the  Attain- 
ders of  1691  name  ten  of  the  County  of  Sligo  family, 
with  four  of  Cork  and  one  of  Arklow. 


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796  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 


ENSIGN  THOMAS  WALGRAVE. 

Nothing  worthy  of  insertion  has  been  learned  regard, 
ing  him  or  bis  family. 


REGIMENTS   OF  INFANTRY. 


COLONEL  JOHN   GRACE  S. 


Capiauu, 
The  Colonel. 
Robert  Gnioe, 

Lieatexutnt-Colonel. 
Charles  Moore, 

Migor. 

Richjtfd  Grace. 

MarkBaggott. 

Robert  Walsh. 

Robert  Grace. 

Edward  Caddon, 
Grsnad. 

Patrick  Browne. 

Charles  Moore. 
James  Shortall. 

Matthew  Hoar. 

Robert  Grace. 


Etuigns, 


Richard  Grace. 


Francis  M'Donnell. 
Walter  « Daton.' 
Richard  Grace. 

i  Thomas  Pearson. 
James  Caddon. 

John  D'Alton. 
•  William  ShortaU. 


Valentine  Bolger. 


Patrick  Connor. 
Adam  Walsh. 
Nicholas  Dale. 


Thomas  Goibennj. 
John  Knaresborougfa. 
Thadj  O'Brjaa. 


COLONEL  JOHN  GRACE. 

The  late  Mr.    SheflSeld  Grace  has  devoted  a  large 
quarto  volume  to  the  honours  and  lineage  of  this 


COLONEL  JOHN  GRACE'S  INFANTRY.  797 

family,  which  the  author  of  this  work  does  not 
wish  to  intrude  upon.  Colonel  fiichard  Grace,  the 
younger  son  of  Robert  Grace,  Baron  of  Courtown,  in 
the  commencement  of  the  reign  of  King  Charles  the 
First,  went  over  to  England,  and  distinguished  him- 
self in  the  cause  of  that  ill-fated  monarch  up  to  the 
surrender  of  Oxford  in  1646,  when  he  came  back  to 
Ireland,  and  raised,  by  his  wealth  and  influence,  a 
force  of  about  3,000  men  ;  at  the  head  of  which  he 
for  several  years  made  himself  so  formidable  to  the 
Parliament  and  Cromwell,  that  they  offered  £500  for 
his  head,  but  afterwards  admitted  him  to  an  honor- 
able capitulation,  by  the  terms  of  which  he  was  allow- 
ed to  embark  for  the  Continent  with  a  Regiment  of 
1,200  men,  and  was  even  to  be  supplied  with  money 
and  every  other  necessary  for  the  voyage.  He  had 
the  glory  of  being  the  last  who  held  out  for  the  Royal 
cause  in  Ireland,  and  with  his  bra^e  companions 
signalized  himself  in  the  French  and  Spanish  services, 
with  loyalty  and  attachment  to  the  exiled  Royal 
family.  He  was  denounced  by  Cromwell's  ordinance 
of  1652,  thanked  in  the  Act  of  Settlement,  made 
Chamberlain  to  the  Duke  of  York,  (aft;erwards  James 
the  Second),  and  on  the  Restoration,  returning  with 
the  Stuarts,  was  restored  to  his  estates  in  the  King's 
County,  had  also  a  grant  of  the  reversion  of  some 
valuable  lands  in  the  County  of  Eildare,  and  was 
further  rewarded  with  a  pension  of  £300  ^er  annum 
by  James  the  Second  in  1685.  After  that  monarch's 
flijl^t  from  Ii^u{4|  Colonel  Richard  Grace  was  ap- 


798  KixG  James's  irish  army  list. 

pointed  Governor  of  Athlone,  in  which  tnist  he  dis- 
played zeal  and  activity,  equally  worthy  of  his  youthfiil 
achievements  at  home  and  on  the  Continent,  and  as- 
tonishing in  such  an  old  man. '  When  William's 

commander,  Lieutenant-General  Douglas,  sent  a  dnim- 
mer  to  summon  the  fortress,  the  Colonel,  firing  a 
pistol  in  tlie  presence  of  the  messenger,  replied,  '  These 
are  my  terms,  these  only  will  I  give  or  receive,  and 
wlien  my  provisions  are  consume<l  I  will  defend  till  I 

eat  my  boot^.' In  the  account  of  the  final  surprise 

of  this  town  by  De  G inkle  in  the  following  year,  it  is 
mentioned  in  the  London  Gazette  of  the  day,  that  the 
l>ody  of  the  venerable  warrior,  by  whom  the  place  had 
been  in  the  previous  year  so  successfully  defended, 
was  found  among  the  dead,  where  he  had  lain  from 
the  day  before. 

The  above  Colonel  John  Grace  was  the  near  kins- 
man of  Colonel  Richard,  and  the  last  Palatine  Baron 
of  Courtstown.  He  had  been  in  his  youth  restored 
to  his  estates  in  Kilkenny  and  Tipperary,  was  SheriflF 
of  the  former  county  in  1 687,  and  one  of  its  Repre- 
sentatives in  the  Parliament  of  1689.  On  the  eve  of 
the  Revolution  he  raised  and  equipped  this  Regiment, 
and  also  a  troop  of  horse  at  his  own  expence  for  King 
James,  whom  he  farther  assisted  with  money  and 
plate.*  This  Regiment  of  Infantry  was  one  of  those 
stationed  in  Dublin  when  King  James  landed  at  Kin- 
sale,  and,  though  on  this  List  so  short  of  its  propoi^ 
tions,  it  was  stated,  on  a  Muster  Roll  taken  after  the 

♦  Gretin  Book,  p.  357. 


COLONEL  JOHN  GRACE'S  INFANTRY.  799 

Battle  of  the  Boyne,  to  consist  of  thirteen  companies, 
of  a  total  of  650  men  ;  while  on  that  Roll  was  also 
set  down  an  '  Independent  Company  or  Troop  styled 
Old  Colonel  Grace's  (evidently  Colonel  Richard's) 
of  sixty  men/*  Besides  these  two  Colonels  and  the 
other  '  Graces'  in  this  Regiment,  there  are  on  the 
Army  List  Oliver  Grace,  a  Captain  in  Colonel  Simon 
Luttrell's  Dragoons,  (probably  identical  with  the 
Mqjor  Grace  who  was  taken  prisoner  at  Aughrim); 
John  Grace,  a  Lieutenant  in  the  King's  Infantry  ;  and 
in  Fitz-James's,  Walter  Grace  was  a  Lieutenant  and 
another  Oliver  Grace  an  Ensign.  Captain  Oliver 
was  one  of  the  Representatives  of  Ballinakill  in  the 
Parliament  of  1689.  The  Attainders  of  1691  include 
the  above  Colonel  John  Grace  of  Courtstown  (who 
was  seised  of  considerable  estates  in  Gowran  and 
Crannagh,  County  of  Kilkenny),  the  above  Richard, 
described  as  also  of  Courtstown,  and  four  other  Graces. 
At  the  Court  in  Chichester  House,  claims  were  prefer- 
red as  attaching  to  the  estates  of  Richard,  John,  and 
Robert  Grace  in  the  King's  County  and  County  of 
Kilkenny.  In  1 703,  Richard  Grace's  estate  in  Clare 
was  sold  to  John  I  vers  of  Mount  I  vers  in  said  county, 
while  a  portion  of  his  Kilkenny  estates  was  purchased 
by  the  Hollow  Swords'  Blades  Company,  as  were 
likewise  portions  of  the  Kilkenny  estates  of  John, 
Robert,  and  Oliver  Grace,  and  part  of  the  King's 
County  estates  of  John  and  Richard.     Other  parcels 

*  Singer's  Correspondence   of  Lord  Clarendon,   vol.  2,  pp. 
513-14. 


800  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

of  the  King's  County  estates  of  the  latter,  comprising 
the  Castle  of  Moyally,  were  bought  by  Nathaniel 
Boyse  ;  while  Colonel  George  Carpenter  of  Nether- 
court  purchased  Killanny,  County  of  Kilkenny,  the 
estate  of  John  Grace.  A  petition  of  the  following 
year  is  reconlcd  in  the  State  Papers  of  the  Southwell 
Collection,  dated  in  1704,  from  Oliver  Grace,  whose 
house,  household  goods,  &c.  at  Ballymone  in  the 
Kings  County  were  destroyed  by  fire  in  this  year^  to 
the  value  of  £300  ;  praying,  for  his  relief,  the  benefit 
of  a  full  collection  in  and  throughout  the  churches 
and  chapels  of  Dublin,  and  those  of  the  Provinces  of 

Leinster,  Munster,  &c. At  the  battle  of  Ypres  in 

1745,  a  Captain  Grace  of  Roth's  Brigade  was  killed. 


CAPTAIN  MAEK  BAGGOTT. 

This  family,  early  after  the  invasion,  passed  into  Ire- 
land.  In  1280,  Robert '  Bagod'  obtained  a  grant  of 
the  manor  of  the  Rath  near  Dublin,  with  the  water- 
course of  the  Dodder  and  the  common  of  woods,  &c. 
A  castle  was  soon  after  erected  there,  and  it  was  hence 
to  the  present  day  distinguished  by  the  name  of  Bag- 
got-rath.  In  1302,  he  was  summoned  to  aid  King 
Edward  in  the  Scottish  war.  The  name  subsequently 
extended  over  the  Pale,  as  in  Kildare,  Meath,  Car- 
low,  and  even  to  Limerick.  The  only  attainder  of 
the  family  in  1642  is  that  of  Thomas  Bagot  of  Castle- 
martin,  County  of  Kildare. ^The  alK)ve  officer  was 


COLONEL  JOHN  GBACE'3  INFANTBY.  801 

the  son  of  a  Mr.  John  Bagot,  by  Edith  his  wife,  who 
died  in  1684,  having  had  several  children  by  him 
(as  shown  by  a  fiineral  entry  in  Bermingham  Tower). 
Of  her  issue,  only  this  Mark  Bagot  survived.  He 
was  one  of  the  Representatives  of  the  Borough  of 
Carlow  in  the  Parliament  of  1689,  while  John  Bag- 
got  of  Bagotstown,  senior,  was  one  of  those  for  Char- 
leville,  and  John  Baggot  junior  for  Doneraile.  On 
the  List  of  the  Sheriffs,  recommended  to  be  appointed 
in  1685-6  by  the  Earl  of  Clarendon,  Edward  Baggot 
was  named  for  the  King's  County,  as  *  reputed  dis- 
honest but  loyal ;'  to  which  the  Lord  Clarendon's 
return  is  underlined,  *  very  loyal,  though  once  ques- 
tioned for  favouring  Tories,  but  acquitted  ;  some 
think  him  to  be  a  Boman  Catholic.**  A  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  Baggot  (possibly  this  Captain,  on  promotion) 
was  taken  prisoner  at  Aughrim.f  Nine  Baggots  were 
attainted  in  1691,  on  whose  estates,  in  Carlow  and 
Limerick  Counties,  divers  claims  were  made  and  al- 
lowed at  Chichester  House ;  the  former  were  chiefly 
sold  to  the  Bight  Honorable  Philip  Savage,  then  Chan- 
cellor of  the  Exchequer. 


CAPTAIN  EDWARD  CADDON. 

This  officer  is  described  in  the  Inquisition  on  his 
Attainder,  as  Edward  Caddon  of  Kilkenny,  merchant. 

*  Singer's  Ck>Tre8p.  of  Lord  Clarendon,  y.  1,  p.  285. 
t  Story's  ImpartiAl  Histoiy,  pi*  S,  p.  187. 


802  KING  James's  irisii  army  list. 

A  James  Caddon,  of  tlic  same  place  and  profession, 
and  a  William  Caddon  of  Cork  were  likewise  then 
outlawed. 


CAPTAIN  JAMES  SHORTALL. 

This  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of 
Edward  the  Second.  Ortelius  s  map  locates  them  in 
the  Barony  of  Iverk,  County  of  Kilkenny,  where 
many  of  their  castles  are  still  standing,  as  at  Claragh, 
Kilbline,  Tubrid,  Cloghmantagh,  &c.  In  1642,  a 
Richard  '  Shortaun,'  described  as  of  Lemrick,  County 

of  Wexford,  was  attainted. The  above  officer  was 

attainted  as  James  Shortall  of  Kilrush,  County  of 
Kilkenny  ;  as  were  Robert  Shortall  of  the  same  place, 
Patrick  Shortall  of  Tubrid,  Nicholas  of  Shortalls- 
graig,  and  Robert  of  Upper-Clare,  all  in  the  same 
county  ;  with  Nicholas  Fitz-Piers  Shortall  of  the 
City  of  Kilkenny. 


CAPTAIN  MATTHEW  HOAR. 

This  family  are  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of 
Edward  the  Second.  Sir  David  'le  Hore'  of  the 
Pole  in  Wexford  was  Sheriff  of  that  county  in  1334, 
as  was  his  son  Nicholas  in  1370,  1377,  and  1379. 
About  the  latter  year,  William  le  Hore  was  Chief 
Serjeant  of  Wexford,  of  which  county  his  son,  another 


COLOXEL  JOHN  GRACE'S  INFANTRY.  803 

Nicholas,  wa^  Sheriff  in  1390  and  1396.  A  funeral 
entry  of  1636,  of  record  in  the  Office  of  Arms,  cer- 
tifies the  death,  on  the  11th  May  in  that  year,  of 
Edward  Hore  of  Harperstown,  County  of  Wexford, 
buried  at '  Monneth.'  He  had  married  Alison,  daugh- 
ter of  Thomas  Hore  of  Waterford,  merchant,  by  whom 
he  left  three  sons,  Andrew,  Thomas,  and  Luke,  and 
three  daughters.  In  1642  were  attainted  Philip  and 
James  '  Hore'  of  Kilsallaghan,  County  of  Dublin.  Of 
the  Confederate  Catholics  at  the  Council  of  Kilkenny 
in  1646,  were  William  Hore  of  Cork  and  another 
William  Hoare.  In  1685-6,  an  Association  originated 
in  Ireland  for  the  object  of  obtaining  Catholic  Eman- 
cipation. Its  character  and  scope,  as  reported  by  the 
Earl  of  Clarendon,  are  published  in  Singer's  Corres- 
pondence^ &c.  (vol.  i,  p.  233,  &c.)  Gentlemen  were 
appointed  and  entrusted  in  every  county  to  collect 
contributions,  and  to  pay  same  to  the  above  Mr. 
Luke  Hore,  then  a  merchant  in  Dublin ;  "  and  whereas 
several  natives  of  this  kingdom  are  merchants  abroad 
in  foreign  parts,  their  contributions  are  expected,  and 
requested  to  be  paid  to  the  said  Luke  Hore,  who  is  to 
deliver  all  such  moneys  as  he  shall  so  receive,  to 
agents  approved  of  by  the  Earl  ofTyrconnel." 

The  above  Captain  Matthew  was  of  Shandon, 
County  of  Waterford  ;  he  was  one  of  the  members  for 
that  county  in  the  Parliament  of  1689,  and  became 
afterwards  a  Lieutenant-Colonel.*  Besides  him  there 
were,  in  the  Parliament  of  Dublin,  John  Hore  and 

*  Nichors  Top.  et  Gent,  for  1858,  pp.  486-7. 

FFF  2 


804  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Martin  Hore,  members  for  the  Borough  of  Dungar- 
van  ;  as  were  George  Hore  of  Pole-Hore  and  Walter 
Hore  of  Harperstown  for  that  of  Taghmon.  The 
Attainders  of  1691  name  the  said  Luke  as  ^  Lucas 
Hoare  of  Wexford/  the  above  Captain  Matthew 
styled  of  Waterford,  with  George,  Walter,  John,  and 
Martin  Hoare. 


LIEUTENANT  THOMAS  PEARSON. 
He  was  attainted  as  *  Thomas  Pierson  of  Kilkenny.' 


LIEUTENANT  JOHN  D'ALTON. 

See  of  this  family  at  *  Captain  Miles  D'Alton, '  in 
Colonel  Clifford's  Dragoons.  They  had  large  estates 
in  the  County  of  Kilkenny,  as  shown  by  the  descrip- 
tions of  their  attainders. 


LIEUTENANT  VALENTINE  BOLGER. 

The  O'Bolgers  were  an  Irish  Sept  located  in  Wexford 
and  Carlow.  In  1461,  William  O'Bolger,  a  chaplain 
of  the  Irish  nation,  had  a  charter  of  denization  from 
King  Edward  the  Fourth,  as  by  special  grace  and 
favour,  granting  to  him  freedom  from  all  Irish  servi- 
tude,  liberty  to  use  English  laws  and  customs,  to  plead 


COLONEL  JOHN  GRACE'S  INFANTRY.  805 

and  be  impleaded  in  the  courts,  and  to  acquire  lands, 
tenements,  and  services  for  ever.*  A  branch  of  this 
family  was  in  the  seventeenth  century  settled  at 
Blanchfieldstown,  in  the  County  of  Kilkenny,  of  which 
county  this  officer  was  a  native.  His  name  does  not 
appear  on  the  attainders  of  1691,  but  that  of  James 
Bolger,  described  as  of  Inistiogue  in  that  county, 
does  ;  and  in  his  estates  there  Pat.  Bolger,  a  minor, 
claimed  and  was  allowed  an  estate  tail,  subject  to 
which  interest  it  was  sold  to  Arthur  Anderson,  clerk. 


ENSIGN  NICHOLAS  DALE. 

The  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of 
the  Tudors,  but  nothing  has  been  ascertained  of  this 
officer  or  his  family. 


ENSIGN  JOHN  KNARESBOROUGH. 

He  also  was  of  Kilkenny,  described  in  his  attainder 
as  of  Ballcallon  in  that  county. 

♦  Pat.  BolL  1,  Edw.  4. 


806 


KING  .f  AMES'8  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 


REGIMENTS   OF    INFANTRY. 


(OLONEL   EDWARD    BUTLERS. 


The  Colouel. 
John  Ennis, 

Lieatenmnt-Coloncl. 
[Garret  Gcoghegan,] 

KJmnnd  Dntlorp 
Greiuui. 

John  Fitzgerald. 

John  Fitz-Patrick. 

James  Blanchvillo. 

John  Rowsh. 

James  Raron. 

John  Power. 

Patrick  Pay. 

[Cieorge  Gainer.] 

[Michael  Foratcr] 


LieuteaanU. 


£ntigHs, 


iEilinnnd  Butler. 
Baail  Browne. 

Olirer  Purcell.  John  Butler. 

Darby  Fit*- Patrick.  

Samuel  Leigh.  Nicliolas  BlanchTille. 

Thomaa  '  Haheme.'  William  Comin. 

[Daniel  Magrath.]  [John  Magrath.] 

[William  Dormer.]  -- 

[Michael  Blanchfield.] 

[John  Brenan.]  [John  Loughnan.] 


COLONEL  EDWARD  BUTLER. 

The  notices  of  this  noble  family,  as  full  as  could  be 
allowed  in  this  volume,  are  inserted  at  Lord  Viscount 
Galmoy.  This  officer  appears  to  have  been  the 
Edward  Fitz-Richard  Butler  of  Kilkenny  there  men- 
tioned  to  have  been  attainted  in  1691.  At  any  rate, 
it  is  of  certainty  that  this  Regiment  was  on  the  4th 
May  of  that  year  engaged  in  a  skirmish  with  Major 
Woods  of  the  Williamite  party  near  Castle  Cuff,  who 
i-eported  his  success  on  that  occasion,  giving  a  list  of 


COLONEL  EDWARD  BUTLEK's  INFANTRY.     807 

officers,  expressly  as  of  Colonel  Edward  Butler's 
Infantry,  who  were  there  taken  prisoners  ;  as  Captains 
Afichad  Forster  and  Edmund  Butler,  Lieutenants 
Daniel  Magrath^  William  Dormer^  Oliver  Purcell, 
Michael  Blanchjield^  and  Ensign  John  Magrath. 
This  fiegiment  was  on  that  occasion  commanded  by 
John  Fitz-patrick,  a  Captain  on  this  List,  but  then 
the  Major.  The  names  italicised  do  not  appear  on 
the  original  Army  List,  but  are  inserted  as  being 
thus  verified. 


LIEUTENANT-COLONEL  JOHN  ENNIS. 

On  the  Attainders  of  1642  appear  the  names  of 
James  and  Maolmurry  Ennis  of  Grannagh,  County  of 
Wicklow  ;  James  Ennis  of  Clane,  County  of  Kildare, 
and  Walter  *  Enes'  of  Hacketstown,  clerk.  A  Lieute- 
nant James  *  Enis'  is  included  in  the  clause  of  Soyal 
gratitude  in  the  Act  of  Settlement,  but  nothing  has 
been  learned  worthy  of  notice  respecting  this  Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel or  his  family. 


[MAJOR  GARRET  GEOGHEGAN]. 

This  appointment  is  filled  on  the  authority  of  the 
Appendix  to  King's  State  of  the  Protestants.  For 
fiill  particulars  of  this  name,  see  ante^  Major  Conly 
Geoghegan,  on  Lord  Dongan's  Dragoons. 


808  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 


CAPTAIN  JAMES  BLANCHVILLE, 

This  family  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of 
the  Tudors,  and  was  especially  located  in  the  County 
of  Kilkenny  ;  where  Gerald  Blanchville  died  seis^ 
of  considerable  estates  in  1594.  In  the  Cathedral  of 
Kilkenny  a  monument  records  his  lineal  descendant, 
Sir  Edmund  Blanchville,  who  forfeited  largely  by 
attainder  in  1641.  The  Outlawries  on  that  occasion 
include  the  names  of  two  other  Blanchvilles. 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  ROWSH. 

So  stands  this  name  upon  the  present  Army  List,  but 
it  is  evidently  a  mis-spelling  for  Booth  or  Bothe,  a 
family  of  much  note  and  rank  in  Kilkenny.  The 
most  illustrious  of  the  name  was  Dr.  David,  son  of 
Geoffry  Both  of  that  county,  who  iSlled  the  See  of 
Ossory  irom  1641  to  1650,  and  during  all  that 
troubled  interval  continued  in  Kilkenny,  the  chief 
town  of  his  Diocese,  the  seat  of  the  Supreme  Council, 
and  the  residence  of  the  Pope's  Nuncio,  Cardinal 
Binuccini.  Messingham,  in  his  Florilegium  (p.  87), 
says  of  this  Prelate,  that  '^  he  was  well  versed  in 
learning,  was  an  elegant  orator,  a  subtle  philosopher, 
a  profound  divine,  an  eminent  historian,  and  a  sharp 
reprover  of  vice."  In  the  Cathedral  of  Kilkenny 
stands  a  much  admired  cenotaph  to  his  memory.  He 
was  the  author  of  several  works,  his  principal  produc- 


COLONEL  EDWARD  BUTLER'S  INFANTRY.  809 

tion  being  the   Analecta  Sacra^  Nova^  et  Mira  de 
Rdrna  Catholicorum^  Sfc. 


CAPTAIN  JAMES  BARON. 

The  surname  of '  Le  Baron'  is  of  early  and  extensive 
record  over  England  and  Scotland,  while  in  Ireland 
*  Baroun'  occurs  from  the  days  of  Edward  the  Second, 
chiefly  in  connexion  with  the  County  of  Tipperary. 
Burke,  in  his  Landed  Gentry^  relies  that  it  was  a 
branch  of  the  great  Hibernian  Sept  of  Fitz-Gerald, 
which,  having  been  early  created  Palatine  Barons  of 
Bumchurch,  used  to  distinguish  themselves  by  adopt- 
ing  the  title  as  their  patronymic*  Geoffrey  Baron, 
styled  of  Clonmel,  but  then  in  France,f  was  one  of 
the  Supreme  Council  at  Kilkenny,  appointed  by  the 
Nuncio  a  Commissary  over  the  Revenues  of  Ireland. 
He  was  consequently,  in  Cromwell's  Denunciation  of 
1652,  excepted  from  pardon  for  life  and  estate.  The 
name  does  not  appear  on  the  Attainders  of  1642  ; 
and  on  those  of  1691  are  only  Patrick  Baron  of 
Killisk,  County  of  Wexford,  and  John  and  Bichard 
Barron  of  Waterford. 

*  See  fully  of  this  name  in  Sir  Bernard  Burke's  Baronetage 
(at  Sir  Heniy  Winston  Barron),  p.  61. 
t  De  Burgo's  ffib.  Dom.,  p.  881. 


810  KIXG  JAMESES  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

CAPTAIN  PATRICK  PAY. 

A  Francis  Pay  was  also  a  Captain  in  Colonel 
Ileward  Oxburgh's  Infantry.  The  name  of  the  latter 
does  not  api)ear  on  the  Attainders  of  1691,  but  that 
of  Patrick  does,  described  as  of  Ballyi'aggett,  County  of 
Kilkenny.  James,  Thomas,  and  William  Pay  were 
then  also  attainted  as  of  Kilmuckar,  in  the  same 
county. 


[CAPTAIN  GEORGE  GAFNEY.] 

The  name  of  this  officer  is  not  on  this  Army  List,  but 
as,  through  the  research  of  the  Reverend  James 
Graves,  Honorary  Secretary  of  the  Kilkenny  Archaeo- 
logical Society,  very  full  extracts  from  a  document, 
that  purports  to  be  the  autograph  "  Memorandum 
Book  of  Captain  George  Gafney  of  Kilkenny,  an 
officer  of  King  James's  Army,"  have  been  communi- 
cated to  that  deserving  body,  and  published  in  their 
Transactions  of  July,  1854,  the  opportunity  was 
embraced,  with  their  and  his  kind  permission,  of 
here  noting  therefrom  what  appeared  relevant  to  the 
present  subject.  "  The  family  of  Gafney,"  writes  Mr. 
Graves  to  the  compiler  of  this  work,  "  seems  to  have 
been  founded  or  at  least  raised  to  a  noticeable  posi- 
tion  in  the  Irish-town  of  Kilkenny,  by  the  Prelate  of 
that  name,  Christopher,  who  filled  the  See  of  Ossory 
from  1565  to  1576  ;  and  the  name  frequently  occui-s 


COLONEL  EDWARD  BUTLER'S  INFANTRY.     811 

in  the  Corporation  Books.  Robert  Gafney  was  a 
chaplain  in  Kilkenny  in  1585,  possibly  a  son  of  the 
Bishop,  while  Thomas  Gafney  had  a  lease  of  various 
houses  in  that  city  under  the  See,  and  was  doubtless 
another  son  of  Dr.  Christopher.  Thomas  died  in 
1629,  leaving  Patrick  his  son  and  heir,  then  of  full 
age  and  married.  Most  probably,  Captain  George 
was  of  this  line." 

The  dates  of  the  entries  in  the  Memorandum 
Book  extend  over  a  period  of  about  eighteen  months, 
terminating  a  few  days  before  the  battle  of  the  Boyne, 
where  it  would  seem  the  writer  fell.  The  first  entry 
worthy  of  notice  bears  date  {circa  29th)  March, 
1689. 

<'  A  List  of  Captain  George  Gafney  his  Company  of  Foot,  in  the 
Right  Honourable  Colonel  Butler's  Regiment. 

«  Captain  George  Gafney,  Lieutenant  John  Brenan,  and  Ensign 
John  Loughnan,^  with  the  *  sargents/  corporals,  and  privates 
fully,  by  name." 

Next  come  his  charges  to  and  from  Dublin,  dated 
4th  April,  1689  :  — 

£   s.  d. 

''  To  my  charges  going  and  coming  from  Dub- 
lin, to  get  the  three  commissions  entered  in 
the  Muster-Master-Greneral's  office,  and  for 
expedition       -        -  -        -        -186 

For  a  drum  in  Dublin,  and  *  carige*       -         -  1  0     0 

For  a  new  drum  head,  and  putting  it  on         -  0  1     6 

For  drum-sticks 0  16 

For  sixteen  spear  heads  at  8d.  per         -        -  0  10    8 

One  and  a-half  a  st.  Steele  put  in  y*  speares  0  0     4 


812  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMT  LIST. 

£•.</. 

For  nails  for  the  speares  -  -  -  -  0  0  4 
Paid  Paul  Heare  for  making  my  own  ^  leding 

stafe,' 0    6  0 

Paid        do.       for  a  musket  Ss.,  for  fixing 

the  lock,  6d. 0    8  6 

For  a  scabbard  and  handle  for  the  broad  back 

sorde 0    8  0 

For  the  back  sorde  to  P.  Heare    -        -        -  0    2  0 

For  two  rapiers  to  P.  Heare         -        -        -  0    8  0 

For  a  rapier  that  was  broken  by  the  ^sargent*  10  0 

Another  entry  of  April  9th,  1689,  suggests  that 
King  James  was  on  that  night  in  Kilkenny  : — 

^*  Gave  the  men  a  barrel  of '  beere*  to  drink 
the  King's  health  the  night  he  came  to  Kil- 
kenny      0  16    0 

One  lb.  of  powder  to  give  a  *  voley'       -        -    0    2    0 

Next,  at  the  close  of  the  year,  after  the  landing  of 
Schomberg,  and  in  the  immediate  view  of  active  ser- 
vice, occurs  a  prudent  financial  ^account  of  what  cash 
I  have  by  me,  and  the  value  of  each  coin' : — 

"  To  ten  *  gines'  at  24s.  per  gine  -  -  £12  0  0 

To  one '  Portingall  pece'     -        -  -  -  1  15  0 

To  *  to'  broad  jabons  at  26s.  per  -  -  -  2  12  0 

To  one  half  jabons  at  13s.  per      -  -  -  1  6  0 

To  one  quarter  jabons        -        -  -  -  0  6  6 

To  one  broad  Carolus          -        -  -  -  1  6  0 

To « to'  half      do.    at  128.  6d.  -  -  -  1  5  0 

To*  to' quarter  do.    at    6s.  8d.  -  -  -  0  12  6 

To  one  half  Edward 0  18  0 


Forward^  In  *goulde'  the  sums  of   -  £21  15    0 


COLONEL  EDWARD  BUTLER'S  INFANTRY.     813 


Forward f  in '  goulde^  the  sums  of 
To  cash  in  silver  the  sums  of 
To  English  money      -        -         - 
To  cash  in  silver  in  one  purs 


£  s. 

d. 

21  15 

0 

86  16 

8i 

IS  0 

7i 

100  0 

0 

171  12 

4 

20  0 

0 

110  0 

0 

In  '  goulde'  and  silver  7*  sum 

(Tot  sic  in  error  in  orig.) 
In  *  bras'  money     -        -        - 
In  *  bras'  money  in  one  'purs' 

"  It  will  be  seen,"  observes  Mr.  Graves,  "  that  the 
writer  carefully  enters  the  rate  of  exchange  of  the 
sterling  money,  showing  a  considerable  premium  in 
consequence  of  the  depressed  state  of  the  currency  ;  of 
which  an  indication  also  occurs  in  the  quantity  of 
brass  money  in  the  worthy  Captain's  exchequer.'' 

*'  March  4th,  1689,  expended  in  treating  the 
'  Magerr,'  &c.,  six  •  betels'  of  darett  and  *  to' 
pots  of  March  beer,  &c.     -        -        -        -    0    8     1 

March  the  6th,  1689,  [this  and  the  last  date, 
it  may  be  remarked,  were  subsequent  to  the 
above  of  April  in  old  style]       ... 

Received  of  *  Magur'  Corbett,  per  the  hands  of 
Captain  Roche,  a  forthnight  *  subistans'  for 
my  company  until  the  14th  of  March, 
£14  Is.  4d.,  and  for  the  odd  days  of  the 
former  account,  £5  Os.  5d.         -        -        -  19     1     9 

That  is  to  say,  2  '  sargens'  6s.  per  week,  three 
corporals  and  one  drummer  at  8s.  per,  fifty 
'  privat'  men  at  28.  4d.  per. 

On  the  23rd  April,  1690,  drawn  up  at  Drogheda, 
within  m^  few  weeks  of  the  battle  of  the  Boyne,  is  a 
cleared  with  the  under-named  for  all 


814  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

arrears  of '  groats'  until  this  23rd  day  of  April,  '90, 
att  Drocda.''  The  list  comprises  the  names  of  forty 
[)ersons. 

Under  sevcnil  dates,  extending  over  the  months  of 
April  and  May,  1690,  there  are  accMJunts  kept  of  the 
distribution  of  pumps,  'sherts,' stockings,  &<;.,  supplied 
to  Captain  Gafney's  company  at  Dundalk  and 
Droghcda.  And  last  come  what  Mr.  Graves  considers 
the  most  curious  entries,  viz.,  some  genci'al  orders  of 
the  army,  ''  which,  like  a  carefid  officer,  Captain 
Gafney  had  copied  into  his  memorandum  book."  The 
first  of  these,  traceable,  tears  date  June  18th,  1690  : — 

'*  The  Gcueral  to  beat  att  4  the  assemble  when  ordered;    the 

*  gards'  for  Moyrce  to  be  relieved  by  thirty  men  from  O'Bryan, 

*  Bagnell/  Hamilton  (John),  and  *  BeUu.'  O'Bryan,  Lieutenant- 
Colonel,  a  Captain  and  Subaltern  from  each,  with  drum,  two 
sargcns  att  3  o'clock  to  be  at  the  head  of  the  guards  to  relieve 
the  like  number  att  Moyrce  Castle,  on  the  road  to  the  '  Nurey.* 
Tlie  detachment  for  the  horses  as  usually  is  att  3  o'clock  in  the 

morning,  when  the  guards  beat  the  assembly SimpeUtr^ 

Brigadiere  for  the  day ;  Lord  Bcllu,  Colonel ;  Hamilton,  Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel.  I^ft-General  Hamilton  lost  a  'guide  wach  with 

scales'  to  it,  if  *  anncy  souldier  y^ '  found  it  shall  have  ten  shiUins 
for  his  pains,  and  if  any  bought  it,  he  shall  be  returned  his 
money. ^The  word  St.  '  Poule.' 


I »» 


A  few  days  before  the  battle  of  the  Boyne,  King 
James  encamped  at  Cookstown,  near  Ardee,  when  an 
entry  of  the  24th  of  June,  1690,  ^ves  a  list  of  the 
Regiments  there,  and  the  order  of  encampment,  as 
follows  : — 


COLONEL  EDWARD  BUTLER^S  INFANTRY. 


815 


The  first  line  on  the  right. 
Seven  Troops  of  Guards  1 

Duke  of  Tyrconnel's  '  Begment*  of  Horse  j 
Three  Battalions  of  the  Boyal  *Begment'  \ 
51  *Companeys'  compute  three 'Begments'  J 
Lord  Antrim  ^ 

Lord  Bellu 

*  Gordean  O'Neiir 
Lord  of  Louth 

Granprior  ^ 

Seven  of  French,  each  cont.  16  companeys 

per  Begment    -         -         -         -         - 

*  Gobnoy's'  Begment  of  Hors  cont.  nine 

*trup' 

Maxfild's  (Maxwell's)  Begment  of  Dra- 
goons        

In  Ardee  Col.  Gase  (Grace)  and  y*  *  to' 
Col.  Mac  Mahons  (Art  &  Hugh) 

Second  line  on  the  right. 

Lord  of  Clare  his  Begment  of  Dragoons 

Sunderland  his  Begment,  five  troops 

*  ParkerV  Begment  of*  Hors' 

Hamilton's  Foot 
Lord  of  Westmeath 
Sir  Michael  *Cregh' 

*  Mahgilicutt' 
O'Bryan 

Buslo  (Boiseleau) 
BagnaU 
Lordof  *Tirone 

*  Dangan'  (Dongan)  his  Begment  of  Dra- 

goons, five  Begments  of  Horse    - 
8  Begments  of  Dragoons        ... 
With  Colonel  '  Sarsfild' 
Col.  Sarsfild's  Begment  of  *  Hors' 
Aprukom's  (Abercom's)  *  Hors' 
Cliford  8  Draguns 
Sir  Nedto  O'Neate's  Dragoons 


2 
3 


7 
1 
1 
3 

1 
1 
1 


816  KING  JAMES'S  HUSH  ARMY  UST. 

Foot. 
Lord  of  Slane 
« Dilon 
Clanrickard 
Galway 
•  Borke,' 
Nugent 
Cormanstown  (Gormanston) 

Captain  George  Gafhey  was  attainted  in  1691  as 
*  of  Kilkenny/  together  with  Connor  Gafney  of  Dram- 
brick,  County  of  Leitrim. 


LIEUTENANT  STMON  CLEAR. 

Clear  or  Cleere  was  also  the  name  of  a  Kilkenny 
family,  established  there  previously  to  the  period  of 
this  campaign.  Symon  is  described  accordingly,  on 
the  Inquisition  for  his  attainder,  as  *  of  Downamore, 
County  of  Kilkenny,'  while  at  the  same  time  was 
attainted  William  *  Cleere'  *of  Galway,'  merchant. 
The  name  is  otherwise  traced  of  record  in  Ireland 
from  the  time  of  Edward  the  Second. 


LIEUTENANT  SAMUEL  LEIGH. 

The  Leighs  or  Leas  were  old  settlers  in  Kilkenny,  and 
were  likewise  established  in  the  County  of  Kildare, 
and  other  parts  of  Ireland.  Thomas  '  Lee'  was  a 
Quarter-Master  in  Lord  Clare's  Dragoons,  and,  in  the 


COLONEL  EDWARD  BUTLER's  INFANTRY.    817 

Parliament  of  1689,  Francis  Leigh  was  one  of  the 
Representatives  of  the  Borough  of  Eildare.  The 
name  of  Samuel  does  not  appear  on  the  A^ttainders  of 
1691,  but  that  of  Francis  Leigh  *of  Eathbride, 
County  Kildare,'  does.  (His  ancestor,  John  Lee  of 
the  same  place,  was  attainted  in  1642).  There  were 
also  then  outlawed  five  others  of  the  name. 

The  name  of  ^Lee'  was  distinguished  in  the 
achievements  of  the  Irish  Brigades,  and  O'Conor,  in 
his  Military  Memoirs^  &c.,  very  fully  narrates  the 
exploits  of  one  of  this  family,  who,  in  1690,  ac- 
quitted himself  gallantly  in  the  campaign  in  Pied- 
mont, under  the  command  of  St.  Ruth,  before  that 
ill-fated  General  came  over  to  Ireland.  The  annals 
of  this  oflBcer  and  of  his  Regiment  are  given  by 
O'Conor,  who  concludes  in  relation  to  him  :  "  He 
deserved  a  Marshal's  staff,  and  would  have  obtained 
one  if  versed  in  the  intrigues  of  the  Court ;  but, 
being  a  foreigner,  his  rewards  were  confined  to  the 
great  cross  of  the  Order  of  St.  Louis,  and  to  the  fame 
he  acquired.  He  was,  at  the  siege  of  Lisle,  severely 
wounded  by  the  bursting  of  a  shell.'' 


REGIMENTS    OF    INFANTRY. 

COLONEL  ART  MAC  MAHON'S. 

This  Regiment  is  wholly  uncommissioned  on  the 
present  Army  List.  The  Appendix  to  King's  State 
of  the  Protestants  names,  from  a  subsequent  Muster 

GGG 


818  KIXG  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Boll,   Philip   Reilly  as   its   Lieutenant-Colonel,   and 
Hugh  Magennis  as  its  Major. 

The   Sept  of  Mac  Mahon  ranked   as  Princes   of 
Monaghan  and  territorial  lords  of  Famey  from  very 
old    time,    as   is  shown  in  a  Keport    of   Sir  John 
Davis,  the  Irish  Attorney  Genend  to  Elizabeth  and 
James  the  Firet.     Their  country  was  early  subjected 
to  the  inroads  and  devastation  of  Sir  John  de  Courcy, 
in  his  exixidition  for  the  conquest  of  Ulster.      In 
1314,  King  Edward  directed  an  especial  letter  mis- 
sive to  Bri(»u  ilac  Mahon,  '  Duel  Hlbemicorxim  de 
Vriel^'  to  aid  him  in  the  Scottish  war.     In  two  years 
after,  at  the  memorable  battle  of  Athenry,  fought 
between  the  English  settles  in  Connaught  and  the 
natives,  MoiT)gh,  son   of  Morogh  Mac  Mahon,  with 
one  hundred  of  his  people,  was  slain.     At  the  close  of 
that  century  (1394),  the  Mtxc  Mahon  was  one  of  the 
Ulster  Princes  who  'did  homage  and  fealty  to  the 
King's   own   person'  (Richard  the  Second),  in  the 
Dominican   Friary   of  Drogheda.      Nevertheless,   in 
1417,  the  Lord  of  Furnival,  the  celebrated  Sir  John 
Tiilbot  of  Ilallamshire,  being  Lord  Lieutenant  of  Ire- 
land, "  rode  against  Mac  ilahon,  a  great  Irish  enemy, 
and  a  {wwerful  chieftain  of  his  nation,  and  him  did 
strongly   invade   by   divers   laborious   hostings  and 
journeys,  and  burnt  and  destroyed  one  of  his  chief 
places,   with   all    his   towns   and    com   about,   and 
wounded  and  killed  a  great  multitude  of  his  people."* 

*  Memorial  of  Irish  Council,  see  D*Alton's  History  of  the  Co. 
Dublin,  p.  31. 


COLONEL   ART   MAC   MAHON'S  INFANTRY.         819 

In  1507,  James  McMahon  succeeded  to  the  See  of 
Derry,  as  did  Patrick  McMahon  to  that  of  Ardagh  in 
1553.  To  Perrot's  Parliament  of  1585,  when  the 
attendance  of  the  Irish  Chiefs  was  first  invited, "  went 
McMahon,  Prince  of  Oirgiall,  namely  Rossa,  son  of 
Art,  son  of  Bryan,  son  of  Redmond,  son  of  Glaisne.'* 
This  was  the  Chief  who  at  last  deemed  it  policy  to 
surrender  to  the  Crown  the  territory  which  he  had 
theretofore  held  by  the  Irish  law  of  Tanistry,  and  to 
receive  back  from  her  Majesty  a  re-grant  thereof  to 
himself  and  his  heirs  male,  with  remainder  to  his  bro- 
ther Hugh  Roe  McMahon.  Rossa  died  without  issue, 
and  the  Queen  took  occasion  to  break  faith  with 
Hugh  ;  when  the  old  inheritance,  the  subject  of  the 
aforesaid  surrender  and  re-grant,  was  divided  between 
the  Marshal  Sir  Henry  Bagnall  and  Captain 
Henslow,  the  latter  being  appointed  'Seneschal'  of  the 
county.  Down  to  the  days  of  the  aforesaid  Rossa,  the 
succession  of  these  Tanists  of  Monaghan  is  recorded 
in  the  Annals  of  the  Four  Masters,  the  elections  being 
respectively  conducted  as  is  there  shown,  with  the 
sanction  of  the  O'Neill  as  Lord  Paramount.  Mon- 
aghan was  then  reduced  to  shire  ground.  The  Act 
of  James,  for  the  attainder  of  the  Earl  of  Tyrone  and 
his  abettors,  included  Brian  Oge  Mac  '  Mahowne,' 
'  late  of  Clonleege  in  Upper  Truagh,  County  of 
Monaghan.'  Previous  to  the  passing  of  that  measure, 
many  of  this  family  had  gone  down  to  Munster  to  co- 
operate with  the  Spanish  invaders,  and  some  on  its 

GGO  2 


X'20  KING  James's  irisii  army  list. 

tailiire  ha<l  passed  off  to  Spain.     Sir  William  Fitz- 
Williaiiis,  too,  <luring  his  viceroyalty,  had,  "with  good 
wisdom   and  policy,"  as  Sir  John  Davis  says,  in   a 
letter  to  the  Karl  of   Sal!sl)iiry   touching  the    Mac 
Mahous'  territory,  "  divided  the  greatest  part  of  that 
county  among  the  natives  thei-eof,  except  the  church 
lands  which  he  gave  to  English  servitors.''    When  the 
Plantation  systi^n  was  brought  into  operation,  such 
teri'or  did  it  awaken  heiv,  that  no  less  than  thirty- 
nine  of  the  Sei)t  felt  necessitated  to  sue  out  licences 
of  panlon  for  their  protection.     The  last  and  most 
memonible    <'hief   of    Monaghan    was    Hugh    Mac 
Mahou,   who   actively  co-operated  with  Sir  Phelim 
O'Neill  in  the  great  insurivction  of  1641.     In  con- 
junction with  Connor  Maguire,  Baron  of  £nniskillen, 
he  conspire<l  in  lfi41  to  seize  the  Castle  of  Dublin; 
but   the   i>lot   was   discovered  by   Owen  O'Conolly, 
whereuiwn  McMahon  and  Maguire  were  made  prison- 
ers,   transmitted   to  the   Tower  of  London,  and  in 
1644  both  were  tried  and  beheaded  at  Tyburn.     A 
state  document,  purporting  to  be  a  Return  of '  ancient 
Irish  in  the  King  of  Spain's  dominions/  made  about 
the  year  1622,  names  Owen  Mac  Mahon,  Archbishop 
of  Dublin,   bred  in   Salamanca,   now    in   Ireland ; 
Florence  Conroy,  Archbishop  of  Tuam,  '  entertained 
by  his  Majesty  in  the  States  of  Flanders' ;  Vincent 
O'Gani  of  the  order  of  St.  Dominick,  Dan  de  la  Cruz 
of  ditto,  with  various  other  Irish  priests  in  Lisbon, 
where  is  '  Morish  O'Mahon,'  a  secular  .priest.     John 
Mac  Mahon  of  Rush,  in  the  County  of  Dublin,  was 


COLONEL  ART   MAC   MAHON'S  INFANTRY.         821 

the  only  obscure  individual  on  the  Roll  of  Attainders 
of  1642  ;  not  one  of  that  great  name  in  Monaghan 
was  projected  for  the  denunciation.     At  the  Supreme 

Council  of  Kilkenny,   however,  Colonel  Mac 

Brian  Mac  Mahon  sat,  and  was  consequently  in  Crom- 
well's Act  'for  settling  Ireland'  excepted  from  pardon 
for  life  and  estate. 

This  name  was  further  commissioned  in  Fitz- 
James's  Infantry,  in  Colonel  Charles  O'Bryan's,  in 
Colonel  Oliver  O'Gara's  ;  and  in  the  Earl  of  Clanri- 
carde's,  Bryan  '  Mahon'  (whose  lineage  seems  derived 
from  this  great  Sept),  was  a  Lieutenant.  The 
Attainders  of  1691  proscribe  fourteen  Mac  Mahons. 
The  above  Colonel  Art  Mac  Mahon  was  entitled 
*  Oge,'  being  the  younger  brother  of  Father  Gelasius 
Mac  Mahon,  who  was  then  the  head  of  the  House, 
but  who  from  his  clerical  character  was  incapable  of 
filling  the  station.  Colonel  Art  was  King  James's 
Lord  Lieutenant  for  the  County  of  Monaghan,  his 
Deputy  Lieutenants  being  Brian  and  Hugh  Mac 
Mahon,  Esquires,  who  also  represented  that  county  in 
the  Parliament  of  1689.  Hugh  was  the  Captain 
before  marked  in  Fitz-James's  Infantry,  and  appears 
identical  with  the  Hugh  who  was  afterwards  Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel in  the  'Brigade  of  Charlemont.'  Imper- 
fect OS  the  Begiment  appears  in  this  List,  a  muster 
taken  after  the  battle  of  the  Boyne  reports  it  as 
tMrteen  companies  of  a  total  of  650  men.*  Colonel 

*  Singer's  Conresp.  v.  2,  p.  513. 


822  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Art  was  killed  at  the  siege  of  Athlone  *  and  on  his 
death,  and  the  final  extinction  of  James's  hopes,  father 
G^elasius  McMahon,  the  head  of  the  Sept,  retired  to 
the  Continent.  In  1747,  Lieutenant  Mac  Mahon 
was  wounded  at  the  battle  of  Lauffield,  as  was  also  a 
Captain  Mac  Mahon  mortally.  Some  few  years  after, 
the  '  Marquis  of  Mac  Mahon,'  Colonel  of  a  French 
Regiment,  Knight  of  St.  Louis,  and  of  the  American 
order  of  Cincinnatus,  acquitted  himself  with  much 
credit  as  Ambassador  to  the  United  States  of  America  ; 
and  Colonel  Mac  Mahon,  a  Enight  of  Malta,  distin- 
guished himself  in  the  service  of  France  and  Spain.f 
The  Monthly  Chronologer  for  Ireland,  in  Exshatd's 
Magazine  for  1769  (p.  320),  mentions  as  then  occur- 
ring the  death  of  Mr.  Patrick  Mac  Mahon,  aged 
eighty-eight  years,  one  of  those  whose  sons  rose  to  the 
dignity  of  a  Marquis  of  France  and  a  Knight  of 
Malta,  while  another  was  titular  Bishop  of  Eillaloe  ; 
nor  must  it  be  forgotten  that  on  the  recent  storming 
of  the  Malakoff,  Mac  Mahon  was  one  of  the  two 
Generals,  to  whom  Marshal  Pelissier  attributed  the 
success  of  that  splendid  achievement. 

♦  Story's  Impartial  History,  pt.  2,  p.  108. 
t  Ferrar's  Limerick,  pp.  849-50. 


COLOXEL  CHARLES   MOORE'S  INFANTRY.  823 

REGIMENTS    OF    INFANTRY. 

COLONEL   CHARLES   MOORE'S. 

The  page  on  which  the  Roll  of  this  Regiment  was 
drawn  out  has  been  torn  from  the  present  Army  List, 
and  no  clue  has  been  discovered  to  ascertain  its 
strength.  The  List  therefore  does  not  exhibit  him 
except  in  the  introductory  sheet  of  Colonels,  while  the 
name  appears  commissioned  in  six  other  Regiments. 
The  above  Colonel  was  of  the  Ballina  line,  now  repre- 
sented by  the  Right  Honourable  Richard  More 
O'Ferral.  His  was  that  Regiment  which  Greneral 
Richard  Hamilton  and  Berwick,  after  entering  Cole- 
raine,  left  there  to  garrison  it ;  whereupon  these  two 
Commanders,  uniting  their  forces  with  those  of 
Pusignan,  advanced  to  the  passes  of  the  Finn  and 
Foyle  for  the  siege  of  Derry.*  This  Regiment  was 
afterwards  one  of  those  which  King  James  despatched 
to  Sligo,  to  retard  the  operations  of  the  enemy  there- 
about, f  On  the  4th  May,  1691,  this,  with  four  other 
Regiments  under  the  command  of  Major  John  Fitz- 
Patrick,  encountered  the  Williamite  forces  of  Major 
Woods  near  Castle-Cuffe,  when  it  is  stated  in  a  con- 
temporaneous  pamphlet  that  three  ofl5cers  of  this 
Regiment  were  made  prisoners,  viz.,  Lieutenants 
William  Dunn  and  Alexander  Roch,  and  Ensign 
Loughlin    Moore.     Colonel    Charles    was,    in    two 

•  O'Callaghan's  Green  Book,  p.  260. 
t  Clarke's  James  II.,  vol.  2,  p.  382. 


824  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

months  after,  killed  at  the  battle  of  Aughrim,  it  is 
said  in  cold  blood.  His  Lieutenant-Colonel  and 
Major  also  fell  there.* 

It  would  be  a  welcome  duty  here  to  trace  the  achieve- 
ments of  the  noble  Sept  of  O'More  of  Leix,  from  that 
*Chief  of  the  Heroes  of  the  Red  Branch'  who  is  believed 
to  have  been  their  founder  ;  the  well  authenticated 
records  of  their  succession  in  the  Captaincy;  the  reli- 
gious houses  they  founded  and  endowed  ;  the  castles 
they  erected  and  maintained  on  the  verge  of  the  Pale ; 
the  many  Bishoprics  they  governed  ;  the  exploits  of 
the  second  Lysagh  O'More,  whose  aid  Edward  the 
Second  sought  by  an  express  letter  missive  for  the 
Scottish  war  ;  the  chivalry  of  Anthony  O'More  at  the 
Pass  of  Plumes  ;  the  bold  bearing  of  Colonel  Roger 
O'More,  the  father  of  the  above  Colonel  Charles  ;  the 
Rory  O'More  whose  memory  and  name  have  been 
fondly  associated  with  the  people's  music.  These  and 
many  other  details  of  national  interest,  connected  with 
the  History  of  the  Pale,  are  necessarily  omitted,  as  they, 
would  occupy  more  space  at  the  compiler's  expense 
than  could  be  aflforded  in  this  already  over-grown 

volume. It  must  suffice  to  say  that  the  Attainders 

of  1621  include  the  above  Colonel  Charles  *of 
Ballyna,'  with  eighteen  others  of  the  name.  At  Chi- 
Chester  House,  Lewis  Moore  claimed  and  was  allowed 
a  remainder  for  life  in  Ballina  and  other  Kildare 
lands  forfeited  by  Charles  Moore,  as  was  Roger  Moore 
a  remainder  in  tail  therein,  and  Bridget  Moore  and 

*  Story's  Impart.  Hist.  pt.  2,  p.  138. 


COLONEL  DUDLEY  BAGNALL'S  INFANTBT.    825 

Elizabeth  Bellew,  otherwise  Moore,  their  children's 
portions  thereoff. 


EEGIMENTS    OF    INFANTRY. 


COLONEL  DUDLEY  BAGNALL's. 


The  Colonel. 
James  Power, 

lieutenant-Colonel. 
[ Corbet,] 

Migor. 
Geffiy  '  Pendeigaat.' 
Nicholaa  Power. 
John  Meagher. 
Daniel  Hogan. 
Richard  Fanning. 
John  Keating. 
Richard  Mansfield. 
Bryan  O'Bryan. 
Thomas  Fnroell. 
John  Moclare. 

Philip  Dwjer. 


William  Bonrke. 
Thomas  Meara. 


Walter  Pendeigast 
Richard  Wadding. 
Edmnnd  Meaner. 
Richard  Morres. 
Edmnnd  Connor. 
Robert  *  Pendergast.' 
Edmnnd  Roche. 
Mnrtogh  O'Bryan. 
John  Dwyer. 
Edmnnd  Tobin. 

i  Thomas  Dwyer. 
Edmnnd  Bntler. 


Eiuigfu. 
John  Comerford. 
Edward  Butler. 


James  Pendergast. 
Edmnnd  Power. 
Thomas  Meagher. 
William  Hogan. 
Thomas  Bntler. 
Piers  Keating. 
David  Roche. 
Edward  Bntler. 
Nicholas  Pnroell. 
James  Moclare. 


COLONEL  DUDLEY  BAGNALL. 

In  1552,  *'  Raphe'  Bagenall  was  one  of  the  Privj 
Council  who  then  signed  an  order  to  provide  for  the 
preservation  of  the  Irish  records.     In  the  following 


826  KING  JAMES'S  IRISU  ARMY  LIST. 

jear  Sir  Nicholas  Bagnall  had  a  grant  of  the  dissolved 
'  College  of  Newry.'  In  May,  1559,  Queen  Elizabeth 
directed  instructions  "  for  recovering  Lecale,  Newry, 
and  Carlingford  from  the  possession  of  the  Scots,  and 
to  recompense  Sir  Nicholas  Bagnall  for  his  interest." 
In  1602,  when  the  Lord  Deputy  of  Munster  thought 
he  might  himself  return  from  that  Province,  he  com- 
mitted the  prosecution  of  the  war  there  to  (amongst 
various  other  officers)  Sir  Samuel  Bagnall ;  and  their 
acts  in  pursuance  of  this  power  are  very  fully  given 
in  the  Pacata  Hihemia.  Sir  Nicholas  Bagnall,  after 
receiving  the  recompense  above  alluded  to  in  lands, 
assigned  considerable  estates  in  the  County  of  Louth, 
&c.  to  Viscount  Claneboy,  whereupon  that  nobleman 
invited  his  brothers  (Hamiltons)  from  Scotland,  to 
participate  in  the  advantages  which  his  rank,  property, 
and  influence  gave  him  in  Ireland,  and  five  of  them 
came  over  thereupon.*  Cromwell's  denunciation  of 
1652  excepted  Walter  Bagnall,  Esq.,  from  pardon  for 
life  and  estate  ;  but  in  many  of  the  patents  that  were 
passed  after  the  Restoration,  of  lands  in  the  County 
of  Carlow,  savings  were  inserted  of  the  rights  of 
Dudley  Bagnall  of  Dunleckney,  and  of  Walter,  his 
eldest  son.  This  Dudley  was  the  above  Colonel ;  he 
also  sat  as  the  Representative  for  the  County  of  Car- 
low  in  the  Parliament  of  1689,  and  was  attainted  in 
1691,  when  his  son  Walter  claimed  and  was  allowed 
an  estate  for  life  to  himself,  and  a  remainder  in  tail 
male  to  his  issue  in  Dudley's  Carlow  confiscations  ; 

♦  D' Alton's  Co.  of  Dublin,  p.  472. 


COLONEL  DUDLEY   BAGNALL'S   INFANTRY.         827 

while  Anne,  said  Dudley's  wife,  claimed  and  was 
allowed  jointure  thereon,  as  were  seven  of  his  children 
portions  to  the  amount  of  £5,000,  with  remainders 
in  the  lands  as  limited  to  them. 


[MAJOR CORBET]. 

This  commission  is  given  on  the  authority  of  the 
Appendix  to  King's  State  of  the  Protestants.  The 
name  is  noticed  ante^  at  Lord  Abercorn's  Horse. 


^       CAPTAIN  JOHN  MEAGHER. 

The  O'Meaghers  were  in  old  time  Lords  of  the  terri- 
tory now  known  as  the  Barony  of  Ikerrin,  County  of 
Tipperary.  King  Charles's  declaration  of  thanks  for 
services  beyond  the  seas,  embodied  in  the  Act  of 
Settlement,  includes  this  officer  as  then  styled  *  Lieu- 
tenant John  Meagher  of  Grange,  County  of  Tipperary.' 
Besides  the  three  Meaghers  in  this  Regiment,  the  name 
stands  commissioned  on  four  others  of  this  Army  List, 
In  the  Parliament  of  1689,  Thady  Meagher  sat  as 
one  of  the  Representatives  of  the  Borough  of  Callan ; 
while,  in  relation  to  the  above  officer.  Colonel  William 
Wolseley  wrote  on  the  10th  of  August,  1690,  to 
Secretary  Southwell,  *  from  the  camp  near  Mullingar,' 
"My  party  had  an  encounter  with  seven  Tories,  whom 
they  sent  into  a  bog  and  took  two  of  them  ;   one  was 


828  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  A&MT  LIST. 

a  Captain,  his  name  was  John  Meagher^  a  notorious 
ring-leader  of  the  rogues,  and  one  that  had  done 
great  mischief  in  that  country.     I  carried  him  and 

his  comrades  to  Maryborough,  and  there hanged 

them I    enclose    Captain   Meagher's    confession, 

which  was  taken  upon  him,  by  which  you  may  judge 
what  his  life  and  conversation  '  has'  been."*  The 
Attainders  of  1691  include  five  of  the  name. 


CAPTAIN  RICHARD  FANNING. 

Ortelius's  map  locates  this  family  in  the  Barony  of 
Pobble-Brian,  County  of  Limerick  ;  and  the  name  is  of 
record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of  Edward  the 
Second.  It  was  more  especially  influential  in  Lime- 
rick, until  the  Munster  war  of  Elizabeth's  time. 
Geffrey  Fanning  of  Glenagal  and  Patrick  Fanning 
of  Limerick  were  of  the  Confederate  Catholics  at  the 
Supreme  Council  of  1646.  Besides  this  Captain, 
William  and  David  Fanning  were  Quarter-Masters  in 
Colonel  Henry  Luttrell's  Horse.  On  the  Attainders 
of  1691,  the  only  Fannings  mentioned  are  William  of 
Battyrath,  County  of  Kilkenny,  and  David  Fanning 
of  Kilkenny,  merchant.  Richard  is  not  on  the  Roll, 
nor  are  any  of  the  Limerick  Fannings. 

•  Clarke's  Correspondence,  MSS.  T.  C.  D.  Lett.  88. 


COLONEL  DUDLEY  BAGNALL'S  INFANTRY.    829 


CAPTAIN  '  JOHN  KEATING.' 

*  Ketyng'  is  a  name  recorded  in  the  Irish  records 
from  the  time  of  Edward  the  Second.  In  1302, 
James  *  de  Ketyng*  was  one  of  the  Irish  magnates 
invited  to  aid  King  Edward  in  the  Scottish  war. 
None  of  the  name  appear  on  the  Attainders  of  1642  ; 
and  the  Act  of  Settlement  of  1662  provided  (s.  214) 
that  Maurice,  son  and  heir  of  Edmund  or  Edward 
Keating  of  Narraghmore,  County  of  Kildare,  should 
hold  all  and  every  the  manors,  towns,  and  lands 
purchased  in  the  King's  County,  in  trust  for  his  said 
father  from  John  Carroll,  before  the  23rd  of  October, 
1641,  "if  the  Lord  Lieutenant  and  Council  on  hearing 
merits,  shall  adjudge  the  same.**  This  Maurice  died 
in  1683,  and  was  buried  at  Narraghmore.  "  He  had 
married,**  says  a  fiineral  entry  in  Bermingham  Tower, 

"  Judith,  daughter  of Cocks,  by  whom  he  had 

issue  four  sons,  Maurice,  Edward,  John^  and  Charles  : 
and  two  daughters ;  Eleanor,  married  to  Edward 
Bolton  of  Brazeel,  and  Catherine.  Said  Maurice  was 
brother  to  John  Keating,  Lord  Chief  Justice  of  Ire- 
land ;"  and  this  Captain  John  appears  to  have  been 
Maurice's  aforesaid  third  son.  Besides  Captain 
Keating,  Edmund  Keating  was  a  Lieutenant  in  Tyr- 
conneFs  Horse,  and  Richard  a  Quarter-master  in 
Colonel  PurcelFs.  In  King  James's  new  Charter  to 
Swords,  the  Chief  Justice  was  one  of  the  Burgesses  ; 
as  was  Walter  in  that  to  Wexford,  and  Henry  in  that 


830  KIXG  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

to  Watorford.    The  Attainders  of  1G91  include  eleven 
of  this  name. 

The  aforesaid  Chief  Justice  was  the  most  distin- 
guislied  member  of  the  family  of  Narraghmore,  and 
had  been  a  servitor  of  King  James  when  Duke  of 
York.  In  1679,  he  was  api)ointed  Chief  Justide  of 
the  Common  Pleas  in  Ireland,  and  so  continued  until 
the  close  of  tlie  year  1691,  wlien  William  and  Mary 
substituted  Pyne  for  him.  He  married  the  widow  of 
Sir  Ricluird  Shucksburgh  of  Down  ton  House,  Wilt- 
shire, wlio  died  in  1677,  before  his  advancement  to 
the  bencli.  In  the  Parliament  of  1689,  this  judge 
made  a  bold  appeal  to  King  James  in  behalf  of  the 
purchasers  under  the  Act  of  Settlement,  and  opposed 
the  party  that  would  fain  eflfect  its  total  repeal ;  while 
he  prudently  suggested  that  a  committee  of  both 
houses  of  the  tlicn  sitting  Parliament  might  be  ap- 
pointed, to  devise  some  medium  course  of  le^slation, 
to  accommodate,  as  nearly  as  possible,  the  claims  of 
both  tlie  purchasers  and  the  old  proprietors.*  He 
was,  in  the  opinion  of  the  Earl  of  Clarendon,  "  an 
able  and  loyal  judge,  and  gave  frequent  evidence  of 
his  temjK^rance  and  discretion,  as  in  advising  the 
withdrawal  of  a  prosecution,  designed  to  be  instituted 
for  words  six)ken  of  James  the  Second  when  Duke  of 
York,  &c.  ;"  see  also  of  him  Duhig's  History  of  the 
King's  Inns,  p.  358. 

*  Cljirke's  Life  of  James  II.,  v.  2,  p.  358. 


COLONEL  DUDLEY  BAGNALL'S  INFANTRY.    831 

CAPTAIN  RICHARD  MANSFIELD. 

This  officer  was  of  the  County  of  Waterford  ;  and,  on 
his  attainder,  Helena  Mansfield,  on  behalf  of  John, 
Matthew,  Walter,  James,  and  Thomas  Mansfield, 
the  children  of  said  Richard  and  Dorothy  his  wife, 
claimed  for  them  remainders  in  tail  successively  in 
his  estates ;  while  she  herself  claimed  a  jointure 
thereofi*,  as  widow  of  Walter  Mansfield.  Both  peti- 
tions were,  however,  dismissed  as  cautionary. 


CAPTAIN  PHILIP  DWYER. 

The  O'Dwyers  were  chiefs  of  Kilnamanagh  in  the 
County  of  Tipperary.  In  Perrot's  Parliament  of 
1585,  this  Sept  was  represented  by  Philip^  the  son  of 
Anthony  O'Dwyer.  In  1608,  Darbie  O'Dwyre  had 
an  extensive  grant  of  lands  in  the  County  of  Tippe- 
rary, as  had  John  O'Dwyer  in  1612  for  other  castles, 
towns,  lands,  and  chief  rents  therein.  John's  de- 
scendant, Philip  O'Dwyer  of  Downedrom,  was  one  of 
the  Confederate  Catholics  who  assembled  at  Kilkenny 
in  1646  ;  while  Edmund  O'Dwyer,  the  Roman  Ca- 
tholic Bishop  of  Limerick,  sat  there  as  a  Spiritual 
Peer.  Cromwell's  Act  of  1652,  relentlessly  hostile  to 
this  '  Council,'  excepted  from  pardon  for  life  and 
estate  the  aforesaid  Philip  O'Dwyer,  as  also  Owen 
O'Dwyer,  both  of  Tipperary.  There  further  appear 
on  this  Army  List  Thomas  Dwyer,  a  Cornet  in  Gal- 


832  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

moy's  Hoi-se  ;  and  another  Philip  Dwyer,  a  Lieutenant 
in  Colonel  Charles  O'Bryan's  Infantry.  The  only 
Dwyer  who  appears  on  the  Attainders  of  1691  is 
Edward,  described  as  of  Cloncracken,  County  of  Tip- 

perary,  merchant. Some   of  the  O'Dwyers  were 

commanders  in  '  the  Irish  Brigades'  in  France,  and 
one  was  an  Admiral  in  the  Russian  service. 


LIEUTENANT   RICHARD  WADDING. 

This  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of 
Edward  the  Third.  Ortelius's  map  locates  it  in  the 
Barony  of  Middlethird,  County  of  Tipperary  ;  while 
in  the  seventeenth  century  it  is  more  associated  with 
the  Counties  of  Waterford  and  Wexford.  Ware 
mentions  three  writers  of  the  name,  John,  Peter,  and, 
yet  n^oiv,  Luke,  *  a  learned  Franciscan  friar,  a 
voluminous  writer,  and  a  great  ornament  to  his  coun- 
try,' born  at  Waterfonl  in  1558.  At  the  Supreme 
Council  of  Kilkenny  sat  Richard  Wadding  of  Bally- 
cogly,  and  Thomas  Wadding  of  Waterford ;  the 
former  was  probably  the  above  Lieutenant.  He  does 
not  appear  on  the  Attainders  of  1691  ;  but  a  John 
Wadding  of  his  place,  Ballycogly,  is  upon  it,  as  is 
also  Arthur  '  Waddin'  of  Enniscorthy. 


COLONEL  GORDON  O'NEttL'S  INFANTRY.     833 

REGIMENTS    OF    INFANTRY. 

COLONEL  GORDON   O'NEILL'S. 

This  force  is  wholly  unofficered  on  the  present  Army 
List.  The  Appendix  to  Kin^s  State  of  the  Protestants 
names,  from  a  subsequent  Muster  Roll,  Con  O'Neill 
as  its  Lieutenant-Colonel,  and  Henry  O'Neill  as  its 
Major.  Colonel  Gordon  was  son  of  the  celebrated  Sir 
Sir  Phelim  O'Neill  of  Kinard  or  Caledon,  County  of 
Tyrone  ;  and  was  by  James  the  Second  appointed 
Lord  Lieutenant  of  that  county,  which  he  also  repre- 
sented in  the  Parliament  of  1689.  In  his  military 
service,  he,  by  the  order  of  his  Lieutenant-General, 
Richard  Hamilton,  proclaimed  protection  "  for  all 
such  as  would  submit  themselves,  and  lay  down  their 
arms,  and  peaceably  live  in  their  own  dwellings."  At 
the  battle  of  Aughrim  he  ranked  as  a  Brigadier, 
where  he  was  left  for  dead  on  the  field  ;  but  "  being 
recognized  the  following  day  by  some  Scotch  officers, 
connected  with  him  through  his  mother  (who  was  of 
the  noble  house  of  Gordon  in  Scotland),  they  had 
him  kindly  attended  to,  till  he  recovered  of  his 
wounds.  After  gaining  his  liberty  he  followed  the 
Irish  army  to  the  continent,  where  he  served  as  Colo- 
nel  of  a  Regiment,  which,  in  compliment  to  him,  was 
called  the  Charlemont."*  Of  that  Brigaded  Regiment, 
Hugh  McMahon  was  Lieutenant-Colonel,  and  Edmund 
Murphy  Major.f 

*  O'Callaghan's  Macarias  Excidium,  p.  433. 
t  O'Conor's  Milit.  Mem.  p.  199. 

HHH 


834 


KI\6  JAMESES  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 


BEGIMENTS    OF    INFANTRY. 

COLONEL    NICHOLAS    BROWNE'S,    SIR    VALENTINE 
BROWNE'S,  &C. 


Captaius, 
The  Colonel. 
George  Trapp, 

Lieutenant- Colonel. 
Dennott  M'Auliffe, 

Mmjor. 
William  I^mbard. 
Edmund  Ferriter. 
Derby  (irady. 
William  Murphy. 
Richard  Barry. 
Art  0*  •  Keife.* 
William  «  Heas.' 
James  Fitz-Gerald. 
Dudley  Fitz-Gerald. 
Thady  Callaghan. 


LieutmaHU, 

Cornelius  Callaghan. 
Daniel  M'AulifTe. 

•Tames  Cogan. 

Dermott  Keaghley. 

Arthur  Nagle. 

John  Browne. 

Maurice  Murphy. 

Garrett  Barry. 

Art  O'Keife. 

William  Heaa. 

Edmund  Fitz-Gerald, 

James  Ilcas. 

Callaghan  Mac  *  Callahane. 


£'fWt^lM. 

Geoffrey  Donoghne. 
Owen  '  Callahane.' 

Thomas  Gold. 

William  Foulne. 
Teigue  Carty. 
James  Ryordan. 
John  Murphy. 
Patrick  Dermott. 
Coruelius  O'Keife. 
John   '  Hagherin.* 
James  Roche. 
Dermott  *  Ryardon.* 
John  M 'Callahane. 


COLONEL  NICHOLAS  BROWNE. 

This  Colonel  was  the  eldest  son  of  Sir  Valentine,  Lord 
Kenmare,  at  whose  Regiment,  a7ite^  p.  634,  &c.,  the 
family  is  noticed.  He  was  Sheriff  of  the  County  of 
Cork  in  1687  and  1690,  and  in  the  Parliament  of 
1689  was  one  of  the  Representatives  of  the  County  of 
Kerry.  In  1664,  he  married  Helen,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Brown  of  Hospital,  by  whom  he  obtained  a 
considerable  estate,  which,  with  his  own,  was  forfeited 
by  his  attainder.  The  Crown,  however,  allowed  her 
£400  per  annum  for  her  life.      At  the  Court  of 


COLONEL  NICHOLAS  BROWNE'S  INFANTRY.  835 

Claims,  Catherine  Browne,  as  a  daughter  of  Sir 
Valentine,  Lord  Eenmare,  was  allowed  a  portion  and 
maintenance  off  the  estates  of  this  Colonel  Nicholas 

(her  father's  son)  in  Kerry  and  Cork. Whitehall 

Browne  and  Obadiah  Browne  claimed  and  were  allowed 
an  estate  for  lives  renewable  for  ever  in  Kerry,  plots 
forfeited  by  said  Nicholas,  then  Lord  Kenmare  ;  and 
John  Browne,  for  himself  and  for  Joan  Browne,  alias 
Butler,  his  wife,  claimed  and  was  allowed  a  term  for 
years  in  certain  Kerry  lands  of  Sir  Nicholas  or  Sir 
Valentine  Browne.  Colonel  Nicholas  himself  died  at 
Ghent  in  1720,  leaving  four  daughters  and  one  son, 
Valentine,  his  successor,  but  not  in  the  peerage. 
This  title  having  been  of  James's  creation  after  his 
abdication,  was  not  recognized ;  but  in  1798,  Valentine, 
his  grandson,  was  created  Baron  of  Castlerosse  and 
Viscount  Kenmare,  and  in  1800  was  advanced  to  the 
Viscounty  of  Castlerosse  and  Earldom  of  Kenmare.  In 
the  GendemarCa  Magazine  for  1646,  pp.  207-8,  is  an 
account  of  the  capture  of  the  *  Prince  Charles  Snow,' 
carrying  over  officers  and  men  in  the  Pretender^s 
service  to  Scotland ;  with  an  interesting  list  of  the 
prisoners,  mostly  Irish,  commanded  by  Colonel  Brown, 
then  taken. 


LIEUTENANT-COLONEL  GEORGE  TRAPP. 

Nothing  worthy  of  notice  has  been  discovered  con- 
cerning this  officer  and  his  family. 

hhb  2 


836  KING  James's  irisii  army  list. 

MAJOR  DERMOTT  MAC  AULIFFE. 

TiiE  Mac  Auliffes  were  located  in  the  Barony  of 
Duhallow,  County  of  Cork,  where  their  territory  ex- 
tended from  tlie  luver  Alhi  to  the  borders  of  Limerick ; 
their  chief  seat  l)eing  Cattle-Mac  Auliffe  near  New- 
market. The  Four  Masters  I'econl  a  gitiat  victory 
obttiinedby  the  Mac  Auliffe  in  lo3o,  over  a  branch  of 
the  Fitz-Geralds.  In  Ifil2,  the  castle,  with  the  "  towns 
and  lands  of  Castle-Mac  Auliffe  and  Carrig  Cashel, 
all  called  by  the  name  of  Clan  Auliffe,  and  parcel  of 
the  estate  of  Melaghlin  Mac  Dermot  Mac  Auliffe,  late 
of  Castle-Mac  Auliffe,  attainted,"  were  granted  by 
King  James  to  Sir  Thomas  Roper.  The  Attainders 
of  1642  include  threi^  Mac  Auliffes.  Besides  this 
officer  and  Daniel  Mac  Auliffe,  a  Lieutenant  herein, 
Teigue  Mac  Auliffe  was  a  Lieutenant  in  Colonel 
Roger  Mc  Elligott's  Infantry  Regiment.  The  At- 
tainders of  1696  contain  the  names  of  the  above 
Dermott,  with  Denis  Mac  Auliffe  of  Lismacoonan, 
County  of  Cork.  The  last  chief  of  the  family  died 
Colonel  of  a  Regiment  in  Spain  in  1720. 


CAPTAIN  WILLIAM  LOMBARD. 

This  officer  is  described  in  the  Inquisition  for  his 
attainder  as  '  William  Lumbard,  of  Cork,  merchant/ 
The  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of 
Edward  the  Third,  chiefly  as  in  Cork  and  Waterford  ; 


COLONEL  NICHOLAS  BROWNE's  INFANTRY.         837 

and  one  of  the  name,  Peter  'Lumbard,'  was  the  Roman 
Catholic  Primate  of  Armagh  in  the  seventeenth  cen- 
tury, whom  a  Return  of  1626,  as  to  the  Irish  ecclesias- 
tics then  residing  in  foreign  parts,  states  to  be 
sojouniing  in  the  King  of  Spain's  dominions.  Peter 
Lombard,  '  a  merchant's  son  of  Waterford,  educated 
at  Westminster  under  the  learned  Camden,  and  who 
afterwards  studied  at  Lovain,'  was  author  of  some 
divinity  works,  and  of  the  well-known  treatise,  '  De 
Regno  Hibemice^  Samtorum  Insula^  Commentaritis^ 
published  at  Lovain  in  1632*  ;  a  work,  the  tendency 
of  which  being  considered  to  revive  ancient  animosi- 
ties and  excite  new  disturbances  in  Ireland,  Secretary 
Windebank  wrote  in  1633  to  Lord  Strafford,  the  Lord 
Lieutenant,  to  have  suppressed.  Some  notices  of  it 
may  be  seen  in  the  ArUhologia  Hibemica^  vol.  1. 
From  the  Corporate  Records  of  Waterford  it  appears 
that,  from  1377  to  1603,  the  mayoralty  of  that  city 
was  on  seventeen  occasions  filled  by  a  Lombard  ; 
while  in  Cork  John  Lombard  was  Mayor  in  1380  and 
1389,  and  James  Lombard  in  1645. 


CAPTAIN  EDMUND  FERRITER. 

This  was  the  name  of  a  family  long  settled  in  Kerry, 
and  conspicuous  in  the  troubles  of  1641.  Piers 
Ferriter  was   subsequently  taken  prisoner  and  exe- 

•  Ware's  Writers,  p.  103. 


838  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

ciited  by   the   Parliamentary  commander,  Brigadier 
Nelson,  at  Killarney.* 


CAPTAIN  DERBY  GRADY. 

The  O'Grady  was  a  Sept  located  in  Clare,  and  later 
in  Limerick.  In  the  former  county  their  territory 
comprised  the  present  Barony  of  Lower  Tullagh  ;  in 
the  latter  they  possessed  Carn-Feradaigh,  now  the 
parish  of  Knockaney,  where,  at  Kilballyowen,  the  Sept 
is  represented  by  Viscount  Guillamore.  In  the  wars 
of  Thomond  was  fought,  in  1151,  the  great  battle  of 
Moin-mor  {i.e.  the  great  bog,  lying  between  Cork  and 
the  Blackwater),  where  9,000  Dalcassians  of  Clare 
were  defeated  ;  and,  according  to  the  Book  of  Lecan, 
upwards  of  7,000  slain.  Amongst  the  chiefs  who  fell 
was  '  Anselis  O'Grady,  Lord  of  Hy-Caissin,'  with  five 
others  of  his  Sept.  At  a  more  advanced  period  of  the 
same  long  civil  feud,  (which  forms  the  subject  of  a 
native  chronicle),  in  1311,  Donald  O'Grady,  Lord  of 
Kinel-Dungaile,  was  slain  in  battle.  In  1332,  John 
'  O'Grada'  was  Archbishop  of  Cashel,  as  was  another 
John  O'Grada  of  Tuam  in  1365,  and  yet  a  third, 
Bishop  of  Elphin  in  1405.  In  a  list  of  recommen- 
dations, which  Tyrconnel  by  his  Majesty's  command 
forwarded  in  1 686  to  Colonel  Russell,  the  name  of 
Lieutenant  Edmund  Grady  was  inserted,  as  one  to  be 

*  Per  Rr»v.  Arthur  R.  Rowan,  Tralec. 


COLONEL  NICHOLAS  BROWNE'S  INFANTRY.  839 

provided  for  in  some  of  the  Regiments  then  being 
fonned.*    Three  of  this  name  were  attainted  in  1691. 


CAPTAIN  ART  O'KEEFE. 

This  ancient  Sept  of  Munster  derives  its  descent  j6x>m 
Art  Caemh  (the  two  letters  being  pronounced  in  Irish 
as  '  f '  or  rather  as  '  v'),  who  was  himself  the  son  of 
Finguine,  a  King  of  Munster,  whose  death  in  902  the 
Four  Masters  record,  as  they  do  that  of  CeaUach 
O'Caemh  in  1063.  At  1135,  they  have  a  notice  of 
one  of  those  unfortunate  engagements  in  the  County 
of  Tipperary,  which  were  the  evil  results  of  sept-ship, 
in  which  Finguine  O'Caemh,  *  Lord  of  Glennamnach, 
(Glanworth  in  Fermoy  Barony)  was  slain.  In  1161, 
Hugh  O'Keeffe,  Tiarnach  (Lord)  of  Fermoy  was  slain. 
During  these  centuries,  and  up  to  the  English  Inva- 
sion, this  family  was  territorially  possessed  of  a  wide 
district,  from  their  settlement  called  Pobble  O'Keeflfe, 
extending  over  what  have  been  since  denominated  the 
Baronies  of  Fermoy,  Orrery,  Kilmore,  and  Clongib- 
bons.  By  the  native  annalists  they  are  sometimes 
styled  Princes  of  Fermoy,  and  were  hereditary 
Marshals  and  chief  leaders  in  Desmond.  In  the 
latter  capacity,  it  is  recorded  that  Donogh  Mac  Kieffe, 
Prince  of  Fermoy,  commanded  the  Irish  forces  of 
Munster  in  924  ;   and  at  their  head,  pursuing  the 

*  Singer's  Correspondence  of  Lord  Clarendon,  v.  1,  p.  459. 


840  KING  James's  irisu  army  list. 

Danes  into   Ulster,  obtained  a  signal  victory  over 
them  at  Dundalk.* 

Subsequently  to  the  Invasion,  they  were  narrowed 
within  a  comparatively  small  tract,  extending  from 
the  Blackwater  at  Mill-street,  to  near  its  source, 
within  which  they  had  castles  and  estates  at  Drumsi- 
cane,  Ductregill,  Dromagh,  DroumtariflT,  Cullin, 
Ahane,  Ballymaquisk,  &c.  In  the  autumn  of  1582, 
the  Earl  of  Desmond  made  an  incursion  into  Kerry, 
with  the  object  of  collecting  spoils  in  Pobble  O'Keeflfe. 
O'Keeffe  and  his  neighbours  endeavoured  to  resist  the 
aggression,  but  they  were  overpowered,  and  O'Keefe 
himself,  i.e.  Art  (Arthur),  son  of  Donal,  son  of  Art, 
and  his  son  Art '  Oge,'  were  taken  prisoners,  and 
Hugh,  another  of  his  sons,  was  slain."  The  death  of 
old  Art  in  1583,  and  the  inauguration  of  his  son  Art 
the  younger  (Oge)  to  the  chieftaincy,  are  also  com- 
memorated  by  the  Four  Masters.  In  1610,  Sir 
Edward  Fitz-Gerald,  Knight,  had  a  grant  of  a  castle 
and  lands  in  the  County  of  Cork,  parcel  of  the  estate 
of  Teigue  0' '  Quiefe'  attainted  ;  two  years  after 
which,  Arthur  O'Keeflfe  of  Dromagh,  in  the  same 
county,  passed  patent  for  various  castles,  lands,  tithes, 
&c.  which  were  thereupon  erected  into  the  manor  of 
Dromagh,  with  markets,  faii-s,  courts,  and  tolls.  In 
1619,  he  had  a  further  grant  of  the  manor,  castle,  and 
mill  of  DunbuUog,  with  various  townlands,  the  ad  vow- 
son  of  the  vicarage,  and  liberty  to  impark  200  acres, 
to  create  tenures,  hold  courts  leet  and  baron,  enjoy  all 

*  Smith's  History  of  Cork,  vol.  1,  p.  44. 


COLONEL  NICHOLAS  BROWNE'S  INFANTRY.  841 

waifi  and  strays,  &c.  The  confiscations  consequent 
upon  the  Desmond  war,  and  those  resulting  from  the 
Civil  war  of  1641,  greatly  despoiled  this  family.  The 
Attainders  on  the  latter  occasion  include  the  names  of 
four  of  the  Sept.  The  last  parcel  of  their  territory, 
containing  about  9,000  acres,  and  still  bearing  testi- 
mony of  its  ancient  proprietary  by  its  designation  of 
'Pobble  O'Keefie,'  remained  in  the  hands  of  the 
Crown,  as  an  undisposed  forfeiture,  until  a  very 
recent  period,  when  it  was  sold  by  the  Commissioners 
of  Woods  and  Forests. 

The  Declaration  of  RoyaJ  gratitude  for  services  be- 
yond the  seas  includes  Captain  Daniel  O'Keeffe  of 
Dromagh,  and  Captain  Arthur  OTCeeffe  of  Glenfriacan, 
County  of  Cork.  It  may  be  reasonably  presumed 
that  he  was  the  above  Captain  Art.  There  are  like- 
wise on  this  Army  List,  Denis  '  Keefe '  an  Ensign, 
Keefe  and  Daniel '  O'Keefe,'  Ensigns  in  Major-General 
Boiseleau's  Infantry,  while  another  Arthur  Keefe  was 
a  Lieutenant  in  Colonel  John  Barrett's.  The  Attain- 
ders of  1691  name  this  Arthur,  Manus  his  brother, 
and  four  others  of  the  family.  In  1697,  Arthur 
0'  'Kyffe,'  styling  himself  late  of  Dunbollog,  County  of 
Cork,  made  his  will,  wherein  he  bequeathed  to  his 
eldest  son  and  heir  Daniel  all  his  manors,  lands,  &c., 
and  all  and  singular  their  Royalties  in  tail  male,  with 

similar  and  successive  remainders  to his  second 

son  ;  Charles  O'Keeffe,  his  third  son  ;  remainder  to 
Arthur  O'Keeffe,  Counsellor  at  law  in  tail  male,  with 
divers  remainders   over.     This  will  is  witnessed  by 


842  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Conor  O'KeeflFe,  Owen  '  KyflFe/  and  Mark  Goold.  A 
very  interesting  pedigree  of  this  family  has  been 
inspected  in  aid  of  this  work.  It  was  taken  on  the 
oaths  of  six  members  of  the  Sept  in  February,  1738, 
and,  with  the  Affidavits  and  certificate,  and  a  corrobo- 
rative declaration  signed  by  three  of  the  Munster 
Chieftains,  the  Mac  Carthy  More,  the  O'Sullivan 
More,  and  tlie  O'Donovan  More,  was  duly  proved 
and  entered  of  record  in  the  College  of  Arms,  London. 
This  pedigree  traces  the  O'KeeiFes  down  to  Arthur 
O'KeeiFe,  described  as  of  Lincoln's  Inn,  and  then  liv- 
ing, and  declares  him  to  be  '  of  the  branch  and  family 
thereof,'  he  being  evidently  the  remainder-man  in  the 
aforesaid  will  of  Arthur  of  DunbuUog.  Tliis  Roll  of 
lineage  was  accompanied  by  a  Deed  founding  three 
bursarships  at  the  CoDege  of  Lombard,  in  the  Rue 
des  Carmes  in  Paris,  for  rearing  natives  of  Ireland, 
especially  those  of  the  name  of  O'Keeffe,  to  the  priest- 
hood. This  endowment  was  perfected  by  the  Right 
Reverend  Cornelius  O'KeeiFe,  Lord  Bishop  of  Limerick, 
then  in  Paris,  and  theretofore  Rector  of  the  parish  of 
St.  Chronicleu  of  Nantes.  It  bears  date  9th  Septem- 
ber,  1734,  and  therein  his  Lordship  states  himself  *  of 
the  family  of  O'KeeiFe  of  Fermoy,  distinguished  by 
their  actions,  their  aUiances,  and  their  estates  (which 
are  mentioned  by  name);  that  Denis  O'Keeffij,  father 
of  said  Bishop,  was  turned  out  of  his  inheritance  of 
'  Dun'  on  the  river  Bride,  by  the  usurper  Cromwell  ; 
that,  after  many  hardships,  he  at  last  settled  at 
Drumkene,  in  the  County  of  Limerick,  whei-e  he  left 


COLONEL  NICHOLAS  BROWNE'S  INFANTRY.  843 

six  sons,  Daniel,  Dermot,  Philip,  Donatus,  Luke,  and 
this  Cornelius,  the  Bishop.  He  then  prescribed 
rules  for  the  government  of  these  bursarships,  and 
provided  funds  for  their  support.  In  June,  1743,  the 
above-mentioned  Arthur  0' '  KyflFe,'  describing  himself 
of  Bedford  Row,  London,  devised  aU  his  estates  in  the 
parish  of  Heathfield,  County  of  Sussex,  with  the 
capital  mansion  house,  park,  and  woodlands  there,  to 
his  wife  Isabella  O'KyfFe,  alias  O'KeeflFe,  for  ever, 
and  appointed  her  his  executrix.  He  died  in  1756, 
without  issue,  and  was  buried  in  Westminster  Abbey, 
where  the  inscription  on  his  monument  records  his 
lineal  descent  from  the  Kings  of  Ireland.  His  widow, 
said  Isabella,  died  in  1761,  directing  her  body  to  be 
buried  near  that  of  her  dear  husband,  in  the  west 
cloisters  of  that  Abbey.  She  devised  Heathfield  to 
her  sister  Mary  Anne  O'Keeffe  ;  bequeathed  a  consi- 
derable legacy  to  her  mother-in-law,  Mrs.  Anstis 
O'Keeffe  ;  and  appointed  her  said  sister  Mary  Anne 
her  executrix,  with  a  singular  injunction  :  after  fixing 
the  place  of  her  interment  "  as  near  as  possible  to  her 
late  dearest  husband,  Arthur  O'Keeffe,"  she  added, 
"  Put  my  dear  love's  letters  in  a  bag  under  my  head 
in  my  coffin,  and  put  mine  to  him  under  my  feet." 
The  widow  IsabeDa  died  in  1762,  and  her  sister 
Mary  Anne  in  1766  sold  Heathfield  to  Lieutenant- 
General  Eliott,  the  hero  of  Gibraltar,  who  selected  it 
to  give  name  to  his  dignity.  Lord  Heathfield.  Mary 
Anne  shortly  after  married  Cornelius  O'Keeffe  of 
Dublin,  barrister-at-law,  her  first  cousin,  who  died  in 


844  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

1780  without  issue,  and  these  two  branches  are  now 
represented  by  his  grand-nephew,  Dixon  Cornelius 
O'KeeflFe,  of  Dublin,  barrister. 


CAPTAIN  WILLIAM  HEAS. 

This  officer  was  evidently  of  the  Cork  family  of 
O'Hea,  whose  chief  residence  was  at  Aghcinilly  Castle, 
on  a  territory  called  from  them  Pobble  O'Hea.  The 
name,  with  the  alias  of  Hay,  is  on  Ortelius's  map  also 
located  in  Wexford.  Of  this  latter  line  was  Nicholas 
Hay,  one  of  the  Confederate  Catholics  at  the  Supreme 
Council  of  Kilkenny;  on  the •  Attainders  of  1691 
the  only  person  named  is  John  Hay  of  BaDytrammon, 
County  of  Wexford. 


LIEUTENANT  DERMOT  KEAGHLEY. 

The  Sept  of  the  O'Keelys  was  located  in  the  County 
of  Kilkenny,  whence  two,  Edmund  and  William 
Kealy  of  Gowran,  were  of  the  Confederate  Catho- 
lies  at  Kilkenny ;  and  Walter  '  Keily'  was  one  of  the 
Representatives  of  Gowran  in  the  Parliament  of 
1689  ;  Lieutenant  Dermot  was,  however,  on  the 
Inquisition  for  his  outlawry,  described  as  of  Knock- 
naghshy.  County  of  Cork. 


COLONEL  SIR  MICHAEL  CREAGH'S  INFANTRY.       845 


REGIMENTS    OF    INFANTRY. 

SIR    MICHAEL  CREAGH'S. 


CaptaiHs. 

The  Colonel. 

5  Thomas  Mullen. 
{Philip  Roche. 

John  Power, 

Alexis  Laplant. 

Phelim  0'  •  Neille.' 

Lieatenant-ColoneL 

Theobald  Boorke, 

Mftjor. 

Christopher  Jans. 

Arthur  BryaUr 

Rowland  Eustace. 

Richard  Purcell. 

James  Fita-Morris. 

Richard  Dalton. 

Sjmon  Browne. 

James  Ledwich. 

Terence  M*Dermott. 

Patrick  Everard. 

Patrick  M'Dermott 

Christopher  Palks. 

Nicholas  BeDew. 
;  Oliver  Nugent. 

\ 

Thomas  Satton. 

C  Bernard  Archbold. 
(  Laurence  Tankard. 

•  John  Begg. 

Theobald  Butler. 

Denis  Bryan. 

Edward  Bellew. 

Robert  BeUew. 

Peter  Browne. 

George  •KeUey.' 

Patrick  •  Ffiigan.* 

John  Croghau. 

Edward  Warren. 

Bartholomew  Hadsor. 

Nichoks  Carroll. 

John  Dowd, 

5  George  Plunket. 
I  Jamee  Russell. 

Grenad. 

Philip  Roche. 

Garrett  Nangle. 

8TAFF  On-ICBR8. 

John  Connor. 

Charles  M'Dermott,  Adjutant. 

Cornelius  Quinnan,  Quart 

er  Master. 

Robert  White.  Chirurgeon. 

COLONEL  SIR  MICHAEL  CREAGH. 

This  family   is  located  on   Ortelius's   map   in   the 
Barony  of  Small-County,  County  of  Limerick.     In 


846  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

1459,  William  Creagh  was  Bishop  of  Limerick ;  and 
in  1483,  David  Creagh  was  Archbishop  of  Cashel. 
About  a  century  after,  Richard  Creagh  was,  by  the 
Pope's  provision,  promoted  to  the  Primacy  of  Annagh  ; 
all  these  prelates  were  natives  of  Limerick.  The 
latter,  according  to  Harris,  in  his  notes  on  War^s 
Writers  (p.  97),  died  in  1585  in  the  Tower  of 
London,  where  he  was  imprisoned  by  the  Govern- 
ment. This  Colonel  was  possessed  of  much  property 
in  houses  in  Dublin,  of  which  city  he  was  Lord  Mayor 
in  1688,  and  one  of  its  Representatives  in  the  Parlia- 
ment of  Dublin  in  the  following  year.  His  was  one 
of  the  Regiments  that,  early  in  the  campaign,  before 
the  battle  of  the  Boyne,  King  James  ordered  to  join 
him  at  the  bridge  of  AflFane.  He  was  attainted  in 
1691,  together  with  WiDiam  Creagh,  of  Ennis,  mer- 
chant. 


CAPTAIN  CHRISTOPHER  JANS. 

One  of  this  surname,  James  Jans,  described  as  of 
the  Ward,  in  the  County  of  Dublin,  was  attainted  in 
1642.  Nothing  more  has  been  ascertained  of  the 
family  ;  Captain  Christopher  does  not  appear  on  the 
Inquisitions  of  1691. 


CAPTAIN  CHRISTOPHER  PALLAS. 
This  officer  is  stated  in  his  outlawry  to  have  been  a 


COLONEL  SIR  MICHAEL  CREAGH'S  INFANTRY.       847 

goldsmith  in  the  City  of  Dublin,  where  a  branch  of 
the  family  had  been  established  from  the  time  of 
Queen  Elizabeth.  An  Andrew  '  Pallace/  described  as 
of  Cloneanat,  County  of  Cavan,  was  attainted  with 
him,  while  the  earlier  Attainders  of  1642  name  Wil- 
liam '  Pallys'  of  Dublin,  and  Andrew  Pallys  of  CoUat- 
rath,  ^.  e.  the  aforesaid  Cloneanat. 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  DOWD. 

The  Sept  of  O'Dowd  possessed  a  wide  territory,  com- 
prising much  of  the  Counties  of  Mayo  and  Sligo. 
Their  annals  are  so  fully  displayed  in  Hardiman's 
Hy  Fiacra  (the  name  of  this  territory),  that  a  refer- 
rence  to  his  work  will  best  gratify  the  curious  reader. 
Here  shall  it  only  be  stated,  that  of  the  Confederate 
Catholics  assembled  at  Kilkenny  in  1646,  were 
Edmund  O'Dowde  of  Porterstown,  and  Thady 
O'Dowde  of  Rosburr  ;  while  the  Attainders  of  1696 
only  mention  the  name  of  Thady  O'Dowde,  described 
as  of  Sligo,  with  Charles  Dowd  of  Grangebeg  and 
Faghery  Dowd  of  Bally-Faghery. 


CAPTAIN  PHILIP  ROCHE. 

This  officer,  having  been  decreed  the  benefit  of  the 
Articles  of  Limerick,  followed  his  Royal  Master  to 
France ;  but,  jealous  at  the  treatment  he  received 


848  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

there,  he  quitted  that  country,  and,  after  visiting  a 
great  part  of  the  Continent,  returned  to  Ireland  ; 
where  being,  as  a  Roman  Catholic,  incapacitated  firom 
filling  any  civil  or  military  employment,  he  turned 
his  attention  to  trade  ;  and,  aft«r  much  labour  and 
loss,  succeeded  in  establishing  a  manufactory  of  flint 
glass  at  Ballybough,  near  Dublin.* 


LIEUTENANT  THOMAS  MULLEN. 

The  O'Mullens  were  a  Leinster  Sept,  numerous  in 
the  Counties  of  Dublin,  Meath,  and  Kildare.  They 
were  also  known  in  Ulster  as  0'  'Mullan'  and  Mc 
Mullen. 


LIEUTENANT  LAURENCE  TANKARD. 

This  name,  though  of  rare  occurrence,  is  yet  of  record 
in  Ireland  from  the  time  of  Edward  the  First.  No- 
thing, however,  worthy  of  notice,  has  been  discovered 
respecting  this  individual  or  his  family. 


LIEUTENANT  JOHN  CROGHAN. 
Nothing  ascertained  of  him  or  his  family. 
•  lyAlton's  Hist.  Co.  Dublin,  p.  60. 


COLONEL  SIR  MICHAEL  CBEAGH'S  INEANTBT.      849 

LIEUTENANT  BARTHOLOMEW  HADSOR. 

This  name  is  of  Irish  record  firom  the  time  of  Henry 
the  Third,  when  in  1249,  the  Preceptor  of  the  Hospi- 
tal of  St.  John  of  Jerusalem  made  complaint  to  that 
King,  that  Richard  de  *'  Haddesore/  Enight,  and  other 
persons  of  the  Dioceses  of  Armagh,  Deny,  and  Dublin, 
had  greatly  injured  the  Ejaights  Templars  of  that  estab- 
lishment in  the  enjoyment  of  certain  of  their  churches, 
their  tithes,  and  possessions,  and  an  inquiry  was 
directed  for  ascertaining  and  rectifying  his  encroach- 
ments.* In  1430,  William  Hadsor  was  Bishop  of 
Meath.  In  1646,  John  Hadsor,  of  Eeppock  (County 
of  Louth,  where  the  name  was  long  established),  was 
one  of  the  Confederate  Catholics  at  the  Supreme 
Council.  This  name  does  not  appear  on  the  Attain- 
ders of  1691  ;  but,  at  the  Court  of  Chichester  House 
in  1700,  Mary  Madden,  widow  of  Robert  Hadsor, 
claimed  and  was  allowed  a  dower  off  lands  of  this 
Bartholomew  Hadsor  in  the  County  of  Dublin ;  while 
a  Bridget  Hadsor  claimed  a  jointure  off  Mayo  lands 
of  Richard  Hadsor,  butcher  petition  was  dismissed  for 
non-prosecution. 


ENSIGN  JAMES  LEDWICH. 

Eablt  after  the  English    invasion,    Ledwich    was 
located  in  Westmeath,  and  gave  name  to  a  townland 

*  D'Alton's  Hist.  Go.  Dublin,  p.  608. 

Ill 


850  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

yet  known  as  Ledwichtown.  In  the  reign  of  Edward 
the  First,  Adam  de  Ledwich  gave  lauds  in  franks 
ahno'ujn  to  the  noble  establishment  of  Canons  Regular 
of  St.  Augustine,  previously  founded  at  Tristemagh 
in  that  county.  In  1640,  Maurice,  son  and  heir  of 
Richard  Ledwich,  had  lively  of  certain  estates  of  his 
father  at  Baskan  therein.  In  two  years  after,  Rich- 
ard Ledwich  was  attainted  for  the  part  he  had  taken 
in  the  civil  war  of  1641.  Ilis  namesake,  Richard 
'Ledwidge'  of  Knockmory,  was  attainted  in  1691,  as 
was  the  above  Ensign  James,  also  spelt '  Ledwidge/ 
and  described  as  of  Ballynalack,  Ballyhaine,  and 
Killivilla  in  the  same  county. 


QUARTER-MASTER  CORNELIUS  QUINAN, 

Nothing  has  been  ascertained  of  this  officer,  and  the 
name  does  not  appear  on  the  Attainders. 


COLONEL  SIR  HEWARD  OXBURGH'S  INFANTRY.     851 

REGIMENTS    OF    INFANTRY. 

COLONEL   SIR  HEWARD  OXBURGH'S. 


Captains. 

ZAeiUemMts, 

Efuignt. 

The  Colonel. 

William  Dnigin. 

Hogh  Kelly. 

Edward  Scott, 

Hugh  Flaherty. 

Walter  Peochell. 

Lientenant-Colonel. 

Lanrenoe  '  Dalhnnty/ 

Major. 

Anthony  Carroll. 

Anthony  Carroll 

Jamea  C/arroU. 

Wniiam  'Dnlahnnty.' 

Denia  *  Ihilahnnty.' 

Patrick  Dnlahnnty. 

Edmnnd  Dalj. 

Daniel  *Dalany.' 

Bryan  Shanly. 

Francia  Saj. 

Ignatioa  Archer. 

Hugh  Molloy. 

John  Coghlan. 

Roger  M'Manna. 

Patrick  M'Manns. 

Conatance  O'Connor. 

Conatanoe  O'Connor. 

Charles  O'Connor. 

Henry  Oxbni]gh. 

John  Madden. 

Philip  Afkh. 

Myles  O'CarrolL 

PhUip  Meagher. 

John  Dwyer. 

Alexander  Callanan. 

John  Callanane. 

Hngh  Madden. 
Edmnnd  Mooney. 

Florence  Callanane. 

Francia  Mooney. 

Edmnnd  Coghlan. 

Tbomaa  Dowling. 

Owen  Dowling. 

Bryan  Kelly. 

COLONEL  HEWARD  OXBURGH. 

The  femily  of  Oxbnrgh  were  possessed  of  Bovin,  and 
other  lands  in  the  Barony  of  Ballybritt,  King's 
County,  at  the  time  of  the  civil  war  of  1641,  a  Rew- 
ard Oxburgh  being  then  the  possessor ;  most  probably 
father  of  this  Colonel,  who  was  himself  Sheriff  of  that 
county  in  1687,  and  was  one  of  those  who  repre- 
sented it  in  the  Parliament  of  1689  ;  as  did  Heward 
Oxburgh,  junior,  the  borough  of  Philipstown.     His 

III  2 


852  KING  James's  irisii  army  list. 

relatives,  John  and  Richanl  Oxhiirgh,  were,  the  for- 
mer,  a  Captain  in   Colonel  Henry  Luttrells  Horse, 
and  tlie  hitter  a  Lieutenant  in  Lord  Galmoy's.     One 
of  these  officers  was  wounded  in  1689,  at  the  Siege 
of  Derry.     By  a  Royal  mandate  of  the  12th  July,  in 
that  year.  Colonel  lleward  Oxburgh,  Owen  Carroll, 
Esq.   Captain  John  Dunn,  Captain  Andrew  Kelly, 
Pierce  Bryan,  Esq.  and  Thady  Fitz-Patrick  were  con- 
stituted Provosts  Marshal  of  the  King's  and  Queen's 
Counties  ;  witli  powers  to  proceed  according  to  the 
course  of  martial  hiw  against  robbers,  thieves,  and 
Tories,  with  whom,  as  stated,  these  counties  were  in- 
fi'sted.*     Similar  Commissions  were  at  the  same  time 
given  to  John  Nugent,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Thomas 
Nugent,  and  Martin  Ilore,  for  the  County  of  Water- 
ford  ;  and  to  Edmund  Nugent,  James  Nugent,  Con 
Geoghegan,  and  Henry  Mayley,  for  that  of  West- 
meath.     After  the  battle  of  Aughrlm  and  before  the 
surrender  of  Limerick,  on  the  9th  of  August,  1691, 
''  Lieutenant  Colonel  Oxburgh,"  writes  Story ,f  "with 
a  Lieutenant,  their  servants  and  accoutrements,  came 
over  to  us  from  the  enemy,  as  also  did  another  officer 
and  eleven  musqueteers,  with  their  arms."     The  At- 
tainders of  1691  name  Heward,  Henry,  John,  fiichard, 
James,  and  Heward  junior,  Oxburgh,  all  described  as 
of  Bovin  in  the  King's  County.    The  claims  preferred 
at  Chichester  House  as  affijcting  the  estate  of  Colonel 
Heward,  and  which  were  allowed,  were  by  Clare  Ox- 

•  Harris's  MSS.  in  Dub.  Soc.  v.  10,  p.  134. 
t  Impart.  Hist.  pt.  2,  p.  103. 


COLONEL  SIB  HEWARD  OXBURGH'S  INFANTRY.     853 

burgh  as  his  widow,  for  a  small  jointure,  and  by 
Henry  Oxburgh  for  a  remainder  in  tail  therein.  The 
name  is  to  be  found  in  the  County  of  Westmeath  at 
the  townland  of  Clondeliever,  where  a  tradition  is 
preserved  that  the  above  Henry,  the  tenant  in  tail  of 
Bovin,  succeeded  to  its  possession  (which  may  have 
resulted  from  his  father's  submission  as  above),  but 
that,  after  a  short  enjoyment,  he  emigrated  to  Spain, 
where  he  died  Governor  of  Carthagena. 


LIEUTENANT-COLONEL  EDWARD  SCOTT. 

This  Officer  had  served  King  Charles  beyond  seas  du- 
ring his  exile.  Pending  the  siege  of  Derry,  he  with 
a  detachment  of  Horse  and  Foot,  was  left  by  Briga- 
dier Sutherland,  with  the  object  of  securing  his  retreat 
to  Omagh,  in  the  church  and  graveyard  of  Belturbet, 
which  were  slightly  fortified  ;  but  this  small  force  was 
soon  compelled  to  surrender  to  the  Enniskilleners.* 
This  officer  was  soon  aft«r  distinguished  by  his  de- 
fence of  Kinsale,  which  he  maintained  for  twenty 
days  against  the  assaults  of  Churchill,  afterwards  the 
great  Duke  of  Marlborough.  "  He  hoped  in  vain  to 
be  relieved  by  the  Duke  of  Berwick  ;  but  at  length, 
when  he  saw  no  likelihood  of  succour,  and  that  the 
walls  were  all  battered  about  his  ears,  more  than  two 
parts  of  the  garrison  having  been  cut  oflF,  he  surren- 
dered the  place  upon  very  honourable  conditions  (his 

*  O'Callaghan's  Green  Book,  pp.  267-8. 


854  KESG  jAmsTs  msH  imr  let. 

Iftdj  riding  oat  in  her  eottch  npon  tlie  bmdiX  ^ 
himself  came  to  Limerick  to  giTe  the  Duke 
aocoont  of  his  defimce  of  the  town.*"  **  The 
son,  being  about  1.»3<X)  mesL,  had  liberty  to 
with  their  arms  and  baggige,  baring  a  putr  aarigwrf 
to  conduct  them  to  LimericlL'i'  He  was  atUinted 
in  1691,  as  Edward  Scott  of  DuUin  and  Kinsale, 
Kni^t  ;  while  another  Edward,  and  a  Francis  Sootti 
described  as  of  Easkr.  County  of  Sligo,  were  then  also 
outlawed. 


MAJOR  LAURENCE  DULHUNTY. 

Ix  Lord  Galmoy's  Horse,  Anthony  Dulhunty 
Comet,  and  another  Laurence  Dulhunty  was  a  Idea- 
tenant  in  Sir  NeiU  O'Xeill  s  Dragoons.  A  Lieutenant 
Patrick  ^  Dallachanty'  was  one  of  the  officers  thantwl 
in  the  Act  of  Settlement  for  services  beyond  the 


CAPTAIN  ALEXANDER  CALLANAN. 

The  O'Callanans,  located  in  the  County  of  Galway, 
are  mentioned  by  OTlaherty  as  hereditary  physi- 
cians.  On  the  Attainders  of  1696,  stands  alone 

Callanan  of  Cloonbeggan. 

•  O'Callaghan's  Mac.  Excid.,  pp.  82-3.      f  Idem,  p.  396. 


COLONEL  SIK  HEWAKD  OXBURGH's  INFANTRY.     855 

CAPTAIN  EDWARD  MOONEY. 
The  CMooneys  were  a  Sept  of  the  Queen's  County. 


CAPTAIN  THOMAS  DOWLING. 

The  O'Dowlings  are  also  mentioned  as  a  Sept  of  the 
Queen's  County.  They  were,  however,  located  in 
other  counties,  as  shown  by  the  Inquisitions  on  at- 
tainders. Those  of  1642  have  three  of  the  name  ; 
those  of  1691  have  Daniel  Dowling  of  Inishman, 
County  of  Cork  (who  was  an  Ensign  in  Colonel 
Roger  Mac  Elligott's  Infantry),  and  William  Dow- 
ling of  Kilkenny. 


LIEUTENANT  WILLIAM  DUIGIN. 

The  O'Duigins  were  an  ancient  Sept  of  the  County 
of  Clare,  Lords  of  Muinter-Conlochtaidh,  a  district  in 
the  Barony  of  Tullagh.  The  Attainders  of  1691  name 
Matthew  '  Dwigin'  of  Dunamase,  Queen's  County  ; 
John  *  Dwigin'  of  BaUyduff^  King's  County ;  and 
William  *  Dwigin'  of  Palace,  clerk.  Notwithstanding 
the  ecclesiastical  description  of  this  latter  individual, 
he  would  seem  to  be  identical  with  the  above  Lieu- 
tenant. 


856  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ABMT  UST. 


LIEUTENANT  DANIEL  *  DULLANY/ 

The  O'Delanys  are  on  Ortelius's  map  spread  over  the 
Barony  of  Ballybritt,  King's  County.  They  were  also 
in  the  Barony  of  Upper  Ossory  in  the  Queen's,  and 
likewise  in  Kilkenny.  Felix  O'Dullany  succeeded  to 
the  See  of  Ossory  in  1178.  A  *  Captain  William 
Dullany*  is  included  in  the  declaration  of  Royal  gra- 
titude  (1662),  but  nothing  has  been  ascertained 
worthy  of  notice  concerning  this  Daniel 


LIEUTENANT  IGNATIUS  ARCHER. 

This  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of 
Edward  the  Third,  and  is  more  especially  found  in  the 
County  of  Kilkenny.  Patrick  and  Walter  Archer  of 
that  county  were  Members  of  the  Supreme  Council 
that  met  in  their  city.  The  Attainders  of  1691 
include  six  of  this  name. 


ENSIGN  WALTER  PEECHELL. 
Nothing  known  of  him  or  his  family  at  this  period. 


ENSIGN  PHILIP  ASH. 
This  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  fix)m  the  reign  of 


COLONEL  DOMINICK  BROWNE's  INFANTRT.         857 

Edward  the  Third,  and  members  of  it  were  attainted 
in  1641  and  1691 ;  but  nothing  has  been  ascertained 
of  Ensign  Philip  or  his  family. 


REGIMENTS    OF    INFANTRY. 

COLONEL  DOMINICK  BEOWNE's. 


Cqpftwif. 
The  Cokmel. 

Henry  Browne. 

John  Bodkin. 

Lieatenanfr-Colonel. 
Le  Sr.  MoDtgonge, 

Major. 
Peter  «Lineh.' 
Matthew  French. 
FnmciB  Martin. 
Dermot  Connor. 
Andrew  «Nowland.' 
Andrew  'Atje.' 
Chrietopher   <Ffirench.' 
Famgfa  O'DonneD, 

Valentine  'Blaeke.' 

Dominick  Lynch. 

Andrew  Browne. 

Malachy  O'Connor. 

Matthew  Lynch. 

William  Boorka. 

John  Hara. 

5  Hugh  OT)onnen. 
I  Bone  O'Donnell. 

Philip  Morris. 
Patrick  *  Ffrench.' 
Thomas  Lynch. 
Turlough  O'Connor. 
William  Skexritt. 
Thomas  «Atye.' 
Dominick  French. 

Grenad. 
Andrew  Browne, 
Snd  Captain. 

COLONEL  DOMINICK  BROWNE. 

Dominick  Fitz- William  Browne  of  Bama,  who  was 
Mayor  of  Galway  in  1575,  and  an  executing  party  to 
Ferrofs  Composition  of  1585,  was  the  common 
anoestor  of  GAkmid  Dominick  Browne,  and  of  the 


858  KING  James's  irish  armt  list. 

family  of  Clonkely  and  M oyne.  Geoffrey  Browne,  his 
eldest  son,  father  of  this  Colonel  Dominick,  had  been 
the  deputed  Envoy  from  the  Confederate  Catholics  of 
the  Supreme  Council  in  1647  to  Queen  Henrietta, 
and  afterwards  in  1650  to  the  Duke  of  Lorraine. 
The  confiscations  of  Cromwell's  time  swept  off  much 
of  this  Geoffrey's  estate  ;  yet,  still  unshaken  in  adhe- 
rence to  the  Stuart  Dynasty,  he  sent  to  the  service  of 
James  not  only  the  above  Dominick,  but  likewise 
another  son  Stephen,  both  of  whom  were  engaged  at 
the  battle  of  Aughrim.  King  James's  Charter  to 
Gal  way  in  1687  placed  seven  of  the  name  of  Browne 
upon  the  Burgess  Roll. 

Here,  in  the  more  strict  adherence  to  King  James's 
Army  List,  the  illustrations  of  the  name  of  '  Browne' 
might  close,  but  there  is  one  who  does  not  appear 
uj)on  it,  yet  was  he  deeply  associated  with  the  cam- 
paign.— Colonel  John  Browne  of  the  Neale  ;  of  him, 
however,  can  it  only  be  stated  that  he  commanded  in 
the  besieged  towns  of  Galway  and  Limerick,  and  was 
an  executing  party  to  the  Articles  for  the  surrender 
of  the  latter,  in  the  drawing  up  of  which  he  assisted. 


CAPTAINS    MATTHEW  AND   CHRISTOPHEI^ 
FRENCH. 

This  noble  family,  under  the  Norman  orthography  of 
Fi'eyne,  de  la  Freigne,  &c.,  appears  on  Battle  Roll 
amongst  the  warriors  that  came  over  with  the  Con- 


COLOinEL  DOBflNICK  brownb's  infantey.       859 

queror  to  England.  The  early  survey  of  the  Knights' 
Fees  in  certain  counties  there,  in  the  time  of  Henry  the 
Third,  finds  Thomas,  Hugh,  and  Walter  de  Freigne 
then  extensive  proprietors  in  Herefordshire,  where,  as 
in  other  parts  of  the  island,  this  surname  was  altered 
to  Frensh  or  French.  Gilbert,  Earl  of  Glouceste  , 
having  married  one  of  the  five  daughters  of  William, 
the  great  Earl  Marshal  of  Ireland,  acquired,  on  the 
partition  of  his  vast  estates,  the  whole  County  of  Kil- 
kenny as  his  Lady's  portion,  which  he  transmitted  to 
his  grandson,  another  Gilbert ;  who,  marrying  the 
daughter  of  King  Edward  the  First,  became  the  most 
powerful  of  English  Barons,  while  he  regarded  with 
great  care  and  favour  his  Irish  inheritance.  This  Earl, 
during  the  high  commissions  with  which  he  was  en- 
trusted, in  resisting  the  encroachments  of  the  Welsh, 
or  rather  perhaps  in  maintaining  those  of  the  English 
on  them,  selected  Fulco  de  Freyne  of  the  Hereford- 
shire  House  to  be  his  Seneschal  of  Kilkenny,  that 
office  being  then  considered  of  the  highest  trust  and 
consequence.  His  son,  another  Fulco,  styled  the 
younger,  and  Oliver  de  la  Freyne  were,  in  1335, 
sunmioned  as  Magnates  of  Ireland,  to  serve  the  King's 
wars  in  Scotland,  and  were  present  at  the  battle  of 
Hallidown.  In  the  Roll  of  Noblemen  and  Knights 
who  were  with  King  Edward  at  the  siege  of  Calais  in 
1346,  appears  the  name  of  ^  Fulco  de  la  Fraign, 
Hibernicus  gvaai  BarOj  having  (as  the  entry  seems 
to  denote)  under  his  command  one  Banneret,  one 
-Knight)  eighteen  '  armigeri,'  and  fourteen  hobillers,  in 


860  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

all  thirty-four.  From  his  son  Robert  de  la  Freyne 
lineallj  descended  the  Frenches  and  Ffrenches  of 
Connaught.  At  the  Supreme  Council  of  Kilkenny 
sat  the  celebrated  Nicholas  French,  the  Roman  Ca- 
tholic Bishop  of  Ferns,  as  a  Spiritual  Peer  ;  while 
in  the  Commons  were  Christopher  and  James  French, 
both  described  as  of  Galwaj.  The  Declaration  of  Royal 
thanks  in  the  Act  of  Settlement  includes  Anthony 
French,  Judge  Advocate.  Captain  Matthew  appears 
to  have  been  of  the  house  of  Colemanstown  ;  while 
John,  of  that  of  Rahassan,  was  an  Ensign  in  the  Earl 
of  Clanricarde's  Infantry,  wherein  Marcus  French 
was  a  Lieutenant.  The  latter  had  risen  to  rank  as 
Captain  at  the  battle  of  Aughrim,  after  which  he  sur- 
rendered himself  to  De  Ginkle.*  Christopher  was 
also  a  Captain  in  this  Regiment.  On  King  James's 
new  Charter  to  Galway,  eleven  of  this  name  were  ap- 
pointed Burgesses,  and  in  the  Parliament  of  1689 
James  French  sat  as  one  of  the  Representatives  of  the 
Borough  of  Sligo.  The  Attainders  of  1691  have  five 
of  this  name. 


CAPTAIN   FRANCIS  MARTIN. 

This  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of 
Edward  the  Second.  In  1585,  Sir  Murrough  Dhu 
OTflahertie,  the  first  of  that  family  who  consented  to 
hold  his  estates  by  English  tenure,  was  proceeded 

*  O'Callaghan's  Mac.  Exdd.,  p.  462. 


COLONEL  DOMINICK  BROWNE'S  INFANTRY.         861 

against  for  violating  the  provisions  of  a  penal  statute 
of  Henry  the  Seventh,  by  retaining  in  his  service  at 
Kilmainham,  William  Martin  and  three  other  mer- 
chants of  Galway,  to  whom  he  gave  four  several  cloaks 
for  their  livery,  to  serve  him  in  form  *  stipendiarorum,' 
anglice  'reteyners,'  and  not  otherwise.*  In  1625, 
Anthony  Martin  succeeded  to  the  See  of  Waterford. 
In  1642,  preparatory  to  the  forming  the  Council  at 
Kilkenny,  Richard  Martin  was  selected  as  one  of  the 
Committee  for  shaping  the  plan  of  their  government ; 
while  another  Anthony  Martin,  described  as  of 
Galway,  appears  on  the  List  of  Confederates.  In 
1687,  Peter  Martin  was  appointed  a  Justice  of  the 
Common  Pleas,  while  King  James's  Charter  to  Gal- 
way placed  six  of  this  name  on  the  Burgess  Roll. 
Besides  Captain  Francis  Martin  in  this  Regiment, 
another  Francis  was  Lieutenant  in  Colonel  Henry 
Dillon's,  as  was  Dominick  Martin  in  Lord  Galway's. 
In  the  Parliament  of  1689,  Oliver  Martin  was  one  of 
the  Representatives  for  the  town  of  Galway  ;  he  was 
afterwards  attainted,  but  claimed  the  benefit  of  the 
Articles  of  Limerick  and  Galway.  Six  others  of  the 
name  were  then  also  outlawed. 


CAPTAIN  ANDREW  NOWLAND. 

The  O'Nolans  were  a  Sept  of  the  highest  antiquity, 
especially  in  the  County  of  Carlow,  where  they  gave 

•  Court  Boll  of  Eliz. 


862 


KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  A&MT  LIST. 


name  to  the  district  of  Fothart-O'Nolan,  within  which, 
immediately  after  the  English  Invasion,  Hugh  de 
Lacy  erected  one  of  those  castles  which  his  provident 
care  designed  to  sentinel  the  Pale.  A  very  interest- 
ing memoir  of  the  Sept,  with  their  armorial,  is 
appended  to  the  third  volume  of  Sir  Bernard  Burke's 
Visitation  of  Seats  and  Arms.  The  native  Annals 
commemorate  their  achievements  from  the  earliest  in- 
troduction of  surnames,  and  a  succession  of  recorded 
Inquisitions  testifies  the  extent  of  their  territory.  In 
1605,  Sir  Oliver  Lambert,  Knight  and  Privy  Coun- 
cillor, had  a  grant  fix)m  the  Crown  of  a  great  many 
townlands  in  Fothart-O'Nolan,  including  Ballykealy, 
Kilbride,  Ballytrasney,  with  its  old  castle,  &c., 
described  as  theretofore  the  estates  of  several  O'Nolans, 
*  slain  in  rebellion,'  *  attainted,'  or  *  dead  in  rebellion.' 
The  Attainders  of  1642  name  but  John  Nolan  of 
Kilcool,  County  of  Kildare,  and  Nicholas  Nolan  of 
Ratheny,  County  of  Dublin.  John  Nolan,  merchant, 
had  in  1687  a  lease  of  the  rectory  and  tithes  of  Jer- 
point  in  the  County  of  Kilkenny,  and  was  in  the 
same  year  named  an  Alderman  in  King  James's  new 
Charter  to  that  town.  On  the  Attainders  of  1691 
the  name  of  the  above  officer  does  not  appear,  but 
only  those  of  James  and  Laurence  Nolan  of  Shan- 
garry.  County  of  Carlow  ;  Michael  of  Kilkea,  County 
of  Kildare ;  Thaddeus  of  Knockanaltan  and  Martin  of 
Ballyesken,  County  of  Waterford,  with  Joseph  Nolan 
of  Drum,  County  of  Galway.  At  Chichester  House, 
John  Nowlan  claimed  and  was  allowed  an  estate  for 


COLONEL  DOMINICK  BROWNE'S  INFANTRY.         863 

lives  in  the  lands  of  Shangarry  and  Ballinnish,  as 
forfeited  by  Laurence  Nolan  ;  while  a  Thomas  Nolan 
sought,  as  son  and  heir  of  Ellen,  daughter  of  Jasper 
Kirwan,  and  wife  of  Joseph  Nolan,  an  estate  in  fee  in 
County  of  Galway  lands  forfeited  by  said  Joseph,  but 
her  petition  was  dismissed  on  non-prosecution. 


CAPTAIN  ANDREW  'ATYE.' 

The  name  of  *  De  Athy*  is  of  record  in  Ireland  fix)m 
the  reign  of  Edward  the  Second.  In  1325,  John  de 
Athy  was  Constable  of  the  Castle  of  Carrickfergus. 
Edward  the  Third  appointed  him  Admiral  of  the  fleet 
of  all  the  ships  in  every  harbour  and  place  of  Ireland. 
King  Richard  the  Second  in  1385  constituted  Wil- 
liam de  Athy,  Treasurer  of  Connaught.  The  name 
does  not  appear  on  the  Attainders  of  1642  or  1691. 


ENSIGN  WILLIAM  SKERRETT. 

This  William  Skerrett,  it  would  appear,  had  a  saving 
of  his  right  in  certain  Galway  lands  inserted  in  a 
patent  thereof  to  Sir  Henry  Lynch  and  Ellen  his  wife, 
in  the  year  1678  ;  nothing  more  has  been  ascertained 
of  this  officer,  but  the  family  is  to  this  day  of  tenure 
and  respectability,  more  particularly  in  the  County  of 
Clare,  where  it  is  represented  by  William  Joseph 
Skerrett  of  Finav  ara  House. 


864 


KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMT  LIST. 


REGIMENTS   OF   INFANTET. 

COLONEL  OWEN  MAC  CARTIE'S. 

This  Regiment  is  wholly  unfilled  on  the  present  List^ 
but  the  Appendix  to  King's  State  of  the  Protestants 
gives  James  de  Puj  as  Lieutenant-Colonel,  and 
Terence  O'Brien  as  Major  therein. 


REGIMENTS    OF    INFANTRY. 

COLONEL  JOHN  BARRETT'S. 


CapkumM, 
The  Colonel 
Donogh  O'Calhghane, 
Lieut  -Colonel. 

Higor. 

Edmund  Batler. 

DftTid  *  Cooihene.' 

Redmond  Barry. 

ThomM  Barrj. 

FranciB  Fjtton. 

Philip  Boche. 

John  Barrett 

William  Sheehan. 

Dominick  Meade. 

George  Heneasj. 

John  *Boch,' 
Grenad. 


iMMUnaaUi. 
John  Elliott 
MUes  Magrath. 


John  Gafnej. 

Thomas  Barry. 

Owen  Macarty. 

John  Barry. 

Gibhon  Fiti-Gerald. 

Ulick  Roche. 

Edmund  Condon. 

John  Heaphy. 

Arthur  «Keefe.' 

Nicholas  Magrath. 

(  David  Magle. 
\  Godfrey  Sweeny. 


David  Roche. 
J<^  'CallahaiM.' 


Philip  Donovan. 
Richard  Coahina. 
Richard  Bany. 
James  Roche. 
James  Gold. 
Thomas  Carey. 
Edmnnd  Barrett 
Thomas  O'DonneH 
William  Barry. 
Patrick  Phelan. 


COLONEL  JOHN  BAKRETT'S  INFANTET.  865 

COLONEL  JOHN  BARRETT, 

This  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of 
Edward  the  Second.  In  1302,  John  '  Baret'  was  one 
of  the  '  Fideles'  invited  to  assist  him  in  the  wars  of 
Scotland  ;  the  family  was  most  influentially  establish- 
ed in  the  County  of  Cork.  In  the  Parliamentary 
Representation  from  Ireland,  that  sat  at  Westminster 
in  1376,  Bernard  Barrett  was  one  of  the  Repre- 
sentatives  of  Youghal.^  Barrets  were  also  strongly 
settled  in  Mayo  from  the  thirteenth  century,  and  the 
name  is,  early  in  the  fifteenth,  traced  in  Kildare.  In 
1 643,  sixteen  of  this  name  were  attainted. 

The  above  Colonel  was  of  the  Cork  Barrets,  and  in 
the  Parliament  of  1689  sat  as  one  of  the  Representa- 
tives of  the  Borough  of  Moyallow.  His  Regiment 
seems  to  have  been  all  collected  from  families  of  that 
County  ;  but  it  was,  as  appears  from  contemporaneous 
authority,  disbanded  a  fortnight  before  the  battle 
of  the  Boyne  ;  at  which  time,  it  is  stated,  were  also 
disbapded  Colonel  Uriel  Ferrall's,  Colonel  Bagnall's, 
Lord  Tyrone's,  Donogh  O'Brien's,  Lord  Iveagh's,  Mac 
Cartie  Reagh's,  Lord  Kilmallock's,  Dominick  Browne's, 
and  Lord  Mountcashel's  ;*  some  of  these  were,  how- 
ever, of  the  force  sent  to  France  in  exchange  for 
French  Regiments,  and  others  were  incorporated  in 
different  existing  bodies  of  this  service.  A  Captain 
Barret  was  taken  prisoner  at  the  siege  of  Limerick. 
The  Attainders  of  1691  include  this  officer,  described 

*  Pamphlets  in  Thorpe's  Tracts,  folio.     Dub.  Soc. 


866  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

as  John  Barrett  of  Dublin,  Esq.,  as  also  of  Castle- 
more,  County  of  Cork,  with  twelve  others  in  the  last 
mentioned  county.       At   Chichester    House,    John 
Barret  claimed  and  was  allowed  a  long  term  of  years 
subsisting  in  certain  estates  of  this  Colonel.     The  fee 
thereof  was  subsecjuently  granted  partly  to  Sir  John 
Meade  of  Ballintober,  Knight,  and  to  Sir  Matthew 
Deane,  Knight,  l>oth  of  wliom  were  creditors  of  the 
Colonel   to   a   large  amount.     The  Hollow   Swords' 
Blades  Ct>inpany  likewise  purchased  some  of  his  pn>- 
IKTty. 


LIEUTENANT-COLONEL    DONOGH 
O'CALLAGHAN. 

This  noble  Irish  Sept  was  partially  located  in  the 
Counties  of  Louth  and  Mayo,  and  more  especially  in 
Cork,  where  the  whole  tract,  comprising  the  parishes 
of  ClonmcHin  and  Kilshannick,  about  .50,000  acres  on 
both  sides  of  the  Blackwater,  and  hence  called  Pobble- 
O'Callaghan,  was  occupier!  by  them.  The  Four  Mas- 
ters notice  the  death  of  Donogh  O'Callaghan,  heir  pre- 
sumptive to  the  Kingdom  (Riodamhna)  of  Ciishel  in 
1053;  and  in  II2I  the  decease  of  MelaghlinO'Callagh- 
an.  Lord  of  Hy-Eathra  of  Munster,  the  "splendour  of 
the  South  of  Ireland."  In  1594,  an  Inquisition  was 
directed  to  ascertain  bv  mears  and  bounds  the  extent 
of  Pobble-O'Callaghan  ;  at  which  time  the  chief  was 
Cornelius  O'Callaghan,  the  lineal  ancestor  of  the  pre- 


COLONEL  JOHN   BARRETT'S   INFANTRY.  867 

sent  Earl  of  Lismore.  The  Sept  is  considered  to  have 
adopted  its  name  from  the  well-known  Ceallachan- 
Cashel,  who  was  King  of  Munster  in  the  tenth  cen- 
tury. Their  chief  residence  was  at  Clonmeen,  where 
the  ruins  of  their  castle  are  still  traceable  on  a  rock 
near  that  river.  Thirteen  of  the  name  were  attainted 
in  1643.  At  the  Supreme  Council  of  Kilkenny  in 
1646,  the  Confederate  Catholics  assumed  to  fill  the 
vacant  See  of  Cork  with  Robert  John  *  McCallaghan  ;' 
but,  on  the  Nuncio's  interference,  he  was  not  promoted 
thereto.  Amongst  these  Confederates  sat  Callaghan 
O'Callaghan  of  Castle  Mac-Auliffe,  and  Donat  O'Cal- 
laghan  of  Clonmeen.  The  Royal  declaration  of  1662 
included,  in  its  acknowledgment  of  thanks  for  services 
beyond  the  seas,  Donogh  CCallaghan  of  Clonmeen  ; 
and  by  the  Act  of  Settlement,  in  which  that  declara- 
tion is  embodied,  he  was  restored  to  his  estate.  He 
appears  to  have  been  the  above  Lieutenant-Colonel, 
and  to  have  commanded  an  independent  Troop  of  60 
men  after  the  before-mentioned  disbanding  of  Colonel 
John  Barret's  Regiment. 

Besides  Lieutenant-Colonel  Donogh  and  John  Cal- 
laghan,  an  Ensign  in  this  Regiment,  the  name  appears 
commissioned  in  the  Infantry  Regiments  of  Sir  Valen- 
tine Browne,  Sir  Charles  O'Bryan,  Lord  Mountcashel, 
and  Lord  Galway.  On  the  29th  of  October,  1690, 
Lord  Barrymore  wrote  to  the  Duke  of  Wirtemberg  : 
"  I  have  within  these  two  days  received  a  very  humble 
petition  on  behalf  of  Colonel  McDonogh,  Chief  of  the 
countnr  cbX^^  *  Dnnhallow,"  between  Mallow  and  the 

KKK  2 


868  KIXG  JAMESES  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

County  of  KeiTy,  and  of  another  Chieftain  of  a  coun- 
try called  O'Callaghan,  in  onler  to  obUiin  the  protec- 
tion of  their  Majesties.  It  is  of  very  great  consequence 
to  draw  over  people  of  their  quality  and  interest,  who 
will  bring  with  them  a  thousand  men  and  at  least 
seven  or  eight  thousand  cows."*  The  Attainders  of 
1691  include  the  above  Donogh  O'Callaghan,  with 
nine  others  of  the  name.  In  the  Spanish  war  of  1710, 
Colonel  O'Callaghan,  '  of  the  Regiment  of  Milan,' 
greatly  distinguished  himself,  and  received  several 
sabre  wounds.f 


CAPTAIN  DAVID  COOSHEXE. 

This  name,  with  varied  spelling,  is  of  record  in  Ire- 
land since  the  time  of  Edward  the  Second.  The 
family  was  early  settled  in  the  County  of  Cork, 
of  which  branch  Captain  David  was  a  member, 
being  described  in  the  Inquisition  for  his  attainder 
as  of  Farrahy,  County  of  Cork.  Garret  '  Cushen,'  of 
the  same  place,  was  then  likewise  attainted,  as  was 
Kichard  Cushen  of  Cushenstown,  County  of  West- 
meath. 


CAPTAIN  FRANCIS  FYTTON. 
Ix  1608,  Edward  Fytton,  of  Gawsworth  in  Cheshire, 

•  Clarke's  Corrcsp.  MS.  T.  C.  Dublin,  letter  205. 
t  O'Conor's  Milit.  Mem.,  p.  354. 


COLONEL  JOHN  BABRETT'S  INFANTRY.     869 

son  of  Sir  Edward  Fytton,  Knight,  deceased  (who  had 
been  theretofore,  in  the  time  of  Elizabeth,  Lord  Pre- 
sident of  Connaught  and  Treasurer  of  Ireland), 
surrendered  to  the  Crown  certain  lands  in  Ireland, 
which  had  been  granted  to  his  said  father  in  1587, 
with  the  object  of  obtaining  a  re-grant  thereof.  Sir 
Edward  had  for  his  second  son,  Alexander,  who  was 
the  father  of  William;  and  the  eldest  son  of  this 
William  was  the  Right  Honorable  Alexander  Fytton, 
Knight,  Lord  Chancellor  of  Ireland  in  the  time  of 
King  James.  He  cwne  over  to  this  country  with 
Tyrconnel  in  February,  1686  ;  was  created  Chancellor 
in  the  following  year  ;  ennobled  by  the  title  of  Bp^ron 
Gawsworth,  to  him  and  his  heirs  male  for  ever  ;  and 
sat  in  the  House  of  Peers  at  the  Parliament  of  1689. 
He  had  married  the  Lady  Anne  (daughter  of  Thomas 
Jolliffe  of  Worcestershire),  who  died  in  October,  1687, 
and  was  buried  in  St.  Patrick's  Cathedral,  Dublin, 
under  the  monument  of  her  husband's  ancestor,  the 
aforesaid  Sir  Edward  Fytton,  there  erected.*  The 
Chancellor  was  attainted  in  1691;  and  there  can  be  no 
doubt  that  the  above  Captain  was  of  this  family.  The 
Privy  Councillors  of  James,  while  at  the  Castle  of 
Dublin,  were,  this 

Sir  Alexander  Fytton,  Lord  Chancellor ; 

Thomas  Nugent,  Lord  Chief  Justice  of  the  King's  Bench ; 

John  Keating,  Chief  Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas ; 

Sir  William  Ellis,  Secretary  of  State ; 

Bruno  Talbot,  Esq.,  Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer ; 

Sir  Stephen  Eice,  Lord  Chief  Baron  of  the  Exchequer; 

♦  Funeral  Entry  in  Berm.  Tur. 


870 


KING  James's  irisu  army  ust. 


Earl  of  Tyrconnel, 
Earl  of  Liniorick, 
Earl  of  Barrymore, 
Adam  Loftus,  Es<[. 
Lemuel  Kingdou,  Elsq. 
Sir  Paul  Rycaut, 
Nicholas  Purccl,  Esq. 
Earl  of  Clanricard, 
Earl  of  Antrim, 
Justin  McCarty,  Esq. 
Lord  Viscount  Gormanstou, 
Lord  Viscount  Rosse, 
Earl  of  Tyrone, 
Lord  Netterville, 
Lord  Louth, 
Sir  William  Talbot. 


Thomas  Hamilton,  Esq. 
Lord  Viscount  Ikerrio, 
Lord  Viscount  Galmoy, 
Mr.  Justice  Daly, 
Richard  Hamilton,  Esq. 
Sir  William  Wentworth, 
Anthony  Hamilton,  Esq. 
Thomas  Sheridan,  Esq. 
Simon  Luttrell,  Esq. 
Fitz-Gendd  Villers,  Esq. 
Colonel  Garret  Moore, 
Lord  Bellcw, 
Charles  Wlute,  Esq. 
Colonel  Cormuck  O'Neill, 
Francis  Plowden,  Esq.* 


CAPTAIN  WILLIAM  SHEEHAN. 

The  O'Sheehans  were  a  Sept  in  Cork  and  Limerick, 
and  this  Captain  is  described  in  his  attainder  as  of 
Rathcumaine  in  the  former  county. 


CAPTAIN  DOMINICK  MEADE. 

This  officer  appears  to  have  been  a  son  of  Sir  John 
Meade,  (who,  dying  in  1626,  was  buried  at  EHmal- 
lock),  by  Katherine,  daughter  of  Sir  Dominick  Sars- 
field.     He  is  not  mentioned  in  the  attainders  of  1691, 

•  Memoirs  of  Ireland,  pub.  1716,  pp.  61-2. 


COLONEL  JOHN  BARRETT'S  INFANTRY.  871 

but  only  Robert  and  Thomas  Meade,  alias  Myagli,  of 
Kinsale,  and  John  Meade  of  Knocknamihill,  County 
of  Wicklow. 


CAPTAIN  GEORGE  HENESSY. 

The  O'Henessys  were  Chiefs  of  Clan-Colgan,  in  the 
King's  County,  and  of  the  territory  that  is  now  styled 
the  Barony  of  Moygoish,  County  of  Westmeath.  In 
1480,  Nicholas  O'Henesa  was  Bishop  of  Waterford 
and  Lismore.  In  1646,  Charies  Henessy  of  Cutergyn 
was  one  of  the  Confederate  Catholics.  The  immediate 
family  of  Captain  George  has  not  been  ascertained. 


LIEUTENANT  JOHN  GAFNEY. 

See  of  this  family  ante^  at  Captain  George  Gafhey,  in 
Colonel  Edward  Butler's  Infantry. 


LIEUTENANT  JOHN  HEAPHY. 

Nothing  has  been  learned  concerning  this  oflScer  or 
his  family. 


ENSIGN  THOMAS  CABY. 
The  Four  Masters  record  the  Sept   of  *  O'Carey'  as 


872  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

Lords  of  Carhury,  in  the'  County  of  Kildare,  from 
a  very  early  period  of  native  history.  Sir  Greorge 
Gary,  of  Cockington  in  Devonshire,  was  one  of  the 
assistant  council  to  the  Lord  President  of  Munster  in 
1599,  and  he  was  immediately  after  apjwinted  Lord 
Treasurer  of  Ireland.  Another  member  of  this  house 
married  Mary  Boleyn,  sister  of  Queen  Anne  Boleyn, 
and  was  ancestor  of  the  Careys,  Lortls  Iluusdon,  and 
Earls  of  Dover,  each  of  which  lines  gave  a  Colonel  to 
King  James's  service  in  Ireland.  Robert  *  Carey'  of 
Cork,  merchant,  is  the  only  one  of  the  name  who 
appears  on  the  Attainders  of  1691,  and  no  evidence 
has  been  found  of  Ensign  Thomas's  lineage. 


ENSIGN  PATRICK  PIIELAN. 

The  Sept  of  the  OThelans  is  recorded  in  the  earliest 
annals  of  Ireland.  They  were  styled  Princes  of 
Desies,  a  territory  comprising  the  greater  part  of 
the  present  County  of  Waterford,  with  a  portion  of 
Tipperary.  Malachy  OThelan  was  their  chief  at 
the  time  of  the  Anglo-Norman  invasion,  and  his 
was  the  principal  native  force  that,  in  co-operation 
with  the  Danes  of  Waterford,  sought,  but  unsuccess- 
fully, to  hold  that  city  against  the  new  comers. 
Malachy  was  taken  prisoner,  and  condemned  to  die, 
but  his  life  was  spared  on  the  intercession  of  Dermod 
McMurrough,  who  had  on  that  day  come  down  from 
Ferns  to  celebrate  the  marriage  of  his  daughter  with 


COLONEL  JOHN  BARRETT'S  INFANTRY.     873 

*  Strongbow.'  This  Sept  having  been  afterwards 
expelled  from  their  old  homes,  some,  after  a  short 
sojourn  in  Western  Meath,  crossed  the  Shannon  into 
Connaught,  where  they  spelt  the  name  OTallon  ;  and 
a  district  in  Roscommon  was  known  as  OTal- 
lon's  country.  At  the  time  of  this  campaign,  (1689) 
James  Phelan  was  the  Roman  Catholic  Bishop  of 
Ossory.  On  the  Attainders  of  1691  the  name  of 
Patrick  Phelan  does  not  appear,  but  only  those  of 
Hugo  Mac  Phelan  and  Shane  Mac  Phelan  (Eiltagh), 
both  described  as  of  the  County  of  Donegal. 


874 


KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 


REGIMENTS   OF    INFANTRY. 

COLONEL  CHARLES   O'BRYAN'S. 


The  Colonel. 

Lieatenant-Colonel. 
WiUum  Saxby, 

Mijor. 
Cornelias  M'Mahon. 

Thomas  Magrath. 

Dermott  O'Callsghan. 

Daniel  *Maloonej.* 

Ignatius  Sanfield. 

Morgan  Connell. 

Donogh  0*Br7an. 

Turlogh  M'Mahon. 

Donogh  M'Namara. 

John  Rice. 

Thadj  M*Namara. 

Teigne  Ryan. 
William  Bonrke. 

Daniel  Neiland, 
Qrenad. 

Thomas  FiU-Gerald. 


jAmUMcmU, 


Thomas  Barrj. 
Teigne  0*Brjan. 
Winter  Bridgman. 

James  *  Maloonej.' 
William  Sheenao. 
Edward  Barry. 
Barnard  Sale. 
Henrj  M'Donoogh. 
Donogh  M'Namara. 
Donogh  O'Bryan. 
Philip  Dwyer. 

\  Nicholas  Comjn. 

iJohn  Hurley. 
Dominick  White. 

Michael   <  Scanlon.' 


Ensiffnt. 


Thomas  Bourke. 
Theobald  Bourke. 
Calla  O'Callahane. 

Stephen  Stritch. 
Joseph  Sarsfield. 
Teigne  Connell. 
Teigne  0*Hehir. 
Murto  M*Mahon. 
Thomas  Grady. 
Patrick  White. 


Lewis  Ryan. 


COLONEL  CHARLES  O'BRYAN. 

This  officer  was  the  younger  sou  of  Daniel  O'Biyan, 
Lord  Clare,  at  whose  Regiment  a  memoir  of  this  name 
is  given.  The  title  subsequently  devolved  upon  this 
Charles,  on  the  death  of  his  elder  brother  Daniel  at 
Pignerol  in  1693.  This  Colonel  commanded  a  Cavalry 
Regiment  at  the  second  siege  of  Limerick. 


COLONEL  CHARLES  O'BRYAN'S  INFANTRY.        875 


MAJOR  WILLIAM  SAXBY. 

It  is  coujectured  that  this  name  should  be  spelt 
*  Saxey/  A  William  Saxey  was,  in  1599,  Chief 
Justice  of  Munster,  and  a  Justice  of  the  Queen's 
Bench  ;  while  a  namesake  of  his,  probably  his  son, 
commanded  a  troop  in  the  war  of  that  period  and 
province. 


CAPTAIN  DANIEL  MOLONY. 

The  O'Molonys  were  Chiefe  of  Cuiltonan,  now  known 
as  the  parish  of  Kiltonconlea  in  the  Barony  of  Tulla, 
County  of  Clare. 

In  1646,  John  O'Molony  was  the  Roman  Catholic 
Bishop  of  Eollaloe,  in  which  rank  he  sat  as  a  Spiritual 
Peer  at  the  Supreme  Council  of  Kilkenny.  He  had 
taken  refuge  in  France  before  King  James  had  crossed 
over  to  Ireland,  and  there  he  assisted  in  founding  at 
Paris  a  University  for  the  education  of  the  Irish 
priesthood.  He  was  attainted  in  1696  by  the  style 
of  '  Titular  Bishop  of  KUlaloe.' 

The  above  officer  may  be  presumed  to  have  been 
of  the  Cuiltonan  or  Kiltannon  Molonys,  and  his 
estates  in  Clare  were,  in  1703,  sold  by  the  Com- 
missioners of  the  Forfeitures  to  Thomas  St  John,  of 
Ballymull  Castle  in  the  same  county. 


876  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  A&MY  LIST. 

CAPTAIN  MORGAN  CONNELL. 

The  Sept  of  O'Connell  was  seised  of  territory  in  the 
Barony  of  Leitrim,  County  of  Galway,  and  of  Tul- 
lagh,  County  of  Clare,  but  more  especially  in  Hy 
Conaill  Gabhra,  comprising  the  present  Baronies  of 
Upper  and  Lower  Connello,  County  of  Limerick.  In 
751,  say  the  Four  Masters,  died  Flan  O'Connell,  King 
of  the  Hy  Falgians.  In  the  tenth  century  the  deaths 
of  O'Connells,  Abbots  of  Devenish,  are  commemorated ; 
and  it  is  singular  that  in  this  parish  are  two  town- 
lands  bearing  the  respective  names  of  Bally-connell 
and  Glen-ti-Connell,  At  the  memorable  battle  of 
Clontarf  in  1014,  the  Chief  of  the  O'Connells  was  one 
of  the  leaders.  Early  after  the  English  Invasion,  the 
ancestors  of  the  Earls  of  Desmond  acquired  from  this 
Sept  the  whole  territory  of  Conelloe  in  the  County  of 
Limerick,  in  consideration  of  other  lands  assigned  to 
them  in  Eerry  and  Clare.*  In  Sir  Bernard  Burke's 
Landed  Gentry  will  be  found  very  full  accounts  of 
several  chiefe  of  the  O'Connell  of  Kerry,  who  were 
formerly  styled  Lords  of  Ballycarbery  in  the  Barony 
of  Iveragh.  In  1461,  Cormac  O'Connell  was  Bishop 
of  Killalla,  as  was  Thomas  O'Connell  of  Ardagh  in 
1508  ;  and  in  1646  Richard  Council  was  the  Roman 
Catholic  Bishop  of  Ardfert ;  he  sat  as  one  of  the  Spiri- 
tual Peers  in  tiie  Supreme  Council  of  Kilkenny.  On 
the  Attainders  of  1642  appear  the  names  of  Philip 
O'Connell  and  Charles  O'Connell  Oge  of  Knockrobbin, 

*  Lynch's  Feudal  Dignities,  p.  131. 


COLONEL  CHARLES  O'bRYAN'S  INFANTRY.         877 

County  of  Cork.  Besides  Captain  Morgan  and  Ensign 
Teigue  Connell  in  this  Regiment,  John  Connell  was  a 
Lieutenant  in  the  King's  own  Infantry,  and  he  may 
probably  have  been  the  Lieutenant-Colonel  wounded 
at  Derry  in  1689.  A  John  O'Connell  of  Aghgore 
and  Derrynane  raised  a  foot  company  for  this  service, 
and  incorporated  it  with  that  of  his  cousin  Colonel 
Maurice  O'Connell.  He  is  recorded  to  have  signalized 
himself  at  the  Siege  of  Derry,  as  well  as  at  the  Battles 
of  the  Boyne  and  Aughrim ;  when,  returning  to  Lime- 
rick with  his  shattered  regiment,  he  was  included  in 
the  benefit  of  the  Articles  for  its  capitulation.*  He 
was  the  lineal  ancestor  of  the  illustrious  Daniel,  and 
his  Regiment,  after  the  Battle  of  the  Boyne,  was  active- 
ly engaged  in  Munster,  while  Maurice  O'Connell  was 
placed  in  command  of  the  King's  Guards.  Charles 
O'Connell  of  Braintree  in  the  County  of  Clare, 
brother  of  Maurice,  was  a  Colonel  of  Dragoons  in 
this  Campaign  ;  while  a  second  Maurice  O'Connell, 
cousin-german  to  the  former,  was  appointed  Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel in  Lord  Slane's  Infantry  aft«r  the  forming 
of  the  present  Army  List.  He  was  killed  at  Aughrim. 
On  the  Attainders  of  1691  appear  seven  of  this  name. 
Aft«r  the  unsuccessful  campaign  of  1690-1,  many  of 
the  O'Connells  entered  the  Irish  Brigade  in  the  ser- 
vice  of  France,  and  were  not  less  distinguished  in  that 
of  Austria.  Daniel  O'Connell,  the  grandson  of  the 
before-mentioned  Colonel  John  O'Connell  of  Aghgore 
and   Derrynane,   bom  in  1743,  entered  into   Lord 

*  Burke's  Landed  Gentry,  p.  947. 


878  KINQ  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Clare's  Brigade  in  1757,  where  he  early  signalized 
the  name ;  was  present  at  the  capture  of  Port  Mahon 
in  1779,  and  was  severely  wounded  at  the  grand 
attack  on  Gibraltar  in  1782.  On  the  decapitation  of 
Louis  XVI.,  the  Regiment  of  which  Daniel  had  there- 
tofore the  command,  hence  styled  O'ConneH's,  was 
disbanded  ;  whereupon  he  passed  over  to  England,  and 
was  appointed  in  1798  Colonel  of  the  6th  Irish 
Brigade,  which  command  he  retained  until  that  corps 
was  also  disbanded.  In  1814,  on  the  restoration  of 
the  Bourbon  Djmasty,  he  was  restored  to  his  military 
rank  of  a  Qeneral  and  Colonel-Commandant  of  the 
Regiment  of  Salm-Salm,  and  named  Grand  Cress  of 
the  order  of  St.  Louis.  He  died  in  July,  1833,  aged 
ninety,  at  his  chateau  near  Blois  on  the  Loire,  holding 
the  rank  of  General  in  the  French  and  the  oldest 
Colonel  in  the  English  service. 


CAPTAIN  TEIGUE  RYAN. 

The  O'Ryans  were  Lords  of  Idrone  in  the  County  of 
Carlow,  and  were  also  extended  in  that  of  Tipperary, 
the  name  being  not  unfrequently  styled  O'Muliyan. 
When  Raymond  le  Gros,  the  avant-courier  of  Strong- 
bow,  landed  at  Bagganbun  on  the  1st  of  May,  1170, 
he  proceeded  with  his  forces  to  make  himself  master  of 
Waterford,  which  stood  within  a  few  miles  of  his  place 
of  debarkation.  The  Danes,  however,  and  the  Irish 
of  the  city  joined  in  sallying  out  to  oppose  his  ad- 


COLONEL  CHARLES  O'bRYAN'S  INFANTRY.        879 

vance,  when  a  severe  conflict  took  place,  in  which, 
amongst  others,  O'Ryan,  Prince  of  Idrone,  was  shdn. 

In  1452,  James,  Earl  of  Ormonde,  demolished  the 

Castle  of  Connor  O'Mulryan,  at  Owney  in  the  County 
of  Tipperary.  In  Perrot's  Parliament  of  1585,  this 
powerful  clan  was  represented  by  Conor,  son  of  Wil- 
liam (Carrach)  son  of  Dermod  O'Mulrian,  Lord  of 
Uaithne  O'Mulryan,  i.  e.  the  Baronies  of  Owney  and 
Owneybeg  in  the  Counties  of  Tipperary  and  Limerick. 
A  manuscript  in  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  (F.  iii.  27) 
gives  links  of  the  pedigree  of  the  O'Ryans  or  O'Mul- 
ryans  of  Solloghode,  County  of  Tipperary,  for  seven 
generations  in  the  sixteenth  and  seventeenth  centuries. 
William  Kyan  of  this  family  surrendered  to  the  King 
in  1610  various  priories,  churches,  castles,  stone 
houses,  towns,  lands  and  chiefries ;  and  all  his  rights 
of  or  in  the  Barony  of  Owney-0-Mulrian ;  whereupon 
he  received  back  a  re-grant  thereof  to  hold  in  capite 
by  knight's  service.  Other  estates  in  the  County  of 
Kilkenny,  of  members  of  this  Sept  who  were  attainted, 
were  granted  in  1617  to  Sir  James  Ware  of  Dublin  ; 
and  yet  more  in  the  following  year  to  Francis  Edge- 
worth,  assignee  of  Sir  John  Eyres,  Knight  Robert 
Ryan  of  Kilcullen  Bridge  was  attainted  in  1642, 
while  Thomas  O'Ryan  of  Doone  was  a  member  of  the 
Supreme  Council.  Besides  the  above  Captain  Teigue 
and  Ensign  Lewis  in  this  Regiment,  the  name  appears 
in  three  others  of  this  List.  The  declaration  of  Royal 
Thanks  in  1662  includes  two  of  this  name,  Edmund 
O'Mulrian  of  'Dulishe  Murrian,'  and  Dermot  O'Mur- 


880  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

rian,  both  of  the  County  of  Tipperary.  A  few  weeks 
before  the  Capitulation  of  Limerick,  a  Lieutenant 
Colonel  O'Ryan  was  taken  prisoner  in  a  skirmish  with 
Brigadier  Levison's  party.*  Four  of  the  name  were 
attainted  in  1696,  with  Captain  Teigue,  whose  confis- 
cated estates  in  the  County  of  Clare  were  purchased 
by  John  Ivers  of  Mount  Ivers,  John  Cusack  of  Kil- 
kisheen  in  said  county,  and  by  Hector  Vaughan  of 
Knocknemail,  King's  County. 

Lieutenant  James  Ryan,  in  Clare's  Brigade,  was 
wounded  at  Lauffield  in  1747  ;  after  which  Luke 
Ryan,  a  native  of  Rush  near  Dublin,  some  time  in 
Dillon's  Regiment  at  Dunkirk,  was  subsequently  much 
celebrated  in  the  American  war  as  commander  of  the 
Black  Prince  privateer,  under  commission  of  the 
French  government.  This  bold  adventurer  was  tried 
as  a  pirate  at  the  Old  Bailey  in  1782  ;  and  then,  and 
on  three  subsequent  occasions,  ordered  for  execution, 
but  reprieved.  On  the  conclusion  of  peace  he  ob- 
tained his  liberty  through  the  mediation  of  the  Court 
of  Versailles,  and  expected  to  enjoy  the  hard-earned 
fruits  of  his  daring  and  reckless  exploits — a  fortune 
of  £70,000,  which  he  had  lodged  in  a  mercantile 
house  at  RoscoflF  in  Brettany  ;  but  his  crafty  bankers, 
taking  advantage,  it  is  said,  of  his  legal  incapacity  to 
sue,  applied  that  large  sum  to  their  own  use,  and  the 
wild  career  of  this  bold  seaman  terminated  in  the 
King's  Bench  prison,  where  he  died  in  1789.t 

♦  Story's  Impartial  History,  part  2,  p.  209. 
t  Brewers  Beauties  of  Ireland,  v.  1,  p.  257. 


COLONEL  CHARLES  O'BRYAN's  INFANTRY.        881 


CAPTAIN  DANIEL  NEILAND. 

In  reference  to  this  name  it  can  only  be  stated,  that 
his  namesake  Daniel  *  Neylan'  was  Bishop  of  Kildare 
in  1583  ;  while,  in  Lord  Clare's  Dragoons,  William 
*  Naylan'  was  a  Comet,  and  James  '  Neylan'  a  Quarter 
Master. 


LIEUTENANT  WINTER  BRIDGMAN. 

A  GRANT  of  lands  in  Clare  in  1670  to  Cornelius 
Clanchy  contained  a  saving  of  the  right  of  Henry 
Bridgman  to  a  mortgage  thereon,  and  the  patent  pre- 
scribed that  certain  parcels,  thereby  conveyed,  should 
be  called  for  ever  Castle  Bridgman,  and  other  parcels 
Bridgmanstowne.  In  1747,  Harry  Bridgman,  a  Lieu- 
tenant in  Clare's  Brigade,  was  killed  at  Lauffield. 


LIEUTENANT  WILLIAM  SHEENAN. 

The  Sept  of  O'Shanahan,  from  which  this  surname 
seems  anglicised,  possessed  the  territory  of  Rath- 
moyne,  between  Cashel  and  Templemore.  In  1642, 
William  Shynan,  styled  of  Moshaneglass,  County  of 
Cork,  and  possibly  the  grandfather  of  the  above  Lieu- 
tenant, was  attainted  ;  while  in  twenty  years  after, 
Dermot  O'Shinan,  of  the  County  of  Limerick,  received 
in   the  Act  of  Settlement,  Royal  thanks  for  services 

LLL 


882  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  UST. 

beyond  sea.     The  attainder  of  this  officer  describes 
him  as  of  Kilbolane,  County  of  Cork. 


LIEUTENANT  BERNARD  SALE. 

The  name  of '  Sale'  and  'Salle'  is  of  record  in  Ireland 
from  the  time  of  Edward  the  Second,  but  nothing  has 
been  ascertained  of  this  officer  or  his  family. 


LIEUTENANT  NICHOLAS  COMTN. 

This  name  is  also  of  record  in  Ireland  from  Edward 
the  Second.  On  Ortelius's  map,  the  family  is  located 
in  the  Rarony  of  Small-County,  Limerick. 

In  1181,  John  Comyn,  a  native  of  England,  was, 
on  the  recommendation  of  Henry  the  Second,  elected 
Archbishop  of  Dublin.  "  When  that  monarch  could 
no  longer  keep  this  see  vacant  and  absorb  its  revenues, 
he  resolved  that  a  dignity  of  so  much  influence  and 
value  should  not  be  entrusted  to  an  Irishman  ;  enter- 
taining some  apprehensions,  perhaps  justifiable  at 
the  crisis,  that  a  native  might  consummate  with  more 
hostility  those  political  objects  which  his  predecessor, 
Archbishop  Laurence  O'Toole,  laboured  to  effect  in 
peace."* 

In  1325,  William  ^  Comyn'  had  a  treasury  order 
for  seventy  pounds,  on  account  of  his  expenses  in 

*  D' Alton*s  Memoirs  of  the  Archbishops  of  Dublin,  p.  68. 


COLONEL  CHARLES  O'bRYAN'S  INFAKTRY.        883 

the  marches  of  Leinster,  exploring  the  passes  of  the 
Irish  of  the  mountains,  and  doing  service  to  the  state ; 
as  well  as  by  slaying  Moriertagh,  son  of  Hugh  Oge 
OToole,  and  taking  prisoners  sundry  others  of  the 
mountain  Septs,  and  delivering  them  into  the  Castle 
of  Dublin.*  He  was  afterwards  knighted,  and  had  a 
grant  of  lands  within  the  manor  of  BalgrifFyn,  near 
Dublin.  In  1356,  he  was  appointed  Captain  of  the 
Ward  at  Tallaght,  a  very  important  post  of  trust  in 
the  existing  state  of  the  Pale  :  in  the  same  year 
he  was  SheriflF  and  Escheator  of  Dublin.  In  1382, 
Humphrey  Comyn  was  Sheriff  of  the  Crosses  of  the 
County  of  Tipperary.  In  1390,  Jordan  Comyn  was 
one  of  two  influential  proprietors  appointed  to 
assess  and  collect  a  state  subsidy  off  the  Barony  of 
Moygoish,  County  of  Meath  (afterwards  Westmeath), 
as  was  John  Comyn  to  a  like  duty  in  the  Baronies  of 
Delvin,  Mullingar,  and  Ferbill.  In  1418,  Thomas 
Comyn  was  Mayor  of  Limerick,  and  about  the  same 
time  Elizabeth  Comyn  was  seized  of  the  manor  and 
lordship  of  Bannow,  County  of  Wexford.  George 
Comyn  of  Limerick  was  one  of  the  Confederates  at  the 
Supreme  Council  of  Kilkenny  in  1646.  Besides  this 
Lieutenant,  a  William  Comjm  was  one  of  the  Ensigns 
in  Colonel  Butler's  Infantry  ;  yet  neither  of  these 
names  appears  attainted  in  1691,  but  only  James 
*  Coman '  of  Kilcrea.  At  the  sale  of  the  Forfeited 
Estates  in  1703,  John  Cusack  of  Kilkiseene,  County 

♦  Rot.  Claus.,  18  Edw.  2  Cane.  Hib. 

LLL   2 


884  KESfQ  JAMES'S  IBISH  ABMT  LIST. 

of  Clare,  purchased  an  estate  in  that  county,  which 
had  theretofore  heen  the  property  of  John  Comyn. 


LIEUTENANT  MICHAEL  SCANLAN. 

The  Mac  Scanlans  were  a  Sept  of  Louth,  from  whom 
the  ancient  locality  of  Bally-Mac-Scanlan  took  its 
name.  The  O'Scanlans,  of  whom  this  oflBcer  appears 
to  have  been  a  member,  were  of  Pobble-O'Brien  in 
the  Counties  Limerick  and  Kerry.  In  1261,  Dr. 
Patrick  O'Scanlan,  who  had  previously  been  Bishop 
of  Raphoe,  was  translated  to  the  Primacy  of  Armagh. 


ENSIGN  STEPHEN  STRITCH. 

Ortelius's  Map  locates  this  family  in  the  County  of 
Limerick.  Nothing  has  been  found  worthy  of  note 
concerning  this  oflBcer. 


COLONEL  DANIEL  O'DONOVAN'S  INFANTRY.   885 

REGIMENTS   OF    INFANTRY. 

COLONEL  DANIEL  O'DONOVAN'S. 

CaptaiHt,  Limtmtanti,  Eimffnt. 

TheColoneL 

Coroeliiis  O'DriacoU, 

Lieatenant-ColoneL 
Sir  AlphoDM  Moffott, 

Kigor. 

Donogh  O'DonoTUL  Richard  Donovan.  ... . 

Daniel  Fite-Richard  

O'Donovan. 

Daniel  B^gan.  

Daniel  O'Donovan,  Jon.     .« 

Joaeph  Fox,  

Grenad. 

Denis  M'Grogfaan. 

Randall  Hnrlej. 

Togae  Hnrlej. 

John  liahon.  Ffidrej.  Gregeon. 


—  O'Mahon. 
William- Coggan. 
Denia  Mahonj. 

Carew. 

James  Goolde. 

Der.  O'Connor. 

Denis  M'CarUe. 

Teigoe  M*Cartie. 

Teigne  O'Donovan. 

Daniel  M*Donongh  O'Donoran. 

Richard  O'Donoran. 

Hagh  Donovan. 

All  the  names  below  the  middle  line  are  gathered  from  the  yery  interest- 
iog  family  papers  of  the  O'Donovan.  Thej  also  notice  seventeen  liea- 
tenants,  fifteen  Ensigns,  six  '  Reformados,*  a  Chaplain,  and  aQnarter- 
master ;  bat  none  appear  in  the  Army  list,  here  undertaken  to  be  illustrated. 


886  KING  JAM£S'8  IfilSH  ABMT  LIST. 

COLONEL  DANIEL  O'DONOVAN. 

The  O'Donovans  were  at  a  very  early  period  Chiefs  of 
Cairbre-Aodbha,  the  present  Barony  of  Kenry,  County 
of  Limerick,  where  their  chief  Castle  was  at  Bruree. 
They  afterwards  moved  southward  over  the  plains  of 
Hy-Figeinte,  situated  in  the  Barony  of  Conilloe,  in 
the  same  county,  and  extending  into  Kerry.  "When 
driven  thence,"  writes  the  well-known  Irish  antiqnsr 
rian  John  O'Donovan,  "  by  the  Baron  of  Oflfaley,  they 
appear  to  have  sunk  into  comparative  inferiority  in 
their  newly  acquired  settlements  in  O'DriscolFs 
country,  whither  they  were  soon  followed  by  a  branch 
of  the  Mc  Carthys,  similarly  expulsed  from  the  plains  of 
Cashel:  one  fact  is  certain,  that  they  (the  O'Donovans) 
paid  no  tribute  in  Hy  Figeinte,  as  being  senior  to  both 
McCarthy  and  O'Brien,  descended  as  they  were  from 
Daire  Cearb,  the  second  son  of  OlioU  Flannbeg,  King 
of  Munster,  while  the  McCarthys  came  from  Lughaidh, 
the  third  son  of  the  same  Olioll."  It  does,  however, 
appear  that  in  this,  their  Cork  territory,  they  were 
Lords  of  Clan-Cathail,  an  extensive  district  in  West 
Carbery,  with  their  chief  residence  at  Castle  Donovan, 
while  the  Castles  of  Banduff  and  Rahine  also  belonged 
to  them.  This  Sept  declined  to  send  any  Representa- 
tive to  Perrot's  Parliament  of  1585.  Donell  O'Dono- 
van  was  then  their  Chief,  as  proved  by  a  decree  of 
Chancellor  Loftus,  dated  12th  'February,  1592, 
wherein  it  was  decided  that  "  Donell  O'Donovan,  son 
of  Donell  McTeigue,  by  Ellen  ny  Leary  his  wife,  had 


COLONEL  DANIEL  O'DONOVAN'S  INFANTRY.   887 

proved  his  lawful  election  in  1584,  as  the  O'Donovan 
in  succession  to  his  father,  who  died  seized  of  the 
Lordship  and  hereditaments  of  Clancahill,  being  a 
customary  Lordship."  *  This  Donell  was  afterwards 
actively  engaged  in  the  war  of  Munster ;  and  he,  with 
Florence  Mac  Cartie  and  Owen  Mac  *  Eggan,'  at  the 
close  of  the  year  1599,  directed  an  appeal  to  invite 
the  co-operation  of  Donogh  Moyle  Mac  Cartie  in  their 
opposition  to  the  Queen  ;  concluding,  "  Therefore,  if 
ever  you  will  be  ruled  by  us,  or  tender  the  wealth  of 
yourself  and  your  country,  we  are  hereby  earnestly 
to  request  you  to  come  and  meet  us  to-morrow  at 
'  Cloudghe  ;'  and  so  requesting  you  not  to  fail  hereof 
in  anywise,  to  God's  keeping  we  commit  you. 
O'Neale's  camp  at  Iniscare,  March  2,  1599.''  When 
the  King  of  Spain  soon  after  sent  over  to  Munster  a 
supply  of  men  on  his  pay  and  entertainment,  one 
hundred  were  assigned  to  the  command  of  Donell 
O'Donovan ;  and  in  1602,  of  £3,710  which  that 
monarch  remitted  for  his  adherents  here,  £200  was 
appropriated  for  'O'Donovan.'  Donell  contrived  to 
avert  confiscation,  but,  after  the  accession  of  James 
the  First  (in  1608),  thought  it  prudent  to  surrender 
his  estates,  and  had  a  re-grant  thereof  in  1615,  as 
Donell  O'Donovan  of  Castle  Donovan.  The  patent 
enumerates  the  townlands,  &c.  of  a  very  extensive 
territory,  "  with  all  the  customs,  royalties,  dues  and 
privileges  heretofore  or  now  granted,  due  and  payable 
to  said  Donell  and  his  ancestors  in  the  ports,  bays, 

*  Biirke's  Landed  Gentry,  p.  951. 


888  KING  James's  irish  a&my  list. 

or  creeks  of  Castlehaven,  Squince,  Clonkeogh,  and  the 
western  part  of  Glandara,  with  erection  of  two  manors 
out  of  certain  parcels  of  the  premises,  to  be  respectively 
styled  Castle  Donovan  and  Rahine,  and  liberty  to  im- 
park 500  acres  for  each,  with  courts,  tolls,  markets, 
and  fairs.  At  the  same  time,  on  a  similar  surrender, 
a  like  grant  passed  to  Donell  Oge  ny  Cartain  O'Dono- 
van,  of  Cloghetradbally,  County  of  Cork ;  and  to 
Moriertagh  O'Donovan,  his  son,  of  Ardagh,  in  said 
county  ;  giving  to  them  also  sundry  castles,  with  an 
immense  extent  of  townlands  and  chiefries,  and  the 
^customs,  royalties,  and  privileges  due  and  payable 
to  said  Donell  and  his  ancestors  in  the  port  of  Glan- 
dore  ;'  a  large  prescribed  territory  being  thereby 
erected  into  the  manor  of  Cloghetradbally,  with  liberty 
to  impark  five  hundred  acres,  to  hold  courts  leet  and 
baron,  &c. 

Donell  of  Castle  Donovan  died  about  1638, 
leaving  three  sons,  Edmund,  Daniel,  and  Teigue. 
The  former,  writes  Mr.  John  O'Donovan,  hav- 
ing been  engaged  in  an  agrarian  contest  with 
O'Sullivan  Beare,  about  the  line  of  boundary  between 
Clancahill  and  Bear  and  Ban  try,  in  a  moment 
of  excitement  struck  down  O'Sullivan  so  violently 
that  death  ensued.  Edmund  fled  to  the  County  of 
Kilkenny,  where  he  lived  for  many  years,  until  at 
length  his  father,  discovering  his  retreat,  came  up  to 
him  with  a  hope  of  bringing  him  home ;  but  the  son 
had  in  the  intermediate  time  married  Catherine, 
daughter  of  William  Burke  of  Gaulstown,  with  whom 


COLONEL  DANIEL   O'DONOVAN'S  INFANTRY.        889 

he  got  several  townlands  as  a  portion,  and,  under  the 
influence  of  his  new  connections,  and  perhaps  a  hor- 
ror of  re-visiting  the  scene  of  his  crime,  he  refused  to 
return,  nor  did  he  ever ;  but  was  slain  in  some  few 
years  after  at  a  place  called  Ballinvegga,  near  New 
Boss.  His  lineal  descendant  in  the  fifth  generation 
is  the  aforesaid  John  O'Donovan.*  The  Attainders 
of  1643  include  Hugh  ODonovan  of  Dellygymore, 
Donell  O'Donovan  the  elder  (then  deceased),  and  his 
son  Donell  or  Daniel  O'Donovan  Oge  of  Castle  Dono- 
van, Murtough  McDonnell  O'Donovan  of  Cloghetrad- 
bally  (the  Moriertagh  of  the  above  patent  of  1615), 
Eichard  of  Ballyganeagh,  and  Murrough  of  Carrew- 
gariflfe,  all  in  the  County  of  Cork.  The  above  Donell 
the  elder  died  about  1638,  when  his  eldest  son,  said 
Edmund,  having  been  considered  to  have  abdicated 
his  claim  to  the  chieftaincy,  said  Daniel  Oge,  his 
second  son,  was  duly  inaugurated  Chief  of  Clancahill. 
He  died  in  1660,  and  by  an  order  of  the  Privy 
Council  in  the  following  year  this  Colonel  Daniel, 
who  was  his  son,  was  ordered  to  be  restored  to  all  his 
castles,  lands,  &c.  The  Boyal  declaration  of  thanks 
in  the  Act  of  Settlement  (1662)  names  two  Daniels  of 
the  County  of  Cork,  Captain  Daniel  O'Donovan  of 
Kilcoleman,  and  Daniel  O'Donovan  of  Fomeise  ;  yet, 
after  that  recorded  acknowledgment,  Charles  the 
Second  in  1666  confirmed  Castle  Donovan,  Sheehane, 

*  This  gentleman  has  kindly  forwarded  many  particualrs  of. 
great  interest  in  the  line  of  his  immediate  ancestry  from  Edmund. 
They  are,  in  the  necessity  of  curtailment,  reluctantly  omitted. 
He  has  five  sons  now  living. 


890  KING  JAMES'S  IKISH  AEMT  LIST. 

&c.,  (1465  acres  in  the  Barony  of  West  Carbery)  to 
a  Cromwellian  officer,  Lieutenant  Nathaniel  Evanson. 
Besides  Colonel  Daniel,  Thomas  Donovan  was  an 
Ensign  in  Sir  John  Fitz-Crerald's  Infantry,  and  Philip 
Donovan  in  Colonel  John  Barrett's.  Colonel  Daniel 
was  himself  the  Portreeve  in  King  James's  new 
Charter  to  Baltimore,  and  one  of  its  Representatives 
in  the  parliament  of  1689.  The  family  papers  and 
relics  of  this  period,  which  have  been  liberally 
supplied  in  aid  of  this  volume  by  the  O'Donovan, 
afford  singular  facilities  for  illustrating  movements 
and  proceedings  of  this  campaign,  and  from  them 
most  of  the  following  curious  notices  have  been 
adduced. 

At  the  close  of  the  year  1688,  6th  March,  Colonel 
Daniel  received  for  the  use  of  his  Regiment  sundry 
guns,  swords,  pistols,  muskets,  and  one  small  fusee 
musket  Three  days  after,  Daniel  McDonough 
O'Donovan,  a  Captain  in  this  Regiment,  who  lived 
near  Castletown  in  the  Barony  of  Carbery,  having 
heard  that  a  Mr.  Bryan  Townsey  had  gathered  there 
a  garrison  of '  rebels'  (i.  e.  to  King  James's  Grovem- 
ment),  and  was  sending  abundance  of  goods,  arms, 
and  ammunition  for  Baltimore  by  water,  with  a  detach- 
ment to  convoy  them  thither,  he  promptly  took 
twenty  of  the  most  resolute  of  his  men,  and  led  them 
by  stratagem  up  to  the  castle  door,  when  he  de- 
manded admission,  with  which  requisition  Townsey 
complied,  on  seeing  Colonel  O'Donovan's  order  there- 
for.    The   Captain  found  there   "  twenty-nine   fire- 


COLONEL  DAmEL  O'DONOVAN'S  INFANTRY.        891 

arms,  three  pistols,  and  a  hundred  small  bullets,  seven 
swords,  three  bottles  with  two  horns  full  of  powder, 
and  they  threw  a  firkin  of  powder  (writes  the  Cap- 
tain) and  a  great  quantity  of  leaden  bullets  into  the 
sea  at  my  arrival."  On  the  16th  of  this  March,  Colonel 
Daniel  had  a  further  order  for  413  muskets  and  650 
swords  to  distribute  amongst  his  soldiers  at  Cork  ; 
while,  on  the  9th  of  July  following,  after  King  James 
had  landed,  Captain  James  Goolde,  also  of  this  Regi- 
ment, received  for  its  use  forty-two  muskets,  sixty 
belts  and  thirty-five  swords  ;  and  on  the  14th,  fifty- 
five  muskets,  seventy-five  swords,  and  seventy-six 
belts.  At  the  Parliament  of  Dublin,  held  in  May, 
1689,  Daniel  O'Donovan  was  one  of  the  Representa- 
tives for  the  Borough  of  Doneraile,  while  another 
Daniel  and  Jeremiah  O'Donovan  sat  for  that  of  Balti- 
more. Jeremiah  was  then  the  proprietor  of  Cloghe- 
tradbally,  which  it  is  said  he  sold  in  1726.  On  the 
25th  of  July,  1689,  Colonel  Daniel  O'Donovan  received 
a  Royal  order,  signed  *  Melfort'  (then  King  James's 
Secretary  of  State),  directing  him  to  keep  up  all  the 
supernumerary  companies  of  his  Regiment  over  and 
above  thirteen,  till  further  orders  for  the  disposing 
thereof;  and  to  send  an  account  of  their  number, 
with  a  view  to  providing  for  their  subsistence.  On 
the  1st  of  August  following,  James  Gallwey,  the  agent 
for  clothing  the  Colonel's  Regiment,  states  his  charges 
as  follows  : — 


892  KING  JAMES'S  DtlSH  A&MY  LIST. 


For  frize  coating,  lining,  and  '  djing^  for 

each  man        -----  10    0 

For  making  the  coat  and  <  britches*        -  12 

Hat  and  hat-band         -         .         -         -  2     0 

Pair  of  shoes  and  buckle      -         -         -  3     9 

Shirt  and  making        .         -         .         -  2     6 

Cravat 10 

*  Swash' 10 

Pair  of  *  Stockens'        -         -        -         .  0     7 

*Wa8coate' 2    0 


£14    0 


Some  time  after  the  last  date,  this  Colonel  presented 
his  petition  to  the  King  then  in  Dublin,  setting  forth 
that  his  (petitioner's)  father  had  "  raised  for  his  late 
Majesty  of  blessed  memory  two  companies  of  Foot, 
and  that  both  petitioner's  uncles  commanding  them 
were  slain,  as  by  letter  of  his  late  Majesty  annexed 
may  appear  :  That  petitioner  was  to  be  restored  to  an 
ancient  estate  of  £2,000  per  arm.  by  the  said  letter  ; 
but  by  the  partiality  of  the  late  government  of  Ireland, 
(and,  as  appears  above,  with  the  confirmatory  sanction 
of  him  of  'blessed  memory^)  the  petitioner  was 
deprived  of  the  benefit  thereof,  and  his  estate  set  out 
by  the  late  Acts  of  Settlement:  That  petitioner 
suffered  long  imprisonment  by  the  oppression  of  the 
late  Earl  of  Orrery  and  others,  and  was  tried  for  his 
life  before  the  Lord  Chief  Justice  Keatinge  and  Sir 
Richard  Reynells,  on  account  of  the  late  pretended 
plot,  as  the  said  Lord  Chief  Justice  and  your 
Majesty's   Attomey-Greneral    can    testify ;    whereby 


COLONEL  DANIEL  O'DONOVAN'S  INFANTET.        893 

most  of  his  small  acquired  fortune  was  exhausted : 
That  petitioner,  by  commission,  raised  about  Christ- 
mas last  a  Regiment  of  Foot,  and  ever  since  kept 
them  without  any  subsistence  or  relief  [from  Govern- 
ment], and  notwithstanding  your  Majesty's  orders  and 
patent  at  Cork  for  quarters,  arms,  and  subsistence, 
your  petitioner  could  not  at  all  to  this  day  procure 
any,  whereby  he  was  exposed  to  the  censure  of  those 
he  engaged  in  his  Segiment,  and  they  discouraged, 
being  informed  the  Regiment  was  disbanded,  which 
could  not  be  otherwise  imagined,  by  the  usage  your 

petitioner  had  from  time  to  time That  the  people 

of  the  country  about  your  petitioner's  habitation  and 
estate  are  exposed  to  the  sea,  and  pirates  frequently 
amongst  them,  so  that  it  may  be  requisite,  if  it  so 
please  your  Sacred  Majesty,  to  have  still  men  in  arms 
thereabouts  for  your  Majesty's  service.  May  it  there- 
fore please  Tour  Majesty  to  order  what  stands  most 
consistent  with  your  Majesty's  pleasure  in  the  pre- 
mises, and  your  petitioner,"  &c.,  &c.  Sir  Richard 
Nagle  being  Secretary  at  this  time,  directed  a  letter 
of  11th  Optober,  1689,  from  Dublin  Castle  to  Colonel 
O'Donovan,  in  which  he  wrote,  "  Sir,  I  have  yours  of 
the  10th  instant.  The  King  is  very  well  pleased  with 
you,  for  the  care  you  have  taken  of  preferring  the 
reformed  officers,  [the  '  reformados'  alluded  to  ante^  p. 
885].  I  am  glad  to  hear  the  good  account  Sir  Edward 
Scott  gives  of  your  Regiment,  and  I  hope  now  that 
they  are  under  your  immediate  care,  they  will  retrieve 
their  credit,  lost  at  Duncannon.     The  Lords  of  the 


894  RING  James's  irish  army  list. 

Treasury  have  the  care  of  providing  the  necessaries 
for  the  fort  and  sentinels ;  a  Commissary  is  ordered  at 
Cork  to  pay  the  subsistence  duly  there.  It  is  not  his 
Majesty's  intention  to  displace  any  Captains  or 
subalterns  that  have  raised  their  men  and  recruits ; 
but,  when  vacancies  do  happen,  he  would  have  the 
reformed  officers  preferred,  &c.  R.  Nagle."  A 
memorandum  of  28th  October  in  the  same  year 
acknowledged  the  receipt  of  £500  for  Colonel  O'Do- 
novan's  Regiment,  and  states  allowances  : — 

£    8.    d. 

"  To  Captain  Regan  s  soldiers,  sergeant 
and  six  men,  that  guarded  the  money 
from  Dublin 1  10    6 

To    Lieutenant    Falvej    and    Ensign 

Gregson,  that  came  for  the  money   -  7  16     0 

For  the  barrel  to  put  the  money  in      -  0     16 

For  a  bag  and  to  a  porter  -  0     5     6,  &c. 

Another  receipt,  without  date,  specifies  as  applied, 
to  the  use  of  the  soldiers  of  this  Regiment,  842  coats, 
638  breeches,  446  waistcoats,  886  hats,  218  hat- 
bands, 514  ^  carawiths,'  and  600  bandaliers^  [cases  for 
charges  of  powder].  About  this  time  the  Earl  of 
Dover,  being  still  in  King  James's  service,  wrote  to 
Colonel  O'Donovan,  then  in  Kinsale,  his  Majesty's 
order,  '^  that  the  men  belonging  to  the  three  companies 
that  are  reduced,  should  be  distributed  in  your  Regi- 
ment, to  fulfil  such  companies  as  are  not  complete  ; 
and  finding  Lieutenant-Colonel  Napier's  company  very 
weak,  you  are  desired  to  let  him  have  such  men  out  of 


COLONEL  DANIEL  O'DONOVAN'S   INFANTRY.        895 

the  three  companies  that  may  complete  his  company, 
and  the  rest  you  will  divide  according  to  the  King's 
order."  Soon  after,  Colonel  Churchill  compelled  the 
surrender  of  Kinsale.  In  the  attack  about  this  time 
on  Castletown,  near  Castlehaven,  "  the  garrison  was 
commanded  by  O'Donovan,  O'Driscoll,  and  one  Barry. 
Captain  Mac  Ronayn  made  gallant  opposition  to  the 
besiegers,  but  was  killed  there,  as  were  also  Colonel 
O'Driscoll  and  Captain  Teigue  O'Donovan.***  At  the 
close  of  the  year  1690,  29th  February,  Colonel 
George  Hamilton  wrote  from  Bandon  to  Colonel 
O'Donovan  at  his  camp,  "  Sir,  there  being  one  John 
Jackson,  sergeant  of  Captain  Ker's  company,  lately 
taken  by  some  rapparees,  if  you  will  send  him  to 
Dunmanway  or  any  other  adjacent  garrison.  111  send 
you  Sergeant  Deady  in  his  place,  or  two  soldiers  both 
of  your  name,  who  were  sent  to  Cork  when  the 
Assizes  '  wor*  sitting,  so  not  in  my  custody.  John 
Roch  is  at  Dunmanway ;  though  a  very  notorious  rob- 
ber, yet  if  you  own  him  as  a  '  shouldier,'  he  is  at  your 
service.  What  men  are  in  your  custody,  if  you  will 
accept  a  month's  pay,  which,  '  conform'  to  military  dis- 
cipline, is  the  full  ransom  of  any  private  centinel,  I 
will  upon  my  honour  do  the  same  with  you,  whenever 
we  take  any  of  yours.  I  '  desaired'  Captain  Bruce  to 
acquaint  you  of  a  servant,  one  John  '  Mack  Claud,' 
who  '  brok'  open  my  coffer,  and  '  mead'  amongst  the 
Rapparees.  If  you  have  any  '  sitch'  man,  I  don't 
doubt  of  your  compliance  in  sending  him  to  some  of 

•  Story's  Impartial  History,  part  1,  p.  151. 


896  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ABMT  LIST. 

OUT  frontiers,  which  will  singularly  ^oblidge,'  &c,, 
G.  H.'' 

In  the  following  year  (1691),  sundry  letters  were 
addressed  to  the  Hon.  Colonel  O'Donovan  by  Captain 
John  Gordon,  from  Enniskeen  and  Bandon,  by  Patt 
Murray  at  the  former  place,  by  John  Melvill  at  RosSy 
and  Alexander  Hamilton  from  Castlehaven,  chiefly 
relating  to  exchanges  of  prisoners.  "  I  am,  for  my 
own  part,"  says  the  latter,  in  a  letter  of  6th  May^ 
"  sensible  of  your  kindness  for  using  my  soldiers  so 
kindly,  and  if  ever  it  be  my  good  fortune  to  have  any 
of  your  soldiers  prisoners,  you  may  assure  yourself 
they  shall  have  no  worse  usage.  I  should  be  glad 
the  time  would  allow  us  to  drink  one  bottle. — No 
more  at  present,  but  I  rest  your  most  humble  servant 

^Alexander  Hamilton.     My  service  to  your  Lady 

and  all  your  family."  In  a  week  after,  the  Colonel 
received  another  communication  from  the  last  cor- 
respondent ;  "  Sir,  I  received  yours  in  the  field,  in  pur- 
suit of  the  military  who  '  has'  robbed  my  *  contributers,' 
but  I  have  prevented  them  from  carrying  off  their 
prey.  If  you  please,  I  would  meet  you  at  your 
daughter's,  or  privately  or  publicly  at  Skibbereen,  for 
it  can  do  no  hurt  to  me  :  I  have  an  order  under  the 
General's  and  Judge  Crock's  hand,  for  to  speak  with 
you  if  youll  allow  me  that  honour  ;  if  you  know  of 
any  other  more  convenient  let  me  know,  with  the 
bearer  with  all  haste.  I  will  drink  a  bottle  with  you 
very  heartily,  which  I  shall  bring  with  me. — ^No  more 
at  present — my  service  to  your  Lady — daughter — and 


COLONEL  DANIEL  O'DONOVAN'S  INFANTRY.   897 

all  other  friends,  and  we  drink  your  health  at  present 
with  a  cup  of  '  punsh.'  A.  Hamilton."  Two  days 
after  the  last  date,  "  a  party  of  the  militia  of  Bandon 
took  Captain  Hugh  Donovan  and  six  of  O'Donovan's 
Regiment  prisoners."*  And  Colonel  O'Donovan 
himself  and  Mac  Cartie  More  were  at  the  same  time 
nearly  surprised  by  the  Williamite  forces.f 

In  the  middle  of  May,  1691,  the  Colonel  George 
Hamilton,  before  alluded  to  as  stationed  at  Bandon, 
and  who  seems  to  have  had  a  strong  personal  friend- 
ship for  this  Colonel,  renewed  his  well  intentioned 
overtures  :  "  Sir,  I  have  received  your  last  by  Cap- 
tain Hamilton ;  youll  find  I  have  done  you  all  kind- 
ness I  could  to  persuade  you  to  be  of  our  side ;  I  hope 
you  have  considered  the  business,  and  believe  me  it 
will  not  be  in  my  power  to  procure  such  conditions 
for  the  future,  or  yet  for  you  to  expect  larger  terms 
than  now  offered.  G.  H."  Hamilton,  in  two  days 
after,  more  explicitly  offered  the  Colonel,  as  by 
authority,  "  freedom  from  all  prosecutions  for  any  in- 
jury or  trespass  done  by  him  or  by  his  command  since 
the  1st  of  August,  1688,  to  the  date"  (of  the  letter), 
if  he  would  come  over ;  while  three  days  aft;er  that, 
the  before-named  Alexander  Hamilton  also  wrote  to 
this  Colonel  again  from  Castlehaven : — "  On  Saturday, 
between  eight  and  nine,  if  it  please  God,  I  shajl  meet 
you  at  Clough  Castle,  with  my  daughter  Nell  and  one 
oflScer  or  two,  and  from  thence  shall  do  myself  the 
honour  to  wait  upon    you  and  your  lady  at  your 

•  Story's  Impart.  Hist,  part  2,  p.  76.  f  Iclem,  p.  177. 

MMM 


898  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

quarters/'  On  that  very  day,  Colonel  O'Donovan  re- 
ceived a  marching  order  from  Brigadier  Francis  Car- 
roll (who,  with  his  Regiment  of  Dragoons,  is  before 
alluded  to),  in  which  the  Brigadier  is  styled  *  Governor 
and  Commandant-in-Chief  of  his  Majesty's  Army  in 
the  Counties  of  Kerry  and  Cork/  He  says  herein, 
"  By  virtue  of  an  order  directed  to  me  by  his  Grace 
the  Duke  of  Tyrconnel,  you  are  to  march  with  your 
Eegiment  from  the  town  of  Killarney  to  the  camp  of 
Athare  (Adare),  by  secure  and  convenient  ways,  so 
as  to  be  there  in  three  days  after  you  march  from 
hence.  You  are  to  send  your  Major  or  some  other 
officer  to  receive  further  instruction  either  at  Lime- 
rick or  Athare,  withal  to  take  care  that  there  be  no 
disorder  committed,  nor  pressing  of  horses  or  plow- 
garrons,  being  the  Governor's  'straight'  command. 
Given  at  Ross."  On  the  16th  of  August,  "  A  Dutch 
vessel,  laden  with  wine  and  salt,  was  surprised  by 
O'Dono van's  men;  but  Colonel  Beecher,  with  four  boats 
manned  with  a  party  of  our  men,  came  about  from  the 
island  of  Shortin,  retook  the  ship,  forced  twelve  of  the 
Irish  into  the  sea  who  were  drowned,  and  took  twenty- 
four  more  of  them  that  had  got  into  the  boats."* 

Immediately  on  the  capitulation  of  Limerick,  this 
Colonel  received  a  pressing  letter  from  J.  Eoth, 
informing  him  that  the  writer  had  received  "an  order 
from  Lord  Lucan  to  march  forthwith  to  Carrigfoyle, 
to  be  embarked  in  the  French  fleet,  and  to  give  the 
Regiments  in  these  quarters  orders  to  march  that  way ;" 

*  Story's  Impartial  History,  part  2,  p.  198. 


COLONEL  DANIEL  O'DOXOVAN'S  INFANTRY.   899 

and  he  recommends  Colonel  O'Donovan  to  lose  no 
time  in  marching  his  forces,  *'for  the  enemy's  com- 
mander in  this  country  is  very  precise."  In  a  few 
days  after  (1 2th  October),  Major-General  John 
Wauchop  wrote  further  to  him,  "  on  sight  thereof  to 
march  with  his  Regiment  to  the  harbour  of  Cork  for 
embarkation."  The  Colonel  was,  however,  attainted 
in  1691,  by  two  Inquisitions  taken  in  Dublin  and 
two  in  Cork  ;  while,  in  1696,  two  other  Inquisitions 
were  held  on  him  in  the  latter  county.  There  were 
also  then  attainted  Daniel  Mac  Richard  O'Donovan, 
William,  Hugo,  and  Murrough  Mc  Teigue  O'Dono- 
van, Cornelius  Donovan,  Richard  Donovan,  Richard 
Donovan,  junior,  and  Donatus  Donovan.  Colonel 
Daniel  was,  however,  decreed  entitled  to  the  benefit  of 
the  Articles  of  Limerick,  and  had  further  a  special 
pass,  dated  4th  January,  1692,  to  permit  him  "to 
travel  to  Timoleague,  and  thence  to  Cork,  to  deliver 
himself  a  prisoner  to  the  High  Sheriff  without  molest- 
ation, he  behaving  himself  as  becometh ;  unless  you 
have   any   order  contrary    from   the    said    Sheriff. 

Signed,  B.   Townsend. You  are  also   to  permit 

Captain  ConoUy  and  Captain  Donovan  to  pass  as 
above,  B.  T.''  The  Cornelius  Donovan,  above  named 
on  the  Attainders,  obtained  in  1700  a  warrant  for 
free  pardon  on  account  of  his  early  submitting,  his 
services  to  suffering  Protestants,  and  his  own  losses 
on  such  occasions.*  At  the  Court  of  Claims  in  this 
year,  Morgan,  the  eldest  son  of  this  Cornelius,  claimed 

•  Harris's  MSS.  Dub.  Soc.  v.  10,  folio  603. 

MMM    2 


900  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

and  was  allowed  an  estate  tail  in  his  Cork  confisca- 
tions. A  certificate  of  22nd  April,  1708,  testifies 
"  that  Colonel  O'Donovan,  on  the  noise  of  an  invasion 
in  Scotland,  voluntarily  brought  in  and  delivered  to 
the  authorised  official  a  horse,  bridle  and  saddle  for 
her  Majesty's  service  ;  and  after,  on  the  report  that 
the  French,  that  were  designed  to  invade  Scotland, 
were  returned  to  Brest,  gave  security  that  the 
said  horse  should  be  re-delivered  to  that  officer  at  any 
time,  when  required  for  Her  Majesty's  service.  He 
appears  to  have  died  soon  after  (at  least  before  the 
accession  of  George  the  First),  when  (in  1715)  his 
son  and  heir,  "Richard  O'Donovan,  alias  O'Donovan  of 
Banclahan,  took  the  oath  of  abjuration  and  allegiance, 
and  entered  into  recognizances  with  security  to 
behave  himself  peaceab^y,  (tc."  Such  was  the  ungene- 
rous  distrust  to  which  the  old  Irish  were  then  sub- 
jected. The  Colonel  was  twicle  married  ;  by  his  first 
wife,  Victoria,  daughter  of  Captain  Coppinger,  he  had 
only  one  child,  Helena  ;  by  his  second  he  had  sons, 
whose  male  succession  became  extinct  with  General 
Richard  O'Donovan  of  the  6th  Dragoons  ;  who,  aft;er 
having  served  with  honour  in  the  campaigns  in  Flan- 
ders and  Spain,  died  in  1829  without  issue.  Helena, 
the  only  child  of  the  Colonel's  first  wife,  married  the 
aforesaid  Cornelius,  who  was  her  cousin.  Their  issue 
was  (with  a  younger  son  Teigue,  who  married  in 
Jamaica,  but  died  s.P.  when  his  widow  married 
Admiral,  afterwards  Sir  William  Burnaby,  from  whom 
has  descended  the  present  Sir  William  Crisp  Hood 


COLONEL  DANIEL  O'DONOVAN'3  INFANTRY.   901 

Bumaby,  of  Broughton  Hall),  an  elder  brother 
Morgan,  the  lineal  ancestor  of  the  present  O'Donovan. 
The  vesting  of  the  Chieftaincy  in  his  direct  ancestors 
was  however  suspended,  as  before  suggested,  by  the 
existence  of  issue  male  of  Colonel  Daniel  by  his 
second  wife,  until  1829,  when  this  ancient  Irish  title 
vested  in  Morgan  William  O'Donovan,  now  of  Mont- 
pelier,  Cork.  He  is  the  heir  male  of  Teigue  Dono- 
van, the  next  brother  of  this  Colonel  Daniel  O'Dono- 
van's  father  ;  both  being  the  sons  of  Daniel  or  Donell 
O'Donovan  the  elder,  who  was  the  Chieftain  during 
much  of  the  reigns  of  Elizabeth  and  James  the  First. 


LIEUTENANT-COLONEL  CORNELIUS 
O'DRISCOLL. 

The  ancient  Sept  of  O'Driscoll  or  O'HederiscoU  were 
settled  in  Carberry  with  Bear  andBantry  in  the  County 
of  Cork.  They  likewise  possessed  the  island  of  Cape 
Clear,  the  territory  about  the  Bay  of  Baltimore,  and, 
according  to  Smith  (History  of  Cork)^  a  part  of 
Iveragh  in  Kerry.  Within  this  ambit  they  had 
castles  in  Dunashad  and  Dunalong,  near  Baltimore, 
both  of  which  were  garrisoned  by  the  Spaniards  in 
the  war  of  1599  ;  they  had  also  a  Castle  at  Duna- 
more  in  Cape  Clear  Island.  In  1310,  a  period  when, 
as  Sir  John  Davis,  the  Attorney-General  to  Queen 
Elizabeth  and  King  James,  expresses  himself,*  '^  the 

*  Historical  Relations,  p.  49. 


902  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  U8T. 

mere  Irish  were  not  only  accounted  aliens  but  enemies, 
and  altogether  out  of  the  protection  of  the  law,  so  as  it 
was  no  capital  offence  to  kill  them,"  a  very  remark- 
able trial  took  place  at  Limerick  before  John  Wogan, 
Lord  Justice  of  Ireland  ;  wherein  a  William  Fitz- 
Roger,  being  indicted  for  the  murder  of  Roger  de 
Cantelon,  pleaded  that  he  could  not  in  law  be  guilty 
of  murder  in  that  instance,  for  that  said  Roger  (the 
victim)  was  an  Irishman  and  not  of  free  blood;  that 
in  verity  said  Roger  was  of  the  cognomen  of 
O'HederiscoU,  and  not  of  the  name  of  Cantelon  ;  and 
the  jury  found  the  facts  to  be  so,  whereupon  the 
prisoner  was  acquitted.  Smith,  in  his  History  of 
Waterford,  vol.  1,  p.  127,  details  acts  of  bitter  hosti- 
lity by  the  O'HederiscoU  and  the  Poers  against  the 
citizens  of  that  seaport.  The  Four  Masters  record 
throughout,  in  frequent  Annals,  the  succession  of  the 
chiefs  of  this  Sept ;  and  relate  a  memorable  pilgrimage 
of  the  O'DriscoU  More  and  Teigue  his  son,  in  1472^ 
according  to  the  piety  of  the  day,  to  the  shrine  of  St. 
James  of  Compostella  in  Spain.  The  father  died  on 
his  return,  as  did  his  son  within  a  month  after. 

In  Perrot's  Parliament  of  1585,  the  Sept  was  re- 
presented by  Fynnin  (anglicised  Florence)  son  of 
Connor,  son  of  Fynnin,  son  of  Connor.  This  indi- 
vidual, stiled  Sir  Fynnin  O'DriscoU,  took  an  active 
part  in  the  war  of  Munster,  adhering  to  O'Neill  and 
the  Spanish  invaders  in  1599,  as  fully  set  forth  in 
the  Pacata  Hibemia.  When  Don  Juan  De  Aguila 
brought  over  money  from  his  King  for  the  native 


COLONEL   DANIEL   O'DONOVAN'S  INFANTRY.        903 

chiefs  that  joined  him,  £500  thereof  was  appropriated 
to  Sir  Fynnin  O'Driscoll  and  Connor  his  son.  The 
fatality  of  national  division  on  grounds  of  private 
feuds,  is  powerfully  evinced  by  a  Report  of  the  Lord 
President  of  Munster  to  the  Council  of  England  after 
the  battle  of  Kinsale : — "As  for  Sir  Fynnin  O'Driscoll, 
O'Donovan,  and  the  two  sons  of  Sir  Owen  Mac  Cartie, 
they  and  their  followers  are  so  well  divided  in  factions 
amongst  themselves,  as  they  are  falling  to  preying 
and  killing  one  another,  which  we  conceive  will  much 
avail  to  the  quieting  of  these  parts.***  Immediately 
after  that  battle,  this  Fynnin's  eldest  son,  Connor,  and 
Connor  Oge  his  son  and  heir,  then  aged  nine  years, 
fled  in  a  small  bark  to  Spain.  Donnell,  another  son 
of  Sir  Fynnin,  passed  also  to  Spain  with  Don  Juan 
de  Aguila,  as  did  likewise  Dermot  Mac  Connogher 
O'Driscoll,  with  his  brother  and  sons,  and  three  sons 
of  '  Iffie  O'Driscoll.'  Connor  Oge  afterwards  served 
in  the  Spanish  navy,  and  was  slain  in  an  engagement 
with  the  Turks  in  1618.  Old  Sir  Fynnin,  yielding 
to  the  pressure  of  circumstances,  and  on  the  extinc- 
tion of  most  of  his  family,  surrendered  in  1608  to  the 
King  all  the  territory  of  Collymore,  called  O'Driscoll's 
country,  and  the  soil,  shore,  and  strand  of  the  haven 
of  Baltimore,  with  the  Islands  of  Inisherkin  and  three 
others.  The  wide  extent  of  this  district  within  the 
County  of  Cork  is  defined  in  the  grant  thereof  to 
Thomas  Crocke  of  Baltimore,  Esq.  which  immediately 
followed.     In  1611,  however,  it  appears  on  record, 

*  Pacata  Hibernia,  voL  2,  p.  506. 


904  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

that  said  Crocke  had  licence  to  alienate  all  CoUymore 
to  said  Fynnin  O'DriscoU,  Walter  Coppinger,  and 
Donogh  O'DriscoU.  The  Attainders  of  1643  present 
the  names  of  Teigue  and  Florence  O'DriscoU  of  Bally- 
mac-Irrene,  Dermot  0*Driscoll  of  Cruldrout,  Fyrmin 
Mac  Eista  of  Ballineteragh,  Cornelius  O'Driscol  of 
Donelong,  and  Donogh  O'DriscoU  of  the  same  place, 
all  in  the  County  of  Cork.  The  last-named  was  then 
Chief  of  the  Sept,  and  died  in  four  years  after  his 
attainder.  His  son  Connor  married  Catherine  Mac 
Cartie,  and  died  before  his  father,  leaving  another 
Donogh  then  a  minor. his  heir,  who  in  1654  was  ex- 
pulsed  from  his  inheritance  by  the  Cromwellians.  His 
son  was  the  above  Lieutenant-Colonel,  who,  in  1662, 
being  then  a  Lieutenant,  received  the  Royal  thanks 
through  the  Act  of  Settlement,  '  for  services  beyond 
the  sea  ;'  as  did  also  Florence  O'Driscoll  of  Ballyhan. 
A  Captain  Driscoll  is  stated  to  have  had  an  inde- 
pendent company  after  the  battle  of  the  Boyne.  On 
the  2nd  of  October  after  that  engagement,  "  the  Lord 
Marlborough  came  to  Kingsale  with  the  army ;  on 
the  3rd,  Major-General  Felton  and  Colonel  Fitz- 
Patrick  stormed  the  old  fort  called  Castle-ni-Park, 
whereupon  the  enemy  retired  into  the  castle  ;  at  the 
same  time  three  barrels  of  powder  took  fire  at  the 
gate,  and  blew  up  with  about  forty  soldiers ;  at  length, 
the  Governor,  Colonel  O'DriscoU,  and  200  of  his^^gar. 
rison  being  killed,  the  rest  surrendered  upon  quarter." 

"  On  the  23rd  of  November  following,  an  attack 

was  made  by  a  Jacobite  party  of  500  men,  under  the 


COLONEL  DANIEL  O'DONOVAN'S  INFANTRY.        905 

young  Colonel  O'Driscoll,  on  Castletown  ;  but  they 
were  so  well  received  by  Colonel  Townshend  and  his 
garrison,  that  twelve  dropped  at  the  first  volley ;  and 
upon  a  second,  Colonel  O'Driscoll,  Captain  O'Donovan, 
and  Captain  Cronin,  and  about  300  others  w^re 
slain.*'  On  the  authority  of  the  Appendix  to  Kin^s 
State  of  the  Protestants^  it  would  appear  that  a 
Francis  Napper  was  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  this  Regi- 
ment in  1690.  Those  of  this  name  attainted  in  1691 
were  Comdius  O'DriscoU,  Cornelius  O'Driscoll,  jun. 
and  eight  others  of  the  name  in  the  County  of  Cork. 
Cornelius  junior  appears  identical  with  an  officer  in 
Spain,  styled  Le  Sieur  Corneille  O'Driscoll,  distin- 
guished during  the  great  War  of  the  Succession  in 
1707  and  1708,  when  he  was  Lieutenant-Colonel  to 
the  Begiment  of  Dragoons  of  the  famous  Count  Daniel 
O'Mahony,  before  alluded  to,  {ante^  p.  756,  &c. )  At  the 
Court  of  Claims  in  1700,  the  Archbishop  of  Dublin 
claimed  and  was  allowed  an  estate  in  fee  in  some  of  the 
Cork  confiscations  of  the  above  Lieutenant-Colonel ; 
while  the  castle,  town,  and  lands  of  Bally-Mac-Kowan, 
other  parts  thereof,  were  in  1703  sold  to  the  Hollow 
Swords  Blades'  Company.  From  the  above  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  Cornelius,  has  lineally  descended  the  present 
William-Henry  O'Driscoll^his  great-great-grandson 
and  heir  male. 


MAJOR  SIR  ALPHONSO  MOFFETT. 
Nothing  has  been  ascertained  of  him  or  his  family. 


906  KING  James's  ibish  armt  ust. 


CAPTAIN  DANIEL  REGAN. 

The  OHegans  were  a  native  Sept  of  Meath,  of  whom 
was  Maurice  Regan,  the  secretary  of  Dermot  McMur- 
rough,  whose  account  of  the  English  Invasion  has 
been  published  in  the  first  part  of  Harris's  Hibemica. 

The   above   officer   appears   to  have   been   the 

*  Major'  Regan  who  was  afterwards  killed  at  the  siege 
of  Derry.  The  most  remarkable  of  the  name  in  this 
campaign  was,  however,  Sir  Teague  O'Regan,  a  truly 
gallant,  and,  to  his  king,  loyal  officer.  In  May,  1690, 
he  was  Governor  of  Charlemont,  "  when,"  says  Story, 
"  cannon  and  mortar  were  sent  up  to  force  old  Teague 
from  his  nest,  if  he  would  not  quit  it  otherwise.''  On 
the  12th  of  that  month,  this  veteran,  "  his  provisions 
having  been  spent,  and  no  hopes  of  relief  appearing, 
desired  a  parley,"  and  ultimately  surrendered  on 
terms  of  the  garrison  being  allowed  to  march  out 
with  their  arms  and  baggage.*  In  the  following 
year,  on  the  23rd  of  July,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Ramsey 
of  the  Williamite  army  marching  towards  Sligo, 
found  at  Ballysadare  Bridge,  four  miles  thence.  Sir 
Teague  O'Regan  with  eighty  horse  and  about  two 
hundred  foot  very  advantageously  posted  to  hinder 
his  passage  that  way  ;  but  Ramsey's  party  attacking 
them,  they  gave  ground  after  some  time,  and  a  rein- 
forcement aiding  Ramsey,  the  enemy  were  pursued 
almost  to  the  fort  of  Sligo,  about  thirty  being  killed 
and  nineteen  wounded  ;  Sir  Teague  narrowly  escaping, 

*  Clarke's  James  II.  v.  2,  p.  386. 


COLONEL  DANIEL  O'DONOVAN'S  INFANTRY.    907 

for  his  mean  appearance  was  the  reason  that  a  Lieu- 
tenant was  seized  instead  of  him.*  In  the  September 
following,  he,  being  Governor  of  that  fort  of  Sligo, 
was  forced  with  his  party  by  Colonel  Michelbum  from 
the  several  outworks  and  ditches,  and  obliged  to  retire 
into  the  heart  of  the  fort  ;f  and,  on  the  21st  of  that 
month,  he  was  obliged  to  surrender  that  same,  on 
terms  similar  to  those  given  to  Galway,  himself 
marching  out  at  the  head  of  600  men.J 


CAPTAIN  JOSEPH  FOX. 

This  family  name  has  been  in  some  instances  anglicised 
from  an  Irish  Sept,  0'  *  Sionagh,'  who  were  seised  in 
Teffia,  County  of  Westmeath,  of  a  territory  extending 
over  parts  of  the  Baronies  of  Rathconrath  and  Clon- 
lonan,  with  parcel  of  the  Barony  of  Kilcoursey,  in  the 
King's  County.  The  head  of  the  Sept  in  the  time  of 
Elizabeth  was  known  by  the  title  of  the  Fox  ;  and  he 
it  was  who  obtained  large  grants  from  her  Majesty  in 
the  latter  county,  with  the  title  of  Lord  Kilcoursey. 
The  only  individual  of  this  name  attainted  in  1642  was 
Arthur  Fox  of  Cromlin,  County  of  Dublin,  who  was 
afterwards,  by  Cromwell's  Act  of  1652,  excepted  from 
pardon  for  life  and  estate.  Three  other  officers  of  the 
name  appear  on  this  Army  List,  while  that  of  the 
Attainders  of  1691  presents  eight. 

•  Story's  Impartial  History,  vol  2,  p.  176. 

t  Idem,  p.  234. 

X  Harleian  Tracts,  v.  7,  p.  487. 


908  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 


REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY. 

BRYAN,    LORD    IVEAGH^S. 

Captamt,                         LietOmaiUt.                           Entignt, 
TheColonel.  

Conn  MagenniB.  . Willuun  Carr. 


BRYAN  MAGENNIS,  LORD  IVEAGH. 

The  Magennises  were  from  very  ancient  time  the 
territorial  Lords  of  Iveagh,  in  Dalaradia  (County  of 
Down),  claiming  their  descent  from  the  famous 
warrior  Connall  Ceamach,  and  ranking  as  the  head 
of  the  Clanna  Rory.  In  1314,  when  Edward  the 
Second  sought  the  aid  of  the  magnates  of  Ireland,  he 
directed  an  especial  letter  missive  to  Admilis  ^  Mac 
Anegus^DuciHibemicorum  de  Onenagh^  he  being  then 
the  Magennis.  In  1380,  when  Edmund  Mortimer, 
who  had  married  the  grand-daughter  of  Edward  the 
Third,  came  over  to  Ireland,  various  native  chiefe 
waited  upon  him,  and  amongst  them  Art  Magennis, 
the  Lord  of  Iveagh,  "  who,"  says  the  Four  Masters, 
"  was  treacherously  taken  prisoner  at  Mortimer's  re- 
sidence,  in  consequence  of  which  the  Irish,  and  many 
of  the  English  themselves,  became  afraid  to  place  any 
confidence  in  him  or  trust  themselves  to  his  power.'' 
This  Magennis  died  in  two  years  after  of  the  plague, 


BRYAN,  LORD  IVEAGH's  INFANTRY.  909 

at  Trim,  where  he  was  imprisoned.  In  1418,  the 
illustrious  Lord  Fumival,  having  made  a  foray  on 
Iveagh,  sustained  a  severe  defeat ;  and  an  immense 
number  of  the  English,  say  the  Four  Masters,  were 
slain  or  taken  prisoners  by  Magennis  on  that  occasion. 
In  1550,  Arthur  Magennis  was  Bishop  of  Dromore, 
while  Eugene  (Owen)  Magennis  was  about  the  same 
time  Bishop  of  Derry.  At  Perrot's  Parliament  of 
1585,  this  Sept  was  represented  by  Hugh,  the  son  of 
Donal  Oge,  son  of  Donal  '  Ciar  (of  the  dark-brown 
hair).  On  the  Plantation  of  Ulster,  Bryan  Oge  Mac 
Rory  Magennis  of  Edenticallow,  County  of  Down, 
having  surrendered  aU  his  Lordship,  Precinct,  or 
Circuit  of  Killwarlin,  with  all  the  townlands  within 
said  territory,  obtained  a  regrant  thereof  in  1611,  to 
hold  same  thenceforth  free  from  Royal  composition. 
Other  members  of  the  Sept  obtained  grants  of  estates 
in  the  same  county.  Sir  Arthur  Magennis,  also,  re- 
leasing to  the  King  all  his  claim  and  right  to  the 
territory  of  Iveagh,  had  in  1613  a  grant  of  various 
and  extensive  townlands  of  his  old  inheritance  within 
Iveagh,  the  extent  of  which  was  soon  after  directed 
to  be  ascertained  on  Inquisition. 

Arthur,  Lord  Viscount  Magennis,  and  Daniel 
Magennis  of  Angestown,  County  of  Meath,  were 
attainted  in  1642.  At  the  Supreme  Council  in 
1646  sat  Arthur  Magennis,  Bishop  of  Down  and 
Connor,  as  one  of  the  Spiritual  Peers,  while  of  the 
Commons  were  five  of  the  Sept.  Cromwell's  denoun- 
cing Act  of  1652  excepted  from  pardon  for  life  and 


910  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

estate  Magennis,   Viscount   Iveagh,   Sir  Con 

Magennis  of  the  County  of  Down,  Knight,  and  four 
others  of  the  name.  The  declaration  of  Royal  thanks 
in  the  Act  of  Settlement  includes  Captain  Phelim 
Magennis  and  Lieutenant  Bryan  Magennis  of  the 
Province  of  Ulster,  with  Lieutenant  Con  '  Mac  Gen- 
nis'  of  Iveagh,  County  of  Down.  On  the  Pension 
List  of  the  Establishment  for  1687-8,  the  name  of 
Arthur,  Lord  Viscount  Iveagh,  appears  for  a  pension 
of  £300.  This  extract,  as  are  all  others  of  the 
Establishment  for  this  period,  is  taken  from  the  ori- 
ginal vellum  manuscript,  dated  3rd  of  February,  at 
Whitehall,  and  signed  by  the  Council  in  England. 
It  is  preserved  in  the  Library  of  Trinity  College, 
Dublin  (E  1,  1).  Besides  Colonel  Lord  Iveagh,  the 
name  of  Magennis  is  commissioned  on  five  other 
Regiments. 

The  Lord  Iveagh  and  his  Sept  furnished  King 
James  with  two  Regiments,  one  of  Dragoons  and  the 
other  of  Infantry.  This  nobleman  sat  in  the  Parlia- 
ment of  1689  (his  outlawry  of  1642  having  been 
reversed);  while  in  the  Commons,  Murtagh  Magennis 
of  Greencastle  and  Eiver  Magennis  of  Castlewellan, 
Esqrs.  represented  the  County  of  Down,  and  Bernard 
Magennis  of  Ballygorionbeg  was  one  of  the  Members 
for  the  borough  of  Killileagh.  Lord  Iveagh  was  also 
appointed  Lord  Lieutenant  of  Down,  while  two  other 

Magennises   were   his   Deputy   Lieutenants. In 

June,  1691,  two  officers  of  this  Sept  were  killed  at 
Athlone,  and  at  the  battle  of  Aughrim  was  taken 


BRYAN,   LORD   ITEAGH'S   INFANTRY.  911 

prisoner  Lieutenant-Colonel  Murtogh  Magennis,  (for 
to  that  rank  had  a  Captain  of  Sir  Neill  (XNeill's 
Dragoons  arrived,  by  reason  of  the  slaughter  of  that 
gallant  Kegiment  at  the  Boyne).  When  Galwaj 
surrendered  in  a  few  days  after,  Lady  Iveagh  and  her 
daughter,  being  then  resident  in  the  town,  had  an 
especial  protection  for  themselves  in  the  Articles  of 
Capitulation. 

Lord  Iveagh  married  the  Lady  Margaret  De  Burgh, 
daughter  of  William,  the  seventh  Earl  of  Clanricarde. 
At  the  close  of  the  campaign,  he  did  not  accompany 
the  Irish  army  to  France,  but  entered  the  Imperial  or 
Austrian  service,  with  a  choice  battalion  of  500,  part 
of  2,000  Irish  troops  of  King  James's  old  army,  who 
were  landed  from  Cork  at  Hamburgh,  in  June,  1692. 
See  ante^  p.  663.  Another  portion  of  this  Sept  did, 
however,  go  to  France,  and  was  there  embodied  with 
followers  of  M^Mahon,  Maguire,  and  other  Ulster 
Regiments.*  The  Attainders  of  1691  present  twelve 
of  the  name. 

A  Captain  Murtagh  Magennis  of  Bulkeley's  Bri- 
gade was  wounded  at  Lauffield  in  1747. 


FRANCIS  WAUCHOP,  LIEUTENANT- 
COLONEL. 

He  was  a  Scottish  gentleman,  a  descendant,  it  might 

*  0'Callaghan*8  Green  Book,  p.  353,  and  *  Irish  Brigades,* 
vol.  1,  p.  359. 


912  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMT  LIST. 

seem,  of  James  Wauchop  of  Ballygraphen,  naturalized 
by  James  the  First  on  the  plantation  of  Ulster,  and 
doubtless  akin  to  Brigadier  John  Wauchop  hereafter 
noticed.     Tyrconnel  gave  him  this  Commission. 


ENSIGN  WILLIAM  CARR. 

Tffls  oflScer  appears  to  have  been  a  cadet  of  the 
family  of  Carr,  who,  on  the  plantation  of  Ulster,  or 
rather  earlier,  were  enfeoffed  on  the  lands  of  Balle- 
dock  or  Carrstown  in  the  Little  Ardes,  by  the  Savages 
of  Portaferry.  That  property  descended  in  the  Carrs 
from  father  to  son  until  about  1762  ;  when  it  vested 
in  three  daughters  of  Rowland  Carr,  of  whom  one 
having  died,  and  the  other  two  having  intermarried 
with  persons  of  the  name  of  Mac  Henry,  the  property 
was  sold  in  1792  to  Fitter,  in  whose  repre- 
sentatives it  now  is.* 

*  Per  information  of  John  W.  Hanna,  Esq.,  Downpatrick. 


COLONEL  ROGER  MAC  ELUCOTT's  INFANTRY.      913 


REGIMENTS    OF    INFANTRY. 


COLONEL    ROGER   M*ELLICOTT's. 


CoptoHw. 

Entigns. 

The  Colonel 

Donongh  Mac  Fineen. 
(M»Carty.) 

Charles  M*Carty. 

Teigae  M'Carty, 
Lientenant-Colonel 

[Maorice  Huseej,  sabeti- 

toted  as  Lieut-CoL 

in 

1690.] 

[Edmund  FitcgenJd, 

Major.] 

Daniel  M'Cartj. 

Teigne  M'Auliffe. 

Daniel  Dowling. 

Nicholas  Stephenson. 

John  CoUamore. 

Daniel  O'Donoghoe. 

Callixtns  O'Donoghue. 

Charies  M'Carty. 

Owen  M'Cartj. 

«  Lieut.  Dufle. 

ChariesCarty. 

John  Fitz-Geiald. 

Garrett  Fita-Manrioe. 

Nicholas  Fita-Gerald. 

George  Ajlmer. 

Peter  Ayhner. 

John  Connor. 

Redmnnd  Ferriter. 

DaTid  Rioe. 

Maurice  Ferriter. 

Chariee  M'Carty. 

Tnrlogh  Sweeny. 

Owen  M*Carty. 

DaTid  Fits.GeraId. 

James  Fits-GenOd. 

John  M*Elligott. 

Edmund  Fita-Manrioe. 

Thomas  Elliott. 

Valentine  EUiott. 

TeigueM'Carty. 

William  Harding. 

Daniel  Connor. 

COLONEL  ROGER  MAC  ELLICOTT. 


This  name  is  wholly  distinct  from  that  of  M'Gilli- 
cuddy.  "  The  former,"  writes  the  Rev.  Mr.  Rowan 
of  Belmont,  a  very  high  authority  on  antiquarian 
matters,  especially  in  connection  with  Kerry,  "  is 
variably  spelt  on  old  records  M'Elligott  and  M'Leod. 
The  family  originally  came  to  Kerry  in  consequence 

NNN     . 


914  KING  JAMES'S  IBISH  ARMY  UST. 

of  an  early  marriage  of  one  of  the  Fitz-Maurices, 
Barons  of  Lixnaw,  with  an  heiress  of  that  name  ; 
and  by  reason  of  this  connexion  Fitz-Maurice  is  said 
to  bear  a  tower  in  his  coat  of  arms,  and  a  parish  of 
Kerry  near  Tralee  is  called  Bally-Mac-Elligott.  In 
1613,  Sir  Thomas  Roper,  Knight,  passed  patent  for 
various  lands  in  Munster,  and  amongst  these  were 
estates  in  the  County  of  Kerry,  described  as  parcel  of 
the  lands  of  Ulick  Mac  EUigott,  attainted.  In  the 
Patent  Rolls  of  1625,  is  a  pardon  of  alienation  to 
Maurice  M'Elligott,  sanctioning  his  granting  over  to 
his  nephew  and  heir,  John  M'EUigott,  (inter  alia) 
Tullygannon,  Lisardbonly,  Glandanellane,  and  Tini- 
agh,  all  which  afterwards  passed,  by  the  marriage  of 
an  heiress  of  this  name,  into  the  Chute  family."  An 
Inquisition  was  held  on  Maurice's  estates  in  1624,  as 
was  another  on  those  of  John  M'EUigott  in  1631. 
From  the  Roll  of  this  Regiment  it  seems  to  have  been 
thoroughly  of  Kerry  formation,  and  it  was  part  of  the 
Irish  array  which  King  James,  before  his  abdication, 
brought  over  to  England,  as  a  force  on  whose  fidelity 
he  could  rely.  On  one  occasion  during  its  sojourn 
in  England,  "the  King,"  writes  the  Earl  of  Clarendon 
in  his  Journal,  "went  to  Hampton  Court  to  see  'Mac 
Gillycudd's'  Regiment,  lately  come  out  of  Ireland."* 
In  June,  1688,  it  received  order  to  return  to  its  na- 
tive country  ;  on  the  way  to  which,  at  Chester,  the 
Colonel  received  intelligence  of  the  birth  of  the  young 

*  Singer  s  Correspondence  of  Lord  Clarendon,   &c.,   vol.   2, 
p.  190. 


COLONEL  ROGER  MAC  ELUCOTT'S  INFANTRY.       915 

Prince,  when  he  wrote  (16th  June),  "I  am  enrap- 
tured at  the  birth  of  a  Prince,  and  Secretary  Blath- 
wayte  may  be  assured  that  the  whole  Regiment  shall, 
according  to  their  duty,  at  the  hour  appointed,  with 
very  signal  tokens  express  their  overflowing  joys  for 
our  new-bom  Prince."  Accordingly,  he  again  wrote 
from  thence  the  30th  June  to  Blathwayte,  promising 
a  full  relation  of  his  journey  into  Ireland,  and  begging 
to  learn  if  his  appearance  at  court  immediately  were 
necessary.  "Among  the  Southwell  MSS.,"  writes  Mr. 
Rowan,  "  was  a  letter  from  Chester  to  this  Secretary 
of  State,  setting  forth  how  enthusiastically  the  Irish 
Regiment  (i.  e.  McEUigott's)  drank  the  health  of  the 
new-born  Prince  of  Wales  ;  while  another  from  the 
authorities  of  that  City  complained  that  the  excise 
would  suffer,  from  the  way  in  which  the  Irish  force 
had  marched  away  without  paying  their  tavern  bills." 
"  My  ears,"  writes  Captain  Shakerly,  the  Governor  of 
Chester  Castle  (August  29th,  1688),  "are  filled  with 
the  debts  the  officers  have  left  unpaid,  which  if  not 
speedily  paid,  the  public  houses  will  be  broken  here 
and  the  revenue  of  the  excise  unpaid.''  In  the  Par- 
liament of  1689,  this  Colonel  Roger  McEllicott  and 
Cornelius  McGillicuddy  of  the  Irish  Sept  of  the  Reeks, 
were  the  Representatives,  in  the  Parliament  of  Dublin, 
for  the  borough  of  Ardfert. 

In  September,  1690,  occurred  the  siege  of  Cork, 
where  the  ftiture  Duke  of  Marlborough,  theretofore 
the  friend  of  James  the  Second,  fought  against  him. 
The  City  was  numerously  garrisoned,  and  its  gover- 

NNN  2 


916  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

nor  was  this  Colonel  Mac  EUicott,  who,  according  to 
Clarke,  "  showed  more  courage  than  prudence,  in  re- 
fusing the  good  conditions  which  were  offered  him  at 
first."  Indeed,  the  Duke  of  Berwick  had  so  little 
thought  of  its  sustaining  a  siege,  that  he  ordered  him 
to  burn  the  town,  and  retire  with  his  garrison  into 
Kerry.  But,  instead  of  that,  he  suffered  himself  to  be 
besieged,  and,  though  in  no  condition  to  hold  it  out, 
did  so  however  for  five  days  against  Marlborough  at 
the  head  of  a  regular  besieging  force  of  above  10,600 
Foot  and  1,500  Horse,  provided  with  every  requisite 
for  success,  and  aided  by  the  fire  of  two  ships  of  war, 
that  played  their  cannon  through  the  walls,  and  threw 
their  bombs  into  the  place.  At  last,  a  considerable 
breach  being  made,  and  no  more  than  two  small  bar- 
rels of  powder  left,  the  garrison,  on  the  approach  of 
a  last  general  assault  which  it  would  be  impossible 
to  resist,  surrendered  as  prisoners  of  war,  to  the 
number  of  between  four  and  five  thousand  men. 
The  terms  of  the  capitulation  (a  copy  of  which  is 
preserved  in  Harris's  MSS.  Dub.  Soc.,  vol.  10,  p.  158) 
were,  however,  most  disgracefully  violated.  Colonel 
Roger  was,  on  this  surrender,  sent  over  a  prisoner  to 
the  Tower  of  London,  where,  as  appears  from  his  own 
petition,  he  was  detained  three  or  four  years  ;  having, 
however,  the  liberty  of  the  Tower  at  large,  and  some- 
times going  out  into  the  town  to  the  bagnio  for  his 
health,  on  order  of  the  governor.  The  continuance 
of  his  imprisonment,  it  is  averred,  resulted  from  Lord 
Clanc^rty's  escape  (see  ante^  p.  504),  after  which  he 


COLONEL  ROGER  MAC  ELLICOTT'S  INFANTRY.   917 

was  also  kept  close  prisoner,  "  without  giving  any 
new  cause  of  offence,  and  was  reduced  in  health  to  the 
last  extremity."  In  June,  1697,  it  was  proposed  to 
exchange  him.* 

On  the  formation  of  Clancarty's  Brigade  in  France, 
Colonel  Roger  McEllicott  was  appointed  its  Colonel, 
Edward  Scott  its  Lieutenant-Colonel,  and  Cornelius 
Murphy  its  Major.  This  Regiment  was,  with  Dillon's, 
engaged  at  the  memorable  siege  of  Barcelona,  the 
capture  of  which  rewarded  their  valour  and  led  to  the 
treaty  of  Ryswick  and  the  termination  of  the  war.f 
''From  the  mention  of  a  General  McElligott  amongst 
a  number  of  great  military  or  civil  officers  of  Irish 
birth  or  descent  in  the  Austrian  service,  who  dined 
together  in  Vienna  at  a  grand  banquet  on  St  Patrick's 
Day,  1766  (see  ante^  p.  758),  it  is  probable  that  the 
brave  Colonel  McEllicott  emigrated  to  and  settled  in 
the  Imperial  dominions,  where  the  name  was  per- 
petuated in  the  Austrian  Army  to  the  close  of  the  last 
century  (see  post^  at  Colonel  Cuconaught  McGuire). 
Before  the  liberation  of  Lafayette,  his  family  and  com- 
panions, in  1797,  from  their  confinement  by  the 
Austrian  government,  it  appears  that  a  Captain  Mc 
Elligott  was  entrusted  with  their  detention  as  state 
prisoners  ;  and  that  to  his  treatment  of  and  conduct 
towards  them  the  prisoners  bore  grateful  testimony.^J 

♦  Thorpe's  Catal.  Southwell  MSS.  pp.  286  and  581. 
t  O'Conor's  Milit.  Mem.  pp.  199  and  230. 
X  O'Callaghan's  Green  Book,  p.  236. 


918  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 


[LIEUTENANT-COLONEL  MAURICE 
HUSSEY.] 

His  name  or  rank  does  not  appear  on  the  present 
Army  List,  but  is  inserted  on  the  authority  of  the 
appendix  to  Kin^s  State  of  the  Protestants^  as  is  also 
the  name  of 

[MAJOR   EDMUND  FITZGERALD.] 


CAPTAIN  DANIEL  O^DONOGHUE. 

The  O'Donoghues  constituted  an  ancient  Sept  of  the 
County  of  Cork,  from  which  they  were  expelled  in  the 
twelfth  century  by  the  Mc  Cartys  and  O'Mahonys. 
Thence  settling  in  Kerry,  they  became  possessed  of  the 
country  round  Lough  I^ene  and  Killarney,  and  were 
distinguished  into  the  O'Donoghue  More  and  the 
O'Donoghue  Ross  lines.  The  Annals  of  Inisfallen 
are,  as  might  be  expected,  very  full  in  notices  of  this 
family.  They  continued  to  be  a  powerful  Sept  in 
Kerry  until,  in  the  reign  of  Elizabeth,  taking  part 
with  the  unfortunate  Earl  of  Desmond,  their  estates 
were  confiscated  and  their  strength  dismembered.  In 
1605,  Theobald  Bourke,  Baron  of  Castleconnel,  had 
a  grant  of  (inter  alia)  Glenflesk,  containing  twenty- 
one  carucates,  '  almost  all  mountain,  bog,  and  un- 
profitable,*  part  of  the  estate  of  Geoffrey  O'Donoghue 


COLONEL  ROGER  MAC  ELLICOTl'S  INFANTRY.   919 

of  Glinne,  *dead  in  rebellion  ;'  and  in  1613,  Valentine 
Browne  of  Molahiffe  had  a  grant  of  Onaght-0'Do- 
noghue  More,  in  the  Country  of  Desmond,  the  manor 
and  site  of  the  Castle  of  Ross-O'Donoghue,  the  islands 
of  Inisfallen  and  Mucruss,  and  sundry  other  islands 
therein,  with  all  the  waters  and  fishings  to  said  manor 
appertaining. 


CAPTAIN  GEORGE  AYLMER. 

Of  this  family,  see  ante^  p.  179,  &c.  The  original 
appointment  of  this  oflScer,  *  our  trusty  and  well  be- 
loved George  Aylmer,'  to  be  '  a  Captain  in  our  Regi- 
ment of  Guards,'  notifies  the  Royal  will  and  pleasure 
that  he  do  '  take  place  and  command  upon  occasion  in 
our  army,  eisjoxxngest  Lieutenant-Colonel  therein,  &c.* 

"  Given  at  our  Court  at  Dublin  Castle,  the  24th 

day  of  August,  1689,  and  in  the  fifth  year  of  our 
reign. — By  his  Majesty's  command,  Ri.  Nagle."* 
This  Aylmer  was  of  the  old  line  of  Lyons,  and  there- 
tofore, as  appears  by  the  Army  List,  had  been  placed 
a  Captain  in  this  Regiment.  Four  years  previous  to 
the  date  of  this  commission,  he  married  Mary,  eldest 
daughter  of  Sir  Valentine  Browne,  subsequently 
created  Baron  Castleross  and  first  Viscount  Kenmare  ; 

*  The  original  commission,  endorsed  No.  122,  has  been  shewn 
to  the  author  of  the  present  work  by  Michael  Valentine  Aylmer, 
Esq.,  the  lineal  representative  and  heir  male  of  the  above 
George. 


920  KING  James's  irish  abmt  list. 

and  himself  was  one  of  the  Representatives  of  the 
County  of  Kildare  in  King  James's  Parliament  of 
1689.  Walker,  in  his  History  of  the  Siege  of  Derry^ 
says  that  a  Sir  George  Aylmer  was  taken  prisoner 
there ;  but  if  the  remark  applies  to  this  individual, 
he  was  subsequently  engaged  in  the  war,  and  was 
comprehended,  as  then  *  Colonel'  George  Aylmer,  in  the 
Articles  of  Limerick.  At  the  Court  of  Claims  in 
1700,  he  sought  and  was  allowed,  in  right  of  his  wife, 
her  portion  off  the  lands  forfeited  by  Lord  Eenmare ; 
he  also  claimed  an  interest  in  the  lands  of  Athcame, 
^  late  of  the  private  estate,'  L  e.  of  James  the  Second, 
when  Duke  of  York*  Captain  George  died  in  1729, 
and  was  interred  in  the  family  burial  vault  at  Lyons. 
His  grandson,  Michael  Aylmer,  sold  in  1796  the 
Lyons  property,  which  had  been  for  previous  cen- 
turies  in  his  line  of  ancestors,  to  the  first  Lord 
Cloncurry. 


LIEUTENANT  NICHOLAS  STEVENSON. 

"  The  Stephensons,"  writes  the  Reverend  Mr.  Rowan, 
"  were  of  Ballinashane,  County  of  Limerick,  correla- 
tives of  McEUicott ;  their  mother  having  been,  as  was 
his,  a  daughter  of  Bishop  Crosbie." 


LIEUTENANT  THOMAS  ELLIOTT. 
The  name  of  Ely  of  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the 


COLONEL  ROGER  MAC  ELUCOTl'S  INFANTET.       921 

time  of  Edward  the  Second,  whUe  on  Ortelius's  map 
the  Sept  of  Mac  Eliot  is  located  in  the  Barony  of 
Trughanacmy,  and  the  Inquisition  pf  attainder  on 
this  officer  describes  him  as  '  of  Tralee/  Robert  Elyot 
was  Bishop  of  Waterford  in  1349 ;  while,  on  the  occa- 
sion for  putting  in  execution  the  King's  Declaration 
for  the  Settlement  of  Ireland,  a  Thomas  Elliott  was 
in  1661  appointed  one  of  the  Sub-Commissioners. 


LIEUTENANT  WILLIAM  HARDING. 

The  name  of  *  Hardyn'  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from 
the  time  of  Edward  the  Third  ;  but  nothing  is  known 
of  this  officer  or  his  immediate  family. 


ENSIGN  JOHN  COLLAMORE. 

Nothing  of  note  has  been  ascertained  of  this  officer 
or  his  family. 


REGIMENTS    OF    INFANTRY. 

COLONEL  EDMUND  O'REILLY'S. 

Although  this  Regiment  is  wholly  unofficered  on  the 
present  list,  it  is  stated,  on  a  muster  after  the  battle 


922  KING  James's  misH  abmt  list. 

of  the  Boyne,  to  have  then  consisted  of  twenty-six 
companies,  having  a  total  of  1,300  men.  (Singer's 
Correspondence  of  Lord  Clarendon^  vol.  2,  p.  513). 
The  truly  historic  Sept  of  O'Reilly  is  very  ftilly 
chronicled  in  the  Annals  of  the  Four  Masters  ;  they 
were  Lords  of  East  Breftiey  (the  County  of 
Cavan),  and  when  Edward  the  Second,  in  1314, 
sought  aid  from  the  Irish  Magnates,  he  directed  an 
especial  letter  missive  for  that  object  to  Gillys 
O'Reilly, '  duci  Hibemicorum  de  Brefney,^  The  ecclesi- 
astical rank,  to  which  their  learning  and  worth  exalted 
them  within  their  ancient  territory,  may  be  estimated 
by  the  singular  frequency  of  their  succession  in  the 
Sees  of  Ulster.  Five  Bishops  of  Kilmore,  alias 
Brefney,  were  of  the  name,  two  of  Clogher,  one  of 
Derry,  and  five  were  Primates  of  Armagh. 

In  1413,  the  O'Reillys  and  Mac  Cabes*  made  a 

*  The  MacCabes  wereapowerful  Septof  Monaghan  and  Cavan ; 
yet,  on  this  early  Muster  Roll  of  King  James's  Army,  the  name  does 
not  appear ;  it  may  be  observed,  however,  that  in  the  nomination 
of  influential  persons  for  assessing  and  collecting  the  Poll  Tax 
for  that  King,  Alexander  Mac  Cabe  is  one  of  those  especially 
selected  for  Monaghan,  arUey  p.  35.  Long  afler  that  page  was 
printed,  a  **  genealogy  of  the  Mac  Cabes,  extracted  from  the 
Archives  of  King  James  the  Second  kept  at  Paris,"  was  forwarded 
to  the  compiler.  It  is  officially  certified  by  "Jaques  Terry,  Athlone, 
seul  Genealogiste,  Juge  de  Blazon,  le  Garde  armorial  de  sa 
Majeste,  Jaques  Second,  Roi  de  la  Grande  Britagna,"  and  drawn 
up  at  the  instance  of  Sieur  Alexander  Mac  Cabe^  theretofore  a  Lieu- 
tenant of  Horse  in  the  Regiment  of  Chevalier  William  Wallace, 
fOT  the  expedition  of  Scotland,  his  brevet  bearing  date  21st  April, 
1692,  signed  by  King  James  and  countersigned  by  Lord  Melfort, 
Secretary  of  State.     [Premising  that  this  family  supplied  in  old 


COLONEL  EDMUND  0'REILLT*8  INFANTRY.  923 

desperate  incursion  into  Meath  of  the  Pale,  burning 
and  committing  those  depredations  which  the  struggle 
for  independence  too  obviously  suggested  ;  "  they 
were,  however,"  say  the  Four  Masters,  "  overtaken  by 

time  the  hereditary  Constables  of  the  two  Brefnejs  (Cavan  and 
Leitiim),  as  well  as  of  Fermanagh  and  Monaghan ;  that  the  Four 
Masters  record  Malachy  Mac  Cabe  as  dying,  in  that  office,  of  the 
plague,  which  prevailed  in  1424 ;  and  that  his  son  died  so  en- 
titled in  1455  ;  while  in  1460  the  Mac  Cabe  expired  suddenly 
at  Lisard,  in  the  County  of  Longford,  when  *^  his  remains  were 
attended  by  fourteen  score  Galloglasses  vnth  their  battle-axes, 
conveying  him  to  his  burial  place  in  Cavan.'']  "  We  have 
made,"  says  the  Herald,  "  an  exact  search  in  the  memorials  of  our 
office^  for  the  genealogy  and  armorials  of  said  Alexander,  and  we 
have  found  that  himself  is  sojourning  in  Vitez  in  Normandy ;  is 
married  to  Dame  Christine  Fleming,  daughter  of  Richard 
Fleming,  Esq. ;  who  is  the  son  of  Christopher,  son  of  James 
Fleming,  Lord  Baron  of  Slane ;  that  smd  Alexander  was  the 
son  of  Patrick,  the  son  of  Alexander,  son  of  Darius ;  which 
Darius  was  the  son  of  Edmund  Mac  Cabe,  the  last  chief  of  the 
Mac  Cabes  who  enjoyed  the  family  estates  in  Cavan,  and  his 
spouse  was  the  daughter  of  the  great  Mac  Mahon  of  the  County 
of  Monaghan,  where  Edmund  possessed  many  lordships  down  to 
the  time  of  Elizabeth ;  their  chief  house  being  then  Moyne- 
Hall,  from  which  have  shot  out  many  branches."  The  document 
then  certifies  the  armorials  to  be,  "  Vert,  a  fesse  wavy,  between 
three  salmons  naiant  argent.  Crest,  a  demi-griffin  segreant. 
Motto,  *  Aut  vincere  aut  mori,'  as  borne  by  the  Mac  Cabes  for 
many  previous  ages  in  Ireland ;  and  confirms  them  to  said  Alex- 
ander and  his  lawful  posterity  in  his  escutcheons  triumphal  as 
well  as  funereal ;  dated  on  the  9th  day  of  February,  in  the^r^ 
year  of  the  reign  of  James  the  Third,  at  the  castle  of  St.  Ger- 
mains-en-Laye.  A  subsequent  testimonial,  dated  at  Versailles, 
25th  February,  1721,  being  the  28th  year  of  the  reign  of  our  most 
high,  most  puissant,  most  serene  Prince  James  the  Third,^'  &c.  seeks 


924  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMT  LIST. 

the  English,  who  slew  Mahon  Mac  Cabe,  Laughlin 
Mac  Cabe,  and  a  great  many  of  their  people."  The 
death  of  the  O'Reilly,  Hugh  Conallach,  son  of  Maol- 
mora,  son  of  John,  son  of  Cathal,  in  1583,  and  of  his 
wife  Isabel  Bamewall,  is  glowingly  commemorated  by 
the  Annalists.  His  son,  John  *  Roe'  O'Reilly,  claimed 
to  represent  the  Sept  in  Perrot's  Parliament  of  1585. 
Submitting  to  the  English  government,  he  repaired  to 
London,  where  he  was  honorably  received  at  Court, 
and  knighted  by  Queen  Elizabeth.  Overcome  by  Royal 
favour,  he  consented  to  hold  his  extensive  estates  as 
under  the  Crown,  and  to  abandon  the  ancient  tenures 
and  customs  of  tanistry  ;  but  soon  afterwards  was 
induced  to  take  part  with  the  Earl  of  Tyrone  against 
the  English.  He  died  at  Cavan  in  1596,  and  on  his 
death  his  brother  Philip,  who  had  some  five  years 
previously  been  confined  in  the  Castle  of  Dublin,  but 
escaped  with  Red  Hugh  O'Donnell  in  1592,  was 
appointed  '  Prince  of  Breihey'  by  the  Earl  of  Tyrone. 
He,  however,  held  the  lordship  for  but  a  short  time, 

to  further  yerify  this  pedigree,  &c.  The  above  Alexander  Mac 
Cabe,  according  to  the  family  tradition,  had  lived  in  the  estab- 
lished chief  seat  at  Moyne-Hall,  while  he  also  purchased  the  Castle 
of  Stradone,  with  sixteen  townlands  in  the  County  of  Cavan, 
from  John  Fisher,  a  Cromwellian  officer,  for  £800.  He,  how- 
ever, forfeited  the  whole  in  1691,  having  in  that  year  fought  at 
the  head  of  his  clansmen  at  Aughrim.  The  survivors  of  that 
fatal  day  served  at  limerick,  and  such  as  outlived  its  capitula- 
tion departed  to  France  with  Sarsfield,  never  to  return.  A 
Bryan  Mac  Cabe  was  also  attainted  in  1691,  when  his  estates  in 
Cavan  were  sold  to  Robert  Johnson. 


COLONEL  EDMUND  o'REILLY'S  INFANTRY.     925 

having  been  accidentally  killed  in  the  November  after 
his  inauguration.  Maolmora,  the  son  of  Sir  John,  '  a 
young  man  of  fine  person,  great  valour  and  ambition,' 
who  was  married  to  a  niece  of  the  Earl  of  Ormond, 
on  the  death  of  his  uncle  Philip,  aspiring  to  the  Lord- 
ship,  joined  the  English,  repaired  to  London  on  his 
father's  policy,  and  was  received  with  no  less  favour 
by  the  Queen,  who  gave  him  a  grant  of  lands  in 
Cavan  under  letters  patent,  with  the  promise  of  an 
Earldom.  He  commanded  a  Regiment  of  Cavalry  in 
the  English  service,  and  was  called  *  the  Queen's 
O'Reilly.'  He  was  slain  in  1598,  at  the  great  battle 
of  the  Yellow  Ford  in  Armagh. 

In  the  time  of  James  the  First,  Sir  John  Davis, 
the  Attorney-General,  wrote  an  interesting  Report 
relative  to  the  County  of  Cavan  and  its  ancient  rulers, 
which  is  preserved  in  the  MSS.  of  Trinity  College, 
Dublin, (F.  iii.  16, fol.  121,  &c.)  In  1608,  Sir  Garret 
Moore  of  Mellifont  had  a  grant  of  a  large  portion  of 
the  Cavan  estates  of  Brian  Mac  Phelim  O'Reilly, 
attainted  ;  as  had  Mary  Lady  Delvin,  widow  ;  and 
her  son  Sir  Richard  Nugent,  Lord  Delvin,  of  other 
Cavan  estates  of  O'Reillys,  attainted.  In  1610,  Sir 
Thomas  Ridgeway  passed  patent  for  yet  more  of 
O'Reilly's  Cavan  property  on  the  plantation  system, 
parcels  of  which  are  described  as  having  come  to  the 
Crown  'by  the  killing  in  rebellion  of  Bryan  ne 
Sawegh,  in  Monaghan.' 

In  1635,  Colonel  Philip  O'Reilly,  of  Ballinacargy 
Castle  in  the  County  of  Cavan,  was  recognised  as  the 


926  KING  James's  ntisH  a&mt  list. 

O'Reilly  ;  he  was  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  the  before  men- 
tioned Sir  John,  and  when  a  young  man  had  served 
some  time  in  the  Spanish  army.  Shortly  after  his 
return  to  Ireland,  he  became  one  of  the  chief  leaders 
in  the  great '  rising'  of  1641,  and  was  a  distinguished 
commander  for  many  years  in  co-operation  with  Owen 
Roe  O'Neill,  to  whose  sister  Rose  he  was  married. 
He  commanded  the  troops  of  the  Confederate  Catho- 
lics within  the  County  of  Cavan,  and  was  Governor 
of  that  town  when  Wolseley  made  the  attack  alluded 
to  (antej  p.  21).  It  may  be  added  that  at  this  battle 
a  Major  Reilly  and  Captain  Reilly  were  killed,  as  was 
also  a  Lieutenant-Colonel  Luke  Reilly.*  Colonel 
Philip  was  thereupon  attainted,  as  were  seven  others 
of  the  name.  In  1652,  Colonel  Phillip  was  de- 
nounced by  Cromwell's  Act,  as  was  also  Maolmurry 
O'Reilly  of  the  County  of  Cavan.  Philip  was  neces- 
sitated to  expatriate  himself,  and  entering  the  Spanish 
service  in  the  Netherlands,  died  there  in  the  year 
1655,  and  was  buried  in  the  Irish  monastery  at 
Louyain.  His  relative.  Colonel.  Miles  O'Reilly  of 
Camett,  was  High  Sheriff  of  the  County  of  Cavan  in 
1641,  and  was  a  commander  of  note  at  that  period. 
He  also  retired  along  with  Philip,  and  afterwards  went 
to  France,  where  he  died  about  1660,  and  was 
buried  in  the  Irish  monastery  at  Chalons-sur-Mame. 
Hugh  Roe,  the  son  of  Colonel  Philip,  was  killed  in 
battle  with  the  Parliamentary  forces  in  1651.t 

»  O'Callaghan's  Green  Book,  p.  319. 

t  These  remarks  on  the  O'Reilly  are  chiefly  gathered  from 
Dr.  Mac  Derniott's  notes  to  the  Four  Masters. 


COLONEL  EDMUND  O'REILLY'S  INFANTRY.  927 

The  Colonel  now  under  consideration  was  another 
son  of  Colonel  Philip,  and  was  popularly  stiled  *Ea- 
mun  Buighe.'  He  accompanied  James  the  Second 
from  France  to  Ireland,  and  was  by  that  monarch 
appointed  Governor  of  the  County  of  Cavan.  During 
the  campaign  he  fought  gallantly  for  hw  King  at  the 
Boyne,  at  Aughrim,  and  at  Limerick.  At  the  time 
of  the  surrender  of  Galway  (July,  1691),  Colonel  Ed- 
mund was  in  the  town  with  his  family ;  he  was  one  of 
the  hostages  for  its  due  surrender,  and  in  its  articles 
of  capitulation  an  especial  protection  was  inserted  for 
his  wife,  mother,  and  family  as  then  resident  there  : 
similar  protection  being  then  also  given  to  Lieutenant 
Luke  Reilly,  his  brother;  and  to  Philip,  with  their 
respective  wives  and  families,  all  then  likewise  in  the 
town.  When  the  last  memorable  siege  of  Limerick 
took  place,  this  Colonel  was  Governor  of  Lanes- 
borough  ;  where,  when  Wauchop,  the  governor  of  the 
Castle  of  Athlone,  learned  that  De  Ginkle  intended  to 
cross,  he  gave  warning  to  O'Reilly,  directing  him  in 
case  of  any  danger  to  send  for  the  Earl  of  Antrim's 
Regiment,  which  was  ready  to  advance  on  the  first 
signal  for  Lanesborough,  and  to  drive  the  English 
into  the  river.  Colonel  O'Reilly  accordingly  threw 
up  strong  works  in  the  only  accessible  part  of  the 
bank  at  the  Connaught  side,  and  De  Ginkle's  idea 
of  passing  over  there  was  consequently  abandoned.* 
After  the  Capitulation  of  Limerick,  he  and  many  of 
his  own  regiment  retired  with  the  Irish  Brigades  to 

»  O'Callaghan's  Green  Book,  p.  317. 


928  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

France,  where  he  died  in  1693,  leaving  by  his  wife 
Joan,  daughter  of  Brjan  OTerrall  of  the  County  of 
Longford,  an  only  son  Eogan  (Owen),  who  on  his 
father's  decease  entered  into  Dorrington's,  afterwards 
Dillon's  Brigade,  married  at  St.  Germain's  the  daugh- 
ter of  Colonel  Felix  O'Neill  (who  was  killed  at  Augh- 
rim),  and  had  a  son  Edmund  O'Reilly  bom  in  1722 ; 
who  entered  the  Brigades  in  1739,  was  a  Captain  in 
Lally's  in  1757,  in  the  following  year  was  created  a 
Knight  of  St.  Louis,  in  1763  a  Captain  in  Dillon's 
Regiment,  in  1773  ranked  as  a  retired  Lieutenant- 
Colonel,  and  was  living  in  Paris  at  the  commencement 
of  the  French  Revolution.*  Besides  Colonel  Edmund, 
Philip  Reilly  ranks  on  this  List  as  a  Lieutenant-Colo- 
nel in  Colonel  Art  Mac  Mahon's  Infantry.  John 
Reyley  of  Garrirobuck  and  this  Philip  represented  the 
County  of  Cavan  in  the  Parliament  of  1689.  The 
former  individual  raised  a  Regiment  of  Dragoons  for 
King  James's  service  at  his  own  expense,  assisted  at 
the  siege  of  Derry  in  the  same  year,  fought  afterwards 
at  the  Boyne,  and  at  Aughrim;  threw  himself  into 
Limerick,  where  he  was  included  in  the  articles  of 
Capitulation,  and  thus  saved  his  estate.  He  remained 
in  Ireland  himself,  but  his  Regiment  was  disbanded.f 
He  lived  to  the  year  1716,  when  he  was  buried  in  the 
old  church  of  Kill,  in  the  parish  of  Crosserlough, 
County  of  Cavan,  "  where,"  writes  Dr.  McDermott, 
"still  remain  his  monument  and  many  others  comme- 

♦  See  fiiUy  O'Callaghan's  Irish  Brigades,  vol.  1,  p.  275,  &c. 
t  Idem,  p.  273. 


COLONEL  EDMLTJD  O'REILLY'S  INFANTRY.         929 

morating  his  Sept."  His  eldest  son,  Connor  O'Reilly, 
who  also  served  with  distinction  in  this  campaign, 
was  included  in  the  Articles  of  Limerick.*  O'Conor, 
in  his  Military  Memoirs  of  the  Irish  Nation  (p.  190), 
says  that  after  the  Surrender  of  Limerick  many  of 
King  James's  army  took  engagements  in  King  WU- 
liam's,  "  particularly  from  O'Reilly's,  Nugent's,  Geogh- 
egan's,  Burke's,  Magennis's,  and  the  three  O'Neills', 
Cormack's,  Felix's,  and  Gordon's,  seduced  by  the  in- 
fluence of  ofl&cers but  the  whole  could  not  have 

exceeded  3,000  men,  who,  when  their  companies 
embarked  for  France,  received  the  treatment  which 
deserters  deserve,  and  usually  meet  with."  On  the 
Attainders  of  1691,  appear  Philip  Oge  and  Hugh 
O'Reilly,  who  sat  for  the  Borough  of  Cavan  in  the 
aforesaid  Parliament ;  Luke,  who  had  been  Sheriff  of 
that  County  in  1687  ;  and  twenty-six  others  of  the 
name.  Dr.  McDermott,  however,  cx)nfidently  relies  that 
there  are  above  20,000  persons  of  the  name  yet  in 
the  County  of  Cavan,  and  many  also  in  the  Counties 
of  Meath,  Longford,  and  Leitrim.  The  aforesaid 
Hugh  O'Reilly  had  been  a  Master  in  Chancery,  was 
in  1689  made  Clerk  of  the  Privy  Council,  and  sub- 
sequently was  titular  Chancellor  for  Ireland,  as  he 
would  have  been  the  actual,  had  James  succeeded. 

In  the  subsequent  Brigades  of  the  Continent,  in 
France,  Austria,  and  Spain,  oflScers  of  this  great  Irish 
Sept  may  be  traced,  distinguished  for  their  military 
service.     In  the  reign  of  Charles  the  Third  in  Spain, 

*  Burke's  Landed  Gentry,  p.  970. 

000 


930  KING  JAMES'S  I&ISH  ARMY  LIST. 

General  Count  Alexander  O'Reilly  was  a  distinguished 
ofl&cer,  and  commanded  the  army  of  the  Pyrenees  in 
1794,  when  he  fell  the  victim  of  poison.  He  was  son 
(says  Dr.  Mc  Dermott)  of  Captain  Thomas  O'Beilly  of 
Baltrasna,  by  Rosa,  daughter  of  Colonel  Luke  Mac 
Dowel  of  Mantua,  and  grandson  of  the  above  men- 
tioned  Colonel  John  O'Reilly  of  Garryrobuck.  Many 
interesting  particulars  concerning  him  may  be  found 
in  Swinburne's  Travels  in  Spain^  and  various  histories 
of  those  times.  Count  Michael  Charles  Joseph  Reill6, 
a  distinguished  General  of  Cavalry  in  the  French  ser- 
vice in  Buonaparte's  campaigns,  and  at  present  a  Peer 
of  France,  is  a  descendant  of  one  of  the  O'Reillys  of 
the  Irish  Brigades. 


REGIMENTS   OF  INFANTRY. 

COLONEL  CUCONAUGHT  MAC  GUIRE. 

This  Regiment  is  not  filled  on  this  Army  List. 
King's  State  of  the  Protestants  gives,  from  a  sub- 
sequent Muster  Roll,  Alexander  Mac  Guire  as  its 
Lieutenant  Colonel,  and  Cornelius  Mac  Guire  its 
Major.  This  Colonel  Cuconaught  was  Sheriff  of  the 
County  of  Fermanagh  in  1687  ;  he  was  killed  at  the 
battle  of  Aughrim  ;  his  Regiment,  after  fighting 
most  gallantly  and  successfully  'till  towards  the  close  of 
the  action,  was  nearly  all  destroyed,  and  his  Lieuten- 


COLONEL  CUCONAUGHT  MAC  GUIEE's  INFANTRY.      931 

ant-Colonel  taken  prisoner  *  At  the  Court  of  Claims, 
Mary  Mac  Guire,  Colonel  Cuconaught's  widow,was  al- 
lowed  a  jointure  off  Tempo  and  other  Fermanagh 
lands  ;  as  was  Bryan  Mac  Guire  a  remainder  in  tail 
therein.  Dominick  'Magweir,'  commonly  called 
Primate  of  Ireland,  was  then  also  attainted.  A 
letter  in  Skater's  Public  Gazetteer  of  1760,t  says 
that  one  of  the  Mac  Guire  Sept,  quitting  XJlster  on  the 
troubles  of  1641,  retired  to  the  parish  of  Mc  Elligott 
near  Tralee,  and  that  his  grandson  passed  thence  to 
Vienna,  where  he  had  a  kinsman  through  whose  in- 
terest he  procured  a  commission  for  his  son  in  the 
Imperial  Army.  That  son  "  commanded  at  Dresden, 
and  was  in  1760  Colonel  of  a  Regiment  of  Four  Batta- 
lions, a  Count  of  the  Holy  Roman  Empire,  and  a  Lieu- 
tenant-General  of  their  Majesty's  Imperial  Armies. 
It  is  to  him  and  his  near  kinsman  and  countryman, 
the  brave  Major  General  Baron  Mac  Elligott,  who  is 
indefatigably  climbing  to  military  glory,  that  their 
Imperial  Majesties  are  indebted  for  forming  the  Croats, 
Pandours,  and  other  irregular  free-booters  into  as 
regular  and  well  disciplined  troops  as  any  others  of 
their  subjects." 

*  Story's  Impartial  History,  pt.  2,  p.  138. 
t  Vol.  3,  p.  749. 


000  2 


932  KING  James's  irish  army  list. 

REGIMENTS   OF    INFANTRY. 

COLONEL   WALTER  BOURKE'S. 

Neither  is  this  force  filled  on  the  present  Army 
List.  To  him  and  his  Regiment  was  entrusted  the 
defence  of  the  old  Castle  of  Aughrim,  on  the  day  of 
the  last  momentous  battle  there  ;  while  the  adjacent 
old  walls,  hedges,  and  trenches,  before  and  behind  the 
castle,  were  guarded  by  another  Regiment  of  Infantry 
and  one  of  Dragoons.  In  a  hollow,  still  further  away 
behind  the  castle,  a  large  or  main  body  of  Horse  was 
stationed,  in  order  to  sweep  round  that  building  by 
the  plains  to  their  left,  and  fall  upon  any  hostile  ar- 
tillery that  might  be  brought  up  through  the  defile  to 
bear  upon  the  old  edifice.*  The  Colonel  was,  how- 
ever, taken  prisoner  in  the  castle,  with  ten  other 
ofiicers  and  forty  soldiers — all  that  remained  of  the 
little  garrison.f  To  that  garrison  is  referred  a  tra- 
dition, that,  in  order  to  supply  a  deficiency  of  bullets, 
they  cut  out  the  buttons  of  their  uniforms,  and  dis- 
charging these  buttons  and  the  ramrods  of  their  guns 
against  the  cavalry,  they  long  laboured  to  retard  the 
progress  of  the  assailants.  On  the  formation  of  the 
Brigades  in  France,  this  Walter  Bourke,  who  was  of 
the  County  Mayo  Turlough  line,  was  appointed  Colo- 
nel of  what  was  styled  '  the  Regiment  of  Athlone  ;' 
Owen  Mc  Cartie  was  his  Lieutenant-Colonel,  and  Ed- 

»  O'Callaghan  s  Green  Book,  p.  371. 
t  Idem,  pp.  376  and  452. 


COLONEL  WALTER  BODRKE'S  INFANTRY.  933 

mund  Cantwell  his  Major.*  This  Regiment  was 
distinguished  for  its  services  on  the  Continent,  as 
before  spoken  of  at  the  notices  of  the  Duke  of  Ber- 
wick and  of  Lord  Galmoy.  At  Cremona,  in  1703, 
"  when  the  rest  of  the  garrison  was  sunk  in  licentious- 
ness and  revelry,  the  two  Regiments  of  Bourke  and 
Dillon,  stationed  near  the  Po  Gate,  alone  observed 
the  rigour  of  military  discipline,  or  were  alone  found 
regularly  under  arms  on  parade  or  at  the  post  as- 
signed to  them.  They  had  not  been  corrupted  by 
example,  nor  debauched  by  the  luxuries  of  a  country, 
in  which  they  were  perfect  strangers  and  spoke  not 
the  language. "t  In  the  subsequent  conflicts  this 
Regiment  suffered  severely,  especially  in  those  on  the 
Retorto  in  1705,  where  it  was  forced  to  yield  to  the 
giant  arms  and  mighty  strength  of  the  renowned 
Guards  of  William,  the  first  of  the  Prussian  monarchs. 
"  Crossing  the  Pendino,  however,  they  rallied  behind 
underwood  and  bushes  on  its  banks,  took  a  sure  and 
deadly  aim  at  these  Goliahs,  laid  hundreds  of  them 
prostrate  on  the  ground,  and  remained  secure,  from 
the  inability  of  their  opponents  to  return  their  fire, 
their  cartouche  boxes  having  been  all  wet  in  passing 
the  Retorto.J  This  Walter  Bourke  died  a  Field 
Marshal  of  France  in  1715,§  whereupon  his  Brigade 
went  into  the  Spanish  service,  and  thence  into  the 

»  O'Conors  Milit.  Mem.  p.  199. 

t  Idem,  pp.  242-3. 

t  Idem,  pp.  306-7. 

§  0*Gallagban  8  Macar.  Excid.  p.  450. 


934  KING  JA)i£S'S  IRISH  A&MY  UST. 

Neapolitan,  in  which  latter  it  was  distinguished  in 
Sicily,  Africa,  and  Italy.  Taking  the  name  of  *  the 
King's  Regiment,'  it  was  extended  into  four  batta- 
lions ;  and  O'Conor,  in  his  Military  Memoirs  (p.  380), 
says  it  still  exists  at  Naples. 


REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY. 

COLONEL  FELIX  O'NEILL'S. 

Cc^aimt,  LieuientmU.  Entignt, 

The  Colonel.  

Con  O'Neill,  

LientenAnt-Colonel. 

Daniel  Gilmore.  Terence  O'Neill. 


COLONEL  FELIX  O'NEILL. 

This  Colonel  Felix  was  killed  at  the  battle  of  Augh- 
rim.*  On  his  fall,  his  Regiment,  it  would  appear, 
was  shaken  in  discipline  and  allegiance,  and  at  the  21st 
November,  1691,  Story  has  a  notice,f  which  although 
the  christian  name  assigned  to  the  Colonel  differs 
somewhat,  yet  clearly  refers  to  the  above  Regiment. 
"  Near  this  time.  Colonel  Phelim  O'Neill's  Regiment, 
being  encamped  in  the  County  of  Kerry,  as  part  of 
the  Irish  designed  for  France,  came  over  to  our  side, 

»  O'Callaghan's  Green  Book,  p.  322. 
t  Story '8  Impart.  Hist.  pt.  2,  p.  285. 


COLONEL  FELIX  O'NEILL'S  INFANTRY.      935 

as  several  others  did  daily  f  and  again  the  same 
writer  says,  "  Rumours  of  the  ill  reception  of  the  first 
troops  that  passed  over  from  Ireland  to  France 
having  been  circulated,  on  the  8th  of  December, 
Colonel  Mc  Dennett's,  and  Colonel  Brian  O'Neill's, 
and,  a  day  or  two  after.  Colonel  Felix  O'Neill's,  who 
were  part  of  the  Irish  forces  designed  for  France, 
quitted  the  design,  and  refused  to  go  on  board,  re- 
turning to  Clare,  where  some  of  them  delivered  up 
their  arms  to  Colonel  TiflBn,  and  went  homewards."* 


CAPTAIN  DANIEL  GILMORE. 

The  Gilmores,  or  Mac  Gilmores,  or  more  rarely 
G'Gilmores,  are  traced  on  Irish  Annals  as  possessing 
a  considerable  territory  in  the  County  of  Down,  where 
Harris  says  they  were  a  native  Sept,  '  a  strong  sort 
of  people,  and  always  followers  to  the  O'Neills  of 
Claneboy.'f  Yet  the  name  sounds  most  strikingly  of 
Danish  origin,  and  it  is  certain  that  at  the  time  of  the 
English  Invasion,  a  family  of  Mac  Gillemory  was  set- 
tled at  Waterford,  to  whom,  styling  them  Ostmen  or 
Danes,  Henry  the  Second,  when  he  stormed  that  city, 
gave  charters  of  denization,  which  his  son  John  and  his 
successor  Edward  the  First  confirmed.  Conformably 
with  this  opinion,  the  Four  Masters  allege  that  on  the 
occasion  of  this  siege,  '  Gillemaire'  was  Governor  of  the 

♦  Story's  Impart.  Hist.  pt.  2,  p.  291. 
t  History  of  the  CouDty  of  Down,  p.  45. 


936  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  A&MT  LIST. 

remarkable  round  citadel  which  still  survives, — ^Regi- 
nald's Tower.  A  short  time  previous,  in  1159,  Gil- 
lamuire  died  an  anchorite  of  Armagh.  In  1244,  when 
Henry  the  Third  summoned  the  '  Fideles'  of  Ireland 
to  assist  him  in  his  war  against  Scotland,  ^Mac 
Gillemurri'  received  an  especial  Royal  mandate.  In 
1276,  died  Dermot  Mac  Gillemuire,  Lord  of  Lecale 
(in  the  County  of  Down).  At  the  dissolution  of  the 
monasteries,  James  *  Mac  Guilmere'  was  Abbot  of 
Moville  in  the  Ardes  (County  of  Down),  and  so 
seized  of  various  lands,  tithes,  chief  rents,  and  advow- 
sons,  as  found  by  Inquisition,  temp.  James  the  First ; 
in  whose  reign  the  memorable  Plantation  of  Ulster 
occurring,  this  theretofore  territorial  family  was  fain 
to  eke  out  possession  through  under-leases  from  the 
new  settlers.  At  the  Supreme  Council  of  Kilkenny 
in  1646,  Charles  Gilmore  was  one  of  the  Confederates; 
and,  whilst  Charles  the  Second  was  *  beyond  the  seas,' 
one  of  his  faithful  adherents  was  Owen  '  Gilmer,'  who 
is  therefore  especially  marked  in  the  Act  of  Settle- 
ment. The  Attainders  of  1691  describe  the  above 
Daniel  Gilmer  as  of  Bodare,  County  of  Antrim,  with 
an  Owen  Gilmor  of  the  same  locality,  who  may  be 
identical  with  the  above  Ensign  Owen. 


COLONEL  HUGH  MAC  MAHON'S  INFANTRY.         937 

REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY. 

COLONEL   HUGH   MAC  MAHON'S. 

Captams.                          LiaUenants.                           Eiuignt, 
TheColonel.  - 


Lieuteuuit-Colonel. 
[Christopher  Plunkctt,        

Major.] 
Owen  Mac  Bfahon.  Jama  M'GiUaUun. 

This  Regiment  ia  thus  defident  in  the  present  Army  list.  The  name  of 
the  MtjoT  \a  snpplied  from  the  Appendix  to  King's  State  of  the  Protest- 
antSy  from  which  authoritj  also  it  appears  that  Major  Owen  Mac  Mahon 
was,  in  1690,  the  Lieatenant-ColoneL  See  of  this  fiimilj  ante^  at  Colonel 
Art  Mao-Mahon. 


REGIMENTS   OF    INFANTRY. 

COLONEL  DENIS  MAC  GILLICUDDY'S. 

CcgAmns.                         LimUenantt.                         Entigiu. 
TheColon«L 


Lieutenant-Colonel. 

Migor. 
John  Batler. 


COLONEL  DENIS  MAC  GILLICUDDY. 

"  The  name  of  Mac  GiUicuddy,"  writes  the  Reve- 
rend Mr.  Rowan,  "  is  distinct  from  that  of  Mc  Elligot. 


938  KING  JAMES'S  DUSH  ABMY  LIST. 

It  was  in  fact  originally  the  distinctive  title  of  the 
head  of  a  branch  of  the  O'Sullivans,  which  after  the 
the  wars  of  1641  was  more  generally  assumed  by  the 
members  of  that  branch.''  In  accordance  with  this 
construction,  when  King  James  the  First,  in  1605, 
made  a  grant  to  Theobald  Bourk  of  Castleconnell,  of 
certain  lands  in  the  County  of  Kerry,  they  were  de- 
scribed as  '  parcel  of  the  estate  of  Denis  Mac  Dermott  * 
O'Sullivan,  otherwise  *  Mac  Gillicuddie,'  *  dead  in 
rebellion.'  It  appears  from  a  Book  of  Obits  in 
Trinity  CoUege,  Dublin,  MSS.  (F.  iii.  27)  that  in 
the  year  1630  Connor  Mac  Gillicuddy,  of  Castle- 
carrick,  County  of  Kerry,  was  shipwrecked  and 
drowned  ;  that  he  had  married  Joan,  daughter  of 
John  Cosby,  Bishop  of  Ardfert,  by  whom  he  had  issue 
Donogh,  Daniel,  Connor,  Catherine,  and  Ellen  ;  that 
he  married  a  second  wife,  Sheelah,  daughter  of  Daniel 
Oge  Cartie  of  Dingle,  in  that  county,  by  whom  he 
had  one  son,  Neal ;  and  it  would  seem  that  the 
Donogh,  named  in  the  foregoing  pedigree  as  the 
eldest  son  of  Connor  Mac  Gillicuddy  by  Joan  Cosby, 
was  the  Colonel  called  '  Denis'  on  this  list.  Accord- 
ingly, the  Sheriflf  of  Kerry  in  1687  is  named  Donogh 
Mc  Gillicuddy. 


COLONEL  JAME8  PDRCELL's  INFANTRY.     939 

REGIMENTS    OF    INFANTRY, 

COLONEL  JAMES  PURCELL. 

Captaim.                         lAeutmoHti,                           Entigna. 
The  Colonel.  


Lieutenant- Colonel. 


Major. 
Denis  Kelly. 


Nothing  has  been  ascertained  of  this  officer. 


REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY. 

LORD  HUNSDON'S. 
[J^JfoSSr-an^i^^"-^^^-^ 

[Francia  Gyles,  Major]. 

This  Regiment  is  wholly  unfilled  on  the  Army  List. 
The  names  of  Ingram,  GiflTord,  and  Gyles  are  given  on 
the  authority  of  a  subsequent  Muster  Roll,  noted  in 
King's  State  of  the  Protestants^  Appendix.  This 
Lord,  Sir  Robert  Carey,  became  the  sixth  Baron 
Hunsdon  on  the  death  of  John  Carey,  the  fifth  Lord, 
without  issue  ;  the  latter  had  also  enjoyed  the  titles 
of  Viscount  Rochfort  and  Earl  of  Dover,  but  these 
latter  died  with  him.  It  appears  from  an  entry  in 
the  Archives  of  Bruges,  preserved  there  in  the  Hotel 
de  Ville,  that  a  Darby  *  Morphy'  was,  in  December, 


940  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMi  «.... 

1689,  appointed  by  King  James  a  *  Captain-Lieuten- 
anf  in  Lord  Hunsdon's  Infantry.  Of  the  Murphys, 
see  antej  p.  472,  &c. 


EEGIMENTS    OF    INFANTRY    NOT    FILLED. 

COLONEL  GARRET  MOORE'S. 
COLONEL  PATRICK  BOURKE'S. 
*  CAPTAIN'  MICHAEL  BOURKE'S. 

Wholly  unfilled  on  this  List ;  and  it  may  be  here 
mentioned  that  the  Muster  Roll,  noticed  in  the 
Appendix  to  King,  mentions  Lord  Enniskillen  also  as 
Colonel  of  a  Regiment  of  Infantry  unfilled  ;  while  he 
appears  on  the  present  List  only  as  a  Captain  in  the 
Earl  of  Antrim's  Infantry. 


CAPTAIN  MICHAEL   CORMICK'S. 

The  Mac  Cormicks  constituted  a  Sept  of  Annaly, 
County  of  Longford,  and  were  also  located  in 
Fermanagh  ;  while  the  OCormicks  were  Chiefe  of 
Down.  They  branched  at  an  early  period  into  Mayo, 
whence  William  Cormick  passed  down  to  Munster  to 
the  war  of  1599,  and  he  was  one  of  those  who  sailed 
for  Spain  with  Don  Juan  de  Aguila.  In  1607,  John 
King,  of  the  City  of  Dublin,  granted  to  Michael  Cor- 


REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY  NOT  FILLED.  941 

mick  of  Inismoyne,  County  of  Mayo,  various  lands 
there,  which  had  been  the  estates  of  proprietors 
recently  attainted.  The  above  Captain  Michael  was 
of  the  Mayo  family,  and  was  probably  his  grandson, 
as  he  is  described  in  the  Inquisition  for  his  outlawry, 
'  of  Ruppagh  in  that  county,'  where  John  Cormick,  of 
Tobber  and  Ballinrobe,  was  also  attainted. 


CAPTAIN  HENRY  O'NEILL. 

He  was  the  grandson  of  Sir  Phelim,  the  bold  insur- 
gent leader  of  1641. 


COLONEL  HUGH  MAC  MAHON'S 
DRAGOONS. 

Twelve  additional  Regiments  are  given  on  other 
authority,  but  they  appear  to  have  been  early  dis- 
banded, viz.  those  of  Lord  Castleconnel,  Colonel 
Roger  O'Conor,  Sir  Christopher  G^oghegan,  Colonel 
Marcus  O'Donnel,  Colonels  James  Roth,  Roger  O'Ca- 
hane,  Christopher  Kelly,  Bryan  Mc  Dermott,  James 
Talbot,  Ulick  Bourke,  Sir  Edmund  Scott,  and  Myles 
KeUy. 


J 


942  KING  JAMES'S  IBISH  ABMT  UST. 

INDEPENDENT    FUSILIERS. 

A  Regiment  of  this  service  and  character  was  com- 
manded by  Colonel  Francis  Toole,  and  his  name 
is  on  the  Roll  of  Colonels  in  this  Army  List,  but  his 
Regiment  is  not  filled.  Very  fiill  notices  of  this  Sept 
have  been  given  ante^  p.  462  ;  and  of  this  Colonel 
Francis  at  p.  464.  Not  until  the  reign  of  James  the 
First  was  their  territory  erected  into  the  County  of 
Wicklow,  upon  which  occasion  a  large  tract,  thereto- 
fore the  absolute  estates  of  Bryan  and  Phelim  OToole, 
including  the  manor  of  Powerscourt,  the  territory  of 
Fercullen,  &c.  was  granted,  in  1605,  to  Sir  Richard 
Wingfield,  ancestor  of  the  noble  house  of  Powerscourt; 
while  the  estates  of  other  OTooles  were  given  to 
Sir  Henry  Broncar,  Knight,  Lord  President  of  Mun- 
ster.  An  information  filed  in  1661  sets  forth  also 
that  the  land  of  Fairtree  (Vartrey)  was  the  inherit- 
ance  of  Luke  OToole,  from  whom  it  was  seized  by  the 
Crown,  and  granted  to  Secretary  Coke  about  the  year 
1636  ;  that  the  land  consisted  of  15,441  acres  of  all 
sorts,  English  measure,  is  twelve  miles  from  Dublin, 
has  a  castle  upon  it  called  *  Kevin,'  and  a  fine  river 
full  of  salmon  and  trout. 

In  Clarke's  Life  of  James  11.^  (vol.  2,  p.  400)  it  is 
said  that  at  the  battle  of  the  Boyne,  Marshal  Schom- 
berg,  while  passing  the  ford,  was  killed  by  Sir  Charles 
O'Toole,  an  exempt  of  King  James's  Guard. 

Several  of  this  name  were  distinguished  in  the 
Irish  Brigades  in  the  service  of  France  and  Spain. 


INDEPExNDENT   FUSILIERS.  943 


COLONEL  FRANCIS  FIELDING 

Commanded  a  Regiment,  as  alleged  in  some  reports  of 
the  period  ;  while  that  of  a  Colonel  Robert  Fielding 
was  eariy  sent  over  to  France,  as  was  another  of 
Colonel  Richard  Butler's  on  this  List.* 


COLONEL  BRYAN  McDERMOTT. 

Very  fiill  notices  of  this  ancient  and  historic  Irish 
Sept  are  given  in  the  Annals  of  Boyle^  vol.  1,  p.  138, 
&c.  That  this  Bryan  had  the  command  of  a  Regi- 
ment in  1689  appears,  amongst  other  evidence,  from 
a  Commission  which  has  been  seen  by  the  compiler, 
purporting  to  be  an  appointment  from  King  James 
himself,  of  Paul  Davis  to  '  the  Captaincy  of  a  Com- 
pany in  the  Regiment  of  Colonel  Bryan  Mc  Dermot :' 
it  is  dated  at  Dublin  Castle,  21st  August,  1689,  and 
is  countersigned,  Richard  Nagle.  In  the  Inquisition 
for  the  attainder  of  this  oflScer,  he  is  described  as  of 
Eilronan,  County  of  Roscommon,  and  hence  appears 
to  have  been  of  the  stock  of  Mc  Dermott  Roe. 

*  Appendix  to  King's  State  of  the  Protestants. 


APPENDIX. 


NOTICES  OF  French  and  Irish  Officers,  etc.  who 
were  distinguished  in  King  James's  service  in  this 
Campaign^  but  whose  names  do  not  appear  upon 
the  Army  List. 


FRENCH   OFEICERS. 

DE  ROSEN. 

This  gallant  individual,  with  Field  Marshal  de  Mo- 
ment as  his  Lieutenant-Greneral,  and  Monsieurs  Pu- 
signan  and  De  Lery,  Brigadiers,  accompanied  King 
James  in  the  passage  from  Brest  to  Einsale.  Early 
in  the  campaign,  he,  with  De  Moment  and  De  Lery, 
triumphantly  crossed  the  river  at  the  pass  of  LiflTorf, 
with  only  two  troops  of  Horse,  one  of  Dragoons,  and 
eighty  of  King  James's  Infantry  Guards,  in  front  of 
an  entrenched  enemy  ten  times  their  number  ;  who 
fled  at  the  first  discharge,  as  Mr.  O'Callaghan  writes,* 
and  were  pursued  with  fatal  execution  for  three  or 

•  Green  Book,  p.  260. 


•f 


FRENCH    OFFICERS.  945 

foiir  miles.  De  Rosen  was  afterwards  engaged  with 
General  Hamilton  at  the  siege  of  Derry.  He  had 
been  recommended  by  Louis  the  Fourteenth  to  James 
to  serve  under  Tyrconnel ;  but  the  latter,  according 
to  Colonel  O'Kelly,  could  not  endure  him,  "  in  regard 
that  he  was  more  knowing  in  war  than  the  Captain- 
General."  He  was  consequently  sent  back  to  France. 
The  Duke  of  Berwick,  in  his  Memoir^  says  that  his 
recal  was  a  satisfaction  ;  and  while  he  speaks  of  him 
as  "  an  excellent  oflScer,  very  brave  and  zealous,  but 
not  fitted  to  command  an  army,"  he  adds  that  James 
never  contradicted  him  in  any  thing  ;  a  submission 
which  he  laments,  as  that  "  it  had  been  happy  perhaps 
if  the  King  in  the  course  of  his  life  had  followed  his 
own  judgment  more."*  De  Rosen,  in  some  years 
after  his  return  to  France  (1703),  was  made  a  Mar- 
shal ;  but  failing  to  obtain  a  command,  he  retired  to 
his  estate  in  Alsace,  where  he  died  in  1714,  at  the 
advanced  age  of  eighty-seven.f 


DE  LAUZUN. 

He  was  early  in  life  the  favourite  of  Louis  the  Four- 
teenth, and  the  accepted  lover  of  that  monarch's 
cousin,  the  Princess  de  Montpensier,  whose  hand  he 
had  "  the  effrontery  to  seek  from  the  King,  and  to 
request  that  their  marriage  should  take  place  with 

♦  Clarke's  James  II.  vol.  2,  p.  387. 
t  O'Callaghan's  Mac.  Excid.  p.  336. 

PPP 


946  APPENDIX. 

Royal  magnificence."  The  King  indignantly  refused, 
but  afterwards,  "  despite  this  impertinence,  offered  to 
forget  the  past,  and  to  make  him  Duke  Marshal  of 
France  and  Governor  of  Provence,  provided  he  would 
give  up  his  pretensions  to  the  lady.  This  De  Lauzun 
declined  in  a  manner  so  provoking,  that  the  King 
cast  him  into  prison  in  the  Castle  of  Pignerol,  where 
he  remained  some  years  ;  until  the  Princess,  who  had 
already  married  him,  bribed  the  Duke  of  Mayence 
with  the  Principality  of  Dombes  to  obtain  his  release. 
He  made  his  escape  to  England,  and  there  it  was 
that,  on  the  eve  of  the  abdication.  King  James  con- 
fided to  his  care  the  Queen  and  Prince  of  Wales, 
when  their  removal  to  France  was  resolved  upon.  It 
was  considered,  and  not  unwisely,  that  "  under  the 
notion  of  the  Count  de  Lauzun  returning  to  his  own 
country,  a  yacht  might  be  prepared  for  him,  and  the 
Queen  and  Prince  pass  unsuspected  in  his  company.*^ 
He  it  was  whom  afterwards  Liouis  the  Fourteenth 
appointed  to  the  command  of  the  veterans  (5,000 
men)  who  were  sent  over  from  France,  in  exchange 
for  those  young  Irish  soldiers  of  the  same  number 
coming  thither  under  Lord  Mountcashel.  In  the 
summer  of  1689,  De  Lauzun  was  appointed  to  super- 
sede Rosen,  and  with  this  force  he  arrived  in  Ireland 
some  months  before  the  landing  of  King  William. 
The  English  fleet  being  then  engaged  attending  the 
Queen  of  Spain,  facilitated  the  transporting  of  the 
French   auxiliaries.      Immediately   on   his   landing, 

•  Clarke's  Life  of  James  II.  vol.  2,  p.  244. 


FRENCH    OFFICERS.  947 

LauzTin  oame  to  Dublin,  with  his  forces  well  armed 
and  clothed,  "upon  which  occasion,"  writes  Story,* 
"  the  possession  of  the  city  and  castle  was  given  to 
hinij  whom  alone  the  French  acknowledged  to  serve, 
and  not   King  James....... His  authority   bore   the 

double  character  of  Captain  and  Ambassador."  In 
the  Southwell  Mantiscripts  was  an  "  original  order  of 
the  Count  Lauzun,  as  Commander  in  Chief  of  the 
French  forces,  forbidding  their  taking  any  thing  but 
what  they  paid  for,  and  also  prohibiting  their  molest- 
ing Protestant  assemblies." 

He  it  was  who,  after  the  defeat  at  the  Boyne,  ad- 
vised King  James  "to  take  his  own  Regiment  of 
Horse  and  some  Dragoons,  and  make  the  best  of  his 
way  to  Dublin ;  for  fear  the  enemy,  who  was  so  strong 
in  Horse  and  Dragoons,  should  make  detachments  and 
get  thither  before  him,  which  he  was  confident  they 
would  endeavour  to  do  :  but  that,  if  his  Majesty  ar- 
rived  there  first,  he  might,  with  the  troops  he  had 
with  him  and  the  garrison  he  found  there,  prevent 
their  possessing  themselves  of  tlie  town,  till  Monsieur 
Lauzun  himself  could  make  the  retreat,  which  he 
prayed  him  to  leave  to  his  conduct,  and  advised  him 
not  to  remain  at  Dublin  either,  but  to  go  with  all  ex- 
pedition for  France."f  On  that  King's  departure, 
De  Lauzun  joined  Tyrconnel  in  "assembling  the  great- 
est part  of  the  army  :  and  retired  towards  Limerick, 

*  O^Callaghan  s  MacarisB  Excidium,  p.  353. 
t  Story's  Impart.  Hist.  p.  65. 

PPP  2 


948  APPExVDIX. 

still  struggling  with  ill  fortune  and  universal  wants."* 
On  his  inspection  of  Limerick  and  its  fortifications,  he 
is  said  in  Colonel  O'Kelly  s  narrative  to  have  de- 
clared it  untenable,  and  under  that  impression  he 
withdrew  his  forces  from  the  place,  taking  with  him 
a  great  quantity  of  ammunition,  but  was  afterwards 
induced  to  return.  "  The  Irish,"  says  the  Colonel, 
"  had  good  reason  to  be  dissatisfied  with  the  proceed- 
ings of  him  and  his  French  troops  ;  for,  in  lieu  of  as- 
sistance and  encouragement,  they  daily  disheartened 
the  people  ;  and  the  irregularities  they  committed  in 
their  march  and  quarters  were  so  exorbitant,  that  it 
must  needs  alienate  from  them  the  hearts  of  the 
Irish."f  After  King  William  abandoned  his  siege  of 
Limerick,  De  Lauzun  accompanied  Tyrconnel  to 
France,  where  it  is  said  King  Louis  would  have  put 
him  in  prison,  but  for  the  intercession  of  James  the 
Second  and  his  Queen.  Aft«r  the  death  of  his  wife 
the  Princess,  he  married  the  daughter  of  Marshal  de 
Lorges,  by  whom  he  had  no  issue.  "The  King  of 
England,"  adds  the  Duke  of  Berwick,  in  his  Memoirs^ 
(p.  81,  &c.),  "  conferred  upon  him  the  Order  of  the 
Garter."  Saint-Simon  speaks  of  him  as  a  good  friend 
and  a  '  willing'  enemy  ;  and  O'Conor,  in  his  Military 
Memoirs^  with  more  perspicuity  describes  him  as  a 
Gascon  by  birth  and  disposition,  "  devoid  of  military 
talents,  who  had  pushed  himself  into  favour  at  Ver- 
sailles by  tact  and  address,  till,  no  more  than  a  min- 

*  Clarke's  James  II.  vol.  2,  p.  414. 
t  O'Callaghan  s  Excid.  Mac.  p.  65. 


FRENCH    OFFICERS.  949 

ion  of  Louis  the  Fourteenth,  he  had  such  credit  at 
Court,  that  he  was  able  to  treat  the  ministers  and 
mistresses  with  the  utmost  hauteur.  Aspiring  to 
marry  the  King's  niece,  he  fell  into  disgrace  and  was 
confined  for  years  ;  but,  having  afterwards  regained 
the  King's  favour,  he  was  sent  to  command  in  Ireland, 
where  he  showed  neither  resolution  nor  capacity.  At 
the  Boyne,  with  20,000  men,  he  ventured  an  engage- 
ment with  45,000,  though  he  had  no  advantage  but 
a  river  in  front,  passable,  however,  for  both  Infantry 
and  Cavalry. ''^ 


THE   MARQUIS  DE   PUSIGNAN. 

When  (as  before  mentioned  antSj  p.  20)  King 
James,  on  his  arrival  in  Dublin,  24th  March,  1689, 
ordered  Berwick  northward  to  the  Ban,  to  strengthen 
General  Richard  Hamilton,  he  directed  Pusignan, 
with  a  select  body  of  Irish  Cavalry  and  Infantry  and 
two  eight  field  pieces,  to  advance  in  the  same  direc- 
tion by  Charlemont  and  Dungannon,  along  the  west 
of  Lough  Neagh  and  the  Ban  ;  and,  by  sweeping 
away  all  intervening  opposition,  to  open  a  communi- 
cation through  Portglenone  Bridge  with  Hamilton 
and  Berwick  ;  who,  favoured  by  this  movement,  were 
to  respond  by  attempting  to  cross  the  river  at  that 
point.     By  this  plan,  if  successful,  the  enemy  should 

•  O'Conor's  Milit  Mem.  p.  106. 


950  APPENDIX. 

abandon  Coleraine  to  Hamilton  and  Berwick,  to  avoid 
being  cut  off  from  Derry  through  Pusignan's  advance 
towards  that  town,  after  contributing  to  Hamilton's 
and  Berwick's  success  at  Portglenone.  Early  in 
April,  Pusignan  cleared  with  rapid  slaughter  Money- 
more,  Magherafelt,  Dawson's  Bridge,  Balloghy,  New 
Ferry,  and,  in  short,  all  the  passes  on  the  left  of  the 
Ban  leading  to  Coleraine,  as  far  as  Portglenone. 
There,  though  the  bridge  had  been  burnt  and  the  pass 
guarded  by  the  redoubt,  the  river  had  in  the  mean 
time  been  crossed  by  the  Irish  officers  and  their 
troops,  in  the  face  of  the  enemy.*  On  the  14th  of 
April  following,  when  King  James  in  his  northern 
march  came  to  Omagh,  he  found  Pusignan's  Infantry 
there,  left  under  the  command  of  Colonel  Ramsey ; 
while  Pusignan  himself  had  gone  on  with  the  Horse 
and  Dragoons  some  six  miles  further  to  Newtown- 
Stewart,  which  the  enemy  had  quitted,  as  well  as 
Omagh,  at  the  King's  approach.  Pusignan  was  killed 
at  Derry  ;  where  also 

DE  POINTEE. 

The  great  Engineer  on  the  Irish  ^ide,  was  wounded 
and  soon  after  died. 

*  O'Callaghui's  Green  Book,  p.  260. 


FRENCH   OFFICERS.  951 

CHEVALIER  DE  TESSE. 

me  over  to  Ireland  with  Monsieur  D'Usson 
in  May,  1691,  in  the  equipment  of  St.  Ruth, 
jave  him  command  of  the  right  wing  of  his 

at  the  battle  of  Aughrim.  De  Tesse  and 
m  were  afterwards  parties  to  the  military 
s  of  Limerick,  which  the  former  signed  as  one 
Commanders  in  Chief  of  the  Irish  army.     In 

a  Marquis  de  Tesse  was  engaged  against 
5  Eugene  in  the  campaign  of  Piedmont  ;*  while 
Chevalier  de  Tesse  ranked  as  a  Brigadier  and 
Kiarshal  in  France  under  brevet  of  7th  March, 


MONSIEUR  D'USSON. 

the  fatal  day  of  Aughrim,  D'Usson  "  had  much 
►  keep  the  rapparees,  that  came  thence,  from 
(ring,  until  he  promised  them  that  if  a  supply  of 
,  ammunition,  and  provisions  came  not  from 
a  in  twelve  days,  he  would  dismiss  them.^f  In 
ean  time,  according  to  King  James's  Memoir,^ 
I  the  other  French  officers  generously  declared 
hat  money  they  had  of  their  own,  amounting 

honor's  Blilit.  Mem.  p.  240. 

\Tj  in  Harleian  Misc.  v.  7,  p.  484. 

jke*8  James  II.  v.  2,  p.  462. 


953  APPENDIX. 

to  50,000  livres,  should  be  distributed  amongst  the 
soldiers.  On  the  26th  of  July,  D'Usson,  being  Lieu- 
tenant-GTeneral  in  Galway,  surrendered  the  town  to 
the  besiegers,  the  garrison  marching  thereout  and 
the  English  entering.  D'Usson  himself  came  to  the 
English  camp,  and,  ^^  after  staying  there  about  half  an 
hour  (writes  Story),  he  had  a  guard  thence  for  his 
person  to  conduct  him  towards  Limerick.''  At  the 
last  siege  of  that  place,  on  Tyrconnel's  death,  he  as- 
sumed the  command,  and  it  is  attributed  to  his  hasty 
order,  that  the  Mayor  closed  the  gates  against  the 
gallant  Colonel  Lacy,  whereby  that  oflScer  and  his 
followers  were  cut  down,  as  before  related  antej  p.  39. 
O'Conor,  who  in  his  Military  Memoirs  (p.  167), 
makes  this  charge  against  D'Usson,  roundly  attributes 
to  his  mistakes  (which,  however,  he  admits  were 
more  the  results  of  indolence  than  of  want  of  spirit), 
most  of  the  disasters  of  this  campaign. 


ST.  RUTH. 

His  early  life  and  achievements,  when  Lieutenant- 
General  of  the  French  army  in  Savoy,  are  alluded  to 
ante^  at  Lord  MountcasheFs  Infantry,  p.  493,  &c.  and 
are  very  fully  detailed  in  O'Conor's  Military  Memoirs^ 
(p.  100,  &c.).  When  the  King  of  France  sent 
the  scanty  and  long  deferred  aid  to  Ireland,  he  is  re- 
ported to  have  said  of  this,  his  Lieutenairt-General, 
with  whom  the  supply  was  sent  to  a  suffering — a  des- 


FRENCH    OFFICERS.  9^3 

pairing  nation,  "  whatever  he,  a  Captain  of  great  con. 
duct  and  experience^"  (and  whom  he  recommended  to 
command  the  Irish  army)  "  after  arriving  there,  and 
informing  himself  upon  the  place,  should  judge  neces- 
sary for  the  work,  he  (Louis)  would  not  fail  in  des- 
patching it  to  Ireland."*  On  the  8th  of  May,  1691, 
as  before  mentioned,  he  arrived  in  limerick,  the  siege 
of  the  Irish  town  having  already  commenced,  bring- 
ing with  him  146  officers,  150  cadets,  300  English 
and  Scotch,  24  surgeons,  180  masons,  2  bombardiers, 
18  cannoniers,  800  horses,  19  pieces  of  cannon, 
12,000  horse-shoes,  6,000  bridles  and  saddles,  16,000 
muskets,  uniforms,  stockings  and  shoes  for  16,000 
men,  some  lead  and  balls,  and  a  large  supply  of  bis- 
cuiff  On  the  20th  of  June  following,  having  re- 
ceived advice  that  the  English  town  of  Athlone  was 
besieged  (the  siege  at  tiie  Irish  side  had  commenced 
before),  he  "  advanced  with  a  body  of  Horse  and  Foot, 
and  encamped  within  a  convenient  distance  of  the 
Irish  town,"  which  he  thought  De  Ginkle  could  not 
take.  But  his  own  over-confidence  facilitated  the 
event ;  it  was  taken  on  the  last  day  of  that  month. 
On  this  defeat,  St.  Ruth  retired  to  Ballinasloe,  and 
there  held  a  council  of  war,  where,  by  the  influence  of 
Sarsfield's  opinion  and  that  of  the  majority  of  the 
Jacobite  officers,  it  was  resolved  to  ofler  battle  on 
ground  that  seemed  advantageous  to  the  Irish,   at 

•  O'CaUaghan's  Macar.  Excid.  p.  95. 

t  0*Conor  8  Milit.  Mem.  p.  184,  citmg  Quincy,  the  Historian 
of  Louis  XrV. 


954  APPENDDL 

Aughrim,  three  miles  beyond  Ballinasloe.  De  Ginkle's 
army  came  in  sight  of  this  place  on  the  12th  of  July ; 
the  battle  was  joined  without  delay,  and  continued 
from  noon  to  sunset ;  at  which  time  the  victory  seem- 
ed with  the  Irish,  when  a  cannon  ball  felled  St.  Ruth, 
and  the  Irish  Cavalry  thereupon  gave  way  and  quitted 
the  field,  the  flower  of  their  army  and  nation  having 
been  lost  there  that  day,  with  the  Dynasty  in  whose 
service  they  fought.  The  spot  where  St.  Ruth  fell  is 
traditionally  marked  by  a  white  thorn  bush,  while  on 
the  southern  slope  of  the  hill  are  yet  traces  of  an  old 
burial  ground,  in  which  it  is  said  his  body  was  first 
interred,  but  afterwards  removed  to  Athenry.  Story 
says  he  never  could  learn  what  became  of  St.  Ruth's 
corse.  He  fell  at  the  critical  minute,  when  he  was 
avowedly  about  to  lead  a  charge  of  cavalry  down  the 
hill  of  Kilcommoden  against  the  advancing  enemy. 
*'  Impartial  posterity,"  writes  O'Conor,*  must  do  justice 
to  St.  Ruth  ;  he  considered  the  Irish  an  injured  and 
oppressed  people,  martyrs  to  their  religion  and  victims 
to  loyalty,  and  he  devoted  to  their  cause  all  the 
energies  of  his  mind  and  body.  He  had  not  been  in 
Ireland  ten  weeks,  and  his  activity  during  that  period 
in  collecting  the  scattered  troops,  in  organizing  them, 
and  providing  them  with  necessaries,  had  scarcely  ad- 
mitted intermission  for  the  needAil  rest  which  exhaust- 
ed nature  required."  And  here  it  seems  desirable 
to  introduce  a  Report  and  List  of  the  killed  and 
wounded  on  that  memorable  day,  as  far  as  ascertained 

♦  O'Conor  s  Milit.  Mem.  p.  138. 


BATTLE  OF   AUGHRIM.  955 

and  drawn  up  in  Dublin  five  days  after,  by  William 
Neave  ;  and  by  him  forwarded  to  "  The  Right  Honor- 
able Lord  ^  Leansborongh,'  at  his  house  in  Leicester- 
street,  cross  '  Swolow'-street,  near  Ticadilly,'  London. 
"  It  is  variously  reported  what  common  soldiers  the 
Irish  have  lost ;  some  letters  say  10,000,  but  none 
less  than  6,000  ;  and  most  of  the  lists  of  the  officers 
differ,  but  agree  in  substance.  Our  army  have  been 
mustered  since  they  fought,  and  on  the  Muster  Bolls, 
&c.,  it  appears  387  of  our  men,  officers  and  all,  are 
killed,  and  781  wounded.  There  never  was  a  greater 
action  than  this  ;  the  enemy  being  placed  on  a  rising 
ground,  and  a  bog  and  river  before  them,  and  an  old 
castle  on  the  right  wing,  with  a  narrow  ^  causey' ; 
over  which  bog  and  river  we  attacked  them,  they 
having  several  passes  before  we  came  to  their  camp, 
which  we  were  forced  to  beat  them  fix)m ;  and  three 
trenches,  one  after  another,  just  before  their  camp, 
when  we  were  over  the  river  ;  and  they  one  third 
part  more  in  number,  besides  fiapparees,  all  advan- 
tages, with  the  '  charms'  of  St  Ruth  (who  all  letters 
give  as  killed).  Their  priests  made  them  stand  to  it 
now  better  than  ever.  We  have  all  Connaght  now, 
but  Galway  and  Lymerick,  to  the  last  of  which  ten  of 
our  men  of  war  (five  English  and  five  Dutch),  as  also 
two  frigates,  three  fire  ships,  and  one  bomb-ship  are 
gone,  there  being  several  French  merchant  ships 
there.  It  is  all  the  talk  of  this  place  that  the  late 
Judge  Daly  is  come  to  our  Greneral,  to  treat  for  some 
of  the  Irish,  and  that  on    to-morrow    Galway  and 


956  APPENDIX. 

Lymerick  will  be  given  up  :  it  is  certain  a  Proclama- 
tion of  pardon  of  estate  and  all  did  issue  to  those  that 
should  cause  other  of  their  towns  to  be  surrendered, 
or  bring  in  a  Regiment,  or  do  sui^h  like  considerable 
service,  and  that  they  had  till  the  28th  of  this 
month  to  do  the  same ;  but  it  is  not  '  publique'  in 
this  city,  though  *publique'  in  our  army.  The 
Smima  fleet  is  gone  from  '  Kingsale'  under  convoy  of 
our  great  fleet,  and  our  army  were  yesterday  morning 
but  fourteen  miles  from  Galway,  and  will  be  this 

night  before  that  place." "  My  Lord,"  concludes 

Neave,  '^  I  did  think  this  might  be  acceptable,  and, 
not  having  time,  caused  my  man  to  transcribe  it.  I 
believe  generally  it  is  a  true  account.  My  Lord  of 
Meath  sends  '  mee'  word  my  '  cosen'  James  Brabazon 
is  wounded  in  the  leg  :  I  have  no  more  that  is  con- 
siderable at  present. 

"  I  am,  my  Lord, 
"  Your  Lordship's  most  humble  servant, 
"  William  Neave. 
"  Twenty-five  out  of  each  company  of  the  militia  of 
this  city  went  this  day  to  meet  and  fetch  in  the  pri- 
soners, colours,  standards,  &c.  that  were  taken." 


BATTLE   OF  AUGHRIM. 


957 


A  LIST  OF  THE  CONSIDERABLE  IRISH  OFFICERS  KILLED 
AND  TAKEN  AT  AUGHRIM,  JULY  12,  1691. 


In  the  Provosts  Htmdt,         Prisoners  not  teounded        Officers  kiOed  on  the  Fkld, 
nor  m  the  Provost*  s  Hands. 

Colonel  Walter  Bonrice.       Major  Creneral  Dorrington, 
Lient.-Col.  John  Baggot.       now  in  Dublin  Caatle. 
Lient.-CoL  John  Bmdieu.  Lord  Slane. 
Major-General  Boorke.        Lord  Kilmaine. 


Migor  Edward  Batler. 
9  Captains. 
198  private  men. 


Lord  Bophin. 
Colonel  Batler. 
Colonel  Grace. 
Lord  Baltimore's  son. 


In  the  hands  of  the  Dutch  Col.  Batler  of  KiUeagh. 

ProvosL  Lient-Col.  Botler  his 
Lieat-Col.  Chapell.  brother. 

Lieat.-Col.Mart  M*GenniiL  Colonel  Dan.  O'Neill. 

Major  Henry  Kellj.  Colonel  Cormack  O'Neill. 

Major  Lawless.  Colonel  Bellew. 

S17  private  men.  Colonel  Madden. 


Lord  Dillon. 

Lord  Kilmallock. 

Lord  Roche. 

Colonel  Marks  Talbot 

Colonel  Ozbnxgh. 

Colonel  Parcel. 

Col.  Cochcmaght  MK}aire. 

Col.    Felix    O'Neill,    Ute 

Master  of  Chancery. 
Colonel  Massey. 
Colonel  Mnlledy. 
Colonel  Delahide. 
Colonel 


Prisoners  that  are  wounded.  Prisoners  died  qf  their 


Major  John  Hamilton. 
Brigadier  Taite. 
Lord  Bellew. 
Colonel  O'Connell. 
Cokmel  Gordon  O'Neill. 
Lieal-Col.  Boberts. 
LieaU-Col.  Fits-Patrick. 


vxmnds. 
Lord  Galway. 
Brigamer  Barker. 
Colonel  Moore. 
Lieat.-Col.  BaggoL 
Lieat-Col.  Morgan. 
Major  Arthur. 


Injkrior  OffioerSf  ^c 
27  Captains. 
31  Lientenants. 
20  Ensigns. 

4  Comets. 

6  Qaarter-Masters. 

1  Adjutant. 
31  Colours. 
11  Standards. 

1  Kettle  drmp. 

9  Cannon  All  their 

tents,  bag,  and  bag- 


i 


958  APPENDIX. 

IRISH  OFFICERS,  &c. 

EDWARD  CHEEVERS,   COMMONLY  CALLED  ^ 

MOUNT  LEINSTER. 

The  name  of  *  Chevyr'  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from 
the  time  of  Edward  the  Second.  In  1356,  Richard 
'  Chever*  was  seized  of  lands  in  the  County  of  Kil- 
kenny ;  in  1435,  William  Cheevers  was  appointed 
Second  Justice  of  the  King's  Bench  in  Ireland,  &c. 
The  Attainders  of  1642  present  the  names  of  Walter 
and  Thomas  Cheevers  of  Monkstown,  County  of 
Dublin  ;  while,  in  1646,  Arthur  Cheevers  of  Bally- 
sisken.  County  of  Wexford  (who  appears  to  have 
been  an  immediate  ancestor  of  the  Viscount  Mount 
Leinster),  was  one  of  the  Confederate  Catholics 
assembled  at  the  Supreme  Council  of  Kilkenny. 
Walter  Cheevers  was  in  1676  transplanted  to  Con- 
naught,  and  was  the  founder  of  the  family  of  Killyan 
in  the  County  of  Galway.  In  1689,  a  Captain 
Cheevers  was  killed  at  the  siege  of  Derry.  In  the 
same  year,  immediately  before  the  meeting  of  the 
Parliament  of  Dublin,  the  above  Edward  was  created 
Viscount  Mount  Leinster,  and  the  Civil  Articles  of 
Limerick  (October,  1691)  contained  a  clause  that  he, 
'Cheevers  of  Maystown,  commonly  called  Mount 
Leinster,'  with  other  oflScers  therein  named  whose 
Regiments  were  beyond  the  seas,  should  have  the 
benefit  of  the  articles,  provided  they  returned  within 
eight  months  of  the  date,  submitted  to  their  Majesties' 


IRI8H   OFFICERS.  959 

goyemment,  and  took  the  oath  of  allegiance,  as  before 
mentioned  at  Colonel  Simon  Luttrel.  The  other 
Cheeverses  attainted  in  that  year  were  Christopher 
John,  Patrick,  Robert,  and  James  Cheevers  of 
Camstown,  within  the  Liberties  of  Drogheda,  Paul 
Cheevers  of  Wexford,  Peter  of  Tomcoole,  and  Arthur 
Cheevers  of  Adamstown  in  the  latter  county.  The 
attainted  Christopher  was  seized  of  various  lands 
within  the  Liberty  of  Drogheda,  which  were  pur- 
chased in  1703  from  the  Commissioners  for  Sale 
of  the  Forfeitures,  by  Alderman  John  Graham  of 
Drogheda,  by  John  Newton  of  Drogheda,  and  by 
Charles  Campbell  of  Dublin  ;  while  Alderman  John 
Leigh  of  Drogheda  purchased  certain  chiefiies  in  the 
Counties  of  Louth  and  Meath,  also  the  estate  of  said 
Christopher. 


BRIGADIER-GENERAL  WILLIAM  TUITE. 

RiGHA&D  D£  TuiTE,  the  founder  of  this  family  in  Ire- 
land, came  over  hither  with  Strongbow ;  and  obtained 
by  the  interference  of  that  leader,  and  by  his  own 
valour, '  fair  possessions'  in  Teffia.  When  Meath,  the 
mensal  demesne  of  the  Irish  Kings,  was  erected  into  a 
Palatinate,  this  Richard  became  a  Palatine  Peer,  by 
the  title  of  Baron  of  Moyashill,  which  he  transmitted  to 
his  posterity.  He  was  killed  in  1211  by  the  fall  of  a 
tower  in  Athlone,  and  buried  in  the  Cistercian  Abbey 
near  Granard,  which  himself  had  previously  founded. 


960  APPENDIX. 

and  where  he  had  also  raised  a  frontier  Castle.  The 
Lords  Howth  in  early  time  held  the  manor  of  Kilbar- 
rock,  under  the  Barons  de  Tuite.*  The  son  of  the 
first  Baron,  Richard  de  Tuite  the  younger,  marched 
in  1232  under  the  standard  of  WiUiam  de  Lacy  into 
Upper  Brefiiey,  against  the  O'Reillys,  by  whose  Sept, 
however,  the  invaders  were  defeated  with  great  loss  ; 
Richard  de  Tuite  and  Simon  de  Lacy  being  amongst 
the  wounded.  In  1244,  Richard  had  military  sum- 
mons to  a  Royal  expedition  against  the  Scots. 
According  to  the  Four  Masters,  he  (styled  the  Great 
Baron)  was  killed  in  1289  near  Athlone,  by  the 
resistance  of  the  O'Melaghlin.  John  de  Tuyt,  a 
nephew  of  Richard,  had  summons  to  serve  with  King 
Edward  in  1302  in  the  war  of  Scotland ;  and  he,  dying 
soon  after,  was  succeeded  by  his  son,  who  sat  in  the 
Parliament  of  1310  as  a  Palatine  Enight,  was  in 
1311  required  to  attend  that  of  Kilkenny,  and  in  six 
years  after  was  commanded  to  continue  his  exertions 
for  the  defence  of  Ireland  against  the  enemy.  In  1 3 1 8, 
he  was  one  of  the  officers  under  John  de  Berming- 
ham,  when  that  leader  marched  out  the  King's  power 
against  Edward  Bruce  at  Dundalk ;  in  1323,  he  was 
ordered  to  attack  and  pursue  Roger  de  Mortimer  in 
the  event  of  his  taking  refuge  in  Ireland  ;f  in  the 
following  year  he  was  summoned  to  the  defence  of 
Aquitaine,  and  in  1325  again  sat  as  a  Peer  in  Parlia- 
ment.    John  de  Tuite,  Lord  of  Sonnagh,  sat  in  that  of 

*  Lynch  on  Feudal  Dignities,  p.  137. 
t  Parliamentary  Writs. 


IRISH   OFFICERS.  961 

1333,  and  in  two  years  after  was  knighted.  Sir  Thomas 
Tuite  of  Sonnagh  was  in  1373  and  subsequently  sum- 
moned to  great  Councils  and  Parliaments.  Andrew 
Tuite  was  one  of  the  great  men  of  the  Pale,  who 
signed  the  memorable  memorial  in  favour  of  Lord 
Fumival  in  1417.  In  1556,  Thomas  Tuite  of 
Sonnagh,  and  other  Tuites  representing  the  lines  of 
Baltrasna  and  Monilea,  were  summoned  to  appear  in 
person  with  their  men  and  horses  at  a  General  Host- 
ing against  an  expected  invasion  of  the  Scots  in  the 
North  of  Ireland.  In  1622,  Oliver  Tuite  of  Sonnagh 
was  created  a  Baronet,  a  title  which  still  exists  in  his 
lineal  heir  male.  They,  and  the  other  members  of  the 
Tuite  family,  distinguished  themselves  by  their  attach- 
ment to  the  Stuart  Dynasty,  and  suffered  severely  for 
that  allegiance.  In  the  confiscations  of  1641  alone, 
they  lost  most  extensive  tracts  in  the  Counties  of 
Longford,  Meath,  and  Westmeath  ;  which  were  dis- 
tributed to  Lord  Wharton,  Kobert  Cooke,  and  many 
other  patentees. 

In  the  clause  of  wordy  thanks  from  Charles  the 
Second  for  services  beyond  the  seas,  three  members  of 
this  family  are  included,  Captain  Jasper  Tuite,  Lieu- 
tenant Harry  Tuite,  and  Ensign  William  Tuite.  The 
last  appears  identical  with  the  above  Brigadier-Grene- 
ral,  and  was  the  son  of  Edmund  Tuite  of  Tuitestown, 
by  Mary,  daughter  of  the  aforesaid  Sir  Oliver  Tuite^ 
Baronet.  He  had  a  brother,  Walter  Tuite  of  Monilea, 
who  served  in  the  same  army  with  the  Brigadier,  and 
was  attainted  with   him  in  169L     Walter  married 

QQQ 


962  APPENDIX. 

Margaret,  daughter  of  David  O'More  of  Port  Allen  in 
the  Queen's  County,  hy  whom  he  had  thirteen  sons, 
eleven  of  whom  fell  in  the  campaign  of  1691,  leaving 
but  two  survivors  to  continue  that  line.*  Brigadier- 
General  William  was  taken  prisoner  at  Aughrim,f 
and  with  him  were  attainted  in  1691  six  others  of 
this  name. 


FITZ-WILLIAMS,  VISCOUNT  MERRION. 

He  is  classed  as  on  the  Roll  of  the  Peers  in  King 
James's  Parliament,  but  the  word  'sat'  not  being 
affixed  to  his  name,  it  may  be  presumed  he  did  not 
appear  ;  neither  is  he  found  in  the  Outlawries  of  that 
period.  A  solitary  notice  of  his  Lordship  appears  in 
the  Diary  preserved  in  the  Harleian  Miscellany  (vol. 
7,  p.  483,  old  ed.).  It  says,  "1691,  1st  September, 
Brigadier  Levison,  having  learned  where  the  Lord 
Merrion's  and  the  Lord  Brittas's  Horse  were,  marched 
towards  them,  and  by  one  o'clock  in  the  morning  fell 
in  with  them,  killed  a  great  number,  cutting  off 
several  entire  troops,  very  few  escaping  ;  and  taking 
the  Lord  Castleconnell's  Lady  and  divers  others  pri- 
soners, as  also  a  good  prey  of  cattle." 

*  Archdairs  Lodge's  Peerage,  vol.  3,  p.  27,  n. 
t  Story's  Impart.  Hist.  pt.  2,  p.  137. 


IRISH   OFFICERS.  963 


BRIGADIER  JOHN  WAUCHOP. 

This  officer,  Colonel  O'Kelly  says,  "  was  a  Scotchman 
by  birth,  but  zealous  enough  for  the  Roman  Catholic 
religion,  and  also  seemed  no  less   concerned  for  the 
Irish  interest/'     It  is  probable  if  he  was  not  the  son, 
he  was  a  near  relative  of  James  Wauchop,  described 
as  '  of  Ballygraphen,'  and  one  of  a  batch  to  whom,  on 
the  Plantation  of  Ulster,  King  James  in  1618  granted 
"  freedom  from  the  yoke  of  the  servitude  of  the  Scotch 
or  Irish  nation,  with  liberty  to  enjoy  all  the  rights  and 
privileges  of  English  subjects.''     That  single  patent  of 
denization  introduced  into  Ulster  no  leas  than  one 
hundred  and  one  families.     Early  in  the  campaign, 
Wauchop    served    with     Colonel    Edmund    (Buy) 
O'Reilly  in  Cavan,  particularly  at  the  battle  of  Tulla- 
mongan  Hill,  over  Cavan.     He  was  Governor  of  the 
Castle  of  Athlone  at  the  time  of  its  memorable  siege. 
When  the  capitulation  of  Limerick  was  necessitated, 
at  the  close  of  September,  1691,  Brigadier  Wauchop 
and  Sarsfield  came  into  the  English  camp  to  settle  the 
heads  of  the  proposed  articles  of  surrender,  and  to 
arrange  the  exchange  of  hostages.*     In  the  care  and 
responsibility  of  einbarking  the  voluntary  exiles  on 
the  ensuing  heart-rending  occasion,  Wauchop  was  also 
associated  with  Sarsfield,  see  ante^  p.   139,  &c.  yet 
were  not  their  patriotism  and  good  repute  unassailed 
on  this  occasion.     A  memorial  was  published  in  1694, 

♦  Harleian  Misc.  v.  7,  p  488. 

QQQ2 


9G4  APPENDIX. 

entitled  The  Groans  of  Ireland^  and  attributed  to 

O'Neill,  'the  chief  of  an  ancient  family  of  Ireland;' 
it  was  dedicated  to  King  William,  and  contained  the 
most  bitter  invectives  against  these  individuals,  as  the 
authors  of  the  pei-sonal  misei'ies  experienced  by  the 
Irish,  who  followed  with  them  the  fortunes  of  King 
James  into  France.  This  document  would  insinuate 
that  Wauchop  and  Sarsfield  but  sought  to  build  their 
own  fortunes  in  France  upon  the  ruins  of  the  exiled 
Irish.  "  Alas  !"  says  this  accuser,  "  it  is  a  miserable 
sight  to  see  the  condition  the  poor  gentlemen  are  in  ; 
and  the  women  and  children,  invited  to  go  along  with 
their  husbands,  are  now  begging  their  bread  from 
door  to  door,  and  cannot  get  it.  I  saw  Lieutenants, 
Ensigns,  and  sub-Lieutenants,  who  were  Lieutenant- 
Clolonels,  Majors  and  Captains  in  Ireland,  that  were 
forced  to  turn  off  their  wives,  to  shun  a  misery  equal 
to  that  of  the  last  campaign  ;  and  I  know  others,  who 
saw  not  their  children  since  they  came  to  France,  and 
they  know  not  whether  they  live  in  misery  or  were 
starved  to  death  ;  for  when  they  were  reduced  in 
France  to  four-pence  per  day,  they  were  obliged  to 
leave  their  children  to  the  wide  world.*'' 


O'CoNOR,  indeed,  in  his  Military  Memoirs  of  the  Irish 
Nation^  draws  a  not  less  sad  and  more  reliable  picture  of 
their  sufferings.     "  These  brave  men  (he  writes)  were 

♦  Thorpe  s  Catal.  Southwell  MSS.  p.  23G. 


DEPARTURE   FROM   LIMERICK.  965 

now  to  experience  the  caprices  of  new  masters.  Their 
original  formation,  as  they  had  at  first  been  raised  by 
their  respective  Colonels,  was  no  longer  recognised. 
Regiments  were  reduced,  and  considerable  and  many 
brave  officers  and  men  of  rank,  who  had  raised  regi- 
ments at  home  at  the  sacrifice  of  the  last  remains  of 
their  estates,  found  themselves  reduced  to  the  rank 
of  subordinates  in  other  corps,... and  many  were  left 

without  commissions  to  serve  as  volunteers Sir 

Neal  O'Neal  had  raised  a  Regiment  of  Dragoons  ; 
Gordon,  Henry  and  Felix  O'Neal  three  Regiments  of 
Infantry  ;  Edmund  (Buy)  O'Reilly  of  Cavan,  Arthur 
Oge  Mac  Mahon  of  Monaghan,  Magennis  of  Down, 
Oliver  O'Gara  of  Coolavin,  Connell  O'Donnell  of 
Tyrconnel,  Roger  O'Cahane  of  Donegal,  Cuconaght 
Maguire  of  Enniskillen,  Hugh  O'Ruarc  of  Brefiiey  had 
also  respectively  raised  Regiments  of  Foot ;  all  of 
which  were  incorporated  with  others,  without  any 
regard  to  the  rank,  sacrifices,  services,  or  destitutions 
of  their  Colonels.  The  soldiers  endured  the  greatest 
hardships  and  privations.  They  had  made  these  sacri- 
fices to  their  King  and  country ;  and,  when  their  officers 
and  grieat  men  were  deserting,  true  to  their  colours  and 
faithful  to  their  ^gagements,  had  never  swerved  from 
the  fidelity  theyTiad  sworn  to ;  and  now,  following  the 
fortunes  of  their  King,  they  submitted  to  what  the 
service  required  in  exile  and  adversity.  Noble  and 
generous  men  taken  from  humblest  life,  you  want  but 
an  historian  to  rescue  your  fame  from  the  calumnies  of 


966  APPENDIX. 

your  conquerors,  and  to  elevate  you  to  a  level  with  the 
soldiers  of  the  Republics  of  antiquity  !"* 

Story  says  of  the  departure  of  these  patriot  emi- 
grants, "  That  which  they  call  the  Royal  Regiment, 
being  then  1400  men,  seemed  to  go  all  entire,  which 
the  General  (Ginkle)  was  much  concerned  at.  Then 
Lord  Iveagh's  Regiment  of  Ulster  came  off  entire  to 
our  side,  as  did  also  Colonel  Wilson's^  and  about  half 
Lord  Louth's,  and  a  great  many  out  of  most  other  regi- 
ments. Brigadier  Clifford,  Colonel  Henry  Luttrell, 
and  Colonel  Purcell  all  appeared  averse  to  the  going 
for  France.  The  following  day.  Lord  Iveagh's, 
Colonel  Wilson's,  part  of  Lord  Dillon's,  Colonel 
Hussey's,  and  other  Irish  Regiments  were  mustered 
nigh  the  General's  Quarters,  making  1046  men  in 
these  days,  besides  double  the  number  that  had  passes 
to  go  home  ;  all  of  whom  were  plentifully  supplied 
with  provisions,  as  the  General  was  resolved  to  do  all 
things  possible  to  prevent  the  Irish  going  in  so  great 
numbers  out  of  the  Kingdom,  as  being  a  strengthening 

our  adversaries The  Earl  of  Lucan  and   Major- 

General  Wauchop  engaged  for  the  due  supply  and 
appropriation  of  the  shipping,  and  the  return  of  the 
transports,  while  Colonel  Hugh  Mac  Mahon,  Colonel 

•  O'Conor's  Milit.  Mem.  p.  194,  &c.  Besides  Mr.  O'Conor's 
work,  which  terminates  at  the  peace  of  Utrecht  in  1711,  Mon- 
sieur de  Ponce  has  published  in  France  an  "  Essay  on  Ancient 
Ireland,  and  on  the  Irish  Brigades  in  the  service  of  France  since 
their  organization  in  1691 ;"  and  the  first  volume  of  Mr.  O'Cal- 
laghan's  valuable  researches  on  these  gallant  emigrants  appeared 
last  year. 


DEPARTURE  FROM   LIMERICK.  967 

Robert  Arthur,  and  Colonel  O'Gara  were  left  as  host- 
ages for  the  due  performance  of  the  agreements  on  the 

part  of  the  emigrants On  the   16th  of  October 

there  marched  out  of  Limerick  Sir  Maurice  Eustace's 
Regiment,  Major-Genei-al  Talbot's,  Lord  Bellew's, 
Prince  of  Wales's  (so  Story  styles  Fitz-James'sJ,  Lord 
Clanricarde's,  and  Colonel  Bermingham's  ;  yet  they 
made  in  all  only  618  men."*  On  the  succeeding 
11th  and  12th  January,  "Orders  and  instructions 
issued  for  breaking  up  the  Irish  army,  retaining  no 
more  than  1 400  men  to  be  employed  at  present,  and 
those  to  be  divided  into  two  battalions,  to  be  com- 
manded by  Colonel  Wilson  and  Baldearg  O'Donnell." 
In  the  Appendix  to  King's  State  of  the  Protestants^ 
p.  88,  &c.,  is  an  exceedingly  interesting  "  List  of  all 
the  men  of  note  that  came  with  King  James  out  of 
France,  or  that  followed  him  after,  as  far  as  can  be 
collected  ;"  and  who  can  look  upon  this  venerable 
'  hatchment'  of  chivalrous  cavaliers,  without  feeling 
sympathy  for  their  fate  ?  They  devoted  their  pro- 
l)erty,  their  lives,  their  estates  of  old  ancestral  in- 
heritance, to  the  already  fallen  fortunes  of  the  Stuart. 
They  clung  to  James  as  their  rightful  king ;  they 
held  a  faith  opposed  to  that  of  his  rival,  a  faith  which 
their  descendants  still  possess ;  they  were  removed 
from  the  feelings  that  in  England  invited  a  dynasty 
of  foreigners  to  the  vacant  throne  ;  they  identified 
their  country  with  the  race  and  religion  of  James  ; 
they  gathered  their  septs,  their  sons,  their  soldiers  to 

♦  Story  s  Impart.  Hist.  pt.  2,  p.  261. 


968        DEPARTURE  FROM  LIMERICK. 

the  awful  struggle.  Youth  inspired  their  hopes  ;  re- 
ligious enthusiasm  assured  their  success  ;  yet  the 
foregoing  volume  evinces  the  fatuity,  the  fatality  of 
their  expectations.  The  details  of  its  Regiments  wear 
a  melancholy  interest ;  they  are  as  ship  lists  of  noble 
passengers  and  crews,  that  have  long  since  perished  in 
the  stormy  waters ;  nor  did  the  calamities  of  their 
race  close  with  their  immolation.  Forfeitures,  ex- 
patriation, religious  persecution  rapidly  ensued,  and 
have  at  this  day  scarcely  left  a  trace  of — the  ancient 
aristocracy  of  Ireland. 


THE  END. 


INDEX  OF  NAMES  AND  FAMILIES. 


Ad«ms,  370. 

Allen,  7,  29. 

Ankitell,  687. 

Anshbold,  7,  38.  274,  &c 

Archdeacon,  340,  &c 

Archer,  31,  856. 

Armstrong,  284,  314. 

Arthur,  7,  8,  30,  61,  186,  420,  &c, 

967. 
Arundel,  12,  447,  &c 
Aflgfll,  207,  444. 
Ash,  856. 
Ath7,  863. 
McAolifre,  836,  &c. 
McAwley,  600,  &c. 
Ajbner,  8,  34,  179,  &c,  425,  919. 
Ajlward,  574,  &c. 


B 


Babe,  32. 

Babington,  446. 

Ba^iiall,  7,  30,  814,  819,  826,  &c., 

865. 
Bagot,  8,  30,  32,  405,  800,  &c.,  967. 
Baker,  127,  407. 
Balfe,  7. 

Barker,  416,  420,  672,  957. 
Bamewall,  7,  10,  11,  31,  44,46. 1 10, 

&c.,  277,  269,  316,  350,  678, 739, 

924. 
Barrett,  865,  &c. 
Barron,  809,  &c 
Bany,  8,  209,  288,  384.  &c.,  487, 

626,  870,896,967. 
Bathe,  464,  &c. 
Beatagh,  90,  &o. 
Bedford,  339. 
Begg,  293,  &c 
Bellew,  7,  U,  12,  31,  32»  120,  220, 


263,  278.  637,  627,  &c.,  697,  814 
816,  870,  957,  967. 

Bennett,  382. 

Berford,  732,  733. 

Benningham,  37,  109,  526,  &e.,  967. 

Berry.  216. 

Berwick.  Duke  of,  19,  &c,  37|  60,66, 
71,  135,  136,  142,  242,  318,  409, 
417,  418,  478,  617,  523,  689,  681, 
682,  863.  916. 

Bingham,  139,  671. 

Binns,  704. 

Blake,  28,  36.  602,  &c.,  611. 

BlanchviUe,  31.  808. 

BUnerhaaset,  291,  292,  668. 

Bodkin,  36,  766,  &o. 

Bohilly,  342. 

Boiaeleao,  38,  136,  747,  &c.,  815. 

Bolger,  804,  &c. 

Bond,  38. 

Boyd,  637. 

Boyton,  34. 

Brabazon.  92,  604,  &c,  966. 

Braj,  694,  && 

Brennan,  460.  811. 

Brett,  8,  37. 

Brice,  294. 

Bridgman,  881. 

Browne,  7,  11.  30,  33,  34,  36,  37, 
186,  236,  242,  244,  288,  292,  324, 
325,  379,  399,  400.  417,  686.  601, 
634,  &c,  768,  834,  &o.,  867,  &c., 
866,  919,  967. 
Bruce,  166,  167. 

O'Bryan,  6,  7,  12,  30.  34,  94,  163, 
156,  186,  204,  230,  266,  273,  281, 
290,  311,  &o.,  330,  347,  417,469, 
478,492,  621,  610,  766,  814,816, 

»   852,  866,  870,  874,  886. 
Bolkeley,  27,  316,  478. 
Burke,  6,  7.  10,  12,  24,  26,  26.  27, 
28,  29.  32,  36,  37,  69,  142,  220, 
248,  281,  288,  291,  296, 320, 830, 


970 


INDEX. 


364,  416«  417.  51 1,  &c..  529,  559, 
567,  588,  589,  610,  617,  618,  658. 
765,  768.  870,  888,  91 1,  929,  932, 
&c..  938,  940,  941.  957,  962,  967. 

Burnell,  350. 

Barton.  245.  372,  516. 

Bushe,  199,  206. 

Butler,  6,7,8.  10,  11,  12,  24,  31, 
32,  44,  47.  59.  72,  73.  93,96,  &c.. 
128,  151,  152.  184,212,219,239. 
247,  264.  288,  416,  492.  526.  579, 
581.  589,  685,  688,  8U6,  &c.,  815, 
816,  957. 

0*Bjrne,  28,  31,  32,  203,  324,  429, 


Caddon,  801,802. 

O'GAhane  or  Kynn*  A32,  652,  657,  &c., 

669,  662,  941,  965. 
0*Ca]Ughan,  12,  408,  866,  &c 
CalUnan.  854. 
Cantwell,  7,  34,  245,  933. 
Carew,  208. 
Carey,  871,  &C.,  989. 
Carr,  912. 
Carroll,  10,  14,   28,  263,  278,  &o., 

864^74,  &c,  815,  898. 
Carter,  641. 
Cashel,  7. 
Gasinone,  94. 
Cassidy.  35. 
Casy,  215. 

Cavenagh,  28,  676,  &c.,  683. 
Chamberlain,  14. 
Chapell,  711,957. 
Cheevers.  1 1,  32,  298,  347,  958. 
Clancy.  341,  &€.,  449. 
Clayton,  11. 
O'Clery,  674,  675. 
Clements,  35,  656. 

Clifford,  71.  843,  356,  &c.,  815,  966. 
Clinch,  481,723. 
Clinton,  7. 
Cogan.  753,  &c. 

Mac  Coghlan,  268,  269,  364,  &c 
Colcloagh,  8,  28,  32,  139. 
Coleman,  474. 
Collins,  403. 

Comerford,  128,  129,  130,  561,  &c 
Comyn,  882.  &c. 
Condon,  497,  &c. 


O'Connell,  1 1 ,  645, 668, 876.&C.,  957. 

O'Connolly,  820. 

O'Conor  and  O'Connor.  28.  21.  2H6, 
268.  279.  281,  31 1,  392,  393.  608, 
609,  610,  776,  &c.,  790,  941. 

Conry  or  Conroy.  778.  779,  &c. 

Conway,  291,  292,  666,  &c. 

Conyngbam.  70,  218,  644. 

Cooke,  28,  124. 

Cooshene,  868. 

Coppingpr.  388.  &c.,  900. 

Copley,  431,432. 

Corltet,  179.  &c.  813,  827. 

McCormick,  29,  308,  940. 

Cosby.  938. 

Costello,  324,  615,  &c. 

Cott«»r,  33.  374,  37.'>.  489. 

Courtney.  664. 

Cox,  213.  &o. 
,    Creagh,  38,  319,  700.  815,  845,  &c. 

Crcan,  31. 

Cripps,  207. 

Crofton,  363,  &c 

Croghan,  848. 

Crosby,  34.  383. 

Crowley,  633. 
,'    Cniice  or  Cruise,  28.   220.   28-^,  43*?, 
I        565,  &c. 

Curran,  128. 
I    Cuaack,  10,  11,  61,  85,  &c.,  880,  883. 


D 


Dale.  805. 

D* Alton,  28,  29,   34,   264,  367,  Ac, 

804. 
Daly,  36.   520,  &c.,  697,  698,  737. 

870.  955. 
Darby,  292. 

D'Arcy,  7,  11,  125.  478,  528,  &c. 
Davis,  246.  519,  559. 
O'Dea,  343,  &c. 
Dean,  36.  773.  866. 
Dense.  28,  31,510,  &c. 
De  Courcy,  33,    133,    143,  Ac,  280, 

286,  387,  707,  754. 
De-la-Uoyde.  11,  12,  742,  &c.,  957. 
De-la- Mer,  348,  370. 
Delany,  28.  29,  856. 
Dempsey.  8,  106,  &c.,  395. 
Denn.  204.  723,  &c. 
Derouzy,  29. 


INDEX. 


971 


McDermott.  36.  »24,  595,  605,  &c., 

78S,  796.941,  943. 
DeFenish.  163,  Sac. 
Deveivax,  28,  106. 
Dillon,  6,  7,  10.    12,  24,  26,  29.  36, 

37,  45,  68.  89.  91,  112,  243,  267,  I 

369.478.  492.  493,  583,  &c,  595,  . 

596,  607,  608,  623,  627,  704,917,  ' 

957,  9(J6.  I 

DittMi,  407. 

Uuoo.  382,  391.  I 

Dobbin,  664.  686.  I 

Doddjogton,  224«  226. 
O'Doherty.  653,  670,  &c. 
Dolphin,  614. 

DonelUn,  36,  324,  622,  &c 
Dongui,  1 1 ,  12,  43,  44, 256,  lee.,  440, 

685,  815,  870. 
McDonnell,  35.  257,  304.  306.   532, 

Ac.,  559,  584,  629,  653,  654,  661, 

663,  815.  870. 
O'Donnell.  34,  46,  233,  266.  545,  Ac., 

559,  622,  652,  659,  660,  671,  758, 

781,924,941,  965,967. 
Donnolly,  35,  646. 

O'Donoghofl,  34,  727,  755.  918,  4bc 
0*Donovan,  33,  232,  638,  842,  885, 

&c 
Mc  Donoagh,  29,  33,  609,  &c.,  704, 

795,  867. 
Donworth,  407. 
Donn,  31. 
Dormer,  31,  688. 
Dorrington,  1 1,  38,  375, 4 15,  4 1 6,  &c 

957. 
Douglfis,  135,  244. 
ODowd.6lO,  847. 
Dovrdall,  7,  32,  294,  426,  &c.,  458, 

630.  660. 
Dowell,  615. 
Doirling,  31,  855. 
Doyle,  29.  745,  &c. 
Drake,  142. 
Dravcott.  7,  31. 
O'DriscoII,  755,  «95,  901,  &c 
Dackcnfield,  348. 
Duff,  200,  475. 
Duigin,  855. 
Doignan,  794,  795. 
Dalhantj,  854. 
Dann,  823,  852. 
Dwyer,  831,  &c 


Fxscleston,  226,  &c 

Edgeworth,  11,  354,  879. 

Edwards,  449. 

Egan,  28,  34.  283.  713,  &c.,  887. 

Mac  EUicott,  318,  605,  758,  815,  913, 

&c.,  931. 
EUiott,  29,  34,  843, 920. 
Ellis,  30,  869. 
Ennis,  807. 
Esmonde,  678,  &c 
EosUce,  61,  347,  350,  416,  483,  581, 

717.  &c,  967. 
E^ans,  32. 

Everard,  152,  245,  &c.,  402. 
Evers,  206,  Ac,  799,  880. 
Eyre,  523,  524. 


Pagan,  169,  379,  423,  &c.,  639,  &c 

Fahy,  449. 

Fallon.  36,  873. 

0*Falvey,  752,  894. 

Fanning,  156,  183,  828,  &c 

Fay,  305. 

Fennell,  406. 

O'Ferrall,  31,  325, 359,  &c.  865,  928. 

Ferriter,  292,  571,  837,  838. 

Fielding.  415,492,943. 

Fisher.  684. 

Fitton,  1 1,  12.  150,  479,  868,  &c. 

Fitz-EnsUce,  379. 

Fitz-Gemld,  7,  10,  24,  80, 31,  82,  33, 

37,  38,    109.    163,  292,  318,  39'). 

430,  478,  502,  526,  549,  559,  63i), 

668,  696,  &c,  718,  783,  840,  918. 
Fitx-Gibbon,  763. 
Fitz-Harris,  7. 
Fitz- James,  476,  Sec  967. 
Fitz-Maurice,  333,  526,  914. 
Fitz- Patrick.    7,    11,  31,    198,   506, 

Ac.,  823,  852,  904,  957. 
Fitz-WiUiaro,  46,  150,  417,  516,  962. 
O'Fflahertie,  281,  500,  618,  &c,  679. 
Fleming,  7,  12,  29.31,  3.'>,  220,  432, 

578,  642,  &c,  775,  923,  957. 
Flynn,  29. 
Ford.  82. 
Fox,  907. 
French,  36,  37,  109,  505,  690,  868, 


972 


INDEX. 


Fallerton,  167,  393. 
Furioug,  8,  337,  &c 


Gaihey,  810,  &c.,  871. 

0*QalU^her,  793,  &c. 

Gidwey,  12,  83,  381,  &c.,  390,  391, 

891 
0'Gara,36,  191,  302,  323,  418,  610, 

775,  &c.,  96j,  967. 
Garvey,  500,  576. 
Gaydon,  10,  156. 
DftG*ii*vilJr,  ft\  642. 
G«ogh«ffti},  2H,i\\,  37,  264,  &c.»  365, 

807    852,  !>i9,  941. 

Gmmji,  10   3a,    25,  &c.,  221,  470. 

HcGoiiigimi  \46, 

Gibb<}TiB,  47 A, 

GHTurd,  225,  &c 

McGill,  649. 

McGUlicuddy,  232,  727,  937,  &c. 

Gilmor,  935. 

De  Ginkle,  70,  140,  262,    376,  409, 

411.515,953,954. 
O'Gloraey,  760. 
Qore»   0,  61 
0*Goirakan»  Sei 
Gould,  33,  404,  Ac,  423,  639. 
Gnce,  8,  10,  12,  28,  31,  184,  497, 

796,  &c.,  815,  957. 
Gndy,  290,  838,  &c. 
Grant,  318,  388. 
Gnene.  224,  227,  &o. 
Griffin,  372,  &c.,  665. 


Hackett,  30,  437,  &c. 

Hadsor,  849. 

0*Hagmn,  36,  649,  &c 

Hagarty^  650,  651. 

Ralr*  T,  84,  760,  iec, 

Hamilton,  10,  12,  23,  87,  88,  45,  50, 
59,  69,  71,  1 17,  165,  &c.,  301, 416, 
417,  425,  466,  467,  495,  496,  509, 
585,  814,  815,  826,  870,  895,  896, 
897,  957. 

Handcock,  31. 

O'llunlon,  299,  436,  559,  631,  &c., 
658,  789. 


O'Han,  35,  37,  467,  &c,  610,  656 

Harding,  921. 
Harduian,  3H,  416,441. 
Harrold,  471,&o. 
Haughton,  11,  160. 
O'Hea,  844. 
Hcttid.  33. 
Hearnc,  367,  465. 
HHTeman.  1 87 ,  &c. 
O'Hehir,  338,  &c. 
H-nossy,  871. 
Herbert,  48,  417,667. 
UewetHon,  714,724. 
Hickson.  639. 
Iliggins,  28,  610. 
Hill,  231,292. 
Hoov,  32. 

Uogiui,  11,  496.  &c. 
Hollywood,  7,  220. 

Hon.  7,  802,  &c,  852. 

Howley,  693. 

Hnrley,  28,  29,    109,  243,  285«  Ac., 

669,  7.')9. 
Homey,  29,  669,  724,  &c.,  918,  966. 
Hyde,  752. 
Uynea,  222. 


Jennings,  29,  4,'>,  712,  713. 
Jermyn  (Lord  Dover),  16,  &c. 
St.  John,  8,  157, 
Johnston,  248,  356. 
Jordan,  323. 
Joyce,  772. 


Keane,  37. 

Kearney,  34,  127,  &c.,  151. 

Keatinge,  1 1,  829,  &c.,  869,  892. 

O'Keeffe,  839,  &c. 

0*Keeley,  844. 

Kehoe,  686. 

O'Kelly,  30,  36,   117,  ftc.,  266,  324, 

331,  370,  527,  608,  758,  852,  941, 

957. 
Kennedy,  28,  249,  &c.,  281,  295,  319. 
Kenney,  698. 
McKoy,  666. 


INDEX. 


973 


Kinaelan.  11,484«485. 

Kinf^,  92,  519,  521,  606,  619. 

KiD^Ugfa,  683,  Ac. 

Kirke,  17,  20.275. 

Kirwan,  36,  292.  669,  767,  Ac,  863. 

Knaresbonmgh,  6t)5. 

Kyan,  let  *  O'Oabaoe.* 


I^cej,  7,  211,   291,  368,391.  &c., 

512,  638,  639,  678,  758,  960. 
Uf&n,  8. 

)jimbprl,  33,  513,  6W,  862. 

Di'  UuHin,  491    945,  &£. 

lawless,  81,  203,  Ac.,  375,  957. 

O'l^ary,  704,  Ac,  727,  755,  886. 

Ledwiih.  446,  849,  Ac 

Leicester.  157,  Ac.,  t>01. 

Leigh,  Lee,  30,  248,  494,  816,  Ac, 

959. 
Leonard,  33,315. 
Uvallin,  380,  708. 
I.eviaon,  70,  377,  516. 
Lovns,  769,  Ac. 
Lilly,  160. 

Lloyd,  119,  248,  509. 
Lottaa,94,  110,  349,870. 
Ix>mbard,  836,  Ac 
Loughnan,  811. 
Lowe,  24a 
Locas,  354. 
Landy,  11,  12.  171. 
Lnttrell,  7,  10, 1 1, 12,  29,  30,  54,  61, 

189,  Ac,  242,  302,  344,  Ac,  409, 

870,  966. 
Lynch,  12,  403.  521,  604,  769,  Ac 
O'Lyne,  405,  406. 
Lyons,  351. 
Lysaght,  84,  334,  Ac 


M 

Mac  Cabe,  35,  922,  Ac 

Mac  Cane,  670. 

Mac  Cartaue,  11,  15. 

Mac  Carihy,  6,  10,  28,  29,  33,  34, 
48,  142,  209,  231,  232,  314,  319, 
375,  376,  4('9,  466,  Ac.,  502,  Ac , 
559,  589,  618,  684,  727,842,  864, 
865,  870,  886,  887,  897, 904,  932. 


Mac  Gill,  553. 

Mac  Gainneaa,  6,    10,  .i5,  248,  408, 

656,  6  9,  805,  908,  Ac,  929,  957, 

965,  966. 
MacGwint,  35,  318,  353,  541,  Ac, 

658,  758,  820,  930,  957,  965. 
Mac  Kenxie,  359. 
Mac  Ifalion,  7,  35.  232,  299,  658, 

tjc^ni,  in\.r,^   7    ^L,,  bjy,  9W5,  911, 

9V3,  m:,  941.  965,  966. 
Mic  Mrtniw,  67a.  &i\ 
Mac  Naroara,7,  12,  33,  34,  152,  Ac, 

318. 
Madden,  478,  518,  Ac. 595,  774,  849, 

957. 
Magrath,  34,  145,  155,  325,  Ac 
Mahon,  530,  531. 

O  M:ihu]iy.  666,  66SU  T02,  754,  Ac 
Mnle^  or  O' Mail  ley.  4H9,  Ac,  852. 
Milon^.  H,  ^il,  104,  667,  6iH,  Ac 
M^irnii^iilJiS  34,  titiy. 
Manning,  308. 
Mansfield,  33,  ^31. 

yh\r]hurinitih,    ]}\\kv   of,  63,   64,    362, 

8:>5,  915 
Martin,  12,36,   119,  507,   508,768, 

860,  Ac 
Mfl«y,aO,39T   957. 
MrTst('r:<iti,  e$e.  730.  T31. 
Matthews  atid  M^ttlirw,  12,  216,  Ac, 

367. 
Mannsell,  245. 
Maxwell,  38,  71,  242,  315,  408,  Ac, 

815. 
May D waring,  306. 
^f^flJie,  3:j,  666.  670. 
M-ftgh,  253. 

O'MoitL^litr.  2[*\,  281,  827,  Ac. 
O'Meara,  10,  28.  53,  74,  Ac. 
O'Melaghlin,    267,    311,     364,    611, 

&c. 
Modare,  105,  945,  348. 
Moflfett,  905. 
Moloney,  875. 
Mooney,  86.'>. 
Moore,  7,  12,  30.  32,34,  37.  91,  1 13, 

191,  260,  302,  432,  697,823,  &c, 

870,  925,  940,  9.j7. 
O'More,  363,  962,  and  see  *  Moore' 
Morgan,  459,  Ac,  957. 
Morley,  355,  Ac 
Morre's.  31,  195,  Ac. 
Morrow,  33,  161. 


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s 

7,  8,  30,  33,  37,58,  119, 

c,  191,  194,302,381,  386, 
)6,  ^.,815,  866,  957,  963, 

5,  305,  &c,  801. 

)84. 

g,  21.  6S,  1S9,  491. 

b,  858,  &G.,  941. 

7,  79,  445,  729.  &c. 

,  625,  fto^  881. 

r86,  &0. 

neuy.  37,321,  328,  &c 

IheUl,  Ac,  510,613,  &c. 

182. 

9,  31,  688,  &c 

870. 

24,37.59,  67,  &c.,  93,375. 

16,  591. 

1 1,  12,  870. 

7,  33,  482,  &c,  731,732. 
302. 

129,  &c.,  458,  &c. 
863. 

86,  423. 
,665. 
»,  4i>8. 

,  172,  385,  386. 
15,  &c 

12,  35,415,  561,  &c. 
^9,  &c 

624,  &c 
37,  400,  &c. 
n,  524,  &c.,  920. 
11,  167,  651. 
91. 

37.  &c.,  884. 
i. 

I,  11,29.33,  231.  &c..  269, 
15,  727,  842,  888.  938. 
3.  712. 

d,  73,  209,  &c. 
M),  379,  480,  &c. 

29. 

y,  34,  232,  748,  &c. 
61,  &c. 


12,  417,  451,  Ae.,  756. 
,7.  10,  11,  12,30,  31,32. 
,88,89,191,192,293,376, 


422.  524,  585,  586,  869,  670,  941, 

957,  967. 
Taylor,  96,  378,  &c.,  426. 
Terry.  400,  498.  702,  922. 
I>e  Tess^,  70,  951. 
Tipper,  458. 
Tobin.  11,691. 

OTooIe,  28, 32, 203, 462,  He.  883, 942. 
louehett,  460,  &c 
Townley,  12.32. 

Traot,  30,  31, 183.  374,  640,  751,  &c. 
Trench,  624,  717. 

Tiiite,28,21 1,446, 791,  957,  969,  &c. 
Tully,  624. 
Turner.  7. 
TyrreU,  158,  270,  349,  &c. 

U 

Ushor,  12,  168,485. 

D*Uj«on,  70,  136,  192,  702,  951,  &c. 


Verdon,  219,  &c. 

W 

Wadding,  7,  832. 

Wale,  252,  &o. 

Wall,  30,  690. 

Walsh,  7,  10.  562,  &c. 

Ware,  327,  363,  667,  879. 

Warren,  31,  439.-&C.,  683. 

Wauchop,  38,  347,   899,  911,    927, 

963.  966. 
Weaver,  31,  494. 
Webber,  382. 
Weldon,  450. 
White,  8,   II,  12,  32.33,  34,  35.61, 

417,424.  743,  &c.  870. 
Whitehead.  32. 
Williams,  310. 
Wing6eld,  32,  942. 
Winston,  572,  573. 
Wogan,  1 1,  30,  32,  49,  465, 539,  &c., 

723. 
Wolseley,  272,321,  447. 
Wolverston,  8,  32,  295. 
Wood,  509.  723. 
Woalfe.  451.  763.764. 
W  ray.  32,  214,  &c. 
Wyer,  371. 
Wynne,  794. 


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